The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-29

the chair while the other reporters, the number
at pine tables, each OF which win accommodate six.
The reporters for the minor and rural papers VIII
probably get places on the wings OF the platform or
PICKET FENCE ARRANGEMENT FOR LADIES AND chill
lille picket fence which will separate ladies' aud
families from the men. and more than
part OF and looking directly down upon
the stage and place reserved for delegates has been
said to leak, and il it should rain the men win be
left to fight 1t out alone.
About one third or the 1oor space win be
qnlred for the delegations. Nobody knows how to
decide controversies In case OF quarrel as
The proposition that has been made to make the
executive committees OF Missouri and Ohio
biters meets with favor from everybody except
those delegates themselves who object to
taking the responsibility II Is impossible
to understand now contest Ike mat IN
body take this responsibility Davis friends have
undoubtedly spent money to get a large following
cutlery.
There Ia great moral force in favor of Adams,
from the fact that 1ve-sevenths OF the newspaper
press published on the spot are singing his pGans
every morning and afternoon.
The following conversation occurred between
the HERALD Correspondent and
MuRAT HALsrEAD
controls absolutely one Of the half dozen news
papers which have skirmished with the republican
party ever since its formation. He belongs to
the school OF Sam Bowles, VIM. O. Bryant and
Horace White, and is an athletic, large man about
Mnguonot extraction, and his father who Is a
native OF North Carolina, and Is q hne-looking
old-fashoned man, wearing his white hair In
editor as the HERALD Representative entered.
The following questions and answers were put
"Mr. Halstead, do you propose to give devOut
support 10 the nominees of the Liberal Conven-
ton Z"
"rlat depends upon circumstances. If the demo-
Gratis nominate shall support the strongest repub
m candidate There are some men named as
win not support. will not support Justice Davis.
lie Disguised me when he took the labor reform
nomination at the hands OLA set OF fellows who had
ss' , co"m5s s A Son nS'S' know Ss wasnss
was m psa IN their meeting he as RE
sponsble as anybody else. sympathizc with the
original purposes of the liberal movement as de-
get the support OF the whole democratic constitu-
ency might be compelled to support Grant, Which
"What are your objections to President Grant ?"
this locality and he has 40 se support
here. We are overrun with his kim The Post
rich old curmudgeon and nuisance. The as
SCISSOR over there got his office at;the ntercession of
Mrs. Corbln, Grants sister. All the people wanted
when they presented their petition Grant replied,
Il promised it to my sister, He seemed TO have
notion that this was an indignant answer: The
man who got the Office had been In the
habit of lending his buggy to the Grants. The Col
q ers %so % ppDt to
the most 0bscure or oldest citizen, and he was
cousin. Foulds, the Postmaster here-a very good
0fllcer-is another relative In fact, we are over
run with kin. Some people say this Is little mat
ter, but think It shows that General Grant has
conception OF his Office the scrupes OF his cOun
trymen. It will be very hard work for me to sup
port him."
as there nothing, on the other hand, to be said
for the PresidentY
eyes, There Is nothing sensational nor expert.
mental about him, and II he should sit in that ONCE
four years more the country would probably go on
without disturbance and the average prosperity.
think that Greeley, Gratz Brown, Trumbull, and
even John NJ Palmer experimentasts. AS to
Davis, we take no stock in him hercabouts Justice
ought to be blind, and not hop down from the SUI
Bench to the cockpit The best to
universal sentiment Of Ohio II Is the opln
lon Of the best people in Indiana: II Is
man of the country. Before the war came on he
delivered the most comprehensive and perceptve
haved with GOODNESS and silence OF the best Euro
| pean statesman at his post. The English found
selves. He is faithful American and We can send
him out Of Hamilton county with 1900 majority.
make against nor the
"You forget the Fenian vote, Mr.. Iialsteads"
II do not know that 1t was Mr.. Adams business
| rs American Minister to England, to encourage IN
cendiarsm Perhaps the worst present we could
make Mr.. Grant would be the Fenian vote"
stump Ohio for Grant rather than see the democrats
support Adamsp
George Il. Pugh belongs to past age. The demo
cratic party has shown considerable sense OF late
ana don't think that the old politicians can lead
them around as much as formerly Ohio democrats
OF all degrees look with sympathy Oh the nomina-
ton to be made heren
'Mr Halstead, do you know anything about the
1 Indiana campaign next fall ~
'The indications are that it will be one OF the
most terrific contests ever known. Morton has to
| make his dgbt for reelection to the Senate. He Is
the only man who could ever organize successful
They have to send for him every time they want
republican victory. He can work eighteen hours
day and take his refreshments meantime. Talk
about your war Governors, such as BrOugh, Yates,
Blair and Curtin Morton has more power In State
campaign than anybody since George Clinton; but
this year he VIII have hard fight. He will demand
the whole federal strength to be thrown into this
State, and will make Grant feel that Indiana Is the
detection to Morton The most significant thing
which has yet happened is the desertion of Julian.
Julian was once the candidate for Vice President.
He Is the old horse OF the hereditary freesoil
dstrct-the Richmond district. Julian ana his
friends will come to the Cincinnati Convention.
port anybody put up here. Dick Bright, Of Indian
apolis, Jesse Brfght's nephew, told me to-day that
the democracy were redhot for Cincinnati.
INTERVIEW WITH COLONEL w. NJ GRosvENoR.
At the St. james Hotel the HERALD representa-
tive found the chairman of the great Liberal State
Committees OF Missouri, which was the entering
wedge that split the republican party, and delighted
the democrats with the fusion plan by eecting
almost simultaneously Gratz Brown Governor and
Frank Blair senator. Colonel Grosvenor is a
native of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and
was for long time citizen OF Illinois, He Is at
present Corresponding Secretary Of the Taxpayers
Union, and will probably call the Liberal Conven-
ton to order next Wednesday, at the hour Of noon.
He Is r0und-llmbed, rather ieshy, careless sort OF
man, with the look of an artist; long, black hair,
olive skin and dark hazel Hebraic eyes. He was
very communicative and courteous and answered
without hesitation.
"Nr. Grosvenor, who Will preside over the Liberal
Conventions"
'That Is not fixed. As the Convention meets In
Ohio perhaps an Ohio man would be best Jacob ID.
Cox or Judge Brnkerhoff would be my choice.
Judge Brnkerhof will be Chairman OF the Ohio rep
resentatlon. Mr.. Cox has fine endowments for u
presiding officer"
"Iiave you any particular choice for President TO
be put in Nomination.
None That care to express ! shall agree with
the best sentiment that seems to prevail when the
influential men IN the movement arrive and talk 1t
nrnfer of LaIeranninn nrincInlna M a