Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-04-30
THE LIBERAL" MOVEMENT.
Notes from our Exchanges What L. thought OF
the SO called "Reform Movemenr'--The
Candidates-Who are WlilIngto be
sacrilced-The Harmony,
Of the Opposition.


The war between the Trumbull
and Davis factions over the Cincin-
natl nomination, is getting vigorous.
The special correspondent Of the Chi
cago Tribune telegraphs that "very
Strong opposition exists to the NOM
"ination of Judge Davis, and that
with several prominent men it ex-
tends 40 far as to elicit declarations
"that the convention shall be broken
cup rather than accept Davis as a
nominee. This kind of opposition
"comes chiefly from those of the clear
"est Republican record"
The Chicago Times, per contra,
says if political chieftain" is nom
mated at Cincinnati (meaning Trum-
buID, call hope of the success of the
Liberal movement in the pending
Campaign is at an end"
The New York World, in lead.
ing article, says: "If the Cincinnati
Convention should prove wise enough
and high toned enough to nominate
Charles Francis Adams as candidate
for President, the Democratic party
will endorse that eminent statesman
with spontaneous hearty plaudits and
universal acclamation. In that case
it will be of little consequence wheth-
er the Democratic National Conven-
ton is held or not. A convention
would merely ratify a foregone con-
clusion Of the Democratic masses"
The Hon. Jeremiah s. Black, Of
Pennsylvania, regards the Cincinnati
movement as of very little conse~
quence. He thinks those republicans
who meet at Cincinnati will have to
burn their bridges behind them and
sink their ships. If Senator Trum-
bull should be nominated, democrats
would support President Grant just
as readily. TrumbulI was the author
OF the reconstruction acts, and the
democratic party could have no SYM
pahy with him Chicago Post.
In q letter to the Baltimore
American, Mr.. Samuel r Smith, a
member of the kentucky Republican
State Central Committee, says: I'VE
expect, if the Democratic party
makes no nominations, to carry Ken
lucky tor Grant, as between quasi
Republican candidates put forth by
the Cincinnati Convention and the
Philadelphia Convention. Thous'
ands of old. time Democrats would
not vote at all in such a CONTEST
Nil,Odukee Seminal.
The Washington dispatch to the
New York Herald says: "Chases
Convention is failure, and Trum-
bull rs candidate is also dead. Davis
is not entirely acceptable, and some
of the Democrats have been urging
Charles Francis Adams in his stead :,
bat Adams is so unpopular among
the Irish voters that he cannot win.
On the whole the situation is unsatis-
factory and uncertain as ever"
-Advlces from Washington state
the revenue reformers," by whom
the Cincinnati movement was con-
ceived, are determined to slaughter
Judge Davis. He was Horny Clay
protectionist, and the Free traders are
determined on his defeat, even if
they have to secede from tho Conven-
ton. Their present plan is to post
pone a nomination and adopt the can
didate of the Democratic Convention
Tho Boston DAILY Advertiser
says the Liberal movement "has no
"footboId in New England. The Re
"publcans who go to Cincinnati will
Ego without u constituency. Mass
"achusetts has been secured from
berkshire to the Cape for evidences
"of REORGANIZATION" aud "no en-
encouragement has been found for n
"public meeting"
The Springfield Mass Republic
an, Liberal sheet, ventures the
opinion that if the Cincinnati Conven.
ton lis simply born of personal dis
appointments, and the convention DO
but a miscellaneous aggregation Of
of soarhead partisans, it will be bros
ken at the beginning. and fall dead
upon the public heart"
The Springfield (Ills.l Journal
publishes list of sixty eight Repub-
lican newspapers in Illinois that do,
nounce the Cincinnati movement,
whilst only one favors it. Consider
ing that this State furnishes three
candidates for the Cincinnati nomina-
ton, this does not look very encourage
ing.
The Iowa Liberal State Convens
ton was about as small and feeble an
effort as il was possible to make it.
About one hundred out of one hum
dred and twenty thousand Republic.
an voters of the State were in attend
auce, pretending TO represent forty
out of over enc hunared counties in
the State Chicago J'wnai.
Bill Mungen, who, as Congress-
man from OHIO, made speech three
years ago in favor of fat and square
reputation, is in favor OF the Liber. |
al Republican movemeut.-M Missouri
Democrat.
The Philadelphia Press says :
President Grants re election is vital
to the country, aud every sacrifice
should be made, consistent with hon. !
or to make it safe and sure.