Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-05-11
The Germans on Greeler

| The Cincinnati VOEESOlQtt of Wednesday
morning, speaking of the result at Cincin-
natl, says:
| The fate of Mr Adams in the Cincin-
natl Convention has again shown that in
American politics, only that man has
| chance of success who will descend to
trading and trafficking, to make promises,
and make use of all those other means
and tricks usually TesoTted to at conven-
| tiOns. The man whois too manly and who
has too much self-respect for this will be
| passed by what do politicians care for
! statesmenlike qualities and capacity |?
They want man whom they can use as a
| tool Charles Francis Adams would have
| been altogether too independent and un-
pliable for them. He would not have
asked the blacksmith how to play the or
gan, nor would he have learned of the or
ganiSt how q horse must be shOd. His
qualifications would have enabled him to
stand on his feet. Politicians had no use
| for such man.
A st. Louis dispatch of the Sth says:
The Westliche TJOHSbIddf, German or
gan for Northwest Missouri, came out to-
day in strong opposition to Greeley.
The Reunion and Reform Association of
St. Louis is powerful organization, COM
posed, to a large extent, of intelligent Ger
mans. It held a meeting on Monday
evening to hear report of its delegates to
Cincinnati, when they passed the fol-
lowing resolutions
l. That we regard the meddling with
the all-impOrtant tariff question, the plat
form of the Liberal Republican COnven-
ton, and the programme of Jefferson City,
as uniustifiable, as it is the ground plan of
the whole movement, and that we insist
upon the Reunion and Reform Convention
platform which was drafted in Cincinnati.
2. That they see in Horace Greeley not
a fit Presidential candidate of the Reform
party, as he has shown himself to be in
affiliaton with the Capitalization of power
in Congress; as supporters of the kukluX
laws, and also fanatic on protective tariff,
which is in open defiance of the pro-
gramme, as well of the Liberal Repubi-
can as the Reunion and Reform party, and
q man of eccentric habits, tickle character
and inconsistent conclusions, which do not
guarantee that wise and solid administra
ton which we are in need of in the pres
ent crisis.
3. That we see in the nomination of
Greeley and Brown only the result of the
secret and unprincipled workings of ring
of dangerous and professional politicians,
who have taken part in the reform move
ment only to further their own designs.
!. That we for these reasons demand an
other ticket, which we pledge in advance
to support, if the chosen men are in accord
with the platform of the Reunion and Re-
form Association, and have shown them
selves by their former political career and
personal worth to be men who can be
trusted its honest, true and Capable Uf dis
charging their duties faithfully
5. That the Reunion and Reform Asso-
citation of st. Louis expects and wishes
that the Democratic party, in its National
Convention, in union with convention
of the Reunion and Reform Societies, will
adopt such platform as does not ignore
any interesting issues of the day, and
nominate such Presidential candidates as
are in fullest accord with the Liberal plat
form, and are worthy of the support of
every independent citizen.
6. That in the nomination Of Charles
Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, and
Hon. S. Groesbeck, of Ohio, we would
have seen a ticket around which all free
thinking elements of the population of the
State would have rallied, and that such a
ticket would have received our hearty APP
proval and it is our firm belief that we
could have carried it.
7. That immediate action will be taken
to re-organize all reunion and reform So
cieties throughout the States, with orwith
out the aid of the Democratic party, in or
der to make nomination which best suits
our views, and put up such men as candi-
dates for President and Vice President as
will carry the ticket to a glorious tri-
umph.
s. That these resolutions be published in
all the English and German papers of this
city.