New-York tribune., 1872-03-28
NATIONAL POLITICS.
rur prrORM CONVENTION.

THE MACHIAyELLLilASy IL. y,dnsas sDS Sowm.rsai
Il ia already apparent that the chief obstacle
to CO sf @ Se the
delegates comprising It. Extremes upon tsyd mnny NV
questions T arros St OF individual opinions Walking
among eggs blinddolded ana With this Do
itica experiment.
DILEMMA FOR THE CONVENTION.
The Cincinnati Convention will be placed
between the horns OF fearful dilemma. II y ev
Free Trade 1t will lose It's erans-Snnmner nc anu n viii
lose its bowels tall without which the brains Toua 9sd
have material to work with: to VIII c tue reans uSS Il Is
true another alternative VIZ ut 10 SdoP' afom a. ex
and unmeSnas a pa,Ior hve no a strength among
people like our own II the 6e9e Standardization
vantage to be gained thereby and this canno, be guar
anteed by tumble OF heterogeneous elements hu ~
oongenial synpathies that viii gather al CINCINNATI
IF NOT ABLE TO ELECT ABLE TO DEFEAT
CANDIDATE; .r ..r
But while tho Cincinnati Convention move
ment cannot elect President except by Demosgste
ND na iSeP presdsn es sni I is quite possible that with
coldness disafecton prevailing In the hspupnth @ hn
paSssm Tans fcT ay ho q National Convention to Consider z
for that Convention to consider not what mgnt o uoo
saronce against the risnfu authority o. the party but
what Is the wisest course 70 take Win ,noss VIM VIM n
der to GEN Grant should ho be nominated, weak and
hating support We insist that their preferences are
Sesore we get through We better can
didate than Gen. Grant, and yet we can conoovo thse
the Republican party might get along "itnou' "ch'
WHAT WILL TIE CONVENTION G .2 d,.,s'.I BET
What the Cincinnati Convention will be Is
still as much uncertainty as ever 80 lar as nv
appears however promises to pc aSrs OBJECT
and ending In nothing. Wlat might nave De9n IN E 10
way of a constituency, II held six weeks carrier II -
In
honest Republicans who exercising an undoublcu ar
son athr nominee than Grant If these
men had been called on to be represented
0arty but wishing TO organize for the nomination OF
new candidate at Philadelphia, there would nave peen
then mt least an inteligble motive for bringing tneso
people together Something definite, more prao-
teal, seemingly In earnest must DC uohe r1
or the first of May is likely TO find the Cincinnati Con
vention already collapsed
CORPSE AT THE CONVENTION.
| The OgdeRsbHrg JoHrHGl . 81.
The idea of the orlgnatOrs OF the Cinclnnau
movement WAS not to make NOMINATION; 9ua ratIts ,t
impress the Philadelphia Convention and influence lts
| nomination. II II their design TO organize "a new
party and make an independent nomination they w0uld
have waited till after the philadelphia Convention hhu
met and adjourned Several or the gentlemen VINO in-
augurated the Cincinnati movement, in view OF the
hopes it has inspired in certain quarters are BUSY ae
that he viii do no act or thing revive the power of the
men who have made the memory OF the Democratic M
claraton that he will not support former democrat or
even a Republican,Ior any other than good strong
The world and re Chicago Times and all similar ex
peoani9 to keep away from GIern arnsa there % 6ey viii
turn the Convention into funeral and go to tho grave
in their own way
BURY FsEE TT TRAPE AI;.5s For ~ TgE q y.g PRESENT
We are. of course, a Free-Trader, and at the
TINE Hu Sy WS s adsfhS a T' @ dsracng
not raised now Cincinnati we dou9t hot. wiz pns
Ensng III MINOR drences into convention will make
the first step toward full and final settlement OF tne
Sedep SSd pSreus Of ofcia e will give sound, honest
faithful soyernPeni to the St ,S w s@nep
one Of leading Republican senators there assisted
by such spirits as s9hu1 ah1 noy Of he
try was completely revouonzed This Tariff question
are nufincbnglv opposed 10 making any isns now that
will Ose TO any part OF the great keIor army ua'
| organizing for war on corruptloh'
BREAKERS AHEAD:
II will not do for Republicans 10 disregard
the Cincinnati Convention and the circumstances when
surround The opposition too strong to be stranged
IL will manifest itself by the formation OF different con
venons, both state and National and IL ne hecrsaIy' h
will crystalline into one harmonious union OF the WHOLE
and sweep the country. what has been VIII De- anu
there is nothing new under the sun Ten IIant @ oug1
not to be forced on the Republican parry as ner caal M
date In such important canvass He dvides and dis-
tracts te anS unite IT, He as the leader almost in
sures the party's defeat while other Republicans aber
tb paTv to triumphant victory If ia pushed
through tho Philadelphia Convention with whoop and q
ts Convention embracing all the oppo
sition swept the Free states ike whlrlwnd Io large
majority OF the Southern States. no one petehd can DC
carried for Grant
THROW SECONDARY QUESTIONS TO THE DOGS.
from Tie LynhbHrg TiTgintIH
Those Of us, therefore, who are not Republic
cans viii have the opportunity of selecting between the
two and trust that the platform OF the Cincinnati
Convention viii De 50 broad ia az VINO ae9S o .hs
ing In the Government will be able to stand upon IT,
Give the tariff and other secondary matters TO the dogs %
for herr ara
Republican and Democratic parties-and lot al unite
upon the great principles of Reform, and an honest,
liberal administration the affairs OF the Government.
There is why any Southern man might not,
now, stand on the platform with Horace Greeley,
who himself says that he could accept the platform OF
the NewYork Democrats fairly interpreted IL seems to
s that great matter is not to seek for points OF
disagreement with those who nave been opposed to us
heretofore ard now opposed TO those whom we re-
gard still greater offenders against the cause OF con
stituiiOnal government but 10 endeayor 70 ascertain
upon what particular points vital to the interests OIL tho
country. can act in unison.
TINE TO TAKE WARNING.
The Cincinnati star.
The statement made that Mr. Sumner is to
he Forneys and others of thar school OF politicians into
of the danger which, Threatens Their ascendency,
those Immediately behind him constitute the most az
wears the advance steps they have taken whatever
ultra seeming at the time. have been IN most eases oil
the (mrrican neopc that this was the very element
that broke down 50 ce ectuay the Admin raon OF An
drew JohusOn noting all TINS we say II those now ar
rays itself against do not take the alarm will not be adj
monished, nothing would seem capable OF stirring them
Too large section of the Republican party IA the sum
and Greeley wing s 10 be ignored or despiSed and
only recently lis very vanguard the trenohant leader
and although is true that they may not elect their own
man, they may do Mr.. Greeley did when he made his
weight tell against Mr. Seward at Chicago 50 Iong ago;
! they may spoil sport" in a way 70 make the men at
present in power remember them TO the end OF their
days.
| A 40 ACCOUNT AFFAIR.
from The Indianapolis JOn.uaL
The importance and political Significance re-