The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-18
THE POPULAR REVOLT.
PROGRESS OF THE CINCINNATI MOVE.
MENT.
Tn e Northwest Clamoring for a Change
~-MIchigan Joins Il1inoIs-The Situa-
Ito In Pennsylvania.

Washington Correspondence OF the n. T. World.
WASHINGTON, April IA.
The discussion of The great Liberal Reform
demonstration In New York on Friday night
has absorbed all else of political interest In
Washington yesterday. and to-day. The re.
suit in administration quarters is most
marked. Officials can now be found who use
other language than that of contempt for the
Cincinnati Convention. Not only the num-
bers of that mass meeting, but the names OF
hundreds of leading Republicans, many of
whom were heretofore supposed to be friend
~ to Grant, excite the surprise of these off,
clals, and they begin to think that their ten
ure of office Is not so secure as they had
imagined.
Dfscouraglng news for the administration is
also at hand from the West. The Republican
State committee of Illinois are breaking up
and going to Cincinnati. The chairman has
already written q letter to that effect.
Governor Blair, Of Michigan, a prominent
Republican member OF Congress, returned
here today from q visit to his State, and says
that Michigan will send aGull delegation to Gin
cinnati. Governor Blair will also attend. The
ant. Grant feeling In that quarter is very gen.
eral among Republicans. Heretofore Blair
has not been as outspoken as Republicans
like Trumbnll and Schurz, but he makes no
reservation now. Wherever he went In the
Northwest he found the people clamoring for
a change, and especially bitter against the
reckless extravaganza Of the administration.
The Grant men are doing their best to keep
up their courage. But even the most enthu-
siastic among them admit that the signs OF the
times are not suspicious. Their chief hope
now seems to be that after the nomination is
made at Philadelphia large numbers of the
dissatisfied will fall into line and support the
ranpIor f3nkpt 0thprwtap fhQu n0nnaAo that
defeat is inevitable.
Colonel A. +. Mcclure, of Pennsylvania, ar
rived this morning, and after consulting with
a number of leading Republican senators and
members returned to Philadelphia this eve
ming. 1t is understood that the Immediate OBJ
ject of his visit was to arrange certain matters
with reference to the Cincinnati Convention.
He has great faith In the results which he
thinks are certain to follow the meeting of
that body. In his Judgment 1t is the conven-
ton which will nominate the next President of
the United States. All that Ia required Is good
management and moderation on the part of
the Democrats and Independent Republicans,
and the fate of the present military ring is
sealed.
With regard to the condition of affairs in
Pennsylvania, Mcclure Gays there is not the
slightest chance for Hartrautt, the Grant ring
candidate for Governor, being elected. SeVe-
raj leading members of the Harrisburg Con-
%vention. he says, were 80 disguised at the
manner in which the office holders managed
affairs that they announced their determine
lion to go home aud defeat the entire ticket.
So bitter Is the fight among those who attend
ed the convention that the independent reform
Republicans, who refused in advance to have
anything 10 do with 1t because they knew what
the result would be, have not thought 1t neces-
sary as yet to give definite shape to their
opposition. Mcclure thinks the presentindica-
lions are that Hartrautt will either be with
drawn or defeated by the regular Republicans.
He says that at o proper time some action will
who will secure the support of all good men
who favor good government and honest
administration OF the affairs OF the State, with
out regard to party names or ties.