The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-04-25
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THE CINCINNATI. CONVENTION.
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| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES COAiIh0 LIAoND--
IIoTEI. RooM NEARLY ALL TAKEN.
erNcrNNArr, April 9s.--'The halls
are in state Of q readiness for the
two Conventions. The hotels near
the centre Of the city have engaged all
the rooms at their disposal, but the hotels
farther from the centre are not fully taken.
Rooms for, lodgings will be improved il
circumstances require II during the con.
ventionsI S. Louis has engaged alDthe
rooms at the St. James, and Grinnell, Of
Iowa, with .fNY delegates, !hasi taken
rooms at the Walnut Street House, The
Iowa delegates have engaged their head.
quarters in lthehGlT opposite the hotel,
A. X. Mcclure, Cassius M. Clay, Gov.
EfWatmoth aud Gen. Heron, yot New Or;
leans, and. Lloyd, Of New York, arc among
the number who have engaged rooms al
the Gibson House; Mayor Lefflngwell, ol
Memphis, Judge Underwood, of Helena,
Arkansas, and General Morgan, of Wash
ington, have rooms at the Spencer House;
the National Labor Union Executive
Committee have rooms and committee
headquarters at Hunts, on Vine, near
Fourth street, Rooms for over 1000 per-
sons have been engaged in the city. PHI
vate citizens are opening their houses to
entertain persons. The hotels in Coving-
tom are, reported. TO, have engaged the
larger portion sot tieIf rooms. Z tThe
sleeping cars onSthe roads cen
tering here will be detained fol-
lodging during the elimeeting. cHso far
as this city is concerned, the indications
is that 1t will be almost exclusively repre-
sented in a reunion and reform ConYen.
ton. The headquarters have been es.
tablished as follows: Illinois, Green
wood Hall, Indiana, Mechanics Institute,
Kansas Gait House, Kentucky room s,
Mozart Hall, Minnesota, Walnut Street
House, Missouri, St. James, New York,
room Is, Mozart Hall, Ohio, room 1S,
Mozart Hall, Pennsylvania, Gibson House,
Among the parties engaging at Burnett,
Hon. John D. DeFrees, Ben Pearly Poor,
Geo. Francis Train, David Dudley Field.
OF New York, Gen. Tom Ewing, Of st.
Louis, Gen. Fetzhenry, Of Warren, Va,
and John II. Bryant. EgnL ti..aln ..s'za .
LETTER FROM CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
? HE WOULD ACCEPT THE CINCINNATI
NOMINATION IF GRACEFULLY TEN.
DERED, '.- So. ,.tf RI
SPRNeFTEnD, MASS, April "a, The
Republican, tomorrow, will contain the
following: 5-gGrgI1asL rgaEig
CHARLEs FRANCIS adams AND THE CINCINNATI
vrF UTrfl CONVENTION, "a "a az FE
As. arranged many weeks ago, Mr. Adams
sailed on his return to Europe, yesterday, with
the Geneva Arbitration. Before he left, o gentle.
man interested In tho Cincinnati Convention, and
desiring he should be its candidate, inquired aS
10 his views Of the movement which It repre-.
sented, and suggested there should be some one
In attendance who could speak for him; to which
there came tho following reply, with no restric
tions as TO It's publication - " 90 '',.5'''s
My Dsar. Hr. VEL: FL have received your
letter and will answer itfrankly. do not want
the nomination, and could only be induced to
consider 1t by the circumstances under which II
might possibly be made. II the call on me were
an unGquiYocal one, based on confidence In my
character for honcstyin public lie, and q belle
that would carry ont the practical principles
which l profess, then, indeed, would como q
test OF my courage In an emergency, but II am
TO be negotiated for and have assurances given
that am honest, you win be 80 kind az to draw
nc out OF that crowd. With regard to what !
understand TO be . declaration Of principles
which has been made, 1t would be ridiculous In
me to stand haggling over them. With tho single
exception Of ambiguity, am under the impres.
sion that there Is nothing In them that any hon
est Republican or DCmocrat would not accent
Indeed, should wonder Ut any ono who denies
them. The difficulty Is not In professions; II
lies everywhere only In the hemannerin which they
arc carried into practice. II have succeeded In
making myself understood You will see that
or TO tpeAk for mo in the premises.
never for moment had the belief that
when II came to point to any one who was iso,
lated from all political associations OF any kind
that he could be made acceptable as candidate
Tor public oflee, hut am 90 .lnlucky 90 toVAluc
that Independence more highly than the eleva
tion which is bought by 0 sacrifice ol II. This ID
not Inconsistent with sense OF grateful recog'
milton OF tho very aAttcriDg estimates made on
my services in many and high quarters, but ]
cannot consent 70 peddlC with them for power
II the good people who meet ut Cincinnati really
believe that they need such an anomalous being
as lam which I do not-they must express II II
| q manner to convince me- oft, or all their lAboI
will be thrown awayEFai4 TD,8 90 Oh
am with great respect. yours, &C.,
IL "CHAs. FRANCIS ADAMS.
DAVID A. WELLS, ESQ Norwich, Con- T.
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