Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-30
THE NEW YORK PRESS.
EDITORIAL Extracts From the Great DaiIIe

CONVENTION.
From the N. Y. Timeal
A company Of Liberal Republicans" from q
portion Of the counties Of Missouri have calleda
Mass Convention" at Cincinnati, on the 9th OF |
Nav next Their avowed purpose is to ENSURE |
the defeat OF Gen. Grant, should the Convention |
become 30 infatuated as to nominate him for
second term" Meanwhile the correspondents
of newspapers unfriendly to the Republican
Party represent that Senator Schurz is going
about declaring that he will not accept the dec-
sion Of the Philadelphia Convention if it should
be in favor OF the denomination Of the President
but that ''he and those who agree with him will
appeal to the country against it. This course
is undoubtedly open to him. The Republican
Party will bind no man to submit to its choice
against his will, however he may have been un-
deservedy honored by it. 1t will accept without
reluctance the duty of defending its candidates
and its principles against any who may dispute
the fitness of the one or the soundnees of the
other No party ever had less need or less in
clination to shun the broad light OF free discus
sion and if the Philadelphia Convention shall
name General Grant for reelection, Mr. Schurz
''and those who agree with him." will find any
appeal they may choose to make to the country
fully and frankly met. In the meantime it is as
well to look at the grounds on which Schurz's
friends-the " Liberal Republlcans"-inyite CO
operation. and on which, if they have the courage
to make it, their appeal to the country is likely
to be based. They have undertaken to define
these grounds beforehand, in the resolutions to
do not, they say, propose by act or word, to
- endanger the rightful sovereignty Of the
Union, emancipation, equality Of civil rights, or
enfranehisement." On those points they own to
agreement with all good citizens and as these
are cardinal points in the principles Of the Re-
publican Party, as determined by its past achieve
ments, it is evident that the separate and disor-
ganzing action they propose must be justified
by something the Republican Party il likely to
do or leave undone in the future-on some de-
mands which they make and feel the need of an
independent convention to enforce. These de-
mands their resolutions set forth as follows :
They demand equal suffrage for all, and amnesty
for all. The first they have the second they
will substantially get next week. II they do not
get it absolutely, the only exception will be
members Of Congress and officers OF the United
States Army or Navy, who deserted their posts
to join the rebellion. No sane man proposes to
'go TO the country" to get those exceptions, if
made, removed. They next demand the entire
elimination of the element Of Protection from
the tariff. The Republican Party is pledged to
reduce the taxes so far as is consistent with the
needs Of the nation, and in doing so to remove
the protective features whenever they have be-
come justly obnoxious to the public sentiment.
Schurzs Liberal Republicans" have no inten-
tion Of disputlng with the party at large on the
difference between this measure OF reform and
clean free trade they know that the country
would go dead against them.
They next denounce, in language nearly iden-
tical with that of the Civil Service Report, the
condemn suppression of investigation. On these
two points, the Republican Party, whoever its
candidate may be, will present the record Of the
present Administration without reserve. 1t il
absurd to suppose that the Missouri Repub-
licans contemplate an appeal to the country tC
decide which is most fruitful in genuine reform
the acts Of the Government, or the mere pro
fessions OF its critics. which their own acts sadll
belle. They finally demand that the "growinl
encroachments Of the Executive power" shall bl
put stop to, and as specific examples of Wha
ought to be changed in this direction, they cit,
certain alleged evils each one OF which, If it OK
lists ALL exists by the action Of the United States
Senate, the branch of the Government estab
lished as a check upon the Executive, and re
garded from its inherent structure as the repre-
sentative OF the States in whatever interest
they may have requiring protection against Ex
ecutlye encroachments. These four example
are the use Of coercion and bribery to ratify
treaty, implying degradation on the part of tn
Senate, which few mon would like to charge be
Tore the American people ; the packing Of thu
supreme Court-an act which could not be &C
complshed without the corruption of the Sen
ate the seating Of members of Congress no
elected by the people-something over whicl
the Executive has neither direct nor indireC
control and the resort to unconstitutional law
to cure the Ku-Klux dsorder-the Ku-Klux Law
whether unconstitutional or not being matte
in which the Executive only obeyed tile vote q
very heavy majority Of both Houses of Con
gress
We have rected every demand made by thes
Liberal Republicans" 1t will be seen tina
they are mere pretenses. They reveal only b
inference therea motive which prompts the prC
posed Independent action. That motive con
cealed, and yet patent, is simply personal hosti
lty to President Grant. On the Justice or il
justice Of that hostility the Republican Party.
1t select Gen. Grant as its leader will be Or,
pared to give the Liberal Republican, ampl
opportunity to appeal to the country"
THE MISSOURI BoLrERs PROPOSED CINCINNATI
CONVENTION.
From the N. Y. Tribune
In Missouri, in 1870, between Thirty and Fort
Thousand Republicans, many OF whom ha
fought gallanty for the Union, voted the Iibe
al ticket and OF these large portion wei
present or represented i'll the Convention at Je
ferson City last week which called Mass M
tional Convention Of Liberal Republitans to me,
at Cincinnati on the 9th Of May next and non
mate candidates for President and Vice Pres
dent. We mean to avoid prophecy but it is vel
safe to assume that this Convention will :,
renominate Gen. Grant. And since it is mo
ally certain that the Democrats as a party inter
to eyince this year that simple common SEN
which they displayed in 1870 in Missouri al
which was conspicuous by its absence in the
nomination and canvass OF 1868 he is very RAJ
who undertakes now to predict the issue Of Il
Presidential struggle before us, proclaimng th
nothing but death can prevent the election
tins or that candidate. To say the least Il
political atmosphere is hazy, and they who won
be esteemed weatherwise will predict with ca
ton.
-"Then TIE Tribune is going with the RI