The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-23

OF those questions has been gain or loss
to the Church it must be left for the future
to decide. Inside the Catholic Church
opinion is divided as to the merits
of his protracted reign. The goodness of
his intentions has never been questioned
but while there are those who pronounce his
reign the most illustrious there are not few
who regard it as the most disastrous in
history. Be that as it may, certain it is that
the hopes Of friends and foes alike begin to
be directed to the time when the election Of
his successor will be necessity. It is the
determination of one party in the Church that
his successor shall be more ultramontane
than himself It is the determination Of
another party-and this party is the party Of
progress-that the next Pope shall be man
who understands his times; who is in sympa-
thy, within reasonable limits, with the pop
ular sentiment of the period; who will rather
cut asunder than multiply the cords which
bind the human conscience, and who, in
other ways, will make it possible for the
Catholic Church to become coextensive with
Christendom. The right to elect the Pope is
vested exclusively in the hands of the College
of Cardinals The present College of Car
dinals are most Of them men whom Pope Plus
has himself appointed, and are Of course
more or less in sympathy with his ways
of thinking. 1t is not unnatural to conclude
that if unresisted their choice will be man
who will not seek to undo the work of his pre-
decessor It ought not to be forgotten, how
ever, that some Of the great governments of
Europe have the right to veto an election.
Austria has that right, France has that right,
and it may be regarded as certain that EN-
peror William, as the proper representative of
Charlemagne, will claim that right If Ger
many is not pleased with the choice of the
College Of Cardinals the world may afresh
enjoy the spectacle Of contested Papal cleo
ton; nor is it at all impossible that two Popes
may claim and divide the allegiance of the
Catholic world Such state of things has
existed before and, considering the attitudes
of the different Catholic governments and the
conflicting sentiments which divide the Cath
Ole Church, such state Of things, it is not
unreasonable to say may exist again. Bis
marck for one has made up his mind, and if
Bismarck is spared we may rest assured that
no College of Cardinals will hinder him of his
purpose In the nNxt fapal election Germany
means to make her influence felt German
influence may bring about a revolution, if not
another so-called Reformation.
The B Olting Free Traders and Their
Presidential Ticket.
think there be six Richmonds IN the field.
king hicHdrd.
The boiling free traders from the Cincinnati
ference Of Thursday last have had little
convention to themselves and have announced
a Presidential ticket Of their own choosinS
and on their free trade platform. We have,
therefore, the following Presidential tickets
before the country, taking them in the order
Of their Importance
Regular Republican Ticket. Grant and Wilson.
Cincinnati Liberal Ticket Greeley and Brown
Innas s TtcE Ese, BACK md Rasse
ADaalgamdtfOn Ticket Woodruff and Douglass
In addition to these we have that indie
pendent outstanding candidate, 'Daniel Pratt,
the Great American Traveller between Harlem
and New Haven; Chauncey Barnes, of Ohio,
who proclaims himself 'sthe American Prophet
and ''the coming man that the Lord Of Hosts
has chosen to take the place of General
Grant," and last, if not least, there is George
Francis Train, who, scorning the small
domains of the United States, announces him
self in both hemispheres ''Next President of
America
But, with oil these tickets and candidates in
the field the final shaping of the contest de-
ponds upon the approaching Democratic
National Convention. From present indica-
tons that Convention will adopt Mr.. Greeley
as its candidate by an overwhelming vote on
the first ballot, and, in this event, the contest
will be narrowed down to Grant or Greeley.
To be sure prominent anti-Greeley demo-
cratic journal makes up n table from which it
appears that of the five hundred democratic
delegates to Baltimore, more or less, chosen so
far, only about one hundred are under instruc-
tons to vote for Greeley. This suggests an
opening for a new deal but it is begging the
question. In nearly every case where these
delegates have not been directly they have
that it is the almost universal opinion that
''the Chappaqua Woodchopper' will enter
the democratic Convention with four-ffths of
its delegates to back him. Diminishing, then
all these little sideshows and outside tickets
and candidates, we may safely assume that this
Presidential battle, and the issue thereof, will
be Grant or Greeley.
The Free Trade League, which, upon its one
idea Of the removal of the duties on imported
goods, has been spending two or three hundred
thousand dollars to make free trade the bal
ance of power in this Presidential contest, has
been taken in and done for The EUening Ghost
admits it, and admits too, that there is not the
ghost of chance for Mr. Groesbeck. But
these boiling free traders have made the happy
discovery that 'there is something better in
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