New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-05-16
Spirit Of the Press on the Cincin-
natl Nominations.
The German Press.
From, t1.a Tfnr;,..ts UntlhIo.s

Tt is a matter of general regret that Senate
l. Schurz did not remain in Washington, an
" that he allowed himself to be chosen Char
n man OF the Convention. AS Chairman hi
a hands were tied, whereas on the floor as
y delegate of the Convention he might nav
been able to thwart the bargain and sale @
Gratz Brown. To carry out the intendet
compliment to the German element by plac
= ing one of their number in the chair, the Sen
ator might have nominated Governor Koer
ner, of Illinois, for the position.
In New York the Republican party is spill
into two factions, warning for the Offices A
the head of one of these stands Senator
: Conkling, with the Custom House influence
e The leader of the other is Senator Fenton
s wha has the support of tho so-called Tam
many Republicans. If one is black, the Other
is not white. The one is not worth cent
and the other not a penny. 1t was the Fen.
ton Republicans who mixed the cards at the
late Convention, and showed us of the West
how politics are managed in New York
, The superstitious will take notice of the re-
markable fact that the Cincinnati nominal
tons were made on a Friday. The next
election, therefore, will decide the question
5 whether that day is to be regarded as un.
lucky or not.
II appears to us that the Illinois Stats.
Iea"ng as mistaken when it says that the
democratic party wlip.not support Mr.. Gree
ley. We may be in error, but we are of the
decided opinion, from the looks of THINGS Tins
far, that it will be brought to vote for Mr..
Greeley.
Governor Cox, Judge HOadley, Col. STAN
1 ley Matthews, and Z. w. Kittredge, four of
the most prominent of the Liberal Republi-
cans OF the city, were bitterly opposed to the
nomination of Greeley, and will not assist at
his election.
We hope that our friends of the Reunion
and Reform Association understand now why
we could not and would not pledge ourselves
to endorse the proceedings of Convention
before we knew what the result would be.
One must not be too ready to crack the party
whip before it is perfectly understood that
there is a whip wherewith to crack.
The difference between the Germans and
the Irish in politics was again distinctly
shown in the late contests. The Germans
were enthusiastically in favor of Adams,
whom they looked upon as the ideal of
statesman the Irish, on the other hand,
were violently opposed to him. Now the
Irish are all for Greeley, while he finds no
support among the Germans at all. Oil and
water will not mix.
The Revenue Refomers were willing to
make concessions on the subject of the plat
form, provided they were given the candidate.
They can therefore console themselves with
| chO oAN eihbe q Jug III tuC CdUUttSC ID
better than no meat at all.
The Turner's of the city were in such bad
humor about the outcome of the Convention
that they postponed their picnic, which had
been previously announced to take place.
[From the Cincinnati volksfreund.l
Has it struck no one that the Greeley con-
Germ has lost the support of the best orator.
ical and journalistic talent in the campaign
Unless Carl Schurz and Trumbull, to the
scandal of the public, wished to be dragged
along in chains after their conquerors they
must keep their mouths closed. What could
not Stanley Matthews, Hoadley, Hecker,
Koemer, StallO, and other prominent Amer
lean and German Liberal Republicans have
done for good and fairly nominated Liberal
ticket, and what will they do now? The
German Liberal Republican press, which did
so much for the new Liberal cause, so shame
fully disgraced in this Convention, will now
be found in the opposition. No German
paper in the city would dare to deflle itself
with the Greeley ticket. The Anzeiges des
Westens, of st. Louis, will oppose it with
might and main. Even the New York Stats
Zeitung will not burn its fingers with it. The
Milwaukee Herald, the only German paper of
influence in Wisconsin, has resolved to await
the action of the Reunionists and Reformers
rather than excitethe ill-will of its readers.
The Republican New Orleans !Staats-Zei-
hmg will, in all probability, not support it..
The Westiiche Post, of st. Louis, appears as
if struck by lightning or stroke of par
alysis. With the simple remark that it has
nothing to say on the platform of candi-
dates, it recommends them to the attention
of.its subscribers, This means great deal,
as the paper was one of the god-parents of
the new movement, and has been hitherto a
warm friend of Gratz Brown. In the Gin
cnnati Convention honesty, intelligence, and
talent, which were well represented, were
oppressed, overslaughed, and meanly taken
advantage of by the chafferers and wire-pul-
lers. The swindlers and bargainers will find
; out that it is one thing to nominate ticket,
and another to elect it, and that to be sue
cessful it will need the aid of the best heads
: that have thus far given life and reputation
to the new movement.
From the Chicago Illinois Stats zeitung.I
Horace Greeley for President! Gratz Brown
. for Vice President! This, then, is the mouse
= the laboring mountain has produced. IPunch
had been put up as President and George
Francis Train as Vice President the shouts
t of laughter all over the land could not have
t been louder The most contradictory, not
to say the craziest, of all the conceted fools
in the country he who in December, 1860
: advised to "let our erring sisters depart in
6 peace" who in the spring Of 1861 beloved
e like a mailman "On to Richmond" wht
d after the battle of Bull Run gave the cow
. ardly advice of letting the South go, ther
again yelled himself hoarse for war to thu
knife, and finally, in numbering fit of sickl..
e sentimentality, went bail for jeff. Davis he
g the most rapid of temperance hypocrites ant
Sunday police, is the candidate of the Liberia
Reform Party! The most fanatically deter
mined Protectionist in all the length an,
h breadth Of the United States is the candidate
d of the Free Traders! The boOrish, capri
q cious, whimsical Philosopher" foppin!
= from one egregious blunder into another, t
10 be tho possible President of these Unite
l. States! Truly, this is an outcome of tn
a Liberal Reform movement to make the mos
serious person in the world burst with laugh
Is ter, lift were not so miserably lamentable.
from the Cincinnati Courier.l
1t appears now that the German Llbera
y Republicans and the Progressive Democrat
r will not come to the support of the Greele
and Brown ticket. The Germans are tn
\ sworn enemies of all political bargains an
e chaffering, and they will think twice befor
d they will vote for the g fixed up'' ticket {
IT Greeley and Brown.
r <lniniOns OF the IRENE n. m erican Press.