White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-04-11
"rHE ZIG Is UP.-


We are a. well qualified to pass Judgment on
the Liberal Republicans we shall be when the
returns from Connecticut are IN. If Jewell is
defeated it will be fault of theirs: it will b-
An uuai,leetl Democratic victory. II is too late
for the Liberal Republicans to do anything now
which which would have feathers weight on
the result. They have lost q chance, invaluable
if they had improved it, Of demonstrating their
power by making themselves feared on one side.
and cOurted ON the other, and respected by both
They have neglected that =" tide in the affairs Of
men which leads ON to fortuue;;' and the residue
of their voyage will be hardly worth the attention
Of earnest men bent on results. If Hubbard is
elected i'm Connecticut, ma thanks to them: his
election will be accepted by the Democratic par
ty AZ proof Of its own inherent, intOmitable
strength. IL Jewell is elected, the Liberal Re-
publican leaders will show themselves more
pusillanimOus if that be pOssible) than they have
already, and skulk back into the Grant camp.
Within twenty days after JEWELS election (if be
should be electesl) there will have ceased to be
any vigorous opposition to Grant from the Lib
raj Republican journals on leaders, and earnest
man will care straw what the Cincinnati Con
vention does, or forbears to do.
The opportunity to make the Cincinnati Con
vention powerful and formidable offered To
the Liberal Republicans in Connecticut. and lost
No combination of circumstances could have been
mere favorable. They had kept quiet in New
Hampshire, and although there wasan increase in
the Democratic vote Overlast year. the Democrats
lost the State II then the Liberal Republicans had
to the front in Connecticut and given
vigorous battle against the Administration. the
contrast between Connecticut and New IamI-
shire would have been ascribed to them, and the
whole country would have regarded them as
holding the balance of ps.wer i'm our National
politics. Their demonstrated influence would
have turned all eyes toward Cincinnati, as hol-
ding the key of the Presidential campaign. They
have forfeited this proud, commanding position
ly sheer pWlitical eowarsfiec and the Cincinnati
Convention will he great as failure the Ceve-
land Convention was in 1864.
Ii il b- asked what they could have done in
Connecticut. we answer, they could have done
every thing if they had acted in season. Ii Messr,
Sumner. S-hurz, Greeley and 'Bowles had taken
the same active interest i'm defeating Grant in
Con ,-cticut that Grant himself has taken in TRYING
Z" carry the State, Grant would have been
whipped and humiliated; whereas if
he is l~atrn now, he will he barely beaten by the
nnai'!sd Der'ocratic party, fighting without allies
or rehforccmenfs. If Mr.. Sumner Mr.. Sehurz
and Mr.. Greeley had gone tn Connecticut i'm TIN,
canvass and delivered each one bold ringing
speech, Jewell might have been beaten by i
majority of tiouseansls, and the whole Grant par
ty wOul'l have frcmbesl in their shoes. The anti
Grant leaders could then have gone tn Cincinnati
clothed with an ascendant influence, and would
have dictated the politics for the ensuing fnur
years. Having let this great opportunity slip.
they will launch their vessel Mt ebb tide. and
plunge il from the stocks into the mud-Ner
York Uoria