Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-05
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The Lobby
The Times and Chronicle.

las De6u dmOSJ enIUely deserted Dy the
convention people. A few of the newspa-
per men remained for rest and left TO-
night.
| ST. LOUIS.
The Republican. -.--.
ST. LOUIS, May 4.-The Republican
prints the following as the leading editorial
"The Cincinnati Convention yesterday
nominated Horace Greeley for President,
and Gov. B. Gratz Brown for Vice Presi-
dent. This is the result of its third days
proceedings, and, in the popular estimation,
the substantial product ofthe convention.
| The platform is an eminently acceptable
and satisfactory one, and worthy of the
ticket; but it is the nomination that the
public have most anXiOusly waited for, and
the ticket actually presented that will guide
the supporting hosts in the battle. The
| ticket stamps the convention with success,
and imparts to the insurgent cause a new
success. 1t is needless to inquire whether
Adams or Trumbull or Davis or Palmer
/ would or would not have been a better candi-
date for the first place. The distinguished
! man actually nominated for that first place
! is so good and fit to leave little room for re-
gret among the partisans Of the defeated as
! pirants, and to produce among the people a
feeling of emphatic satisfaction. One thing
at least is certain: neither of the opposing
| aspiTaDts is stronger man than Horace
! Geeeiey. His name is a power in the North
| and in the South. His simple act of going
on the bail bond of jefferson Davis, and
thereby securing his release from EStanton's
! pitiless imprisonment, won the hearts of
! the Southern COnfederates, without losing
| for him an atom of the good will of sin
gle Union man whose good will was worth
| having. He is popular with the ColOred
people, whose steadfast friend he has ever
been. He is popular in Maine, and more
popular still in Texas. In fact, he possess
| es wider and more equable popularity
than any other man in the United States.
He has some infTmities, indeed, but they
are inirmities of manner, rather than seri-
Gus faults. They do not weaken him, they
do not impair his useful 4ess, nor detract
| from his nagRr--The peopls regard them
with fond fOTbearance; and it would not
| be far out of the way to say like him
'fal the better for them" His infrm-
| tiles are certainly not vices. Beneath them
and in them the people detect the sterling
wOtth of faithful, upright and just man.
NOb OllC Vi Jlic IGIlcJ luulhluuGl dGCtSSiOAlS
| to the Liberal revolt brought to it so large
a measure of strength aud influence as he.
| Ever since he espoused it, he has been re-
cognized as its most formidable champion
after Carl Schurz. His opposition to Grant
is positive and un1nollifed, and he will prove
more than a match for his antagonist. B.
G. Brown, as the candidate for Vice Presi-
dent, stregthens and completes the ticket.
l. ,I, e Il
Liberal movement in Missouri two years
ago, and inflicted on Grant the first humili-
alton he has encountered. In fact, he
struck the administration a blow from
which it has never recovered and from
which il never will recover. Brown is
popular in the West and South, and has re-
Gently made speeches at Topeka and Dayen-
port which will do much to give shape and
direction to the canvass and compact Oppo-
sition to Grant"
TITe Times. .-.
ST. LOUIS, May 4.-The Times says this
morning: 1--WE are inclined to think that
the Cincinnati Convention has done its work
well. 1t certainly acted wisely in placing
Mr.. Greeley at the head Of the ticket III
stead of Mr.. Adams. 1t can be said Of him
with truth and honesty that no public man
in the Republican party has stood by the
interests of the Southern people since the
war more boldly and consistently. Proba-
bly, no candidate could have been named to
more largely divide the Radical party or
strike greater terror to the friends of Grant.
The ticket receives additional strength
moreover, in the West especially, by The
nomination of Gov. Brown to the Vice
Presidency, and it was wise under the cir
cumstances that he withdrew bis claims to
the higher place, although to the Democrats
generally he would have been a more ac-
ceptable choice, if Republican candidate
is to be their choice at all. Altogether
the convention has agreeably disappointed
many. The friends Of the movement felt
nervously apprehensive lest it should not
rise so nearly to the dignity and require
ments of the occasion. In these respects it
has achieved the work more satisfactorily
than [somel of our Democratic friends
were disposed to anticipate, and proves
itself the u"
Type and Representative
of an actual political power, not iDconsider-
able in proportions and directed to salutaIy
and patriotic objects. The army of the Ad-
ministration is less compact, too, than il
was the day before it developed the first
elements of insubordination from this time
on, because of the evidence which is now
palpable to every intelligent Judgment that
the Republican detection is no mere sound
and fury signifying nothing, bat q well
armed and well disciplined revolt threaten
ing the utter discontinue and demoralZa-
ton CT the Radical party"
The Anzeiger. ...-....r..
The Anzeiger, a German Democratic
paper, which was a strong supporter, how
ever, of the Liberal movement, is emphati-
caily against Greeley anu Brown. 1t takes
the ground that by these nominations the
convention became untrue to the ideas
which called the Liberal movement into ex-
istence, and selected two men for the high
est positions in the country whose. .0.
ErratIc and Whimsical
characters make them unfit, and in reality
the most unsafe persons in the United
States, for the Executive Department of
the nation. 1t looks at the nominations as
the result Of scheme concocted by the
Blair family 1t fOreSees an administration
of eccentricities, during which the corrupt
est men in the nation will be the substan-
tial rulers, using good old Greely as mere
tool for their netarious schemes, and con
tinuing the present system only under
different colors. 1t maintains that Greeley
might perhaps continue in the Presidential
chair, his opposition 10 personal admins
trative rascality, but inasmuch as
he is an enraged protectionist,
he would Systematically keep open
that permanent source of corruption
which is embodied in any protective sys-
tenn. 1t furthermore believes that the con
vention which nominated JipOWn must
either have been absolutely blinded as to
the character Of the man or entUmbed with
IN net work Of intrigues from which it was
Impossible to escape, it being perfectly alb
surd to make a man the guardian Of con
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