Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-01

| @NN S0.A0AsNOOois COnCluslOn oJ late nO0l
tonight had not been reached. At con
ference betweenth New York and Missouri
delegates who are most interested in thi
question it is rumOred that the matter ha!
been committed to Henry A. Wells to pre-
pare plank that would reconcile all par
ties. 1t is evident however, that the GROUND
is very delicate and that no task connected
with the Convention is fraught with mor'
precariOusness.
At meeting Of the Minnesota delegates,
II In number, 8 were for TrumbuIl and
for Davis. Though the
Southern States
have delegations here, they are not repre-
sented BY so many persons as the Western
and Middle States. Florida has small
delegation, including Col. Mccall. III. c.
Hamilton is registered from Lexington. In
addition to other delegates from Tennessee,
A. j. Kellar, Of the Memphis AUdldnche,
Col. Duncan McCrea, of Memphis and
Crpt. Pittman, of Fayette county, are all
the Spencer house.
| Kentucky is represented by considerable
| delegations from various parts OF the State,
Many OF them are Stopping in Covington at
the hotels there, where it was convenient
Tor them to attend the State Convention
which assembled to-day. Additional dele
gates are expected tonight and tomorrow.
John Mason Brown is at the Euiston House
on that side Of the river, while Cassius NJ.
Clay is at the Clinton House, same city.
While Republicans are largely in the
ascendent here, there are not few promi-
nent Democrats who about watching
the tide of events.
Gen. John @. Breckenridge
is In Cotington. Illinois is particularly
prolific in delegates, seVenty-fve of these
are quar.ered at Gibson alone. II Is sal
there are five hundred from that part Of the
State in which Bloomington is situated, but
this is probably an exaggeratiOn.
1t is quite clear that the influence is not
evenly distributed throughout the county.
Some States have immense delegations,
while others are by no means powerfully
represented, at least in numbers. The first
Sensation
Of tomorrow win be the assembling Of the
Reunion and Reform Convention at Mozart
Hall. This, It must be remembered is not
Republican Convention, but one called
and Reform Association OF this city. 1t was
hOby ~ 10 CtlllCu IlliS tiLlS W CHI
barrass the other convention, but to ascer-
tain whether cooperation between the two
would not be promoted by the coincidence.
This body has been somewhat overshad-
owed by the interest that gathers about the
other convention, but it will, beyond ques-
ton, be very considerable aSsemblage,
both in numbers and influence. The same
delegates in many instances are appointed
to both conventions, and there will doubt
less be an arrangement, so far as sessions
are concerned, to enable them In the main
to attend both bodies. This convention
will be called to order by Judge
William B. Campbell, President
Of the Cincinnati association. Judge JnO.
b. Stallo will be elected temporary Presi-
dent, and after the appointment Of commit
tees on permanent organization recess will
be taken so as to allow the delegates pre-
sent at the opening Of the Liberal Republi-
can Convention which occurs at the In
dustrial Exposition. Its possible a evening
session of the Re-Union and Reform Con-
vention will not be held on Wednesday, by
which plenty Of time will be given to enrol
the delegates and provide for satisfactory
organ ization on the following day. 1t is
the desire of the parties interested in the
two bodies that common ground may be
found to stand on, but theintiuentisl among
the Reunion and Reformers do not regard
II by any means foregone conclusion that
this end will be attained.
The last CLEAN of Hope.
There is good authority for saying that
at a very late hour tonight no satisfactory
conclusion had been reached in relation to
the revenue plank in the
platform Of the Liberal Republicans,
and It was said by those deeply
interested in q satisfactory settlement Of
the differences on this question that there
appeared but one gleam of hope, and this
was found in the assertion that Judge Stallo
did not represent the sentiments Of the
Germans on the subject.
The New York TrIbune-Buccess,
Failure or Farce?
New YORK, April 30.-The Tribune
says editorialy: We judge from dis
patches that the very considerable PROPOSE
ton Of the free traders, who have mustered
strongly at Cincinnati, have resolved to in
sist on free trade plank in the platform Of
the Liberal Convention. Should they carry
their point, we shall have an increased re-
speet for their courage, with a low estimate
of their discretion. In such case we
trust they will use no ambiguous phrases,
but set forth their exact meaning II words
that will not bear two interpretations.
Sooner or later the country must and will
divide on the tariff question. If the free
traders choose to draw the lire now, it Is
their clear right to do SO. Their po icy will
probably be developed to-day. WHAT the
cCvo1v- nd IL
mands is reform In the administration Of
Government. This is not to be attained
by combinations of worn out political
hacks to secure the nomination Of some
candidate for President who may suit their
peculiar wants and views. The Tribune has
no candidate. 1t asks for 10 particular man.
But it does ask the choice of some man
whose name shall symbolic the national
movement for reform. If the Cincinnati
Convention gives Us this, it is success. If,
instead, it gives mere candidate of the pol
iticians, it is not only failure but farce.
The eyes Of the whole country are to-day on
Cincinnati; tomorrow they may be some
where else, unless Cincinnati seize its oppor-
tunity. WeasK from that Convention can
didate whose name shall be itself platform.
Greeley's Last Word.
The New York Tribune tomorrow win
say, 'We have said if the convention should
see fit to place its candidate on platform
hostile to the protection of home industry il
would thereby preclude our supporting
them; and yet we have not said thai they
might not wisely do what would constrain
us to oppose their candidates. If a MAJOR
ty of the American people want free
trade, they ought to have it, no
matter though this or that individual be
displeased thereat. In that case the candi-
dates who respond to the general aspira-
ton, can do without the support of this or
that newspaper"
The New York World.
NEW YORK, April 30.-The World to-
morrow, in rtply to the articles of the Al
bany argus and Washington Patriot, pro-
tests against what it calls the intrusive i'm
pertinence of clique of Democratic Con-
gressmen in their attempt to control the
Cincinnati Convention i'll the interest of
Judge Davis, and t6eir denunciation of the
WOrld for expressing its honest judgment
in entire independence of this intriguing
Cabal. 1t has been, says the World,
our settled wish that the Cincin-
natl Convention should not act nor
appear to act under any Sort of Democratic
duress, and wo have, in expressing our
preference for Adams, at least demonstrated
that there is nounderhand attempt at Dem