Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-06
How the Nomination is Received
Abroad.

spouse OF the country to its action. Our tel
egraph columns this morning contain q reflex
OF that action from all the great centres of
intelligence, and so unmistakable and pro-
nounced is it that the veriest tyro cannot fail
to read Alright the verdict. The Cincinnati
ticket has fallen dead from the hands Of the
constructors. The surprise with which its
announcement was almost universally great
ed seems to have been followed in republican
circles by jubilant feeling, resulting from
consciousness that the ticket is the weakest
the Cincinnati pilgrims could have produced;
and in democratic circles surprise has speed
lily given way to regret and disgust; while the
free trade element feels itself betrayed in the
house of its friends. Some of the demo-
cratic leaders, hungry for Office, express a
purpose to support the ticket, as indicated in
our specials from Maine and New Hampshire
but the regulatory action Of the democratic
members of Congress last evening 10 death
blow to any hope of q coalition of democrats
and liberal republicans OF Greeley and Brown
and the certain precursor of straight out
democratic Presidential ticket. Indeed, a
general ''bolt" seems to have followed among
the members of the convention itself after
the result was made known. The free traders
and not few Of the Adams men who were
not free traders, seeing themselves complete.
ly sold out, at once manifested signs Of
purpose not to abide an issue thus unfairly
joined, while the Germans seemed soured
beyond recall.
The verdict is already made up, and it
must be apparent to every sagacious observ-
er that the nomination Of Horace Greeley at
Cincinnati has divested the liberal republican
movement of any strength it may have at any
time possessed.
The Boston Advertiser says: The 'liberal
.uc~ IL
Of the New York Sun has been metamor-
tlemen who called themselves to task of
craftsmanship. For President, 'sthe great
and good Horace Greeley!" The new party
has appointed for leader the veteran hero of
many q desperate defeat, one who is, if we
may SO speak, hallowed by the prestige of
disaster. 1t is a new rule of political infer
ences that man who could never command
the confidence of his own party, and always
concentrated on himself the undivided oppo-
sition of the other, should be the most pow.
erful representative Of combination Of Sc
ceders from both. That he has been selected
as the standard-bearer of party not yet con-
glomerated or disciplined, is the strongest
possible confirmation Of our declarative that
the Cincinnati convention would turn out to
be an assembly of unattached and rejected
political elements. having no natural affinity
for both. Of such a body it was to be ex-
pected that it would not rightly apprehend
the conditions of success. 1t is not wonder
full that it has Numbered, for under the cir
cumstances action that would seem discreet
would have been a lucky happening. The
actual result, judged from a republican stand
point, has only one fellow in its fatuty-the
nomination of Seymour and Blair by the
democratic convention of 1868. We con-
graduate the republican party of the nation
on the outcome of the Cincinnati convention
What the democracy will do in this event re-
mains to be seen. The party will make a
ridiculous figure following the lead of Mr.
Greeley, but after its shutting and coquetry
and humiliating standing in the market place,
there is nothing for 1t but choice of ridicu-
lous figures, but it cannot have All uncomfort-
able self-respect at this day. AS for the Phil
adelphia convention, that at Cincinnati has
left it without embarrassment and without
anxiety.
The dispatches from New York contained
the following: The news from Cincinnati
makes everybody laugh. The nomination of
Greeley was bulletined on the newspaper
offices at 2 :l2 O'Clock, and from that time
until dark. Printing House square was
filled with crowds, every man of which dis
played smiling countenance. Mr.. Greeley
office, while engaged on an editorial on pig
iron, though a private despatch from his
right bower, Whitelaw Reid, a few seconds
before it was given to the public and with
the remark, "Well, that's funny laughed
AS soon as the news was bulletined, the ven
cradle publication rooms were occupied by the
people, and some friends brought Mr.. Gree
ley forward, when he was hastily and bolster
ously clieered and forced to go through the
inevitable hand shaking.
The disappointment of the so-called reve-
nue. reformers is keen. The Evening Post,
the recognized organ of these, heads its last
dispatches ''The Grand Failure" "The
Cause of Revenue Reform betrayed at Gin
cinnati,'' "The Curtain Falls" ga Sad
Transformation Scene" "Reform Surrenders
to Monopoly and Capitalization; and in a
brief story of the reception of the news in
that city says:
"There was no enthusiasm, and the men
who looked to Cincinnati for the means of
rectifying abuses in the government and of
giving definite expression to their feelings on
the subject of revenue expressions as EN-
bodied in the original call for the convention,
confessed their defeat.