New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-22

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direct, and 80 they go for Grant now va
Louisville. 1t does not appear, however shac
they are to have easy work getting started
from Apollo Hall.
The Office Holders Organs have about aban-
doned the story that there are no Liberal Re
nublicans excepting s0reheads. IL they need
more facts than The TRBUNE's late review OF
the Illinois campaign with reference to the
Rochester meeting, suppose they study the &C.
oount of the Reform movement in Iowa,
printed on the second page of to-day's
TRIBUNE.
While Mr.. Frank w. Bird, one of the Rad
ical Republican Old Guard of Massachusetts
is disposing of Senator Wilson as hho"-
Nothing and Mr.. Garrison as Disunionis1 one
of the oldest and most sincerely respecVeo
veterans of the Abolition phalanx also SPEAKS
in the article printed on the third page Oh
this mornings TRIBUNE.
The news from Raleigh and from Washing
ton indicates that the Administration proposes
TO punish the North Carolinians for their
struggle in August, and make sure OF their
votes in November, by pOstponing the Ku-
Klux trials and keeping the accused in sus-
pense, and by making elaborate preparations
to apply the Enforcement act to every election
district in the State
Our dispatches this morning represent the
condition of Belfast as worse than ever. They
confirm the opinion we expressed several days
ago, that the authorities were Liable to the
charge of gross mismanagementi in their attempts
to suppress the riots. If anything were needed
TO substantiate this charge it is sufficient to
know that, on the seventh day, the rioters
were destroying school houses and threatening
churches. The statement that body of five
thousand troops is incapable of maintaining
order in city not much larger than Newark,
can only be characterized as an absurdlty.
Adyiees now come from Raleigh that at this
I day there are only twenty-five counties In the
| State from which official returns OF the late
election have been received. Tables printed
| in the Grant organs prove grossly incorrect III
| these cases, but complete official returns are
not expected until the Legislature meets iii
November. What possible object can be ac-
complished by this delay save to deilde inc
neople in the idea that the majority for Presl-
dent Grants candidate is larger than these
RETURNS will show it, and to keep off as long
"a possible the certainty of Merrimon's contest
and proof Of election.
There was a quiet Grant Convention in
Iowa Yesterday. They nominated State
ticket of the usual kind, made few speeches.
and did not affect to be enthusiastic. 1t is
proof of the ingratitude of Republics that the
ticket nominated was the ant-Harlan, while
that patriot and statesman is perspiring in his
newspaper office at Washington, periling his
souls salvation by daily fbs about Mr.. Gree
lev. The Grant State Convention met, yester-
day, in Atlanta. Judge Dawson A. Walker
was nominated for Governor. disorderly
and venal Convention met in Columbia to
nominate State officers for South Carolina
The preliminary buying and selling was not
completed yesterday.
Possibly one of the grounds for the threat
| ened impeachment of Gov. Davis of Texas
may be found in his alleged action in pro-
| ceeding to issue two millions of bonds to
meet State appropriations, after having testi-
! fed in the Honey trial that he did not intend
to issue them. The Austin Statesman, Houston
Age, and other Texas papers, declare that the
bill authorizing this issue was passed by
fraudulent means, not reaching final vote
until some time after the hour for adj
iournment sine die had come; that the clock of
the House was twice turned back to give
time for passing it, and that it was not en-
rolled and signed until after the Legislature
had ceased to exist. They insist that the
"bonds so issued are cheat, fraud, and
"swindIe"; declare that the people of Texas
| will acknowledge no obligation to pay them,
and call upon the Eastern press to give warn
| ing to that effect. In view of the late expert
I ehce in Georgia, it is probably very good
| thing for Eastern capitalists to notice.
Postmaster Edmunds found the contract of
getting up the Blanton Duncan Convention too
serious an undertaking, and 80 has called in
the force of clerks on the Administration
Committee, and the twenty-five thousand post
masters, Internal Revenue officers, and mar
shals. That, at least, we take to be the mean
ing of the action of the Administration Com
mittee in sending out under the forged franks
of sundry Congressman twenty-five thousand
copies of Blanton Duncan's circular. How
many Democrats do they suppose can thus be
caught with a snare which is set in the eyes of
all men7 And how much longer will Mr.
George William Curtis continue in daintily
rounded phrases to praise the earnest sincerity
of this Administration in its struggles for
Civil Service Reformf And, finally, does it