Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-05-10
From the New York Tribune

From the New York Tribune.l
If there is any trouble at Cincinnati, it is
from the Vaccinations of nominating rings
We beg to say just one thing to this Con-
vention-the biggest thing before the coun-
| try is the question of the honest men against
the thieves. What the country sorely needs
and imperatively demands is a reform in
the Administrator of Government This
is not to be attained by combinations of
worn out political haks, to secure the
nomination of some candidate for President
who may suit their peculiar wants and
views; 1t asks for no particular man; but it
does ask the choice of some man whose
name shall symbolic the national move
ment for reform.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.1
While we hold it to be eminently proper
| for the Democratic press to express opin-
| ions, we must protest against individual
Democrats identifying themselves in any
way with this Convention. Let the gentle
men who compose it perform the work as
may seem to them best, and then, if we are
prepared to accept the result, the place for
Democrats to manifest their faith by works
will be the National Democratic Convention,
which will be called upon to reject or en-
1 dOrse.
I From the Louisville Courier-J ournal.l
If the Cincinnati Convention is a sue
cess-that is if it nominates good men
| and makes wise platform-the Demo-
cratic party is sure to support it. If it does
not, it viii be time enough for us to turn
about and provide for the emergency. It
is certainly unwise in Democrats to attack
the Convention before it has assembled,
aud to predict that of it which may not
happen, and which we ought not to wish
happen.
Our best wishes attend the Convention.
We hope it will be 4 great success. We
hope it will put us in the way Of dividing
the Congressional oligarchy so as to render
the machine-wOrk OF the President more
dangerous than it would be if he were
backed by united party and insure us
fair count of the vote in the House Of Rep
resentatives, where the change of a dozen
members would render a fraud impossible.
From the New York World
Nh. Adams has never vituperated the
Democratic party; be has had no partici-
patton in any Ofthe measures which the
party has opposed; his great public SER
vices command universal homage; his pri-
vate life is without blemish, aud there is
no statesman of our time who is so invul-
nerable to attack. He would make wise,
upright, prudent, firm, patriotic and most
able President, and if the Convention
should prefer any other name to his, it
will be on grounds of fancied expediency.
not Of merit. IF Mr.. Adams should be
nominated we have not the slightest doubt
that the Democratic National Convention
would endorse him, nor that he would re-
ceive handsome majority of the electoral
votes.
from the Brooklyn Eagle.1
no 7
eral Republican who may be nominated
by, or through, the Cincinnati Convention.
1t expects to be able to do so in common
with the Democratic party. But it is not
possible, for reasons which it is not neceS-
sary to entlmerate, to bring the DemOc-
racy, rs party, to Mr. Adams support,
and whatever the Cincinnati Convention
may do, it should not make this nominal
ton. We state the fact plainly i'll tile in
terest of the Liberal movement, and to
Illustrate q trick, which the New York
World once again misreprescnts The De-
mOcracy in resorting to.
[From The New York Times, Grant organl
1t will be easy enough to unsettle the
whole commerce Of the country, and throw
all public affairs into dangerous confusion,
by cooperating with the Cincin. att fac
ton. But the perils Of such a scheme
would not be compensated for by its nov
city. If the Republican party is to sue
coed next November, it can only be by re-
naming true to the resolves Of its repre-
sentatives at Philadelphia. The Cincr-
natl men would lead us straight into the
Democratic Businesses, and then turn round
and ask each other, 'Who would have
thought it ?''
[From the Richmond Enquircr.l
The prospects of the Cincinnati move
ment have SO outgrOwn all promise that
there is room to fear that in its exultant
and unexpected strength it will forget that
its candidates, to succeed, must be accep-
table to three millions of Democratic and
Conservative voters. Nothing is palmer
than this, yet nothing more likely to be
ignored in the tumult Of such a gathering.
Upon their action the great council of the
National Democracy will have to pass, and
without its endorsement the Cincinnati
movement will amount to nothing more
than the Punishment of its main pro-
motors from the Radical field, without at
tording them shelter in any other.
From the New York Herald.l
At ali events, the Cincinnati movement
is bold one, and only by decisive and
determined action can it hope to succeed.
There should be no squabbling and scran-
bling for office ; no hesitation in the course
to be pursued. Let the Cincinnati crowd
nominate Horace Greeley by reclamation:
lay down brief, plain platform, avoiding
alls unnecessary subjects leave the posi-
ton OF Vice President to be filed by the
Democrats, and go about their business
Ii they do this, they may yet accomplish
revolution in the Administration, aud en-
JOY the Federal spoils for the next four
years.
Itrom the Now York journal of Commerce.I
Powerful and well supported as the re-
form sentiment is within the Republican
ranks, however, it cannot be kept I'm ex-
cept by the most cautious and discreet az
ton at Cincinnati. To reconcile the
claims of candidates and TO make n plat
form which will suit Eastern and Western
interests and hold the new party together,
VIII require the greatest tact and a noble
selt-denial on the part Of individuals.
from the st. Louis Republican1
Ii the Convention at Cincinnati should
determine, as it probably will, to open the
contest at once, by presenting a ticket to
the country, no argument against the ir
regularity of the proceeding will weaken
Its force. The movement is above all par
" laws; 1t is a law to itself 1t needs
nothing but the popular approval, and if it
should nominate a good ticket. It nav
leave all the rest to the people.
From the Chicago Times
Let the generals keep in mind this fact.
FOL 1t is a fact which the end will certainly
prove, namely, that the thorough union
and thorough determination which are ne
cessary to success, and which are repre-
sented III the popular impetus which the
movement has acquired, cannot be realized
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