The New York herald., 1872-07-05
I T. L I N o I s.
Inside View of the Political Ris-
r. ing in the State.
THE BITTER CONTEST.
The Friends Of Grant and Greeley Drawn Up in
Hostile Array Grant Strong but Cautious
Striking at the Germans-Attempt to Rob
Teutonia Of Lager and Independ-
enoe-Meanness Of the Party Press

Teutonia Of Lager and Independ-
ence-Meanness Of the Party Press.
.4 CHICAGO, July l, 1872
tbs in some degree unfortunate that the parti-
sanship which curses 80 many of our American
journals should have extended itself to that branch
Of journalis-the collection and representation of
facts, or what the public accepts as facts. The
news department Of newspaper, at least, should
be held sacred, and its integrity maintained even
at the cost Of the cause which the editorial sa is
advocating. Such ever has been the theory and the
practice Of
THE HERALD;
but such is neither the theory nor the practicA
of the rest Of the American press. Especially
In the excitement Of Presidential cam
paign does this talent for deliberate misrep-
resentation exist and in Illinois at present
the political fever is at Its height. Every
body calls everybody else a liar, and the violence
with which men abuse their opponents finds no
parallel save in the lofty contempt In which their
opponents profess to hold them, all OF which,
doubtless is sufficiently amusing, but more than
sufficiently confusing. To Judge from this morn
ing's Tribune Grant will not carry precinct
In the State; to Judge from the evenings Journal
there are no liberal republicans in Illinois. Truth
OF course lies somewhere between the two ex
tremes and 1t Is to discover the precise amount Of
truth In the matter that your correspondent has
set himself assiduousy during the two days OF
THE SPRINGFIELD CONVENTION
and the few days that have since elapsed. The
conclusions at which he has arrived, and which he
now presents, II erroneous are honest. and not
based on er porte evidence. With the history of
the liberal republican movement in America, and
especially In Illinois, the readers Of the HERALD are
intimately acquainted. shall, therefore, let the
past bury Its historical dead, and devote myself to
review Of the present situation especially 1t Is
affected by the conventions which met at Spring
field on the 26th ult. Illinois resembles in one re-
spect Pennsylvania, in that the republicans are not
in perfect accord as to their State ticket and
their Presidential election. Last session the Legis
lature passed Temperance bill similar In its pro-
visions to the Ohio acts. This measure proved ter
riby obnoxious to the democrats and scarcely less
obnoxious to the Germans who form very large
fraction of the republican party. It's repeal
was demanded almost as soon as the bill had
passed lit goes into effect today, but the temper
ance men Of the republican party, who are very
strong in the rural districts, declared that the
measure must stand, and threatened a bolt other.
wise. The republicans, being thus in q strait be-
tween potheen and prohibition, took that middle
course which pleases nobody. They placed plank
in their platform declaring that all "uncon-
stitutional legislation" was undesirable, un-
constitutional and that sort of thing,
stitutionap or a''H not or course this failed 70
prOhibltionists into hslfheartedness in the cause
OF cold water Hence 1t comes that a very large
section OF the German republican party led by the
most influential journals, array themselves In Op-
position to the state ticket, while declaring them
selves for Grant.
THE REGULAR REPUBLICAN PARTY
has the advantages which invariably accrue IN the
"ins''-organization and influence. The state pa
tronage Is controlled by Hon. B. Farwell, Con-
Logan, whose sudden conversion TO the cause OF
the President has done 1t little good. While Mr.
he has weakened his personal influence with them
by his sudden wheeling into line with the candi-
date whom he had a; , 80 frequently denounced as
tives OF ofice-holders in selecting its managers-a
serious fault in O cappaign where
ALLEGATIONS OF NEPOTIsM
have been so profusey made and the Issue has been
or their continued enslavement by horde OF on
cial leeches A similar fault prevails among the
cSs oey ons their
the most shameless and irretrievable ward bummers
that ever ruled and ruined party. Horace White,
paper has much influence, but the fact that per-
sOnal spite has had much or all to do with his re-
and Makes him ' an undessSe eadsr "easfns anS re @
head for party which processes to be vindicating
principles against men. More Of this however,
anon.
Liberal REPUBLIcANIsM. IN ILLINOIS
Is much the same as It s elsewhere, an aggregation
principle, others forpersonal reasons-round whom
the democrats rally with an enthusiasm proper
toned to the desperation Of the democratic cause
The democrats OF illinois love Mr.. Greeley about as
well as the devil loves holy water, but they made
up their minds two months ago to ratify the Cncin
We're out Of met neat and woedchuck was ss1 better e
than nothing Despite the soreness and slowness
Of the Chicago Times TO abandon the idea Of a
straight ticket, OF rebot to Groesbeck, OF any
State ticket and Presidential nominations OF the
CINCINNATI party. Herein they are wise after their
generation Illinois four years ago gave President
Grant about 6l 900 majority over Horatlo Seymour.
II would therefore seem that detection Of at least
rs 900 would be required, ten per cent Of the re-
publican vote, to defeat Grant.
Such contingency the leaders and organs OF the
Grant party declare to be impossible and claim
that Grant will detach many votes and induce as
many stayaways from and in the democratic party,
for the loss Of strength which the party must sui
fer Here lies the great
DANGER TO THE REGULAR REPunLIcANs-
holding their opponents too cheaply. There Is no
error more common or fatal. They permit anony-
nous correspondents to write from this place or that
democrat:'' 'The liberal mass meeting was attend
ed by two men, three boys ana mule,v and so on.
In one town In Shelby county, where met over
Chicago paper-the Journal, l think declares
that there are not five liberal repub-
at least one out OF every twenty OF the republicans
| / have met in two weeks tour Is for Greeley.
Small this may seem the percentage is equal to
more than twelve Thousand votes, which
would bring the Grant ticket down to 237, 500
and the Greeley ticket up to 2l200o To assert that
Governor Palmer, Senator Trumbull Governor
Koerner, the Chicago Tribune all the prominent
movers In this secession, do not carry with them
large retinue OF friends Is 10 outrage common
sense. further source OF weakness In the regular
republican party Is to be found In the fact that they
are running the campaign OF 1872 on the war cry OF
1881 and with the candidates OF 1864. This sort OF
thing In Illinois Is becoming played out. The action
OF the democracy In accepting the Cincinnati plat
form and the issues Of the war has left the