Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-06-07
The National Republican Convention
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The National Republican Convention.
The National Repub. Convention TO nominate
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Prcs-
dency, met in Philadelphia, on Wednesday
last. Beyond elIecting a temporary organiza-
ton nothing had been done. OF course Grant
was nominated before the Convention assem-
bled The contest is for the Vice Presidency,
there being several aspirants, but the struggle
is between Cof8x and Wilson. This is Soma
tor Wilson. of Massachusetts, who once said Of
the Constitution of the United States, "Let it
slide" and he viii be a fit associate with Grant
should he get the nomination.
There is the usual amount Of bluster-al
for buncombe-and the manufacture Of little
enthusiasm for Grant, to affect MS far as posi-
BILE, the popular vote. This is part of the pro-
gramme Ex-Governor Pierpont, Of Virginia,
bolted the Convention and declared in favor
of Greeley.
SUMNER OK GRANT.-The scathing review Of
the administration of Grant by Mr.. SUMNER,
has brought upon the Massachusetts Senator
the denunciaton Of the Radical press. This
arraignment of the administration by one who
knows all about it, will tell with damaging
effect upon its par,isans in the Northern
States. Mr.. Sumner is by far the greatest
man in the Radical ranks, and what he says
Is all true II is what has been frequently
placed before the country by the Democratic
journals, but coming now from the Massachu-
sets Senator, falls like thunderbolt, and is
'tthe unkndest cut of ALL" In his criticisms
Mr. Sumner charges on Grant, Official miscon-
Duct his nepotism, his faculty for taking gifts,
his subordination Of civil to military anthori-
ty, his interference in local politics, his asso-
citation with military, Custom House and Sen
ntorial rings, and SO on. The bill of indictment
is fearful one, and the administration may
well quake under his scorpion lash Mr.. Sum
ner concluded by expressing the hope that the
republican national convention would be saved
from the suicidal policy Of an issue with one
man.
And Immediately following Mr.. Sumner
comes the fiery German, CARL ScHURz, who
in whitening invective denounced the report
made by the Freneharms committee, charac-
terising it as unprecedented and containing
personal animadversions almost amounting to
holding n Senator accountable for words spo-
ken in debate. lie said that while he would
not call the report of the committee a. white
washing report, the facts in the case were
smothcred up by paint. The political atmos-
pherc which admitted The possibility of such a
report was so unhealthy that it would be i'm
possible for the republic to live long in it.
THE DEFAuLrEn's LAw.--The public officers
in the State, whose duty j, is to collect the
revenue of the State or County, will find chap.
ter 800 Of the Acts passed by the Legislature
at its recent session one of more than ordinary
interest to them. Ii is re-enactment Of the
defaulter's law of 1870, providing for is en-
forcement and increasing the penalty for neg
lect of duty.
Section two provides that If any officer
whose duty it is to collect money for the State
or County, shall refuse or neglect to pay 10 the
proper officer authorized to receive the same
any public monies in his possession for more
than sixty days after the day upon which it is
made by law his duty TO pay the same, he
shall be deemed defiulter, and upon indict
ment and conviction thereof shall for each Of
fence be imprisoned in the Stnte penitentiary
for from enc to five years unless the amount
for which he is delanller be sooner paid.
This law shall be in force on and after the
first day Of June next.
WHOLESALE STEAmSG.-A white man, by
the name of Appellee, was committed to the
Jail of this county, one day this week, on
charge of having stolen large amount of
housekeeping articles from an outbuiliing on
the farm of MI Ager, few miles from Rock
vile. Mr.. Ager, We understand, is having
some repairs done about the farm, and the
workmen had put their housekeeping articles,
such as stove, bed-clothing, &C., outside of the
barn at which they had been at work, aud
Appele passing, when the workmen were alb
sent, thinking the articles were 'lying around
loose, " and that the owner bad no further use
for them, concluded 10 appropriate them to his
own use aud behoof. This was sad mistake
in Appellee, and how he arrived at his conc,u-
sons and the right of property is LET, for
jury to determine.
The amnesty bill, which has just become
Law, relieves the political disabilities of up
wards of one hundred aud Fifty thousand per-
sons, not one of whom viii vote for Grant
Mr. JAMES GoRDoS BENNETT, the founder
and proprietor of the New York Herald died
on Saturday afternoon last, at his residence in
that city, in the nth year of his age.
The Greeley Mass meeting in New York on
Monday night last, was an immense affair,
many distinguished men participating