New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-24
THE WEEKLY REPUBLICAN
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Ono year, IS; six months, % 50.
Advertisements.
The Response from Illinois.
From the Chicago Tribune.

We publish elsewhere the opening re-
Spouse of the Liberal Republicans of nli-
nols to the call for the Cincinnati cOnven-
ton. The document is vigorous in its
terms, clear in its platform, and is followed
by the names of some $50 of the best known
and most trusted Republicans of Illinois,
obtained without effort from only twelve
counties, and pledged in good earnest to the
cause of reform. Further names will be
forwarded until the list numbers about
500, the chief object being to make them as
representative of every section and county
of the State as the brief time in which they
are collected admits of. That it is far from
complete is sufficiently shown by the alb
eence of even Governor Palmer from the
list, whose course is so pOintedly indicated
by his letter.
Among the signers are the venerable
Jesse X. Dubois, ex-AuditOr of the State; o.
N. Hatch, ex-Secretary of State; Newton
Bateman, our present State Superintendent
of Public Instruction; Hon. Gustavus
Koerner and Hon. William BrOss, ex-Lieu-
tenant Governors of Illinois; Hon. o. II.
Miner, ex-Auditor; William Butler, ex-State
Treasurer; Hon. William H. Herndon, the
law partner and biographer of President
Lincoln; General John Cook, who COM
manded the first regiment in the field of
Illinois volunteers; Colonel Fred. Hecker,
hero of '48 in Germany, who served also
with distinction in our recent war; D. l..
Phillips, ex-United States Marshal of the
Southern District of Illinois under Presi-
dent Lincoln; Thomas 5. Mather, ex-Adju-
tant General of Illinois; Lawrence We'll
don, United States District Attor-
ney of the Southern District under
President Lincoln; John II. Bryant, of
Princeton; Hon. Charles Hitchcock, presi-
dent of the constitutional convention; Wash
ington Bushnell, present Attorney General
of Illinois; Van H. Higgins, exJudge of our
Superior Court; Judge l.. B. Otis; Judge
Supervisor of Internal Revenue; Judge j.
0. Davis, of Danville; Hon. Samuel C.
Parks, formerly leader of the Illinois
Legislature. and Judge of Logan county;
Judge j. V. Eustace, of Dixon; Jesse w.
Fell, of Normal, well known in connection
with educational and horticultural inter
este; C. II. Moore and H. B. BUXTON, mem.
bers of the constitutional convention; Hon.
James Dinsmore, of Sterling, a former mem
Der of the Legislature and of the Republi-
ican State Central COMMITTEES; Hon. w. S.
Wilkinson, of W hiteside county, now State
Senator; Daniel AFTER, of Cairo, one of the
few brave pioneers who founded the Re
publican party in Egypt" in 1856; J. G..
Monahan, Mayor of Sterling; Writ Dexter,
Esq, and Leonard Sweet, Esq, of Chicago,
too well known at our bar to need any in
of Waukegan, and of the Illinois Legisla-
ture; Owen G. Lovejoy, son of the late
Owen Loveioy; j. w. Preston, president of
the Chicago Board of Trade; hurry Mel
son, N. j. Fairbank, N. LudingtOn, B. p.
Hutchinson, and other prominent members
of the Board of Trade; Hon. Jesse o. HOr-
ton late United States District Attorney
and member of Congress-; C. G. Hammond,
organizer of the Chicago, Burlington and
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tendent OF the Union Pacific railroad; Colo
mel 4. M. Hough, well known leader,
whose voice generally for war; has been
heard in all State conventions for years;
and 80 on through the long list Of $50
names.
No question will be raised by those famil-
lar with the politics of our State that the
bone and gristle, brain and marrow, blood
and muscle Of Republicanism in Illinois are
here represented. There are great MANY
just as good Liberal Republicans in the
State whose names have not been asked for
want Of time; but the State contains no bet
ter Republicans, whether regarded as to
their long fidelity, public experience,
honesty or calibre. The concluding request
of their petition indicates the mode in which
the Cincinnati convention will probably
be converted by the action Of its own mem
hers, from a mass into a delegate conven-
ton. The Republicans present frem each
State will probably be called upon to select
from among their own lumber the quota of
delegates to which the State is entitled in
a national convention. As all Republicans
have an opportunity to attend the mass
convention, and thereby to take part in Sc
lecting the delegates, this mode of selec-
ton is as fair toward all as if primary con-
ventions were held. There is ample time,
however, for the latter course where it is
preferred, and, without doubt, the claims
of delegates accredited to Cincinnati by
local conventions. would be fairly consid-
cred in selecting the quotas from States.