New-York tribune., 1872-06-22
THE PRESS ON THE CONFERENCE.
PACKED BY rHf GREELEY MEN.

et0.Y Y7rk World (DenLl.
Our readers viii bear witness that we nave
never encouraged them TO expect anything valuable
from the conference held yesterday and last evening az
ns s next dsy ssT he einTSy Hal
meednG and were then given permission 70 pub
ton, we concluded 10 word about IL at that
stage FOR It's authors seemed 70 AcH those @
signatures IN our possession several days before ne
dense. When the seal was removed, we sent the
call TO the Associated Press 10 be sent 10 al
the newspapers and printed II ourselves In large type
and conspicuous place but without word OF comment
or eOmmendatOn being unwilling TO raise expeoSasuoh
unlikely to be re6Ezed. We had known for some time
what was stated day in ST. Louis paper. that SEN
aOr schurz made 1t condition OF his signature that
Bowles or william Dorsbemer (all committed 70 Gree,
ley) and that leading promoter OF the meeting haa
out a compliance with the condition such circumstances
calculated 20 excite NOT remover
by the Language Of the call which might as easily nave
been signed by Mr. Greeeys supporters az opponents
We were confirmed in our suspicious oy the
course OF The TRIBUNE which courteOusly sauted the
call, and galanty offered ITS arm 70 escort nadm oONn
to dinner II was evident that The TRIBUNE had been
more fully In the secret than had that It had been
consulted al every step that by c0uson with Greeleys
friends invitations had been sent TO many Greeley mem
in short that the conference had been clandestney
packed with view to pervert 1t from its original pur
maneuver Is Justified by the proceedings thus far The
practical object OF the conference seems 70 nave Deen 20
xith Mr Greeley by taking credit for frustrating
movement conceived in hostility 10 him.
NOT a PACKED MEErING-WHAT 1T HAS MADE
From IN, ye,0. York Eveafro Post (Inr- -Grs,t,pD.
As the meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
70 discuss what It would have done it had done any
thing. We print elsewhere the only resolutions onerea
inferred the sentiment OF the conference ana could
probably have been carried II pTseI n 70 SSSe S e ~ Is
close vote, al those present had voted Most OF tne
speeches made IN favor OF the acceptance OF MT
Greeieys nomination. 1t is not true, however, thar the
meeting packed, that there were anY underhana
proceedings like those which disgraced the Cincinnati
Convention The conference has made several things
good deal clearer than they were before In the nrst
place. the speeches OF the southern VINO We're
present showed cOnclusvey that the southern white
vote s going sody for Greeley that me s9gIhern dele
cations are going 70 Baltimore 10 NOtS IOI anu
that the nomination OF Mr. Greeley there foregone
CONCLUSION 1he speeches. were @ very & aen1I AJ,T M
In the expression Of their dislike OF Mr Greeley we
might almost say their Oahing Of him His nomination
was compared 10 a dose OF Heailine, an euliolo5 l
| which must be swallowed but which was very disgust
equal unanimity Of feeling on another point ana "a 't nat
was the oppression Of tho south by Grant We dd NOT
In the Community for which they spoke any interest
whatever in reform at the North understand IT,
Free Trade Revenue Reform, Civil Service Reorm-they
/ did not even aIlude 20 these subjects.
! FORESIGHT AND HINDsIGHT.
From The Brooklyn Eagle lDenae
The gentlemen who met In the Fifth Avenue
HofeI Yesterday, came to the same conclusions any
equal number Of intelligent persons would arrive at
greeley and Brown Reform necessity, and their
election the only means OF defeating Grant ana end
ing the ramed and consolidated aDonnatlOn That goes
nv the name OF Grantism." That much was inevitable
to all ordinary observation before but the gentlemen
who concooted this conference are gentlemen OF extra
ordinary observation. The majority OF US can best see
what eonrons US But the foresight OF the best OF us Is
nothing In COMPARISON with the hndsight Of the gentle
men who imagine that Deity created the universe and
called The earth from nothing into beauty, on pur-
pose TO give them a chance TO illuminate Free
Trade. in the abstract, anu anu ., IN Ii4ctce t 70
support the Protection platform ana the canduaes WHO
stand upon it. - -
GAME OF FRAUD BY THE GREELEY MEN.
gr,r T7s Ner- POrs Commercial Advertiser, lddHj
q Conference Of those who desire TO bea
Grant" and who would not OBJECT 70 Deal Greeley,
sen Gvenue Hotel The Greeley men at once took
measures TO get control OF the Conference, ana under
he uise OF dsafected patriots and men who have the
oodlT show OF numbers II would not do 70 play the
came Of force so successfully managed al CINCINNATI
o1e 20 they nut forward OF speakers who pro-
fessed 10 be doubling, In search OF truth and lght
These discovered sudden CLEAN which proceeded rom
the sage OF Chappauqua, and at once exclaimed that
mis- star In the East pointed 70 the promised redeemer VI
the land.
ONLY 1NsUREs Mr.. GREELEY's DEFEAT.
From, me Ne0 York TiHss, lAdm)
The mucb-vaunted Conference among the
opponents OF the Republican ucket has amounted 70
nohing IL adjourned this morning az O'CLOCK aIter
nearv ten hours Of speecbmakng, leaving the accept
NC Cr reeqrOn Of Mr. Greeeys cdndidature precisely
where IL was when the Conference commenced. WIN
this result real Republicans as far as they nave any
occasion for feeling az all have no cause 10 De dssats
fled IL cannot for a moment cheek the disgust Win
Greeley which has steadily spread among the Liberals
since his nomination, ana hands LIN over 70 ne Deuo
Gratis presented by them for Inevitable deIeat IN
November.
SIREN CITIZENS Mr.. GREELEY.
from The springaed RPublean, (Indl
The result of the Liberal conference at New
York greatly ghens the hands Of MI Greeley ana
anDlv iustides the generous and catholic manner III
which he aud his friends have treated the movement
Now let the ranks close up aud ali push on together
BOLT THAT WAS NOT a BOLT.