New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-04-25
The Illinois Boilers.

The Illinois Boilers.
The Observation-Disclosures brigade of soreheads
are laboring with zeal they never exhibited
in any honest work to create the impression
that there is widespread feeling of disaffec-
ton among Republicans in Illinois, and that
a majority of them are proposing to follow
Ten Thousand Dollar TRUMBULL into the
Copperhead rebel trap at Cincinnati. But it
is deliberate attempt to deceive. Papers
and correspondents on the spot expose the
shameless fraud. The Inter- Ocean, formerly
the Republican, thus describes them:
"Jesse X. Dubois, long an offlce-holder in
the Republican party, an aspirant for Cabl-
net position under Mr.. Lincoln, and candl-
date for C6ngressman-at-large last fall y.
M. Hatch, eX-Secretary of State; o. ID. Mi
ner, eX-Auditor; DIR. Jayne, extension
Agent and brother-in-law of Mr.. Trumbull;
Gen. John Mcconnell and Gen. Cook. These
gentlemen have long formed the celebrated
Springfield clique. 1t was once powerful, but
not in the direction of REFORM"
The Inter- Ocean adds that if the Cincinnati
movement is backed by the same class of men
in other States as these in Illinois, sit is moth
VA
bankrupt politicians. They are the same all
around. The Liberal Republicans who hang
around that city are, with half dozen excep-
tons, the bummers and loafers of the party,
who have been unsuccessful in obtaining Of
flee, and have taken to lobbying for want of
honest employment"
The same careful and intelligent cores
pondent of the New York Times who kept its
readers so well advised as to the progress of
the recent contests in New Hampshire and
Connecticut, has been to Illinois to look after
the boilers there and count the list. In re-
gard to their numbers and Importance he
writes that the political condition of Illinois as
it is to-day is fairly portrayed by the preva-
lent opinion concerning the call of the Lib
erals" for delegates to Cincinnati, and Gov.
PAI.MER's letter, published last Thursday in
the Democratic Times, which seems to be the
organ of the soreheads. The call is signed
by thirty-eight persons, of whom twenty-five
live in Chicago, ten in Springfield, and the
other three at as many different points in the
State, and therefore may be claimed as dele
gates at large. Small as is the list in num-
bers, it is still more insignificant in the politi-
cal influence it represents, as it does not
contain a single man, with the exception,
perhaps, of HORACE WHITE, who has of late
years been powerful in the State, and who
was even taken into consideration in deter
mining its action. Such of these men as were
ever prominent in the State are like JESSE
X. DUBOIS, who was long dropped by the
Republican party as burden too heavy to be
carried.
OF Gen. PALMER's desertiOn, he says, no.
body takes any account. He made himself
so ridiculous and contemplate because Gen.
SHERIDAN used United States troops to pre-
serve order in Chicago during the great fire,
that nobody seems to care where he goes or
what he says. His letter announcing his
departure" for Cincinnati "and market"
originally published in the rebel Times of
Chicago, and republished in the New York
Tribune last week with a grand flourish, the
Times correspondent says, is considered I'M
worthy of serious consideration it is well
known that almost up to the last hour of its
publication he had been content to be thought
an adherent of the regular organization of the
Republican party, and his sudden desertion to
the soreheads" is attributed solely to his
discovery that popular sentiment points to ex-
Gov. RICHARD j. OGLEsBY, rather than
himself, as the nominee of the Republican
Convention which meets ON May Odd. His de-
lection is considered matter of no moment
whatever, and the sturdy Republicans of Illi-
nOis, who have so often rolled up huge ma
.iOrities for the acknowledgements of the party,
declare their entire confidence in their ability
to do as we'll as ever before next fall, no mat
ter what may happen at Cincinnati or else
where.
And this is the way with all of them. Some
petty grievance is at the bottom of these bolts.
A dish of pap, given in season, if they had
been worth it, would have stopped their
mouths and their pitiful whine. But the
party will be all the stronger and purer for
their desertiOn. Men who have acted with it
only for their own personal benefit are only