The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-06-27
ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL CASDf.
DATE.

notice of the Fifth Avenue Conference,
which took place in New York on the 2lst
inst.
A. the Fifth Avenue conference Yesterday. Sen
ator Trumhuil delivered a short address, In Which
he SAID To the Guest on that comes uppermost
among US, there y onl' one ans yer winch occurs
10 me as reasonable or possible. How are we to
defeat Grant! By supporting Greele,
Carl Schurz said. res pecting the Cincinnati nom
inees: perhaps a better .icket could have been
devised and perhaps MT. Greeley Is no" before
the people and MS name cannot be witbdrasn
Overwhelming waves OF opinion are rising in his
favor. ami i, wond be ido.c to attempt TO this
juncture to stay its progress. The Senator ex-
pressed the opinion that II Mr.. Greeley = elected,
~ he would b. by overwhelming VOTE he would
select from all parties such cabinet and draw
around him such the nation ~ouId place
entire confidence IA.
general interchange Of opinion dcyel-
oped the fact that a large majority of the
conference were in favor Of making no new
nomination, and expressed the emphatic
opinion that there was nothing left for the
opposition to Grant but to unite on Gree
ley, and his opponents were very glad,
shortly after midnight, to adjourn sine
die
When they found that a very large ma
jority in the north and all the southern
deleg atoms preferred Greeley to Grant,
they concluded they must quit. The whole
New York press, irrespective Of former
predictions, treats the whole matter as
farce. The Worla edtorially treats the
conference rs farce. The Herald thinks
the conference developed the fact that the
Democratic party, sld and young, will 60
for Greeley. The Times says it amounted
to nothing. The Tribune believes that
nothing but good has resulted from the
conference.
Immediately on the adjournment Of this
meeting, Judge StalIo called a meeting Of
what they call supplementary boilers to
meet next day at room 81 of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. Judge Stallo seems as
anxious in this matter of bolts in Grants
interest, as any of Grants officials. How
ever, he succeeded in getting sixteen
besides himself together in secret
convention, which resulted in another
bolt, as FIX Secretary Cox, Colonel eros
veneer and Governor Randolph and others
opposed a third nomination. 1t was
finally decided to nominate, when all these
gentlemen withdrew from the conference,
declaring sheir independence of any nomi-
nations they might make. However, the
bakers dozen proceeded to nominate VIM.
S. Groesbcck of Ohio, for President, and
L r g x,1
for Vice President Yet there seemed to
be division of opinion, even among these
few left. As Mr.. Edward Atkinson urged
the nomination of Chas Francis Adams rs
means to unite the rcformcrs against
Grant, what argument he could have used
in favor Of Adams we cannot divine as we
have never heard Of his having an opinion
o. Tariff, Amnesty, Revenue Reform,
or Civil Service Reform, and if Mr.. Adams
really is possessed Of any notion OF IDEAS of
Government, they must have been bottled
up and presented to him by his father,
j ohm Quincy Adams while in the flesh,
and that Chas. Francis has forgotten to
uncork. They certainly showed good
sense in ignoring this last Shad of the
Adams family whatever they may do IN
the future Again Mr.. Vim. Cullen Bry
ant, of the Ercning Post, was present
during both days, and in his paper says
that most of the speeches made were IN
favor of Greeley, and that the Conference
made several things a good deal clearer,
(Which also NAV be found in another col
umn. LIST. That the spcaches of Southern
gentlemen present showed concluslyely that
the Southern white voters We're going
solidly for Greeley; End That Southern
Delegates are going for Greeley at Balti-
more; Bird. That the nomination of Mr..
Greeley there is foregonc conclusion;
4th. That there was an nnanlmty OF
feeling among Southerners as to Grants
despotism in the South; 5th. That the
South is a ruined country. "Our States
have been rillaged, our homes have been
burned, our friends have been killed. For
five years we have been suffering from
despotism; who is the dcspot? Gen.
Grant. Give us any body to beat him.
You have given US very little for many
wears. Give us at least this one sweet
morsel of relief
The Chicago Times, Of the sd, comes
in with only faint hope as follows:
tain, hope is inspired by the dispatchs which
app-ar elsewhere in tins issue that the nn~pefkabse
htrha hetv1 Naf in ItYp Fftnn n
fe New York conference, may be re3eemei by
tire su hsequenL iction OF number OF gentlemen
who participate Ia that occasion.
There is something very peculiar in the
fact that these conventions do not take the
advice of the Tunes in the matter of
candidates. The Cincinnati Convention
was a very nice idea in prospect that all
Democrats might join in safety, and that
it was the duty Of all Democrats TO help
the overthrow of Grant, yet 1t very COM
placentlv notified the Cincinnati leaders
that unless they took the Times candi-
date, Judge Davis, of Illinois, 1t would be
a failure, and it really took that paper
some time to find any fault with the plat
form, but, finally, it awoke to realizing
sense that u vas an gorgeous hlunder
platform, candidate and all, and that the
convention was packed, and all fraud from
its inception to its close.
And since the New York conference was
IN entire failure, the Time, finds that
"cnspcakable idiocy was betrayed in its
organization. Yet he claims that the
impression that Mr.. Grcesback would
not accept of the nomination from those
ers was merely the guess Of some :. In
quisitive Bohemian" 1t is true that Mr..
Groesbcck was, rs Attorney General, a
member Of Andrew JohnSton's cabinet.
still it docs not necessarily follow, that he