The Lincoln County herald., 1872-04-11
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vanis and Illinois is favorable to the
Cincinnati Convention. Maryland vii
send delegation headed by cx Governor
Bradford and cx Repre-. sentative II W
Hoifuan. late collector OF the port o.
Baltimore under Lincoln, and othe,
prominent and distinguished non ofice
holding Republicsns. Pennsylvania will
elect her delegates from among her lead
ing men Republicans eil also be
chosen from the ranks of the party she
we're the orig final founders of the Kepub.
lican Organization 10 that state. They
will present ex Governor Andrew G
Curtin's nomination as n candidate for
vice President. In Illinois ea represent.
ative Kellogg, formerly minister to Gau
temala under President Lincoln, is on
the war path against General Grant, and
has stated that the state Of Illinois will
indorse by a large msjority the Cincin-
natl nominees.
A New York telegram says that the
World has veered around again suff =
cien,ly to remark that the Cincinnati
convention may shape the future politics
Of the country. 1t gives its reasons for
this hope as follows: The New York
call is to be followed up with spirit and
vigor by mass meeting of Liberal Re.
publicans IN Cooper Institute next Fri.
day evening. 1t will be one Of the most
influential political meetings ever held in
this country. The Liberal Republicans
of this state are no mere coporars guard.
They comprise the whole Fentou wing Of
the party, and Senator Fenton shirks no
responsibility in connection with this
movement. His followers will stand BY
him and Mr.. Greeley in forwarding the
Cincinnati movement and combination
with the Democratic party. They will
carry the state against Grant next fall By
at least hundred thousand ma ority, and
give its thirty.two presidential electors to
the nominees Of the Cincinnati convention
Annexed will be found an extract from
the Louisville (Ky .Courier.J journal. 1t
Is the leading Democratic journal Of the
South, and has not until very recently
given any encouragement to the Passive
Policy. Its utterances in respect to the
probable or possible relation Of the Dem
ocra,ic party to the action of the Cincin.
natl Convention, nre therefore full Of
significance. The Courier Journal says ::
The Democratic party, as an organiza
tion, ,s not going to play the fool or the
traitor either to itself or the Liberals.
We lay down plainly and broadly Its
position, and we know that we speak for
the masses of the Southern people and
for the leaders Of the party everywhere.
If the Cincinnati convention is o success
If it puts an acceptable ticket in the
tield-if the great Republican journals
support that ticket-then the Democratic
party will not stand in its way. With.
out indorsing, without being responsible
fer the Cincinnati movement or nom nees,
without defendin. them or their antscc.
dents, it will, in the absence Of fair
chance for itself, choose between the
Liberal candidates and the Radical can
didates. Ii, will preserve its own organi.
cation in the several States. 1t will put
it's nominees in the field for Governors,
Congressman and Legislators. 1t will
not embarrass the Liberals by coalition,
nor compromise itself by passivism
which may be regarded as the first step
toward dissolution. But it will hope by
the defeat Of Grant, and by the division
of the present Senate, and by the cleo
ton of the next House cf Representa-
tives, to 80 enlarge and chastcn all the
opposition as to open the new ndmnistra.
ton with fresh set Of books, to which
justice and law are the titles, and to re.
organize the government upon constitu
tional principles which cnn claim the
allegiance Of every patriot.
The trouble the Rcformers will have
to meet and overcome, will not proceed
from the Democracy. but from Grant
men disguised as Democrats and as
Liberals. The administration has money
to spend in buying up a few impractc.
abes to make row in tho Democratic
camp, and of course it has many paid
agents, who will profess to be Liberals
in order to betray tho Liberal movement
at the right moment. Indeed. so great
an interest has Grant in dividing. or 10
seeming to divide, the Democracy, that
with the enormous public plundsr at his
disposal, he could afford to defray the
expenses Of putting an ultra Democratic
ticket in the field.
DREADFUL EARTHQUAKE.-ALo London
telegram of the 9Th says that intelligence
has been received from Constantinople to
the effect that the city Of Antioch, in