Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-05-02
THE PHILADELPHIA CON-
negn iVENH1ON. ,ss5sa.ss.-.3
what the iltepltbliean Party has
done and WHAT remains TO be
8i.z done. .s5=-..

} What the tltepIfbliean Party ma
done and WHAT remains to b.
tffi.z - done. .s..Fsz.,
i, 1t is not important how large or how
many conventions assemble at tCincln
matt or Phiiadelphia; but who ano
what they represent. ief AS a delegate
convention the Republican COnven
ton at indianapolis probably exceeded
what either OF those at Cincinnati ol
Philadelphiat will be. But5iwh VIII
they represent, and what weight viii
they have? Phe Republican conyen
,dsns of Indiana, Ohio, and Iowa prov
ed cOnelusiYely tilat the Republican
partyin those states is a united, com
I pact organization, with no fracture
land wwaut of popular supper. From
each of these States there will be, dele
4 gates to Cincinnati" and some OF
4 them men of character and talent; but
what will they do, and what can
they dot. If they should nominate q
/ candidate for the Presidency, he will
either beadopted by the Democrats or
run as a third candidate. In the form
er event all probabilities are that Grant
twill be a gamer by the operation. Ii
run as third candidate he may carry
] off two OF. three states on the one hand,
and give, about the same to Grant.
But the movement will be of no prac-
tical importance, because nine-tenths
of the states are either firmly for the
Repub. leans or firmly for the Demo-
jsqals. For example, Iowa will send
! some persons of talent toGncinnatl, but
the forty Thousand majority OF Iowa
for Grant is about as certain as any
future event can be. 8. q q. .
The RepubI bIican eOny entions in Penn
sylvania and Massachusetts, have just
been held, and they were just as united
and determined as they have ever been
NOT the least sign of wavering or
doubt What, then, can the very viz
tuous sgentlemeniWhO assemble at Gin
dinnati do? 1t matters not. But let
US take a hyp0the tical caSe-let them
nominate man; and if they nominate
him they are honorably bound to sup
port him.. Let us suppose them going
before the people. On what ground
Twill they ask The peoples votes? What
they have heretofore put forth are the
Temptiest distractions. There is not an
idea ora word in them to stir the feel
ings, or attract the interest, or excite
the mind of any human being. Don
Quixote himself would not attack a
vindmill with such bare emptiness. 1t
was tried in Connecticut, where the
Missouri platform was adopted word
for word, and. its result was that four
thousand Democrats refused to vote.
Why? Because they had been life long
contending for something. They had !
fought for State rights, for State banks,
for free trade, for slavery while it last
ed; against Capitalization, against me-.
gro equality, against national banks,
and against q protective tariff. In fine,
they had positive system opposed to
a positive system. But now they were
invited to votefor nothing real; for q
piece of blank paper, or one with moth
ingness, the emptiness of vague themes,
cold as icicles, They refused to do it..
They must vote for something real and
practical, or they would leave the field
to the RepubI Iicans against the empty
headS.iilI e! q ~ IT, f" 49, .,l ass aFsn ~
What, then, win the honorable gem
tIemen who support a hybrid candi-
date say? They dare not in the face OF |
any Intelligent farmer or merchant, say |
the country is not highly prosperous.
They w6hid be laughed at. Why,
then, do they ask II change? There
are bat two things they can say, and
let us see what weight they snould |
have. Fist, We have Grants pecca- |
diIlos, real or imniaginary; his appoint |
ment of friends and relatives to. Office, /
and, most of all, his not appointing the
sore -heads and empty heads. But
this will make poor material for an
electioneering speech. The best Presi-
dents of the United States, Washington,
Jefferson, and Madison, were abused
Just as much as Grant, and with about
as much reason. Greeley, to make the |
case strong, declares in the Tribune
that Grant has appointed more rela-.
tives to Office than all the previous /
Presidents. That is a pretty safe dec
Iaration to make, when all the early
presidents have gone to their, grave,
and the generation to which they be-
long, and nobody knows their rel I
atives.s a Greeley makes this assertion,
just as Dana libeled Secretary Robeson,
without having any 'kho Wledge of what
he was saying. Such statements are I
very foolish, .becaiise they enable some
body of half the,sense and Information |
of Greeley tocontradict him fatty Mr..
Greeley never heard the Federal dog
gerel on Madison, when he fled from
Washington: = ". - ,,.,. i7'' - -, -
sister Cutts, and Cults and I, ,arI |