The New York herald., 1872-07-09
A COlORED MAN CHANGING HIS SPOTS
Too Much Promise and Too Little Per-
fOrmance for Him.
DEMOCRATS CAPTURE THE CUrFEE
White Hats White Coats, Old Boots and
Enthusiasm Everywhere.
BALTIMORE, July s, 1

BALTIMORE, July s, 1872
The sensation in this city to-day is made dramatic
by the parading of hundreds Of men wearing white
hats and led by bands of music. Greeley's friends
are audacious and confident Blanton Duncan is
an old claimant before Congress for money which
he alleges to be due to him on account Of war dam
ages. He Is handsome man, Of large and impos-
Ing stature, with fine white set of teeth, and he
made up his mind in 1868 that 1t was the business
Of the Kentuckians, who wanted money out of the
public Treasury, to support the regular republican
candidates all the time. Duncan is regarded
among the delegates in Baltimore as
FLIGHTY MAN,
with cash as the basis of his character He sup
poses, apparently, that to help Grant by diversion
will have the effect to pass all Southern claims.
Other Kentuckians here say that II Duncan had
enough sense to appreciate the force of the Gree
ley movement he would be against Grant, Mr.
Van Allen, OF Oswego the great starch city, is a
kindly and handsome fellow. The strong point
all the anti-Greeley men is. that they are very
handsome Duncan is beautiful; Van Allen is mag
niAcent. Last Sunday afternoon Van Allen stood
before the CarrOllton Hotel and got the first oppor
tunity he has had for years to express himself
against Greeley. He used the term black repubi
can, with the
BLACK FERoCIoUsLY EMPHASIZED,
and every time he said black he looked around for
peated the term with still greater emphasis, but
such is the confusion Of modern politics that nobody
seemed to know the exciting difference between q
black republican and white republican. In the
Pennsylvania delegation there Is a large minority
e-third) against Greeley, making frantic efforts
TO break his nomination, on the pretence that the
voters of that State require to be concilated. Mr..
Getz, Of Reading, capital Of the Berks district,
says that the local politics Of Pennsylvania are Qf
vastly more consequence than the politics Of the
United States, and therefore that the election Of
BuckaleY Should be Of more effect than Creeley's
election. Getz, like many Pennsylvanians, is in
faap - ma @~ss '.s.-r .ls.-r, :,e
HUMAN PRgrzELs OF INTERIOR PENNSYLVANIA,
who are opposed to Greeley. 1t is very apparent
that no State In the Union has less consideration
than the Keystone state and Pennsylvanians are In
great individual mental distress over the discovery
that they are Of consequence, two-thirds of the
Pennsylvanans wishing to escape the proposition
that they are merely creatures of their voting clans
and favorable to Greeley's nomination. gentle
man OF that State said to me to-day
eve would rather be out Of Pennsylvania for
four years than to be powerful in 1t under existing
political conditions. We have no conception in
our State Of the progressive Of Southern and
Western democrats. They have more suggestions
10 make every minute than we can make in
year. and we are tired Of the miserable domination
OF our supposltitous Bourbons.
THE ONO DELEGATION,
forty two strong, came to Baltimore without any
hesitation OF any description and in no sense hero
worshippers. The youngsters have carried what
are now called the oldsters, and 1t is strange mat
ter that out of the new Greeley movement the
word youngsters has become recognized term in
the political vocabulary. Talking among the Ohio
men, the notion becomes paramount that vallan
digham, of Dayton, is the
REPRESENTATIVE MEMORY OF THIS PERIOD.
The Ohio men claim though, some said that Val
was mean, selfish and perniclous; yet on the whole
he was the boldest spirit ever seen in Ohio politics
and that had he lived to-day the state OF Ohio
would have been the foremost of all the Co mmon.
wealths In the liberal movement, because he held
out as long as there was honor In holding out and
stepped to the front as soon as honor was to be won
by the liberal movement.
The ditettnnu fellows Of Ohio who are now on.
posing Mr.. Greeley because they did not name him
at the Cincinnati Convention are snubbed by both
the democratic and republican parties The Ohio
1Olks now at Baltimore are not, like tho Pennsyl-
Tanians, Missourlans or New Jerseyans. opposed
10 the unequivOca nomination OF Mr.. Greeley. The
great philosopher OF Chappaqua will
RECEIVE SIX HUNDRED VOTES
for tho candidacy. All propositions Of contrary
sort have been hailed with rdicuc.
.Wnen man comes to National Convention
selpp0sing That he Is OF some consequence he gen.
eraly fnds good chance to lose oil his conseqnen.
tiaf convictions Not one OF the leading positions In
tho government Of the democratic party is vet
awarded. II might be cheering TO q good many of