The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-08
THE PHILADELPHIA NoMINA.
TONS.
The New York WorId Heard Frou

The New York World Heard From.
NRw YoRK, Jnne 1.-THE World this
morning doubts whether the most fertile
Imagination could invent more preposter.
Gus farce than that which was acted yester.
day at Philadelphia. The assumption Is
that that body Of delegates, freely chosen,
and possessing full liberty to vote for or
against any candidate, nominated Gen.
Grant for President. The fact is that the
delegates Of the Philadelphia Con.
yention had no more actual liberty than
the Presidential electors have In voting
for President. So far as regards the first
name on the ticket, the. Philadelphia Con.
yenton was q mere registering body.
Grants nomination was fixed four or FIVE
months ago. The people (meaning by the
people the masses Of the Republican
party had nothing 10 do with It" The
World further says: "Grant Is one Of the
weakest candidates the Republicans
could have put In the field; that the last
crowning blunder OF his administration, the
management Of the Alabama treaty, Is so
great that only packed Convention
could have nominated him." and II con.
cludes he will be an easy man to beat.
Comments of the Chicago Times and
Tribune.
CHICAGO, June 7.-The Tribune Of this
morning says Of the result Of the Phila.
delphia Convention that the nomination
OF Grantwas so universally expected, that
the announcement Of the fact failed 10
excite the least comment. The nomina.
tion ot Wilson II says was q surprise to
lew, but not TO the many who have known
that Mr.. Colfax had long since been re.
garded with dislike by the Grant faction.
II then proceeds 10 review Wilson's pol.
itical history and especially his connec-
tion with the old Known Nothing party
and concludes the article as follows:
This ticket presents all the evils Of the
Grant administration and as II the hates,
prejudices, bitterness, prescription, dis
Embellishments Of years were not enough,
there has been revived the old and most
senseless lof all hates and prejudices, the
prescription Of nsturalized citizens and
their political disfranchisement in the
addition 10 the ticket Of Mr.. Henry Will
son, the at one time High Priest Of ma
tivelsm in the United States" The plat.
form, 1t says, declares in favor Of all meas.
ures which the administration party in
Congress have opposed. The tariff reso-
luton, 1t argues, Is in the interest Of
protection, and means that the President
will oppose and veto any repeal Of the
taxes levied for the protection Of monopo.
lies.
The Times says the nomination of
Grant was quite matter Of course simply
through his control of the party machin-
cry; that the nomination OF Wilson was
the result ofinauences of which considera.
ton Of fitness formed no part, Mr.. COL
FAX being immeasurably his superior in
every qualification for the position. The
tariff plank in the platform, II regards as
explicitly in favor Of protection.
COMMENT OF THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
NEW YORK, June THE TTi5UHs this
morning says: "The Convention did its
work with neatness and dispatch. The
man who had patronage to use secured its
vote for second term. Grant Is renom.
mated. The man who had no patronage
to use could not secure its vote. Colfax
is set aside with the contemptuous argu.
ment Of the negro delegate, that he saw
no objection to swapping horses in the
middle OF the stream, provided you get a
better horse The American people pro-
pose to complete the swap which Phil
adelphia left only half finished, and in
November swap the whole ticket for
better one" The IribunS reckons the
wanton sacrifice Of ColiaI more than
equal to the trifiDg administration
majority in Indiana, as well as q serious
blow throughout the country. With
union, harmony and effort Pennsylvania
and Indiana are within tho grasp Of the
opposition, and the party which carries
themin October carries the nation in
November.