The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-01

hand If the republicans re-elect thor Cover
nor the democrats will say, as they have
already proclaimed it, that we can dispense
with your liberal republicans for, having
proved unequal to the few hundred votes re-
quired to restore Connecticut to the demo-
cratic column. your Cincinnati love-feast be-
comes q farce as ridiculous as the Cleveland
extravaganza of Fremont and Cochrane.
Nothing but the election can settle this diff
Guilty, ard specuations as to the general
result art proftless with the actual verdict
SO near d. hand. But the Cincinnati round
robin of~46essrs. Selden, Greeley, Barney Il
Co, Issued on Saturday last, indicates deci-
sion among the anti-Grant republicans in
favor of Hubbard, and the consequence this
day, perhaps. may be a political earthquake
in 1.-THE land of steady habits" Nobody can
tell. 1t may come, as earthquakes generally
come, like thief in the night. The heavy
storm OF yesterday is certainly in favor of an
earthquake; for it compels the republicans,
whose strength is in the country, to wade
through the mud days journey to the polls
or to stay at home and trust to luck. But the
regular old line democrats of Connecticut,
those old copper-bottomed shippers, who still
believe in the constitution of Buchanan,
give no encouragement to the helping hand of
Mr. Greeley. Mr.. Eaton, for example, in one
of his old-line speeches at Hartford the other
evening, frankly declared, 81 would not have
drawn the platform of the democratic party
made In New Haven in the words that were
used, because Connecticut can draw better
platform than Missouri (referring to the pas
sive policy. l am asked, Are you in favor
of plantation negroes voting?' / was not, nor
am now. am opposed to letting negroes
vote under law of Congress. l would have
South Carolina make her own laws. believe
the States superior to the federal govern
ment," and so on.
In the next breath Mr.. Eaton pleads for the
constitution, and says, elf Lyman Trumbull
or David Davis will stand on the constitution
of the United States we will give him our sup
port" He means the constitution purged of
these radical denominations of negro political
equality and negro suffrage; and is this the
democratic entertainment in Connecticut to
which liberal republicans are invited? So it
appears, and, recalling the unwelcome spectre
of jeff Davis, in a wild harangue on the final
triumph of the 'Iost cause such intractable
democratic copperhead apostles as MIR. Eaton
are apt to frighten off the trembling deserters
from the camp of the administration. Hence,
do doubt, the unity and confidence among the
republicans in this canvass in support of
Grant, the doubts of the democrats and the
misgivings of disappointed ofice-beggars,
who know not what to do. So as in New
Hampshire, and with all the advantages to
the democrats of republican boilers, tempe
rance and labor reformers, a heavy storm and
miry roads, we apprehend there will be
nothing done in Connecticut to-day calculated
to recall Mr.. Belmont from the blue grass pas
lures of Kentucky or to make fusion jubilee
of the Cincinnati Convention.
We are told that in any event the demo-
cratic party will remain intact, and yet it is
possible that this little Connecticut election
may be the end of this once all-powerful politi-
cal organization. The Chicago Tribune
(ant-Graut republican, urges the defeat of
Hubbard in this Presidential skirmish as the
one thing needful to kill off this toothless and
useless old Mumbo Jumbo, known as the
democratic party, for that then the field will
be open for a new, fresh and powerful organi-
cation, adapted to the new issues that have risen
since the deluge of the rebellion. Very good.
We are ready to assist in the last sad rites to
the democratic party and in the christening of
its successor, but we await the issue in Con-