Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-30
CINCINNATI.

hewill be able to explain his failure correctly.
Cincinnati.
The time for speculation and conjecture in re-
gard to the doings of the Cincinnati meeting is
almost over. Its acts will speak for themselves
in day or two. Meantime from that favored
city come the most variant and distracting ru-
mors, caught or invented, and assiduously spread
by the eager politicians who are assembled there,
and eoored to suit the eye or favored TO please
the palates of their various constituencies. One
reporter says that Mr.. Adams is the first choice of
the New England, Ohio and southern delegates,
and the second choice of nearly all the rest; an
other enumerates nearly the same states as those
where Davis or Gratz Brown is the favorite can
ddate, and is sure that Mr.. Adams has no
strength except with Massachusetts and Cincn-
natl people, and has not the ghost of a chance
of being nominated. Illinois is fortunate or un-
fortunate, as it may happen, in having three
candidates to present, all of whom have earnest
and sanguine friends, Davis Palmer and Trum-
bull. 1t is not necessary to enumerate the can
didates; we all know who they are. Chief JUS
tice Chase, Of course, is one of them, as he will
be at every national convention while he lives.
But while the air and the newspapers are full
ofreports and coniectures about candidates and
politicians of every complexion and degree are
intensely busy working for their friends adj
vancement, fattering one and threatening an
other, wire-puling and log-rollng TO the very
utmost their skill mot word is said about prin
cples, except that some free traders ominously
muIter that the platform must be framed TO
eaift A. r1,,Io
But the movement is in other hands now, and
even the Mssourians, who gave it the first i'm
pulse, are contemporary told that they can
have no influence in the deliberations The
affair shas quite outgrown the dimensions
first contemplated, and has taken an en-
entirely different aspect. Instead of being a
gathering of unselfsh and patriotic reformers
according to the pleasant theory first an
nounced, it is pretty much like other national
conventions, with this notable exception, that,
as it combines greater Yrriety than usual of
diverse and conflicting elements, there are in
attendance a larger proportion than usual of
cunning professional politicians, who have the
interests Of one or another candidate in
Their charge, and are engaged in the
congenial occupation of bargaining for
votes and influence, arranging combinations
and preparing, in some instances, to sell out
their friends and themselves to the best adyan-
tage. In view of what is now going on at Gin
cinnati, we can see the propriety of Mr.
Adams contemptuous reference to ''peddlng''
and his not over courteous designation of the
Performers" as that crowd" 1t is perhaps a
fanciful notion, yet it seems as if there were
really some foundation for it, that the announce
ment of a gathering of genuine political reform
ers put the dissatisfied scheming politicians at
once upon their mette. "Here," they thought,
''will be an assembly Of well meaning, simple
folks, whoTn, while pretending to be in sympa
thy with them, we can delude and make our
tool, to crafty our ambition and greed and
avenge all the Sights and neglect that we have
suffered FROM" So tue to their predatory in
stincts have this sort of politicians proved, that
they have gathered at the Cincinnati meeting
like yultures about carcass, and, instead of
finding it an easy prey, they meet everywhere
adopts at their own disreputable arts, and are
Obliged to use all their skill and resources if
they would not be beaten at their own game.
One OF the most curious things about this
Cincinnati movement as we have before had oc-
casion 10 remark, is the New York Worlds
varying demeanor in regard to it. Patronage,
contempt and advice have been given from,day to
day, as the exigencies Of the case seemed to re-
quire, with that journals customary disregard
of consistency 1t is now, according to the
World, an extraordinary uprising of the people,
"the most important affair of the kind that ever
occurred in American politics. the famous Buff
1alo convention "resembled i as a respectable
mill pond resembles the heaying, surging sea"
and SO on, through paragraph or two of similar
grandiloquent metaphors. The World, like all
the rest who are helping on the movement, en-
hrely ignores principles and platforms, SO en-
TREY That 1t seems TO be for the time uncon-
scious that political parties ever concern them
selves about such things. The selection of can
didates for national election is a business of
some importance, but not, one would think
Of such transcendent consequence that if sbould
be the sole occasion and work of an "extroor.
binary uprising Of the people," vet this is all
which this extraordinary uprising proposes 10
accomplish.
One Of the most constant peculiarilies of the
World is its trick Of passing from insincere, but
apparently ardent advocacy of some person or
measure TO an awkward and nopportune frank
ness, avowing its insincerity and explaining its
motive. This might do well enough, except
that a knowledge Of this habit causes well
grounded distrust Of all its utterances, if the
ayowal were not sure to come just IN time TO de
stroy the effect Of the previous policy, if any ef
feet could be expected from IT, Thus, the World
awhile ago, prolessed to be very angry with the
Cincinnati managers and proclaimed that the
democrats would have nothing to do with them,
but would keep up their party organization and
nominate their own candidates quite ndepen-
IDENTIFY but in the next issue Of the paper. il ex.
planned, conhdentialiy in loud whisper that
this WAS said for effect, because it was m
poriant that there should seem ~ ho
no democratic interference with the wor,, !, ~
''liberal republicans" Later ii has assiduousIv
praised Charles Francis Adams, and urged M.
nomination at Cincinnati. Now It declares M,
in doing this twas actuated moi by admiratIor
Of Mr.. Adams, but by fear Of the injuriou
effect likely to be produced by concentration
Of democratic influence in favor Of the nomina
il9n Of Judge Davis, To prevent such concer