New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-18
PROSPECTS OF THE LIBERAL TICKET IN
MASSACHUSETTS,.

The regular Boston correspondent OF Ihe HART
ford Cotrant (Adm) discussing tho political situation ~
Massachusetts, writes follows concerning tho prospects
Of the Liberal ticket
surprise AZ 1t did anybody anywhere had never seen
man In Massachusetts who regarded IL as among !ne
was as weak selection as could DO made The most OF
the men interested in the Cincinnati movement, IN m
candidate and spite OF the sad blunder that as uo
in giving to the public his letter to Mr. David A. Wells
nomination The Democrats had many OF them EN-
made up their minds TO him and ne was ' To
5 S,SS downs o M S Greeley ' was wet
blanket this class one of them told me tha II 81
10 mind theevents OF four years ago. when hoTa oey
mour was inflicted upon the party. met no DsinoeraS
who was ready refuse to support the
Almost every body wanted 10 walt. There Is urn ae
termination TO beat Grant" possible, and, so this
achieved is felt to be OF minor consequence as 10
Improved Mr. Greeleys prospects with the Demo
The RSs S.S So@ nI1 sESe and viii
now without doubt, support him If the party SAYS
SO, II it does not aid to bring about ior hiin
him from the first. In fact, Mr. Greeley, think, has
the Democracy already ney S n gS
TO nomination III the Democratic Natlona CohNehtio
all take more Democratic votes here than Mr.. adams
Adanlses There has been half-rebelliOn against j. @
would have been heard from more decidedly had me
party been nearer majority in the State: Charles
Of bis supposed ds@s q Sas
n SeHer offended Y frsSmen in any way except
in his devotion to the cOoied and the Republican
party They will forgive this looks now as osl0se
racy of Massachusetts would be unanimous ioI
Canpasn for him here In spos but nobody thinks
1t is in their to give him the electoral vote OF eue
strong Republican secession to aid them. MI Greeley
has not been fayore with the Radical EepnonGa a
here and he is still less with the Free Trade class iep
resented by Mr. Edward Atkinson and the Consery aye
eoppcs ams Yet the same mental process that is
softenng the Democrats toward him operates in part
with the Republicans. infer that he Is 10 nave inc
advocacy Of The Springfield Repa6i1Gn, ana per9hps
are less conspicuous. People talk more kindly Of him as
than they did II there not an mora doSt
about President Grants prospects than tnere was
Greeley will have quito humber OF RePapHcan poSes'
ment in his favor In the State cannot yet see whom IL
is to come from The attempt to laugh him down was
beln here the day his nomination. when our grave
and digned Advertiser astOnshed those who passed Jus
office by carcatme Of the farmer OF Chappaqua on us
mpnsive Joke; it is not probable that 1t will DO carried
much further in that quarter: Indeed 1t Is quite 70
Conduct The campaign on such tactics Carica-
turing has been very badly Overdone already on
the Republican side. Mr.. Nasts attacks on mr.
Schurz and Mr.. Trumbull have cost the Republican
party thousands of votes In the men whom they nay
alienated and have much embittered the aDlinOsity
which the seeding section feels toward the Adminstr
ton The policy that Senator Chandler is reported
TO have advocated in Washington this week Is carried
out with vengeance in these and they react upon the
friends Of the President with true boomerang ense ~
Mr. Mast or Messr Harper Brothers. or anybody else,
desire to aid MI Greeley in the campaign tney can
hardly devise a efficient way 10 40 IT, Inc Idn
made of the author of " What Know About Farming y
IAN exceedingly clever and interesting book by the way
let those who have not read ~ mas nad an e
ment Of good nature in when even abs s s nr s
profitable already and IL shail DO pushed mo tne
nndfr sch circumstances the chances that those
who such weapon will be the severest sufferers