The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-15
What Do the Liberals Amount
To Numerically?
THE BUCKEYE STATE.
mo Republican Organization Still Compact and
Unbroksn-No Enthusiasm for Either Grant
a Greeley Liberals Concede the State to
the Hero Of Appomattox Few Inter-
esting Facts About Old Jesse
Grant = Cincinnati Settling
with Discomfort at the Ad.
ministration, bnt tho
Rsst Of the State
Loyal to Grant

,..f,r CINCINNATI, August Q, 1872
m b . very funny city in matters political
Everything seems to be turned wrong end up, and
ne discomfort which pervades oil parties is some
thing fearful to contemplate. 1t is not easy to de.
termne how anybody is going to vote, for nobody
seems positively certain Of it himself. The only
thing which can assert is that the republican party
b intact In organization, but weak in the devotion
OF the rank and file. Not single leader of promi-
nence has broken away since the nomination of
Greeley, and number OF the most active spirits in
promoting the Liberal Convention have come back
% Grant Some are for neither Grant nor Greeley
Even the democrats, that is the democratic leaders,
do not heartily endorse Greeley. Mr.. Groesbeck's
letter, In which he practically accepted Mr.. Gree
ley, because there was nobody else to accept, ex.
presses the feeling which pervades the democracy
OF this county. There Is no enthusiasm on either
side and nearly every man you meet no matter
how active he may have been up to the time
OF Greeley's nomination, informs you in the
curtest language he can command that
he knows nothing about the political situa-
ton, because, to tell the truth, he Is
''oUT OF POLITICS"
The phrase is an unmeaning one at the best, and
here 1t Is only the expression Of the general dis
gust and discomfort. OF all the "out Of politics.
politicians in this city l cannot recall finer ex-
ample than Judge Hoadley. Hoadley is COM
paratvely young lawyer, Of good abilities and with
. very fine practice. He was always q republican,
but q republican OF the Western frcetrade school,
not easily induced to accept any Of the theories Of
the prOtectionists Thus lOosened in his attach
ments to his party by its tendencies toward pro-
lection as principle and disguised with the stu
pidity and imbecinty of the administration, he was
ready to join with General Cox Judge Stao, Stanley
Mathews and the other original liberal republi-
cans Of this section in promoting the liberal repub
Ncan movement. The result Of the Convention was
. thing from which he turned away in even pro-
founder disgust than he felt toward the admins
tration of General Grant, The nomina-
taOn was one which he had not contemplated as
possible, and in the nominee he saw a man
who had advocated every political principle which
he opposed and had opposed every political idea
which he advocated. As republicans Greeley and
Hoadley were wider apart than they possibly could
have been as democrats, and yet he found that it
was more as democrat than as a republican that
he was required to support the candidate whom he
had assisted in nominating. 1t was bitter pill,
and he had either to swallow it go out Of politics,
20 out Of politics he went. He is not for Greeley,
and his neghbors are not sure. do not think he
Knows himself whether he is for Grant. One thing
II certain and that is that he thinks the liberal
INSTRUMENTATION movement which he and
Wells and Grosvenor and others had nursed
into life turned out to be beneficial only
20 the democratic party and the chief
OF the protectonists, and that consequently
there IL no important political principle
involved in the Presidents canvass have given
th little sketch Of Hoadey, because he is OF the
ablest as well as OF the fairest OF the tout Of
politics" politicians Of this city. III were going to
hazard opinion as to his future action 1t would
De that he will vote for Grant, but unlike Stanley
Mathews and one OF two Others he will not prove
himself the advocate OF both sides In a single can
vass.
QUEER FISH IN POLITICS.
Judge Mathews do not know whether he ever
was jurist, but, at any rate, everybody is q
sJudge" In Cncinnati-is very remarkable speci-
men Of the political acrobat. What Disguised him
with the administration l have not been able ex.
actly to discover-Grant's 'nepotism" most
lkely-but his grandiloqnent speech as temporary
chairman of the Cincinnati Convention, In which
he claimed to be one of the large and influential
body OF the American people who had determined
not to wear the collar OF party any
longer, and his hopping over to Grant Immediately
afterward, have made him amarked man, even In a
city full of great men. He organized the C0nven-
zion which nominated Greeley and Brown, and
then repudiated its nominees, characterizing the
result as q "bargan" and the means used In reach
vention he declared that In every department Of
ehe government the slow poison OF corruption
Seems 20 nave pervaded the whole civil and poiti-
CA administration, and In speech after the Con-
vention he said he thought General Grant 'person.
ally pure" IN bis administration, and that II was
cnaracterized oy Eegard for the constitution and
tno law. man VINO could take such exactly Op-
posite views OF the aame question: from equally clear
convictions OF duty, thought must be very remark
able man indeed and accordingly called on him.
What was my smazement TO find that he was not
only '0pt 0fpoutcs,v bnt entirely out Of the way Of