The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-05


SALT LAKE CRY, May A. 1872
The news OF the nomination OF Mr.. Greeley created
quite a connection in political cIrcles here. Demo-
Gratis express the opinion that Mr.. Greeley with de-
VelOp less strength against Grant than any other
OF the candidates before the Convention.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 4, 1872
The C1U says:-"The nomination OF Mr.. Greeley
produces the greatest dismay among the federal
o,ncenolders All now depends on the action Of the
The ANa california says:-''ro deny that the
Cincinnati ticket has strength before the people Is
idle; but the democracy win probably nominate
ticket Of their own and drive Mr.. Greeey's friends
to support Grant,
unexceptionable but the nomination Of Mr.. Greeley
Is such surprise that we can form no idea at pres
ent as to its effects upon mercantile people,"
- ST. LOUIS, May 4, 1872
The Republican this morning has the following
EDITORIAL
The Cincinnati Convention yesterday nominated
GatS Brown for Vice President This IS the result
OF its third days proceedings and In the popular es
tmation the substantial product the Convention.
HE platform is eminently acceptable and salts
factory one, and worthy OF the Tickets but 1t Is the
nominations that the public have most anxiously
presented that will guide the supporting hosts in
the BATTLE The ticket stamps te Convention with
A needless Whether or
Trumbul Davis or Palmer. would or would not have
been better candidate for the first place. The
distinguished man actually nominated for that first
place is so good and t as to leave little room for
regret among the .partisans Of the defeated
pspple seng Of Emphatic aa9sco ONE
One thing at least is certain. Neither Of the oppos-
ing aspirants Is stronger man than Horace Gree;
In the South. His simple act Of going on
the bail bond OF Jefferson Davis, and thereby sccur
ing his release from StantOn's pitiless imprisOn-
ment, won the hearts of the Southern COnfcderatcs
without losing for him On atom Of the good will OF
a single Union man whose good will was worth
| having. He is popular with the colored people,
whose steadfast friend he has ever been.
He is popular in Maine and more popular still in
Texas. In fact he possesses wider and more equit-
able popularity than any other man in the United
States He has some infirmites indeed; but they
are infrmities OF manner rather than serious faults
They do not weaken him they do not impair his
usefulness, nor. detract from his power. The
say--like him, all the better for them.
them and in them the people detect the sterling
worth of faithful, upright and just man. Not one
Of the later individual accessons to the liberal
volt brought to 1t 80 large a measure OF strength
and influence as he. Indeed, ever since he csp0used
the cause lie has been recognized as Its most for
midable champion after Carl Schurz. His opposi-
ton to Grant is positive and unqualified, and he
will prove more than match for his antagonist
b. Gratz Brown, as candidate for Vice President,
strengthens and completes the ticket. He was the
successful champion OF the liberal movement two
years ago, and inflicted Oh Grant the first humia-
the administra ton blow from which 1t has never
recovered, and from which it never will recover.
recently made speeches at Topeka and Davenport
which viii do much to give shape and direction to
Greeley is an avowed protectionist, while Brown
is an outspoken free trader. and this fact will be
made mad the most Of by the administration; but al
stroycd by the action OF the Convention In remit
ting the tariff question to the Congressional dis
trcts. Mr. Greeley himself declared in the Tribune
! OF Wednesday that II majority OF the
American people want free trade they ought
that individual be dispeased thereby intilnating
that II Congress should pass free trade act the
President would have no right to veto II; How VIII
larry how will they strike that great body OF demo-
cratic voters, who, having no party ticket OF their
in the feld are, for that very reason, arbiters
OF the opening contesta These are interesting
questions The three million democratic votes and
problem. They are not to be kept out OF
sight; they are constantly in view. Yesterday
ali eyes were fixed liberal republicans to-day
all eyes are fixed on democrats. Yesterday the alb
sorbing question was, whom VIII the liberals nomi
nate? To-day 1t is whom will the democrats vote
for? Up to this time the democrats have wisely,
though with immense difficulty, stood al00f from
the exciting and fascinating contest and main
tanned passive attitude; but now that insurrec
ton, which their passlveness was to provoke and
netus and taken the field with defiant banners
with an Impressive proclamation and with
leaders whose names produce dismay In the camp
Il
The necessity for this passive expectancy no longer
exists. Democrats are American citizens and
American patriots, and because they such IL Is
both their right and their duty to take part in the
struggle now beginning. What will that part beg
They will not hail the division in the republican
party as mere party opportunity and obtrudc
new ticket OF their own between the cOntendng
factions. That would forfeit the popular good will
and moral power which tneir patriotic self-denial
of the last three months has given them. II would
benumb the country with the chill OF cruel disap-
pointment, revive at the North all the former war
/ bitterness AGAINST U2mOcrlcy.
profit In local contests by republican schism nay
IL would do more, it would destroy the very oppor-
tunty that they seek to advantage; it would crush
the liberal VOTE break its line OF battle, dispense its
adherents ana insure the reelection CT Grant.
The democratic party cannot commit this enormous
folly. 1t has made many mistakes and hlundcrs,
but 1t cannot with its eyes wide open, forfeit its
magnificent future by making so momentous a
blunder a. this. The great mass OF democrats do
not want democratic Presidential ticket presented
to them. They are satisfied with the field as IL is.
They do not wish to be placed under party law on
this Presidential question. They want for this
single occasion the holiday privilege doing they
please to- They have made up their mind to this so
decidedly that they would not support democratic
ticket In a mass. even II ono should nnwisely be
presented to them. They will vote in mass for
either the Cincinnati ticket or the coming Phiadcl
phia ticket-they will either elect Greeley Grant.
Which OF these they will vote for and elect is qnes.
ton that will be decided by the logic Of politics and
by democratic instincts. To vote for Grant would
he to give q second triumph to the man who tTi-
the shaken foundations of the party which il
and ever must be their relentless foe. To re-eect
Grant would he to betray or massacre an army Of
gallant allies: uphold the miserable Inisire and
corruption that now af'ict the county: place the
constitution and the states at the mercy OF the
central power and arm with triple imperial
panopy that lawcss radicalism which IL is the
supreme mission OF the democracy to perpetuaiiy
fight against. IT. on the other hand, they vote for
Greeley. they elect President, IL is true, who is
republican, but who is q liberal republican, who
was from the beginning in favor OF amnesty and
Justice to the South: who Is in favor OF the restora-
ton Of the afflicted and despoied southern States;
who WIN give us pnre and upright administra.
ton and hold high the American name at home and
abroad; who will remit to the people their with
held right of local selfgovernment, place an ocn-
sive and arrogant military power In subsection TO
civil authority and lay aside XII Klux acts and mar
tial law: who will, in short, necessarily must and
/ will, administer the government on democratic
/ principles. But even this is not all. In eccting
liberal republicans TO the Presidency and Vice
\ Presidency they the right to something I'm re-
\ turn. and that something IL the substitution OF Il
majority, mainly democratic, in the Lower House
OF Congress, for that radical majority which is the