The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-07-11
NATIONAL DEHOCRATIO CONTENTION.

y.TIoy6L DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
As this Convention is expected to
stultify itself as well as to kill an as
piring politician called Greeley, con-
siderable interest naturally eenters in
If lust now, and its action is watched
closely. To the end that our readers
RAY see It as it is, we give a full re-
port OF the doings of the convention
as well IS what is preliminary thereto.
BALTIMORE, July :.
The crowds begin to arrive in good
earnest and TO throng the streets and
hotels, repeating the scenes Of On
cjnnati and Philadelphia, though thus
far on q mach smaller scale than was
witnessed at ettber Of those places.
The attendance Of those who are not
delegates viii lie very small, whereas
Il was large at Cincinnati, and in
mense at Philadelphia. The city OF
Pittsburgh alone sent more outsiders
to Philadelphia than will be here from
the entire country. Those who attend
ed former Democratic conventions
miss from this one the familiar faces
Of the actual Democratic wheel-hors-
es, who not only did the work OF the
party and planned IFS action, but gave
il nearly all the enthusiasm which
filed il with force and aggression 70
win a victory or survive q defeat.
There are some eminent men here
I from the East and from the West, but
] the foregone conclusion Of CTeeley's
nomination seems to have frozen the
genial current OF their souls, and they
| look and act like men who had been
sent on an errand, rather than like
men who had come here determined
to do something for themselves and
their party.
The different State delegations will
| meet tomorrow for consultation and
/ business. New York has determined
/ to displace Belmont from the national
| committee, and to elect August Schell
/ in his stead, and make him chairman
/ Of the convention. Williana Z. Nib
/ lack, Of Indiana, has been talked Of as
chairman, but it is urged that the
/ chairman should live in New York.
| Also, that he should be q rich man,
which ScheH is, and Niblaek is not.
I SchelI, it will be remembered, was
! king Of the New York whisky ring,
under Andy johnson, and in that
humble capacity, managed to acquire
about ten millions.
/ The delegations from the different
States, though not yet complete, are
| all represented, and an opportunity
1 is afforded to ascertain the feelings Of
the delegates. The most notable feel
ing, thus far, is the absence Of any
thing like enthusiasm, but there is "a
positive feeling of disgust, and especi-
ally among DELEGATIONS from the
Southern States. Perhaps the feeling
among these delegations is well illus
I trated by the sentiments expressed by
a member of the North Carolina dele
cation to-day. / asked Hon. John
Manning, Of that State, what his dele
/ CATION proposed to do, and he replied:
" Oh, I suppose we shall have to take
/ Greeley. We can't do any better"
ayes" said another, she is o bitter
| pill, but we've got to swallow him."
The sentiments expressed by these
delegates seem TO reflect tbs opinion
of the delegates from the Southern
States generally. They swallow Gree
/! ley from necessity, but they do it as a
sick man takes q dose Of 'pastoF oil
with many a gTimace. Mr.: Manning
/ said in answer TO Inquiries that Gree
| ley had no strength among the color.
ed men in his State. He believed he
would not receive more than fifty
votes in his (Manning's) congressiOn-
al district, nor more than go in the
whole State.
Bradley T. johnson, of Virginia,
young, sharp, brilliant Democrat is
strong and vigorous in favor Of
Greeley. He says it is all hUmbug
that any large body Of the Democrats
. Of any State, and particularly of Vir-
ginia, will vote for Grant In prefer
ance to Greeley. "Why, I have
! heard,n said he, "that Grant would
get as many Democratic votes in Vir-
gipia as Greeley would, and this is
conclusive that the fools are not all
dead. ANY one must be O fool to re-
peat any such thing, and nobody is
fool enough TO believe it. There are
lust three Democrats 10 Virginia who
refuse to support Greeley. And who
are they? They are Henry A. Wise,
Jubal Early and General Mosby
They have not been converted to the
Greeley movement, and / hope to
God they never will be-"
The most important question here
just Hog, is how Greeley shall be en-
dOrsed, and frOm the indications, it is
to be the only question before the COM
vention that viii occasion any dissen.
sion. pae success of the Greeley
movement will not depend on the
manner in which the Convention ac-
cepts the Cincinnati candidates.
Whether 1t shall nominate them in
the regular manner, or whether some
means aIe adopted by which
staaight-out nomination will be avoid
ed; but it is nevertheless q very seri-
Gus question, and one which will en-
gender much controversy and per-
haps open warfare in the ConYen-
ton.
The Missouri delegation are the
strongest in the belief that lb would
be unwise to nominate Greeley. They
say the other course won them a vic=
tory in the ele0tion of Brown, the
Democrats not even holding Con-
vention.
The Kansas people are also against
a nomination, as South Carolina, Al
ALBANIA, Kentucky and Tennessee. |
They are willing to indOrse, but are
OPPOSED to regular nomination.
There are other delegations that
have not, as yet, decided what is best
to be done, and until the various del
egations hold their meetings, it can
not be told whether the question will
be like a fire-brand in the Conven-
ton.
a number Of the Southern people
are anxious 70 take q course that prom
ises best for the candidate, but are uny
used on the one side is that if Greeley
is nominated, the delegates will feel
obliged to support him, as that party
is one of the organizations Of which the
support of the ticket is one of its ten
cts that cannot be Overthrown. As
one noted delegate said, ''The honest
way is the strongest way. If Gree |
ley" be said, "ls good enough for US
to vote for him, he Is good enough to |
nominate, and there ought to be open |
work about it. We ought not to 90 |
into the campaign with a deceit. The
honest masses of the party stick to |
the organization, and II there is no
nomination, they will take no pert in |
the election"
On the other side if Is urged that if
Greeley is regularly nominated that |
fact itself will chase away many Re- |
publican voters who are willing to |
vote for Greeley as the Liberal candi-
date, but not as a Democratic cRndi-
date. In other words, they are will
ling to have Democratic votes but |
don'5 want it understood that Greeley |
is in any sense a Democratic candi-
date.