The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-03
10 r~respondeuce Of the New York Ttibune.l

10 rrespondence OF the New York Ttibune.l
CINCINNATI, Monday Night, April 20.
The inchoate convention has now reached
the crldcal stage. There are on the ground
hundreds of men of conflicting Views, each OF
authority in his own section, each having de-
| cIded opinions of bis own on every prominent
topic, and each disposed to regard his views
as the pivot on which the convention must
turn, either to acceptance and consequent
| success or to rejection here and consequent
| defeat at the polls. There is the usual angry
talk familiar to every old at endanC at ma
tional conventions, and always all the angrier
In proportion to The general. taitn In
the. intrinsic strength of the party,
that unless the demands OF certain sec
thew will 20 home by the next train. There
is the usual declaration that the votes OF
certain States are absolutely essential to sue
cess. and that these cannot be secured without
the most overwhelming CONCESSIONS; that this
or that interest must be conciliated to avoid
the certainty Old ester; that this or that can.
didate can walk over the track while another
urged by others with equal vehemence-
could not carry an electoral vote. The ve-
hsment dissenslons thus far developed con.
Germ mainly Two points: first, the plank IN the
platform on Protection, Revenue Reform. or
Free Trade; second, the claims OF the rival
candidates. Adams, Davis, Trumhul and Two
or three other candidates are named, each
almosta as prominently, but angry feeling seems
TO develop mainly about these. AS to the
platform, It. may be summed up IN a rev
words, as follows: -.,
First. Colonel Grosvenor and the Missouri
Radicals generally insist on the plank IN the
Missouri call unchanged.
Second. The OHIO Reunion and Reform peo-
ole strenuously insist on the same language
Third. The New York delegates in attend
ance at the Revenue Reform CAUCUS present q
resolution recognizing the lack of entire agree
ment on this question, referring 1t TO the de-
cisIon of the people In the several Congress
districts, and pl.dglng the party to the honor
able execution of the popular will hui ascer-
taineG.
E. L. Godkin, and the class Of Revenue Re-
formers whom they repr. sent, hold the most
conciliatory tone, and, while they would pre-
fer the language of the Missouri call, are Will
ing to agree to disagree by accepting the New
York proposition.
Filth. Edward Atkinson, Judge Brinkerhoff,
and nearly all the free trade doctrinaires, ID
sist on the Missouri call.
Sixth. The leading editors who have largely
given the impulse 10 thls movement, Horace
White, of The Chicago tribune Samuel Bowles,
OF the Springfield Republican; Murat Haistead,
of the Cincinnati Commercial; Henry NJ.
WattersoD, of the Louisville Co~urierSonrn
and their associates, iDsisG that tne onerence
on tn ,ar,ff o1pht not 10 make trouble; that
If, g trade is not necessarily an Issue IN The
national contest. and that they are willing to
accept the New York propositions.
Seventh. And finally, the Grant men are
boasting that the tariff question will inevita-
bly rplit the convention. and enable The Phila-
delpiIa nominee to walk over the track.
as to candidates, the situation, In brief, Is
this:
First. The local pressure Is wholly for
Adams.
Second. The best organized, most strongly
backed and spparenlly most formidable move
ment, is that for Davis, whereof John D. De-
trees is the chief manager. f.
Third. The most bitter hostility to Davis
comes from his own Slate. It .is definitely
asserted that The Chicago Tribune la as hRelY