The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-05-02

preaching convention have been SATISFACTORY.
ly completed. All hotels in the city have
agreed not to raise their regular prices, and
large number of boarding houses will &C.
commodste guests. The prospects are tina,
there will be plenty OF room for all who at
tend the convention.
A special dispatch from Richmond, Va.
yesterday morning, says the Liberal Repub.
lican movement in that State has broken
down. Nearly all the leaders, upon the
publication of their names, backed out The
cause seems to be greatly in need of little
of that valuable quality which We common
ly and exrressingly denominate ''back
bone'' "
A Washington special TO the St. Louis
Demaera., yesterday morning, says of Judge
Davis, that he has, to all appearances, been
wholly inactive, politically, and the Trum-
bull party have thought nobody was intrisn-
ing but Themselves; really, however, Davis
has had the shrewdest Of the Andy johnson
Republicans manipulating affairs for him.
! The former Chase Clubs at the South have
been revived in his interest, and the South
ern States will send delegates to Cincinnati
in his favor. 1t is further learned that funds
have been at hand to be used in giving pro-
per encouragement to the Davis delegates,
and to help poor reformers TO attend the
convention
Wendell Phillips delivered an address
TO workingmen in Boston on Thursday night
in which he promised that if they would
stand BY one another, they should elect a
President in 1876. 1t is singular that Mr..
Phillips should postpone the happy occur
renee SO long 1t would have been quite as
easy to prophecy the election Of Judge Da-
Wis next fall, and such prophecy would
have been much more pleasant to his audi.
ence.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times says, in a late letter, that
the political sentiment at the capital in re.
gard to the Cincinnati movement is begin
ming to indicate tangible facts, and results as
to candidates and platforms. Three inter-
ests have now been developed, viz: "First,
the Adams party, which has no one pushing
it here, but which will show strength at Gin
cinnati to some degree from Massachusetts,,
Ohio, and little from the South. Second.
the Judge Davis party, which gets most
!sympathy from the Democrats, and whose
most active supporter here is John D..
Defrees, ex-public printer. This. party
expects to be supported by PennsyL
vania, Indiana, Maryland, Kentucky.
Third, the Grosvenor-Gratz Brown-Schurz-
Trumbull party. who. backed BY the Chicago
Tribune, are making desperate effort to
force the nomination of Trumbuli. Grosven-
or and Schurz promise to transfer Browns
strength to Trumbull il the latter shows more
than the former. Brown expects the sup.
port of his followers in Missouri and Kansas
who will compliment him by presenting his
name and then coalesce with Trumbull
TrImbull will really have no strength of his
own outside of Illinois, but the issue will be
made that he alone can carry Illinois on the
election, and with the Brown combination, it
is believed, he cam carry enough States to
secure the nomination. The Davis move
ment has lost ground within a few days, and
Schurz says very confidently that he will not
be nominated, which means that he thinks
Trumbull will
The Herald, in a leader on the political sit
uation, says of the platform OF principles
likely to be adopted at Cincinnati: ''The
Democratic Republican and Liberal Demo-
cratic Chase platform in this connection enl-
braces National sovereignty, State rights,
the Fifteenth Amendment, low tariff. uni
versal amnesty, specie payments, the annex
alton of neighboring States, when We can
ton to American citizens at home and
abroad, not forgetting the Fenians, and the
inviolabiliiy of the National debt. This is
a glorious platform and remarkably compre-
hensive. To be sure, it is not quite mp to
the two Polar stars of Tittlebat Titmouse,
Everything for everybody and nothing for
anybody to do;"::but it is the next thing to
| il, in providing something for everybody,
which is more than we can reasonably hope
| for this side the millennium, when that old
serpent, Satan, which is the devil, is to be
chained fast for thousand years. Mean
time we have no choice but TO deal with
things as we find them, and in the Presiden-
tiaI field we find them, in the opposition
camps, inexplicably mixed"
The Republican State Convention Of Mary
land yesterday instructed its delegates to cast
the vote Of the State in the Philadelphia
Convention for Gen. Grant.
A special from Washington yesterday says
caucus OF Republican Senators was held
last night to consult as to the order Of busi-
ness for the remainder of the present session,
but no definite understanding being reached,
a committee of seven was appointed to confer !
with the various standing committees and |
report the order in which business will be
taken up for final disposition, the report to
besubmitted at an adjourned meeting Of the
caucus. Messrs. Trumbull and Fenton par
ticipa.ed in the caucus.
4 At large meeting Of co!ored men at
Washington night before last, resolutions
we're adopted asking Congress to Pass Mr..
miners bill for mixed schools, claiming
s1ch action not as a matter OF favor but Of
right and justice, in order to destroy every
vestige of prejudice resulting from the p-es-
e II system.
The Irish American Central Reform
League Of New York has issued an address
10 tie People in favor of nominating Horace
ireeley for President by the Cincinnati
Convention.
A Cincinnati dispatch yesterday morning
avs the hotel rooms are being rapidly en-.
aged BY the delegates to the Iberal Con- .
'ention. Ample accommodations will be
however, for all who may come.
The hotels in Covipgton, KY, are also being
lied up. Kansas has engaged headquarters I