The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-30
The Cincinnati COnve
THE BABEL OF NOTES.-THE
TRICKERY.


Saturday was nothing near the - ia
TONS that had been formed. IS,
the Confusion of tongues" apr We
been beyond description. The co of
the New York Times says:
"Veteran observers in politics at
the want of cohesion and the q
common purpose which they fin Ahg
here. Major Benz. Perley Poore, a-.cached
here tried in vain, adept as he is ri solving po-
litical mysteries to discover that any considera-
BILE number of these people had come to the
same conclusion as to the means required to
reach those offices which all are after"
Judge Collins, one of the fathers of the Con-
vention, says:
"Judge Davis is not sound enough on one
thing. He is not in for the genuine tariff re-
form, and the anti-high tariff element will not
concentrate upon Davis. The Germans will not
give him their support therefore, considering
these things, | am of the opinion his chances
are very shm ts " tt
Judge Stallo, a prominent and representative
German, says:
'Charles Francis Adams is the man we want
at the head, but Horace Greeley is making a
hard push for it. If Greeley overrides the Lib
eral Convention on revenue reform and succeeds
in introducing any Ambiguous resolutions you
may count me out Davis isicoming with great
strength, but there is no danger of his nomina-
tion. If he should chance to get the nominal
ton the Germans, solidly to man, en- masse,
will refuse to vote for him.
Another of the same class, Judge Hoadly-
they all seem to be judges-says
Here, at almost the last hour, I am afraid
the chances of Charles Francis Adams are
shaken. Yesterday he was the lion of the day,
everything pointing to him and his admirers
looming up grandly ;but to-day there is mischief
going on in the camp.A scheme has been sprung
which is to deprive him of his opportunity, and
on that Horace Greeley is said to give his full
| endorsement. The idea is this: Greeley will
| come to us with honeyed words and a fattering
| tongue, telling us that he has come to the con-
| clusion that the West is entitled to the Presi-
| dent, and say he istwilling to withdraw in
| favor of Westernman He will run in a
| Western man, free-trader and prohibitionists
and then he will tell us that he has made sac
rificeof himself, and wants us to allow him to
make platform upon which he can stand"
These will answer as a specimen of voices up
to the latest dates.is From other sources we
learn that the free-traders have been in caucus
for the second time on the tariff part of the
platform, and have decided to stand on the
declaration of the Missouri resolutions in that
respect, namely, tariff for revenue.
! ANOTHER VIEW OF THE SHOW.
| Samuel Bowles, with Horace White of the
Chicago Tribune, working hard for the
nomination of Charles Francis Adams for
President, with B. Gratz Brown Of Missouri,
| for the second place on the ticket. Cassus M
Clay endorses this ticket. Mr. Bowles says
Adams can carry Massachusetts and three other
New England States, but does not specify
which ones.
Horace White has letter from Senator
Trumbull and says he will stand if nominated.
Others deny this.
Governor Warmoth of Louisiana demands
that he shall have the Presidency of the Com
yention as the price OF his allegiance, but all
M nj n rnnv ont I,
tensions. .tarsnf srf sraerr,sg e a..
The first coalition will be to kill off Judge
David Davis of Illinois, who leads off now as
the strongest man. There are three sets of
Trumbull men and the Palmer men, The
Blairs oppose Davis and prefer Gratz Brown, if
we can believe what they say. hna GasI
Horace Greeley has many friends and but
few supporters, but the Palmer men may come
to his aid if their favorite can have the second
place on the ticket.
The Pennsylvanians insist that ex Gov. Curtin
shall have the Vice Presidency OH some ticket.
Efforts are now being made to have the Con-
vention ignore the tariff question, and Samuel
Bowles is engineering this movement
The States in this vicinity are represented by
scores, which tomorrow will be hundreds but
the delegates for other distant States are and
will be few. .-e..srs ~. s-e.e9s -
PERLEY ON THE SITUATION
"Perley'' dispatch to the Boston Journal of
yesterday evening says: .g
The arrival of five or six hundred delegates
in the morning trains appears to have increas-
ed the wide differences of opinion as to who
shall be the nominee, but have not vet heard
the first allusion to any declaration of princi-
pies, except the tariff plank of the platform.
. Whitelaw Reed of the New York Tribune
has arrived at the head of an enshusiastic
Greeley delegation, which makes Theodore Til
ton smile again.
The David Davis interest has been greatly
strengthened, and half dozen Democratic
Congressman are quietly at work in his favor .
the old friends of Mr.. Lincoln are evidently
hoping to secure the nomination of Judge Davis
by the tactics which were so successful at Chi
cago in 1860. 5q e.... ---ts.sr
The Commercial of this morning deuounoes
the Davis movement as a job managed by POI
litical dead beats. neE
Mr. Adams friends do not appear to- have
gained in members but they are men of bruins
and pluck. They intimate that it must be
Adams or defeat, and refuse to pledge their
support to the nominee of the Convention, who
ever that may be. SEQ =
Governor 'Fenton arrived here to-day, and
his skill as political manipulation is well
known. 1t is rumored that he will engineer a
combination of Palmer and Greeley, or Greeley
and Palmer.
xFrank Bird stood the journey from Washing
ton well, and is looking better than he did last
winter. From Maine we have A. D. Manson
of Bangor, and j. S. Lyford of Lewiston From
Connecticut the irrepressible Bromly of Hart
ford and Mr.. Fessenden, formerly a member of
Congress from Maine.
THE VICE PREs1DENcY.-The Portland cor
respondent of the Boston Journal Sidney
thus alludes to some Of the political indications
as to the Vice Presidency, which seem to have
been manifest in this section of the State
within few days past
"As the Philadelphia Republican Presidential
tnrxra fs.,,,n f.A.-
gin TO assume definite shape. Within a few
days Hon. Henry Wilson seems to be gaining
strength in this State for the Vice Presidency.
In this vicinity there is an increasing DISPOSE
ton to favor him, although the Maine delegates
will probably go to Philadelphia uncommitted.
being for that man for Vice President who will
best harmonic all differences and strengthen
the ticket. That Senator Wilson meets this
requisite is largely admitted"
The Boston AduertiSer's Concord N. H. cor
respondent, in an interesting letter upon poll
tics in thatl State in view of the coming ses-
sion of the Legislature in June says, 'that the
Cincinnati movement has not yet reached that !
State, reports to the contrary, notwithstanding.
The State election was fought on national is
sues, and it is safe to assume that nineteen
twentieths of the Republicans of the State
favor General Grants denomination
Regarding the Vice Presidency he adds
THE Convention to select delegates to the
Philadelphia Convention will be held in this
city May 8th and beyond question the dele
gates VIII be Instructed to vote for Grant for
PRESIDENT and Senator Wilson for Vice Presi-
dent" ~ o |
The Boston Journal of Friday also saws:
The friends of Senator Wilson in Wasbipo |
ton claim that his prospects for the Vice Presi-
denuai nomination are daily improving. Thew |
announce nine States and three Territories as |
already committed to his support" 50
SENATOR SUMMERS PosITIoN.-A Wasb;no.
ton dispatch says that Senator Sumner said to |
friend Sunday, that he could take no promi- |
nent part in a new political movement of what
ever character "My convictions he said ''are
well known and and l cannot in view of nv |
reputation and those convictions, assume to be |
leader of any party, which does not come up to
the requirements of those convictions. / look |
upon the Cincinnati movement with great in |
terest as an endeavor to purify the Republican |
party, but cannot say one word or do an act
to influence it for the evident reason that nv I
motives might be misconstrued. 1 hope how
ever they will have the good sense to incorpor-
ate in their platform a plank endorsing the |
principles of civil rights for ALL
Sand if they do not, " said the friend.
80, cannot go where my principles are not
and if they do not adopt a civil
right plank certainly cannot support them"
THE EARTHQUAKE IN SYRIA.-Particulars
of the late earthquake in Syria show that the
fatalities were not greatest in Antioch but