The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-14

| message TO the LeglSlauVe session, III ID III
the anticipation and prevention OF coming
evils-in the arrest of their growth and the
eradication of their germs, as well as in
prescience of approaching changes and
timely provision for meeting them-that the
superiority of modern legislation in civilized
countries consists"
! The Boiling Republican MOvement-TOo
Lnte for 1S72-Too soon for 1876.
sit was the remark of celebrated Roman
Consul, or very well might have been, that
the promises OF outside politicians should be
taken with liberal sprinklng of salt. But
the outside politicians at the Cooper Institute
were as cautious in their resolutions as they
were loose and generalizing in their speeches.
They have set up the merest skeleton of a
platform that ever emanated from new po-
litical organization. They believe ''that the
political actions of individuals and conven-
| tions should be left free from the
influence of political patronage" which
| is the old cry Of the outs against
the ms from time immemorial. They think
''that business men should not, under fear of
unjust official interference with their affairs,
be compelled to pay tribute for political pur-
poses :" and so say we all. They hold ''that
public offices are created for the public con-
venience, and not for party services y and yet
| we cannot doubt that if these men should get
into power their first reform will be division
of the offices among themselves, according to
Marcy's famous maxim, that ''to the victors
belong the spoils." They declare that ''the
triumph of republican principles is of para
mount Importance to the country" but they
want new deal under new President-any-
thing for a change. They go for sweeping
reforms in all the departments Of the govern
ment, and they believe that the one term
principle for the Presidential Office will con-
duce more to that end than any other meas
ure"
| And this is the Cooper Institute platform Of
the liberal repubcans-a display of empty
dishes to tempt the palates of hungry men.
Nothing here of protection; nothing of free
trade; nothing of the despotic policy of Gene
raj Grant against the constitutional rights of
| the Ku Klux Klans; nothing of amnesty
nothing of the wrongs of the blacks or of wo-
mems rights; nothing Of the violation of the
national honor in those sales of second hand
muskets to the French; nothing of st. Do
mingo, Cuba or Matchmaking but declara-
tons against Grant, but anything to secure
| an Omnium gatterum of free traders and pro-
tectionists, and all the outside odds and ends
| of the country for his defeat. And upon this
feeble pronunciamento these reformers of
Cooper Institute headed by the protectionists
of the Tribune and the free traders Of the
Eoening Post, are going to Cincinnati. They
are there to nominate two boiling republi-
cans-one for President and one for Vice
| Prssdent-and, if acceptable to the democratic
party, the democracy are to take them up and
run them in if they can.
But in making the fight of this coalition
personal fight against Grant where is the per-
son who can stand against him? 1t is agreed
that no democrat will do-a conclusion which
cuts off Chase, John Quincy Adams, English,
Hoffman, Church, Parker, Packer, Hancock,
| Pendleton, Thurman, Hendricks, and the whole
democratic Presidential muster-roll, from Chase
down to Andy Johnson. The coalition, in
order to invite instead of frightening off timid
republicans, who recoil from those ominous
words, democrat and democratic party, must
conlne itself to the anti-Grant republican
schedule and this is limited to Sumner Fen
ton, Greeley Scovel, Mcclure, Cox, Dav is,
Trumbull, Logan, Gratz Brown and few
Others Can any one of these, under the
shield of republican principles, even with the
support of the democratic party, cope success
fully with Grant? No; the coalition comes
too late for 1872, for the elections Of 1871 and
Of 1872, so far, fought upon the merits of his
administration, show that the country is for
Grant.
Let US suppose that the coalition ticket of
Davis and Fenton or Gratz Brown and Gree
ley Is set up at Cincinnati, and that the demo-
cratic managers haze accepted IT, are you
sure Of the democratic masses 2 Will not the
suspension of the party be the dispersion OF
the party and the gain to Grant Of consid-