New-York tribune., 1872-05-07
ATTITUDE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
NECESSITY OF A DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.
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The deriding sycopbants of Grant, whose
scong amusement knew no bDonds Wen % NJ mf 9 Greeoy %
boring influence OF little calculation and arith-
from Mr.. Schnrzj has quickly turned four upon
their lips They have discovered that Dir.
Of " their principal weapOn against the Gin;
cinnat movement They had intended to decry it and
a mere side show aud auxiliary OF he Democratic party.
But the leading nomination being such tnat tho Demo
Of their National Convention straight out Democratic
ticket the Grant organs suddenly nd their whole store
Convention had "with malce afOrethought" set them
selves TO repe Democratic profers OF support they
at the head of their ticket the man OF the country
who has for thirty years waged the most persistent yi
orOus acrimonious the Democratic party. What
else the Cincinnati Convention may have done
for Democratic wishes and suspicion OF courng Demo
Gfeeey the Cincnna Convention has Inserted wedge.
which, If well driven. will divide the Republican
party inio iinpotent fragments In such nomina-
Republicans can vote for Mr. Greeley without aGjnrlng
their principles violating their consistency, exposing
cratic party There is way by which the Cincinnati
Convention could have so completely exploded every
OF Horace Greeley. Ie all Others is the candi-
date the Democratic party did not want. and whose pos
selcction entered into Its calculations
1t disposed to look with favor on tho Cincinnati
movement.
POLITICAL REORGANIZATION RECOMMENDED.
Those who joined this movement merely to
5raty feeling Of duty will not halt III further efforts
this movement into operation from tins motive win
perceive how greatly they failed in not appealing to all
they preferred to unite with every conceivable kind of
fDDSish of tn their 1wofpay aSYsySr seysoe may
The consequences could not be avoided and have not
failed to appear The moral of this is that the matter
must be begun again and another basis. The Lib
eral Republican movement ought soon 10 be dead
not already dead. The Liberal movement must now
the Reunlon and Reform Associations, which stimuli
taneousy with the Liberal Republican National Conven
dislnct from ali parties. Committee has bssn named
to call o new National COnvention We will then
whether in this buDglng Presidential campaign, much
still be effected But will now call to memory
the fact that here too this point is Just as little TO be con
sdered t should have been the with the
Liberal Republican movement There should be po-
r o n%r ahs rho e s % n9 ee
tOn There should be agitation including the entire
population and repudiang politicians. and this cannot
Therefore let us to work.
THE IRISH WILL RII ySTE ys FOR Or, HORACE GREELEY.
The chief event Of the week is, of course, the
nomination by the Cincinnati Convention OF Horace
Greeley and Grati Brown as President and vicePresi,
strong feeling OF varied sort throughout the land.
@ 00s and Ss o Ss ri ss Of
black people, There Is no sense II reproaeh-
compishcd It Is done With Iss no man % an XSoiions s
S sr sTea e Sn s & 80 M
siie In that controversy. But then Mr.. Greeley IL
Radical Republican and oil that. Well. be it go;
but look at tho :. platform upon which this
man asks our sum ages; II is Democratic
abilities, subordnation OF military to civil power,
maintenance OF local selfgoyernment against Federal
of Ku-Kux legislation. Platform language Is often
vague agd may not always really mean AL that 1t
to mean but so far understand tho language
OF this platform. and 30 far as we can interpret the
public conduct OF Mr.. Greeley and the part he has
teken IN public aiairs (which Ia small parl 10
docs sccm 10 us toierably clear that, IN tho
absence OF straightOnt Democrat. Greeley
must command tho votes Of Democratic citizens, and
Pecially VI foreign born citizens Everybody knows
That ho lod hs fingers with tue Know Nothing