Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-01
MONDAY. APRIL 1, 1872.
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Thai HtInCIunaTi convention
As the time for the Missouri mass meeting at
Cincinnati approaches, its managers betray con-
siderable trepidation. The prospect of large
attendance of republicans is not good. There
fore, they seek to encourage themselves by mod
flying their plan They have issued new cir
cular in which their call is extended formally to
ssvoters without distinction of party" To pre-
serve appearances, they propose to make the
mass meeting double-headed concern and col
lect it in TWO halls, both, however, to be created
and directed BY the same managing committee
Of GRAZ Brown Missourans. This means,
OF course, that the democrats must come
10 The rescue and save the ''conven-
ton from seeming to be failure. The New
York World judges very correctly that this ma
newer "betrays symptoms of conscious weak
ness" and looks too much as if they (the
managers) had found reason to doubt their in
fiuence over republican voters" The World
says, the democratic party wants allies and is
ready 10 Cooperate" but it ''is too shrewd
and wary to count the Cincinnati chickens be
fore they are hatched." If the Missouri opera
tors can really do anything (which it doubts),
they must above all things avoid seeming to be
directed by democratic influence, until they
have cheated as many republicans as possible.
In New York city a very notable attempt has
been made to edo something" 1t is stated in
one of the papers that a AIissOur-Cincinnati
movement was undertaken the other day; over
two hundred circulars were issued, calling a
meeting of the ''disafected;" but only ten or a
dozen responded to this call, and three or four
of these were from the Tribune office. We have
seen no report of the Consultation" but
something was done, for Horace Greeley
and others have signed public letter to
the chairman Of the Missoufans, telling him
that they accepted the Missouri invitation. This
is intended as a trumpet CALI to republicans,
and it will doubtless afford Mr. Greeley OPP
portunity to compare bis actual influence, as an
individual, with his own estimate of what it
ought 10 be. We hope he will get the
Cincinnati nomination, if nomination
shall be made there; this movement indi-
Gates that he seeks it and expects it; let him be
nominated, and the voting will afford him an
other wholesome study. But he will not be
nominated, and, what is more, he will not leave
the republican party. Instead of nightly con-
trolling others, he will himself be controlled by
the force of law which he can not defy. If he
would flourish as president making baron
supported by an army Of retainers, he should go
to Mexico and study the military art Perhaps
he really supposes he can menace the republi-
can party successfully and become dictator Of
the Philadelphia convention; if so, it is plain
that his morbid egotism has become absolute in
sanity.
AT present, the signs indicate that not many
republicans will appear at the Cincinnati meet
ing. 1t will attract certain political adventures
of both parties; but it will not do what its con-
trivers intended. The ineffable Upton will be
there, we suppose; he ought to preside; but the
"strong republican backing" without which,
according to the World it can not be a fit ally
of the democratic party, will not be there. The
Cleveland convention, in 1864, had ten times as
much republican sympathy as can be awakened
in behalf of this Missouri affair; and yet it was
miserable failure. Its promoters were tel
times as honest as the Missouri plotters; but
they could not get following. In the presen
case, it is simply a question between the re
publican and the democratic parties. Every
body sees this; and nobody will aid the Mis-
soun conspiracy, who does not desire to r
cruit the democratic party and restores it t.
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