The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-10

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Mr.. Belmont, as chairman of the Demo
cratic National Executive Committee, which
is composed of one member from each State,
has issued an invitation to each of the men,
Wednesday, the 9th of May next, at two
p. NJ, at the residence of the chairman, 100
Fifth avenue, New York" So here it is at
last; and after an extensive consultation with
the democratic members of Congress and
other magnates of the party, the 9th Of May
has been aptly chosen by Mr.. Belmont for
this important conference. The particular
business with which the Committee is
charged is only the naming of the time and
place for the gathering of the democracy in
their usual national council for the nomina-
ton of their Presidential ticket, and
the proclamation of their ''new depar-
ture" for the Presidential campaign. But In
this call for the meeting of the Democratic
Committee ON the 9th of May we have the
official announcement from Mr.. Belmont, in
view of joint stock ticket, that the demo-
cratic party is dancing attendance upon the
anti Grant Conve ntion of liberal republicans
which meets at Cincinnati on the LIST Of May.
In this connection Mr.. Belmont's call will
admit of this enlargement: -''Gentlemen of
the Democratic National Committee, after
subject and upon the advice of large num-
Der of leading and influential democrats,
representing all sections of the Union, have
the honor to request your attendance at my
residence in New York, on the 9Th of May
next, for the purpose of choosing the time
and place for the meeting Of the Democratic
National Convention. The 9th of May has
been chosen in order that we may shape our
course according to the upshot Of the Cincin-
natl Convention of anti-Grant republicans,
which meets on the LIST of May. This Con-
vention is new thing under the sun, and its
deliberations may be protracted; but as they
will hardly exhaust more than week. the
longest time occupied by any Democratic
Presidential Convention, we think we shall
have the results of this Cincinnati Convoca-
ton certainly before us on the 9th
of May. The enterprise may be failure, as
an attempt promising to cut off the
balance of power from the republican party
adhering to the administration. In this event,
in addition to the call for our National Conven-
ton, we may have to issue snch confidential
clubs and committees throughout the country
as the occasion may seem to demand, in view
of democratic harmony; and we may find it
expedient, also, to delay the meeting of our
Convention till August, in order to avail our
selves Of any republican dissensions that may
the regular republican candidate.
But gentlemen, we expect the Cincinnati
Convention, as a republican bolt, will be
great success I; and as Governor Brown, Sen
ator Carl Schurz and other Missouri leaders in
the movement have been given to understand
that if they nominate, on broad and flexible
platform, some such ticket of liberal republi-
cans as Judge Davis and Senator Fenton, or
Senator Trumbull and Colonel Mcclure, or
Governor Gratz Brown and Horace Greeley,
they will be supported by the democracy, we
may be called, in the event of such action, to
an extraordinary alternatve-the exercise Of
absolute power in shaping the course of the
democratic party. We may find it expedient
to fcrego the usual call of the Democratic
National Convention, and to issue, in lieu
thereof circular to the democratic party,
recommending to its support the Cincinnati
ticket and platform. For if to ratify these
Cincinnati proceedings we call Democratic
Convention the Cincinnati ticket becomes
merged in the democratic party, whereas we
wish it to appear that the democratic party is
merged in this new party of liberal republi-
cans, SO that the Grant republicans shall not
be able to fight us again on the issues of the
war. Such, gentlemen of the Democratic
National Committee, are the considerations
governing this call for our meeting on the
Sth of May. You will not fail to recognize
momentous consequences involved, and full
attendance of the committee is therefore con-
fidently expected"
This, we suppose, is fair Interpretation Of
this call of Mr.. Belmont's committee on the
9Th of May, and we think it probable that,
North, South, East and West, the outcome of
the Cincinnati anti-Grant republican gathering
will determine at this meeting of Mr.. Bel
monts committee the question whether the
democrats shall take the field as the demo-
cratic party, or, abandoning their National
Convention, they shall be merged in the party
of the outside republicans The essential facts
established in Mr.. Belmonts call are, first,
| that the Cincinnati Convention of the outside
or anti-Grant republicans meets under sort
Of contract between its managers and the
managers of the democratic party, as the high
contracting parties, for joint stock Presiden-
tial ticket to be chosen by the anti Grant re-
publicans; and secondly, that Mr.. Belmont and
the democracy, resting upon their oars, are
h0pof,,Ilu owaitinO the iaaue Of the Cincin a ri