The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-04-25
Progress of the Liberal Republican Movement.


The Washington correspondent of the New
York World writes as follows;
WASHINGTON, April Il
The discussion of the great liberal reform
demonstration in New York on Friday night
has absorbed all else of political interest in
Washington yesterday and to-day. The result
in administration quarters is most marked.
Officials can now be found who use other Ian
guage than that of contempt for the Cincinnati
Convention. Not only the numbers OF that
mass s-meeting, but the names of hundreds of
leading Republicans, many ofwhom were here
tofore supposed to be friendly to Grant, excite
the surprise of these officials, and they begin
to think that their tenure of Office is not quite
so secure as they had imagined.
Discouraging news for the administration is
also at hand from the West. The Republican
State Committee of Illinois are breaking up
and going to Cincinnati. The chairman has
already written letter to that effect
Governor Blair, Of Michigan, prominent
Republican member of Congress, returned here
to-day from visit to his State, and says that
Michigan will send full delegation to Cincin-
anti-Grant feeling in that quarter is very gen.
era among Republicans. Heretofore Blair has
not been as outspoken as Republicans like
Trumbull and Schurz, but he makes no reser-
walton now. Wherever he went in the North
west he found the people clamoring for o
change, and especially bitter against the reck-
less extravaganza of the administration.
The Grant men are doing their best to keep
up their courage. But even the most enthusi-
astic among them admit that the signs of the
times are not auspicous. Their chief hope now
seems to be that after the nomination is made
at Philadelphia large numbers of the dissatis-
fed will fall into line and support the regular
ticket. Otherwise they concede that defeat Is
inevitable.
Colonel A. K. Mcclure, of Pennsylvania, ar
rived this morning, and after consulting with
number of leading Republican Senators and
members returned to Philadelphia this evening.
1t is understood that the immediate object of
his visit was to arrange certain matters with
reference to the Cincinnati Convention. He
has great faith in the results which he thinks
are certain to follow the meeting of that body.
In his Judgment it is the convention which
will nominate the next President of the Uni
ted States All that is required is good man
agement and moderation on the part OF the
Democrats and Independent Republicans, and
the fate of the present military ring is sealed
With regard to the condition of affairs in
Pennsylvania Mcclure says there is not the
slightest chance for Hartranft, the Grant ring
candidate for Governor, being elected. sever
81 leading members of the Harrisburg Conren-
ton, he says, were SO disgussted at the manner
in which the office-holders managed affairs that
they announed their determination to go home
and defeat the entire ticket, So bitter is the
fight among those who attended the convention
that the Independent reform Republicans who
refused in advance to have anything to do with
it because they knew what the result would be
have not thought it necessary as yet to give
definite shape to, their opposition. Mcclure
thinks the present indications are that Hart
ranft will either be withdrawn or defeated by
the regular Republicans. He says that at
proper time some action will be taken by those
WHO oppose the ring to bring an independent
candidate into the field, who will secure the
support of all good men who favor good gov
ernment and an honest administration of the
affairs of the State, without regard to party
names or ties.