New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-17
The Liberal Republican Movement.

This is special dispatch to the New York
Tribune:
WASHINGTON, April 1l.-Private advices
from Illinois received to-day confirm the re-
ports from Springfield printed in today's
Tribune relating to the strength of the Lib
eral Republican movement in that State.
The call for State convention to select del
egates to the Cincinnati convention has al
ready been prepared, and is said to be an
unusually strong document. 1t is signed
by great number of the founders of the
Republican party in Illinois, including, with
but one or two exceptions, all the Lincoln
electors in 1860 and the Republican State
officers chosen at that tine.
Events of the past two or three days have
greatly encouraged the Liberal Republican
leaders in this city, and they are more con-
fdent and hopeful than at. any previous
time. Senator Trumbull has, within day
or two, given his friends positively to un-
derstand that he should support the Gin
cinnati nominee, and prominent 1llinoisans
say that the State can be carried for that
nominee by an overwhelming majority.
Senator FentOn, who was in New York dur
ing the early part Of the week. speaks very
hopefully for the Liberal cause in that State.
The TriJune's announcement of its intended
course during the coming campaign has
been the almost universal theme of discus
sion, yesterday and to-day. The Liberal
Republicans, without exception, speak OF it
as sound and timely, and there is no doubt
that it will be unanimously adopted by
them as rule Of action. Republicans they
are and mean to be, they say, and No amount
OF denuDciatiOn from General Grants
friends can drive them from the great prin
ciples OF that party. The Democrats, too,
are stronger than ever in their policy OF
making no nomination. and the administra-
ton men are more disposed than ever to
treat the Cincinnati movement with respect.
Senators Sehurz and Trumbull and 9TH
ers went to New York this evening to at.
tend the great Liberal Republican meeting
to be held tomorrow night. The Fifth
Avenue Hotel will be their heaGuuarters.
Senator Fenton, though in full sympathy
with the movement, will be unable to at
tend.
The administration has prepared mine
to explode beneath Senator Sthurz on his
arrival in New York tomorrow morning,
and thew hope that it will blow him ..sky-
high" and entirely destroy the effect Of his
| speech at Cooper Institute. The Washing
| ton correspondent of the Missouri Democrat
| and Chicago h,terOcean, whose dispatches
| are dropped from the wires at New York
and printed in the administration organ in
that city, has been ransacking the Fifth Au
iditor's Office and casting up the columns of
| ,ho uncioseu accounts OI MI SEIZURE Wnlle
he was Minister to Spain. In these ac
counts he thinks he finds deficiency due
the government of about $4,000. This dis
covery will, Of course, be printed in the
largest OF type and distorted to prove the
Missouri Senator detaulter; but the Hon.
Jacob II. Ella, the Fifth Auditor of the
Treasury Department, has pricked the bub-
bic by admitting, in conversation this even
ing, his belief that, if the account was en-
tirely, posted up and balanced, it would be
found tnat the government owes Mr..
Schurz, instead of Mr.. Schurz owing the
| government.