Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-24

ton gratiies the Banner, and so it does the
Tennessee Tribune. "Birds of feather"
etc.
THE CINCINNATI CONVENTIONAL
PLOT BETRAYED,
Appearances begin to indicate that the
Cincinnati Convention viii be more for
midable demonstration than the friends Of
Gen. Grant at first supposed il would be.
The Cincinnati Commercial of the 22d inst.
says:
GAS some misunderstanding seems TO
exist of the day Of meeting of this COnven--
ton, we are requested to report the pre-
vious announcement, that il will take place
in Cincinnati on Wednesday, the LIST day of
niay next. Letters from all parts of the
country are coming in from intended visi-
tors, and several rooms in our hotels have
been secured for delegations. 1t is believed
this gathering viii far exceed, in numbers
and influence, the expe Citations of its
movers, and it is not unlikely the action of
the Convention will assume a wide scope,
and prove of greater significance, than was
at first anticipated"
The Grant Radicals have become thor
oughly frightened over the prospect that
the Cincinnati Convention win be a
formidable affair, and there are indications
of plot on their part to pack the conyen-
ton with creatures and tools of Grant. This
plot was developed by the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Times Grant
organ) in his letter of March is, as follows:
teThere is a game of deception going on
in regard TO the Cincinnati Convention,
which is believed to be fostered by the lead
ers of the movement, whoever they may be.
When the meeting was first announced 1t
was advertised as a mass convention: but it
is now known that efforts are being made
TO quietly secure the selection Of delgatas so
as to give the control of the meeting to its
promoters. To this end the movers in
Missouri and Tennessee have selected dele
gates, and it is understood that the same
thing will be done in other States. This
new move is said to have been initiated be-
cause of the fear that the loyal Republicans
would follow the advice of certain papers
and 90 to Cincinnati in force, take possession
of the Convention, and endorse the admin
istration."
This was published in the Times Of the
10Th inst, and was followed up Ly the New
York Herald, which has lately espoused
the Grant cause, in an editorial on the 20th,
In which it said:
'What the friends of Grant should do is
to 90 TO Cincinnati. We are told it is to be
conference of Republicans. Well, if it is
to be a conference let the Republicans
hcg1 fr M NH
should not be a full conference. Let Cameron
and Morton. and Carpenter and Conking,and
the rest of the leaders. with their followers,
90 TO Cincinnati ana GOMEZ. Il viii 10
them no harm. The Queen City Of the
West is noted for its beauty, its hospitality,
its delicate native wines, and Corn-fed pork
and belligerent newspapers. Let there be
a fair conference with the party fully
represented. Mr.. Sumner can make his
Grafton, Mr.. SchuTZ can repeat bis devotion
TO that German government which was
anxious to hang him twenty years
ago, Mr.. FentOn can shake hands with
everybody, Mr.. Greeley can tell what
he knows about farming, Mr. Trum-
bull can recite his experiences as a pOliti-
clan and his conversion two years agO-and
the Herald will see that the Orations and
debates are well reported. The conference
over, nothing will remain but for the 'con-
ference to take the sense of the cOnven-
ton, and nominate Ulysses S. Grant for re-
election. This will be a good ending for
Cincinnati, a good beginning for Philadel-
phia, and an suspicious opening of what
promises to be the most exciting and inn
portant canvass since that Of 'TippecanOe
and Tyler too over thirty years ago"
= e,
York World pronounces it, for reversing
the guns of the Cincinnati Convention and
turning that movement into a .fasco. But
the New York Tribune protests against
this plot in the following emphatic man
ner:
"The Federal office-hOlders have called
their Convention to meet at Philadelphia in
June. No one purposes to disturb or inter
fere with them. They have even COM
planned that the editor, of this journal did
not sign their call, insisting that this would
have been only a formal , ministerial act;
though, had be signed, ey would at once
have argued that his signature bound him
to abide by the result of that convention.
We trust no one will attend that gathering
who has not fully made up his mind to let
the present incumbents have another four
years lease of office and power.
"But the Cincinnati Convention is none
of their affair. They did not call it; they
are not invited; their presence is not de-
sired. Let them mind their own business
and run their own machine.
"Yet it is plain, from the foregoing ex-
tract, that they had formed "A plot to sur
prise and capture the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, and are chagrined that the opportuni-
ty is not TO be afforded them. They may
do as they will at Philadelphia; but they
cannot have their way at Cincinnati. Are
they not entitled to compass sion"
The Commercial does not apprehend any
trouble from the "lOyal Republicans" 1t
says in its issue Of March %:
'The New York Tribune need not be in
the least alarmed about the plot Of the
loyal Republicans TO rush into the Cincin-
natl Convention and occupy and possess it
in the name of Gen. Grant. There are
very few people in this part of
the world who are in danger of sufiocating
with admiration for Gen. Grant. Those
who are making most noise about running
him for reelection are in the habit, in pri-
vate conversation, of admitting that he has
Dlunu6feu from tne Jay OF DIS Inaugural
ton, and piled blunder upon top Of blunder
mountain high. They express the
most contemptuous opinions Of him,
but claim that he is a neces-
sity. Now, we do not believe in a one-man
necessity in a republican form of govern
ment. We have seen but one man in six
months who insisted that he was really and
sincerely an admirer of Gen. Grants admin
istratiOn, and he astonished us by sticking
to it with every appearance of honesty.
There is no danger that the Cincinnati.
Convention will be overwhelmed by an en-
thusiastic multitude precipitated by excess
Of emotion upon u.s.
THESE galleries, and especially the dplo-
matte galleries, are famous places for firta-
ton. Next to the library, where the neces-