The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-16
THE 4WORLD" on POLITICAL UP.
HEAVALS

THE "wORLD" on POLITICAL up
HEAVALS.
The New York World gives US triple
sheet on the occasion of the 'great Anti
Grant" meeting. held at Cooper Institute
on Friday evening last, and, in its editorial
notice of it, is very confident that it is
going to ''smash things generally" in the
Republican party. Indeed, it expatiates
grandly on the result of the meeting, de-
claring that its influence will be felt "from
the Passamaquoddy Bay to the Golden
Gate, and from the Great Lakes to the
Gulf of Mexico" 1t might have added,
with equal confidence, that its influence
would stretch out northward from the Col
den Gate to where the mighty walrus lows
the icebergs from the Polar Sea, and where
the big white bear revels amid majestic
ice-ruins, with no Fifteenth amendments"
to disturb him or make him afraid. Po-
ltical convulsions are sometimes 'felt" at
great distance, and the World is always
little on the shaking order" when one
VI tuCoC ouibouo CNChtS VI pllOS III
1864, when the Cleveland tiasco came off,
it was equally confident that there was to
be mighty upheaval of the political ele-
ments, and that the Republican party was
going to "eternal smash'' by reason of that
political earthquake. But when the Pres
idsntial election came off, everything was
calm, serene and lovely except with the
World and the few restless lntriguers and
sore-headed boilers of the B. Gratz Brown
order, who had engineered the Cleveland
Convention into existence just as the Gin
cinnati one is being engineered now.
The language of those days was so re-
markably similar, and the intriguers so
singularly identical, with those of the pre-
sent time, that we shall be pardoned for
quoting from Mr.. Gratz Brown and his
then confederates "We do not recognize
in the Baltimore Convention, the essential
conditions of truly national convention.
It's proximity to the centre of all the inter-
ested influences of the Administration its
mode of convocation; the competing prac-
tees to which it has been, and inevitably
will be, subjected, do not permit the peo-
pie (Gratz B. always speaks for the people,
to assemble there with any expectation of
being able to deliberate ct full liberty"
This is so nearly the language of Horace
Greeley now, that we must really believe
that he borrowed file of the World for
1864, Qor the Tribune would not publish
such stuff then, and consulted the language
used at Cleveland in order to frame his
own indictment against the present Admin
istration for this is what he says: "We
make this departure from the ordinary
methods of party action from deep con-
viction that the organization to which we
belong is under the control of those who
will use it chiefly for personal purposes,
and obstruct free expression of opinion
upon the important matters which the gen.
tlemen whom you represent have laid be-
fore the people of the United States"
These assertions of Mr.. Greeley are of
the same gratuitous character now that
those of Gratz Brown were in 1864, and
they will be just about as effective in Great
ing split in the great Republican party of
the country. The Cleveland Convention
met and nominated General Fremont, who
Immediately offered to withdraw from the
canvass if any other candidate than Mr..
Lincoln were nominated at the Baltimore
Convention, just as Mr.. Greeley would do
now, if he were the Cincinnati nominee.
For he emphatically says, 81 am not for
Grant if there is any help for it."
There are any number of points of coin
cidence and identity between the attempted
split in 1864 and that which so potently
threatens according to the World the
Republican party now. The Republican
National Convention did not heed the
Insignificant pattering of rain at Cleveland
in 1864, but nominated its ticket at Balti-
more as if no political disturbance threat
ened, and it will do the same this year at
Philadelphia with precisely the same result.
Mark the prediction.