The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-26

Interesting Political Gossip from Cfn-
cinnatI-The Chances for the Candt.
dates-The Contest for the Nomination
Likely to be Narrowed Down to Davis
and Trunrbull-Curtin to have the
form, &C., &c.
The Cincinnati Convention Is the only sub
ject of political discussion now. All the pa
pers are full OF 1t. Delegates are being ap-
pointed to attend it. Public men are signify
ing their attitude regarding 1t. The Liberals
are receiving enormous accessions OF strength
daily, and are proportionately %jubilant. The
Liberal committee at Washington have ad-
| vices which show that delegates will attend the
convention from every State in the Union but
| Florida, Nevada and Oregon. The California
delegation will represent Nevada and Oregon.
The Chicago Tribune prints a long list of
names of prominent Republicans who oppose
| Grant, showing that they constitute ''the
bone and grlstle, brain and marrow, blood
aud muscle, of Republicanlsm In Illinois," Ex-
Congressman Grinnell, of Iowa, says that
the Liberallsts in that State are similarly nu-
merous and influential. The Cincinnati Com.
mercIal coneiders the success of the conven-
| ton beyond q doubt, the indications being
that 1t will be the largest National Convention
| ever held in this country. From PepnsylTa'
MIA, Mcclure eounds a busle-note 10 a letter
to the Bulletin, explaining his reasons for
going to Cincinnati, and arraigning the cor
| rupt State aud National Radical rings IN elo-
| ouent and unanswerable phrase.
A correspondent of the New York Herald,
writing from Cincinnati, gives the following
interesting budget of political gossip:
It looks very much at this writing as It
Trumbur would gobble up the strength OF
Adams and Gratz Brown, and leave the Gree.
lev element to make choice between Davis
and Trumbull. The fight for the nomination,
as 1t stands, is a very pretty match between
these two, Trumbull coming In rather late,
but supported by energetic and buoyant
friends.
THREE NEW ENGLAND STATES FOR DAVIS.
The managers of Judge DaVis's campaign
assume that the delegations from Maine, New
Hampshire add Rhode Island, at Cincinnati,
| will be largely In his favor, persons having
been placed more than one month ago In each
| of these States TO take charge OF bis Interests.
Senator sprague, taking his cue s, RON . . I Iae
Democratic party, announces himsslf as pre-,
| lerring Davis to anybody else but Chase, ana
It Ia mooted that Sprague Is ready to put hts
name to a paper tor Davis.
MASSACHUSETTS FOR ADAMS.
Massachusetts and Connecticut will pre-
| sumedly declare for Charles Francis Adams,
| who will probably get a small portion OF me
| New York delegation and the majority OF me
Ohio. folks, the Cincinnati Commercial having
been tooling In bis interest for the past taree
| weeks, apparently with the object OF Creating
q diversion and playing fast and loose with
the movement. Sam. Bowles, OF Springfield.
| Edward Atkinson, David A. Wells and two or
three more want Adams In cass the contest
between Trumbuil and Davis should become
animated, when they can throw. IN Adams as
q compromise candidate and bring the Trugs
bull strength over to him. Connecticut folks
regard 1rImbull as a Connecticut man, and
he will get some votes there. The larger part
Of the
/ NEW YORK DELEGATION WILL BE IN FAVOR OF
HORACE GREELEY,
and the we'll known enterprise OF New YORK
politicians will probably be iustanced by O big
train to Cincinnati, with fireworks q guns
booming for Greeley at every station on the
road. If Greeley finds he has no chance he
tween Trumbull and Davis, preferring Davis
as a Wing and Trumbull as q statesman.
MISSOURI ANB KANSAS FOR BRoWN.
Missouri will vote on the first ballot for
Graft Brown, aud go will Kansas. William
M. Grosyenor, chairman of the Brown Liberal
Republican executive committee, has for sew.
eral months conducted q large and exhaustive
cor%respondence with all parts Of the country
10 Browns interest, and 1t remains to be seen
what effect this will have. Alter the nrst
ballot 1t Is presumed that the vote Of Kansas
=, - ,11i, o,.f I'll otrOn root man
Missouri Will hold On for another ballot OF
two to Brown If he shows any great strength
on the first trial.
THE SOUTHERN STATES,
Louisiana excepted, are generally thought
to be for Davis. as the liberal movement there
is, In fact, directed by the former scalawae
element of the Republican party, or what are
nov called Liberal Republicans, and BY 9
mild type Of Democrats. The carpet-baggers
and scalawags all over the South, have had q
falling out, as 10 North Carolina, and the
scalaWags allege that the carDet-bagSers ride
on their necks and make the Union side unpop
ular. Wherever the carpet-baggers have got
the bulk of the offices the scalawags will en-
deayor to get Into the Liberal Convention,
South Carolina will probably not be repre-.
sented at Cincinnati, or her enormously pre-
ponderaiing negro vote makes 1t impossible
to expect that she will support anybody but
the Philadelphia nominee.
THE GERMAN DELEGATION AT CINCINNATI.
Wisconsin, where there Is q large German
vote, will probably go for Trumbnll; and To-
deed the German vote In Missouri, Illinois anG
elsewhere will be thrown solldly In Trumbulft
favor, II Carl Schurz, Koerner and Hecker car
WELD 1t. Schurz himself goes to Cincinnati
committed to Trum0ull. The latter aslute
gold spectacled gentleman will stay In hi:
lodgings at Washington City shutting the bat
lie from afar, while Schurz pitches In.
DAVIS SUPPORTED BIZ THE ABE LINCOLN CoTERIE
Davis has another immense advantage In the
personal support or nearly all of Abraham Lin
coins old 4oterie of friends-that coteri,
which looked askant at Trumbull. There, fol
example. Is Leonard SWEET, the famous Chi
cago lawyer; William 81. Herndon, Lincolnt
Junior partner at Springfield, and Ward q. La
mon, Lincnln's old marshal, all heartily com
United to Davis, and bound to come to Clncin
natl and raise for him there that same wilC
yell with which Illinois scared the heart out Of
New York at Chicago in 1860 and put Old Abe
at the head of the party. Lamon has JUS
finished his big book, 1.-The Life of Lincoln,
written from Lincoln's private papers, Hern'
doa's recOllections and a multiiarious cores
pondence between the late President and his
factotums. Emerging from his retirement IL
West Virginia, Lamon Will put on his armor,
go to Cincinnati and endeayor TO make another
man out OF the old Lincoln set Chief Magls
trate.
WHAT IF DAVIS BE NOMINATED.
IF Davis is nominated the probabilities are
that he will throw aside his gown, stalk oui
in his poftly person before the npopla and