The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-21

The Louisvills OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES WIZ
Safer from the Nomination ol
Ohsrlos O'Conors
The letter of our Louisville correspondent
published to-day, gives IN interesting account
of an interview with Colonel Blanton Duncan,
the moving spirit of the straight-out Bourbon
Convention about to be held at Louisville for
the nomination of Charles OCOnor as the
candidate of the still unterri6ed democracy for
President of the United States, and for the
adoption of platform on which all who are
unwilling to vote for the liberal republican
candidates can plant themselves and take part
in the contest. Our correspondent finds
Colonel Duncan full of energy and hope,
loaded down with correspondence from old
line democrats, and strong in the faith
that his pet Convention is going to be
great success. The responses pouring
in from all States, and the earnest tone of the
letters, many of which were examined by our
correspondent convince him that a strong
undercurrent is running In favor of the Louis
vile movements that it is not being laughed
at by the whole people, and that it is very
probable the Duncan raid may draw off
enough of the democratic forces from the
liberal republican and democratic coalition
to defeat Greeley Colonel Duncan kindly
furnishes extracts from these letters, and
hence we are the better able to Judge of the
temper of the writer's and to form an intelli-
gent idea of the effect the movement is likely
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didates actually in the fight.
We expressed the belief in former notice
of this straight-out convention strategy that it
might in the end be found to be more damag-
ing to those who have helped it to success
than to their opponents. This belief is
strengthened by the tone of most of the letters
in Colonel Duncan's liberal collection, from
which we have been favored with quotations,
and we suppose these are fair specimens of the
whole correspondence. In nearly every in
stance the writer, in his energy, makes it ap-
parent that, while he desires a strict party
ticket to vote for, he would, under no con-
ceivable circumstances, support Greeley, but
if driven to choose between the two candidates
should prefer Grant. We give Colonel Duncan
credit for full sincerity when he declares his
conviction that if the Bourbons succeed in
getting eight hundred and fifty thousand votes
it will be ''enough to beat Greeley to smash )"
but we would remind him that if these votes
were cast for President Grant instead of being
thrown away on Charles O. Conor they would
count exactly double, or seventeen hundred
thousand, and make the result he desires oil
the more certain. In order to convince him
and all who are looking to this Bourbon move
ment only as means of defeating the liberal
republican candidates, we quote from Colonel
Duncan's correspondents The first is from
on old farmer of Illinois, who says:-
''We democrats in this part of the
country cannot support that lifelong aboli-
ZIONIST Horace Greeley, for President of the
United States. We think General Grant the
best man of the two, but we want straight
ticket to vote for, and we hope the Louisville
Convention will put out good democrat"
Well if 'sgood democrat should not be in
the field it is evident that this Illinois farmer
and his friends would vote for President
Grant, and not for Greeley; SO, as far as they
are concerned, the Louisville Convention
would damage the party that has been looking
to it for aid. A letter from the editor of q
North Carolina paper, published at Charlotte,
states that the conservatives failed to elect their
Governor because "five thousand democrats re-
fused to vote with the party endorsing Greeley"
These five thousand votes, then, would be
given to Grant in the Presidential
election, and not to Greeley, if straight-out
democratic ticket should not be in nomination.
A citizen of Douglas county, Illinois, writes
that the feeling among his friends is zone Of
intense disgust with the action of the Balti-
more Convention" and hence they would hail
with delight the nomination of Bourbon candi-
dates Salem (Mass.) democrat is strong in
his desire for straight-out nominations. 'Pre-
sent straight democratic ticket to the coun-
try" he says. ''Grant is bad enough, but
Greeley is the scum of all rascality-the most
internal liar, the most dangerous cuss," &c.
It is clear who our Salem friend would vote
for if he could not give his vote to Charles
O'Conor. Mississippi lawyer "wants the
record of Greeley" and finds plenty of citizens
"who cannot and will not support Greeley"
A gentleman from Culpepper, Va, cannot
conceive how any democrat can endorse
Greeley, and says, GAS for myself, will not
vote for him." He would no doubt prefer
| Grant as choice of evils.
| Some Of Colonel Duncan's correspondents
are yet more emphatic. 81 was in the Con-
federate service four years, a major" writes
Professor Of Latin in q Missouri college,
''and I'll be if vote for any such
man as Horace Greeley" He would
vote for Grant first, in the absence
Of strongly hayored democrat