The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-05


tions-Thc Aspect OF Political Affairs.
The Liberal Republican and Democratic
Conventions at Syracuse adjourned yesterday
till to-day, after having appointed conference
committees with q view to harmopize the two
parties ON nominations There will be no diff
Guilty, we presume, about platform on which
both can stand, and we suppose the nomina-
tons for Office will be so divided as to ulti-
mately bring the liberals and democrats to
united and earnest action. Senator Fenton
seems to be the leading and active man
on the side of the former and Samuel j.
Tilden on the part of the latter. Though the
conference committees have adjourned with
out deciding upon nominations, it is said
Chief Justice Church will be nominated for
Governor though he, like Mr. O'Conor in the
case of the Louisville nomination for Presi-
dent, had requested his name not to be used
but he might not decline nomination should
he be pressed to accept by his friends and ur-
believed that no better nomination could be
made. He is, probably, the most popular
man in the State. He was elected to the Office
Of Chief Justice by majority of over eighty
thousand votes-a larger majority than any
man ever received in this State. Considering
the importance of making the best nomina-
tons for State offices, with a view of exercising
ON influence on the Presidential election in
New York. the Conventions should select the
strongest candidates from both parties, and in
doing this Judge Church is probably the most
available for Governor It is said that in the
division of the offices the Congressman at
Large will be given to the liberal republicans.
The Louisville Convention has reached the
stage of fuddle which its enemies desired
should overtake it, After nominating Charles
O'Conor, in spite of the.warning of disincli-
nation tackled on to the end of his letter
to the Convention, they telegraphed
him of the fact. A reply was received which,
to say the least, was vague. In other words,
he begged off All this time the Convention,
happy beyond their most sanguine expecta-
ton, went on with the work Of arrang-
ing for vigorous canvass, when
despatch arrived that OConor positively de-
clined. Their hopes were dashed. The cup
Of Bourbon pressed to their thirsting lips was
shattered by the hand that gave respect
ability to the movement. 1t was I'M
kind; the Convention felt it was ungenerous,
and were only saved from adjourning in dis
gust and despair by Fabian resolution to let
time fight it out for them by daybreak this
morning. Whoever may be nominated
now will not make o serious inroad
on the Greeley party. In losing O'Conor it
has lost the spark of vitality which galvanized
the corpse Of democracy as it was' into
CHASTITY semblance of being 1t leaves the ''un-
known quantity" in very unsettled posi-
ton, but where the country can afford to
leave it. The fight must now be square one
between Grant and Greeley. The Action Of
the Louisville Convention to-day may be an
gate expressed it, but the prestige-bubble as
it was-is gone.
MI. John Quincy Adams was evidently
disposed to take the nomination for
Vice President if Mr. O'Conor had be-
come the candidate for President He
says, in his letter to Blanton Duncan
which must be considered as addressed to the
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real general inclination to couple my name
with Mr.. O'Conor's it would strain my sense
of honor to refuse it in such fight" He
might not accept it with any other
name. His expressed conviction that
the movement would be formidable
one with Mr. O Conor as the candidate for
| President will show what he thinks it likely
to be without him. He will scarcely stand up
alone under such load as the Bourbons
would be in their battle, which they acknowl-
edge hopeless from the start
The platform Of the Louisville Convention
| fits the nominees, and it is fair to presume
that the majority of that body care more
about maintaining the old-time principles Of
the democratic party than for success.
Though they could hardly hope to succeed
in either getting o majority of the cleo
toral votes or of reaching the Presidenc,
through the House of Representatives, should
there be no election by the people, they prefe
to have the principles and organization Of thu
party preserved, even with defeat, to success
with Mr.. Greeley as the standard bearer. Thu
platform reasserts the old State rights dogmt
of the democracy and proclaims to the world
that principle is to be preferred to power. y
The democrats assembled at Louisville seen
to have little hope of electing their ticket, fol
they exclaim, in O sort Of heroic despair, ''Tht
pangs Of minorities are doubtless excruciating
but we welcome an eternal minority under thu
banner inscribed with our principles rathe
than an almighty and everlasting majorit.
purchased by their abandonment" Thi
inflated language may be quite poeti
and heroic, but will scarcely b.
considered as very practical in this age Of pc
litical and governmental changes and trans