The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-15

,.,.s.r CINCINNATI, August Q, 1872
I'M b . very funny city in matters political.
Everything seems to be turned wrong end up and
The discomfort which pervades all parties ia some
thing fearful to contemplate 1t is not easy to de-
sermine how anybody is going to vote, for nobody
seems positively certain Of it himself The only
thing which assert is that the republican party
b intact in organization, but weak in the devotion
OF the rank and file. Not single leader of promi-
nence has broken away since the nomination OF
Greeley, and number OF the most active spirits in
promoting the Liberal Convention have come back
20 Grant Some are for neither Grant nor Greeley
Even the democrats, that Is the democratic leaders
do not heartily endorse Greeley. Mr.. Groesbeck's
letter, in which he practically accepted Mr. Gree
ley, because there was nobody else to accept, ex-
presses the feeling which pervades the democracy
OF this county. There is no enthusiasm either
side and nearly every man you meet, no matter
how active he may have been up to the time
OF Greeley's nomination, informs you in the
Curtest language he command that
he knows nothing about the political situa-
ton, because, to tell the truth, he is
"oUT OF POLITICS"
The phrase is an unmeaning one at the best, and
here 1t Is only the expression Of the general dis
gust and discomfort. OF all the tout OF politics.
politicians in this city cannot recall a finer ex-
ample than Judge Hoadley. Hoadley is COM
paratvely young lawyer Of good abilities and with
very fine practice. He was always republican,
but republican OF the Western free-trade school,
not easily induced to accept any Of the theories of
the protectonists. Thus loosened in his attach
ments to his party by its tendencies toward pro-
section principle, and disguised with the stu
pidity and imbecility Of the administration, he
ready to join with General Cox Judge Stalo Stanley
Mathews and the other original liberal repub-
Of this section in promoting the liberal repub
Mcan movement. The result Of the Convention was
q thing from which he turned away in even pro-
founder disgust than he felt toward the admins
tration OF General Grant. The nomina-
tton was one which he had not contemplated as
possible, and in the nominee he saw man
who had advocated every political principle which
he opposed and had opposed every political idea
which he advocated. As republicans Greeley and
Hoadley were wider apart than they possibly could
have been democrats, and yet he found that 1t
was more as democrat than as a republican that
he was required to support the candidate whom he
had assisted in nominating. 1t was a bitter pill
and he had either to swallow IL or go out OF politics.
20 out Of politics he went. He Is not for Greeley,
and his neghbors not sure. do not think he
knows himself whether he is for Grant. One thing
r. certain, and that is, that he thinks the beralre
publican-revenue-reform movement which he and
Wells and Grosvenor and others had nursed
20 the democratic party and the chief
OF the protectlonists, and that consequently
there is no important political principle
involved in the Presidential canvass. have given
CHS little sketch OF Hoadey because he is Of the
abest as well as one Of the fairest, OF the tout OF
politics" politicians OF this city. II were going to
hazard q n opinion as to his future action IL would
be that he will vote for Grant, but, unlike Stanley
Mathews and one or two others, he will not prove
himself the advocate OF both sides In single can
vass.
QUEER FISH POLITICS
Judge Mathews do not know whether he ever
was jurist, but, at any rate, everybody is a
'Judge" In Cincinnati-is very remarkable spec-
men of the political acrobat. What Disguised him
with the administration l have not been able ex.
actly to discover-Grant's 'nepotism" most
ukely-but his grandiloqnent speech as temporary
chairman of the Cincinnati Convention, In which
he claimed to be one of the large and influential
body of the American people who had determined
not to wear the collar OF party any
longer, and his hopping over to Grant Immediately
afterward have made him amarked man, even In a
city full of great men. He organized the Conven.
ton which nominated Greeley and Brown, and
then repudiated its nominees, characterizfng the
ing II as .rntrigue.n In his speech to the Con.
yention he declared that In every department OF
che government the slow poison or corruption
teems to have pervaded the whole civil and politi-
cal administration, and In speech after the Con-
vention he said he thought General Grant "person-
ally pure" Ia bis administration, and that 1t was
cnarsctenzed oy Eegard for the constitution and
tho law. man Who could take such exactly op-
poste views OF the came question: from equally clear
convictions OF duty thought must be very remark
able man indeed and accordingly called on him.
what was my amazement to find that he was not
only "0ut OF p0utcsD hnt entirely out Of the way Of