The Portland daily press., 1872-02-15
Why the Anti-Grant Convention was
POSTPONED till June Goth.
from the New York Herald.l


The anti-Grant, or, as they style themselves,
the independent reform Republicans Oh NILS
souri,, recently held State Conventoh' lroiii
which call was issued for national coiiNeh-
ton of these independent or antl-ural1 ne
nuhlicans. to meet in Cincinnati on the oth OF
Nav next. The object of this call was TO
hr;na ont the Republican malcontents and to
commit them in a new party movement against
General Grant in advance of the regular Phil
adelphia Republican Convention, which meets
ON The eth of june The discovery, however,
has been made that this independent Clncin-
natl movement hangs ire. ouch antl,Grant
Renublicans as Senators Sumner, tenton, Irum-
bull and Logan do not respond, and the veneer
abie Mr. Greeley avoids the concern as cover
mo a free trade coalition which he never can
sn6nort-never, never! Therefore the engineers
of this Cincinnati convention have agreed to
nostpone it till the Goth of June, SIN order that
thew may accept the Philadelphia nomination,
if it be man ON whom they can unite"
Now for the real meaning of this change of
base These men understand that if General
Grant is nominated at Philadelphia their indie
pendent Cincinnati concern will collapse, like
the independent Tyler Convention of 1874, OF
the independent Fremont and Cochrane Con-
vention of 1864, or the Andy johnson new
| party Convention of 1866. These antl-Grant
managers, every man of them disappointed
| office-seeker, know this, and they have, there
fore, resolved to fight Grant, not at Cincinnati
but in the regular Philadelphia Convention. II
| they can and do defeat Linn there they Will
abandon their project of a new reform party,
and whistle the hopeful passive Democracy
down the wind" Clearly so; for what is the
game of these so-oalled reform Republicans
1t is the public plunder-
| Only this, and nothing more,
They have failed to get their rights under
| General Grant in Cabinet positions, foreign
| missions, custom houses and post Offices ano
as they despair of any new chance without g
change in the White House, and as their only
chance for change in 1873 lies ia the defeat
of Grant at Philadelphia, they have resolved
to bring all their guns to bear upon that Con
vention. If they fail at Philadelphia they viii
still have two strings to their bow. They cal
bolt or sell out 10 the ,&dmiinistration, las ma!
be deemed most expedientN
We expect to have some developments OF thu
tactics of these reform Republicans in the ap
preaching March election in New Hampshire
| and April election in Connecticut Their tao
tics viii be TO help the Democrats, under thu
idea that the success Of the Democrats in New
Hampshire and Connecticut will weaken Gran
at Philadelphia, But while we think it quit
possible that one or two thousand Republican
guerrillas may turn the scale In New Hamp
shire and in Connecticut we have no doub
that every vote of those States whatever ma,
be the results OF these coming elections will b
given for Grant at Philadelphia. Indeed, from
all the evidence and all the Indications befor
us, General Grant will be unanimously nomi
dated on the first ballot for another Pfesiden
tial term.