Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-17
POLITICAL.
Chas. Sumner to Preside at Cincinnati
Garfield and Dawes Becoming Liberals

Uarneld ana Dawes Becoming Liberals
New YORK, March 16.--The Tribune's
Washington special says Charles Sumner
has consented to attend the Cincinnati
Convention and preside over its delibera-
tions.
GreeIey's Line Of Retreat.
Horace Greeley, in an editorial on the
Cincinnati Convention, says if free trade is
to be- made plank in the platform, he asks
to be counted out. All he asks is that
there be left a freedom TO all classes on
economic questions.
The New York Post.
The Eoening Post editoriaIIy says: The
name of Sumner will give character to the
Cincinnati Convention, and it trusts that
the meeting in that city will be the most
influential popular gathering of the year,
and that its course be such as to determine
the success of the Republican party.
A Denial.
CINCINNATI, March 16.-The Times and
Chronicle this afternoon publishes denial
which, it says, is upon the authority of Sem
ator Sumner, to the effect that he has
neither consented nor been asked to preside
over the Cincinnati Convention, and that
with his present opinion he will decline to
do anything of the kind.
Garfield and Dawes.
CINCINNATI, March Ex-senator Tip
ton, Of Nebraska, arrived here last night to
consult with the leaders of the Liberal
movement in regard to the May Conven-
ton. In an interview with reporter of
the Times and Chronicle, he named Gar
| field, of Ohio, and Dawes, of MassachU-
sets, as leading Republican members of
| the House, who were known to be secretly
in sympathy with the anti-Grant movement
| in the Republican party. He says Trum-
| bull is his first choice for the Presidency,
| but that the convention here win probably
| decide on Dawes.
On the Fence.
! WASHINGTON, March 16.-Inquiry hay
ing been made concerning the views of
Messrs. Dawes and Garfield in respect to
| the Cincinnati Convention, it is ascertained
| that Mr.. Dawes to-day said to Senator
that while he had no political sympathy
with the minority Of the Republicans in the
| Senate, the course of the majority towards
them concerning the investigation Of alleged
abuses had excited his personal sympathy.
| Mr.. Carried said while not aware that he
had said anything that could be construed
into hostility towards Grant, he, like Mr..
Dawes, had been always in favor of the in
vestigation of charges against publice off.
GERS.
Logan. Voorhees, and Hendricks.
| CINCINNATI, March 16.-The Times ana
| Chronicle interview with Senator Upton, oi
| Nebraska, makes that Senator express the
| l. e 10 h. 80
| Cincinnati Convention in May; also q pre-
ference for Trumbul. The Senator is rep
| resented as saying Chief Jus ice Mason and
Gov. Butler, of Nebraska, are in sympathy
with this convention, and that Senator LO-
gan is counted on, and that positive assur-
ances have been received that VOORHEES,
and Hendricks, of Indiana, will co operate
with and support the movement. He says
further that there are assurances of large
colored delegations from the South. The
Senator left to-day for home. He recei lived
quite number of calls while here.
The Louisiana Row.
New ORLEANS, March 1G-The Picdy
1tle says the news of the appointment of J
N. G. Parker for Surveyor of Customs
vice LOngstreet, has fallen like bombshel
among the ranks of the coiOred Republican!
here. Senator Ingraham and Representa-.
tives Burch and Lott have gone to Wash
ington to protest again It the imposition of
Another Carpet-Bagger
upon the people of Louisiana. The feeling
among the colored Republicans at this ap
pointment is said to be thu
more bitter because they have
been led to believe that ''the corruption
known as carpetbaggism was defunct and
had sloughed off from the bone of cOnten
tion-ironicallY known as the State o.
Louisiana" The case of Parker is fla
GRAVITY carpetbaggish in its character. Iii:
asserted that he resides with his family il
Lowell, Mass;
that his residence in New Orleans has beer
little more than nominal and that since the
spring of 1870 he has not until few weeks
ago put in an appearance in bis so-calie,
adopted home.
The Massachusetts Radicals.
BosrON, March 16.-The Massachusett
State Central Committee to-day fixed upOl
the 10Th of April as the time and Worceste
as the place of holding the State CODven
ton to choose delegates to the NatiOns
Convention at Philadelphia. 1t was vOteC
to invite Senator Wilson to preside.
BosrON, March 16.-The majority Of tn
Massachusetts, Legislative Committee Oh
the subject, have reported a resolution t
amend the constitutions as to give wOmel
the right to vote and hold Office.
Radical Tactics.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 10
The report of the New Orleans Invest
eating Committee of the House will not b
/ ready for ten days or a fortnight. Me-
evidence covering the alleged corrupt trans
= actions by means of which Pinchbeck'
: election as President Of the Senate wa
legalized, and a Warmoth Legislator
placed on a working basis, has just been re
t ceived, and will be submitted to the con
! mittee. a fair illustration of the mora
tone of Louisiana politics is contained il
: the following duly executed agreement, t
which State Senator Lewis was party
2 and to secure the performance Of which
suit is now pending:
"AGREEMENT.
, "NEw ORLEANS, Jan. 10, 1S72.-Th
agreement shows that box has been d.
: posted in the Louisiana Savings Bank
. two persons, known to the President there
of; that the said box contains fifteen thou: