Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-04-08
THE CINCLN.NAZi CONVENTION.

insult its party.
A. THE CINCLNNATiC CONVENTION.
The idea of nominating Judge Davis at the
Cincinnati Convention is about exploded.
The names mentioned as candidates are
quite numerous, but none of them promise
availability. There are Charles Francis Ad-
ans and Lyman Trumbull; Adams and Graft
! Brown; Charles Sumner and Trumball Or
Brown; Trumbull and Greeley; Trumbull
and John Quincy Adams
tis reported that Maine will be represent
ed at the Cincinnati convention. Who are
the courageous men? Their names do not APP
pear nor are they limited at.
A correspondent of the New York Post
writing from Cincinnati says: "Several rooms
are already engaged at the hotels, and among
those coming are some members of the New
York Tribune corps, Mr.. Greeley at the head
How far his influence will prevail it is pre-
mature to surmise. He has already warned
the convention that if they persist in demand
ing free trade he must be 'ceunted out" AS
it is their first plank in the platform, they can
not concede; nor dare they even offer COM
promise. The new party would lose with the
people all their prestige if they were to give
up their most important declaration for the
advantage of Mr.. Greeley's cooperation.
Their opposition to Mr.. Grant and his rings
er glad they may be of Mr.. Greeley's assist
ance, they cannot sacrifice their own avowed
record even to gain his help. Already
there have been emphatic protests among the
leaders of the convention, in prospect of such
political regeneration. We know Ex-Gov-
ernor Cox is opposed to it, and Judge Hoadly
has said: IF you concede to Greeley, you
may not count on me- No such compromises
are to be expected
The Springfield Republican, which is lead
ing off in the Cincinnati movement, has the
following from its Washington correspondent.
Mr.. Greeley and the Tribune are rather rough
ly handled here:
"a revival of politics, more than the tri-
umph or defeat of Grant or the democratic
candidate is what ought to be looked to. OF
course, the question of candidates is impor-
tant, and an interesting matter of debate.
Mr.. Greeley's name has been mentioned for
Vice President. He was tried and found
wanting in 1913. Doubtless he is madden
than he was then, aud less disposed to yield.
But then he has had, since then, twenty
four years of thorough training in the doc
trine aud practice of expediency. Personally
honest, he acts on a system which makes
rogues of nine men out of ten who persist in
it long. All the time talking of the virtues
of boiling, he never, in any great emergency,
1kes or advises bolt. He never will. Free
tn will furnish an excuse for him if he
neeos one. Now free trade, or some protest
against the denominations of the tariff monop-
olists, is what Cincinnati contemplates, or
ought to-. 1t il one great element in the new
order of things. Not that the free trade lob
| by and the free trade monopolists are any bet
ter than the protective lobby and monopolists
but we ought to be making progress in the d.
Erection of sound principles on this question.
1t is enough to put one out of all patience
with our present politics, to see the way Con-
gress deals with this question. And Greeley
is the chief of sinners. Forty years domin-
ion over him by the stupidest political dogma
that ever dominated over the hnman mind,-
one that would have been rejected long ago un-
der the ordinary progress of popular thought
and intelligence II money interests had not in
| terposed-thIs long course OF subJectlon 10 Q
falsehood and a delnsion, makes him unfit fol
any high governmental place. And the polit
ical condition Of New York city and State, afteI
thirty years Of the Tribune, speaks volumes
as to his ineapacity for leadership in practi
cal politics. 1t is said that Trumbull ant
Greeley would be a strong ticket, and thai
the latter especially would be strong
in the South among p, the negroes. Blu
even if this ticket should get democratic
votes enough to elect it, which is not very
likely, it would not get us out of the ruts o.
personal government, for no man has more
personal hostilities and attachments thar
Greeley, and Trumbull is not deficient in
Them John Quincy Adams is the proper
man to put on the ticket with Trnmbull. Blu
the best ticket would be Sumner and a west
ern man-Sumner and Trumbull, or Sumner
and Gratz Brown for instance"