The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-15
Managers-What Will They NJ
with It:-What OF Charles Sumners


Managers-What Will They NJ
with H:-What OF Charles summer.
The late Cooper Institute meeting has
thrown no light upon the Cincinnati Conven-
ton. The speeches of Messrs. Trumbull and
Schurz, which, it had been proclaimed, would
foreshadow the Presidential line and order OF
battle of the new party, were only the rehash
of their oft-repeated harangues in the Senate
against the shortcomings of General Grants
administration. The entire catalogue of their
small complaints had been spread broadcast
over New Hampshire and over Connect
cut in advance of the recent elections in those
closely contested States, but without any per
ceptible effect upon the results in either aud.
hence, something more to the purpose in
new departure was expected from Cooper In
stitute. But while the general Indictment
against the administration was the old
story, 'full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing the resolutions Of the even
ing were as fat as dishwater
From the incongruoas, elements however, of
which the assemblage was composed-new line
and old line democrats, boiling republicans.
doabting republicans conservatives, radicals.
ex-rebels, disappointed otfice-seekers and ad-
venturers, Bohemians, protectionists aud free
traders-it was essential, for the sake of har-
mony, to avoid any declaration of principles,
except the common principle and purpose of
hostility to the reelection Of General Grant.
Upon this common bond of union and har-
mony-hostility to Grant--it has been deter
mined by this motley assemblage of reformers
that Mr.. Greeley shall have from this city
large escort to Cincinnati. The object sought
by the meeting is the object thus gained in
response from New York to the original liberal
republican manifesto from Missouri and from
thousand men, dismissed from or failing,
under Mr.. Murphy, to get into the Custom
House, the escort Of Mr. Greeley can be
supplied Moved by the same patriotic
impulses, similar delegations to that of
Mr.. Greeley will pour into Cincinnati from
all the States between New York and Mis-
souri,, and from all the States below, afford
ing cheap and convenient communications and
as there is no limit fixed to the numbers in
vited to this 'mass Convention it will be All
imposing affair, at least in numbers. Cincin-
natl and her immediate surroundings to this
political curiosity shop will be able to furnish
at least hundred thousand men for the ini-
tlal meeting of the LIST of May Perhaps O
day or two will be required to get this cumber-
some assemblage into workable shape in the
separation of the sheep from the goats and in
the assignment of picked men to represent the
several States. When these preparations for
business are all satisfactorily carried out and
when some democratic hardshell Southwest
ern Baptist shall have delivered an impressive
prayer (the Rev. Mr.. Beecher will probably be
selected for this duty at PHILADELPHIA, Mr.
Greeley, by general consent, as chairman, will
briefly announce the objects of this imposing
Cincinnati Convention and what he knows
about farming, and then-in the name of
Andy Johnson and his hand-in-hand Phila-
delphia love-feast-what then?
Then will come up tor settlement the mpor.
tant questions of the new party name, the new
party platform and its Presidential ticket. The
newborn party, we suppose on motion of Gov
ernor Gratz Brown, the father of the lusty in
FAINT the motion being seconded by its god
liberal republican party. Secondly, according
to the Missouri manifesto, the distinguishing
features of this new party platform will be
free trade, general amnesty, civil service re-
form-that is, change of the office-holders-
State rights and the fifteenth amendment
But while Mr.. Greeley full of JOY and hope,
as the head Of the New York delegation will
h. L..
timated that if the Convention shall declare for
free trade or for anything like war on Penn
sylvania pig iron and Syracuse salt, he will
bolt for Philadelphia, Grant or no Grant, Muir
ply or no Murphy 1t must not be understood
that in his carefully double-edged endorsement
of the Missouri call Mr.. Greeley has become a
free trader. He may accept compromise
which will serve in Missouri for free trade and
in Pennsylvania for protection; but he can
make no larger concession against home in
dustry. On this point, like Henry Clay, he
would rather be right than be President al
you will perceive. We suspect. too, that Mr.
Greeley will prove too much for Mr.. Brown on
this test question Of free trade and that the
Free Trade League, deeply intrenched in this
OiHciHuitl ConVentlou VIII nave cause 10 re-
member the effective flank movement of Greeley
against them.
In the same way for the accommodation Of
those disafiected republicans who still cling to
the memory of that old war song which
promised to ''hang jeff Davis on sour apple
tree who believe that the military have done
good service against the Ku Klux Klans, and
that State rights are subject to the national
sovereignty of the United States, we think it
probable that the Cincinnati reformers will
deal with these matters too daintily to please
the old line democracy. II so, this Conven-
ton will be short-lived bubble, for its main
object is to open way by which the demo-