The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-12


From day to day as we draw nearer and
nearer the appoin ted time for the meeting Of
the Republican National Convention, the
State conventions Of the party, with increas-
ing emphasis and enthusiasm, pronounce in
favor Of the denomination and reelection of
General Grant. The recent elections in New
Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island
have SO distinctly indicated the prevailing
popular sentiment that the republicans.
relieved from the restraints of doubling
Thomases, speak their minds freely upon the
main question. In their Connecticut Con-
vention, preceding the late election in that
closely divided State, they refrained from
instructions to their Philadelphia delegates in
favor OF General Grant, because of their fears
OF the ant-Grant republicans but, as subse-
quent events have shown that these malcOn-
tents did all they could do to make diver
sion in Connecticut against Grant and in
favor of their Cincinnati Convention, and
that the effect was only to close up the repub-
lican ranks around the administration, all
reservations touching the Presidential candi-
date of the party have been properly aban-
doned, and General Grant is now declared
their champion against all corners and oppos-
ing combinations.
Thus in their Massachusetts Convention.
where it was supposed some delicate reserva-
tons would be required lin Difference to Mr..
Sumner and his friefds, tho republicans
fearlessly affirm that 1--WE, moved by an
earnest appreciation of The fidelity and wise
patriotism Of President Grant, do most COR
daily recommend that he be renomina ted and
re-elected forasmuch as his administration
has taught the American people all the high
obligations of that period of peace which
followed war inspired and elevated by the
great declarations Of Abraham Lincoln" Mr..
Sumner was simply ignored by the Conven-
ton, and he may go his way in peace. And
this is an old trick of Massachusetts, for she
discarded even her great Webster when she
was brought to the conviction that regardless
Of her will, he had become compromser for
the Presidency. In the present case, how
ever, an emphatic rebuke of the recent
course of Mr.. Sumner is involved in the hearty
recommendation Of his Senatorial colleague,
Mr.. Wilson, for the Vice Presidency. In
word, the republican party of Massachusetts,,
in the most expressive form, endorses Wilson
and renowned Sumner, and leaves the ri ected
Sumner at perfect liberty to join his fellow
miserables at Cincinnati.
Next in the great central State of Penn
proverb that ''as goes Pennsylvania so goes
the Union," the Republican State Convention
has spoken as strongly as Massachusetts, for
another term to General Grant. And this,
although in Pennsylvania 1t was apprehended
that Colonel Mcclure and his sympathizing
soreheads, disappointed in such vital matters
of the seven party principles as the five loaves
and the two fishes, would create some trouble
touching q hearty endorsement Of Grant for
the succession. But the Convention says that
''the delegates from this State to our National
Convention are hereby instructed to cast the
entire vote of the State for General Grant for
President, and that on the question Of the
Vice Presidency they are instructed to act
together for the best interests Of the republ-
can party; and upon all questions arising in
said Convention they are instructed to cast
the vote Of the State as tho majority Of the
delegates may direct" There are to be no
scattering votes from Pennsylvania. Fur
thermore, this Convention points with pride
to the records of General Grants administra-
ton, and confidently counts upon the people
''rallying to the support Of the man who
nobly fought the battles and brought the ma
ton through its struggle, and who has since
80 successfully administered the government
as to command admiration at home and
abroad"
And from Florida and from New Orleans,
from white men and black men, comes the
same universal voice of the honest masses Of
the republican party. There can no longer DO
a doubt that General Grant will be renomi-
mated at Philadelphia not on the first ballot,
but without ballot and by reclamation. In
happy accord, meantime, with these late re-
publican conventions comes in the Brooklyn
speech of the Rev. Mr.. Beecher In support OF
General Grant as the man of all men for the
next Presidential term. But Mr.. Beecher's
ideas Of the Cincinnati Convention are partic-
ularly suggestive. He thinks that the men
concerned in that remarkable movement will
have council, and will confer and take coun-
sci, and take counsel and confer, and that that
will be something but that as to the new
party proposed, you cannot run up party as
you can run up brick house; that you can
not extemporize party; that you may extern
porze mushrooms, but you cannot extempo-
rize oak trees. Brother Beecher, in short,
evidently entertains the opinion that this Gin
cinnati Convention will be fasco, like the
independent Captain Tyler Convention OF
1914, or the famous hand-in- hand Andy John
son Convention of 1866, or the almost forgotten
Fremont and Cochrane Convention of 1858;
and yet to this experim entail Cincinnati Con-