The Portland daily press., 1872-05-04
The Cincinnati Convention.

The Travellers correspondent at Cincinnati
makes the following graphic notes of the
situation Thursday night M
This has been emphatically convention OF
failures. Schurz is a most conspicuous failure
as presiding officer. He blunders prevari-
Gates and mismanages in the most absurd and
modifying manner. He has offended MANY by
ignoring and overlooking them on the floor
That is one of the offences of a chairman which
delegates never condone
His trading off Gratz Brown, too, offends the
Missouri delegation, while it dsgusts every-
body, even those in whose interest it was done.
The platform is another signal failure. 1t
pleases nobody that have heard of, whose
| opinion is worth anything, while the Pennsyl-
vanians-well they are simply wrathy. The
free-traders are disguised.
Only the trimmers and the bummers are sat
isfied at all, and they would be satisfied with
The real solid bulk of the convention hearth
ly wanted to finish up the affair last evening,
and practically voted to ignore the tariff uues-
tion, but Carl Schurz thfcharacteristic selfish
ness and meddlesomeness prevented final
VOTE in order to gain time for himself to peddle
out Gratz Brown, who came on himself during
the evening, to ratify the sale.
Cassius M. Clay was plum full of Kentucky
whiskey, and came very near smashing up the
convention with his State-rights speech. From
this he was saved by Judge Stanley Matthews.
Edward Atkinson is the "Heathen Chinee"
of the convention. He contradicted Schurz. and
after hard struggle and the expenditure of
good deal OF eloquence, got the convention pack
to order. g -. e., f.,.r ..-,7
. The scene during this episode was most ex-
citing and disorderly, and reminded one of any
thing else than calm assemblage of pure-mind-
ed patriots, working harmoniously for the best
good of the country.
Twenty men were on their feet at time.
SbOutinO SCREAMING and vallipc IN he cba;r
purpose to prevent anything being done.
The scene disguised the better and more sem
sible portion of the delegates, and Schurz de-
clared the motion for adjournment carried
against the voice of the convention and thus
prevented a complete smash-up.
This morning the hotel corridors are nearly
deserted. The oceans of lager and whiskey
which have been poured into the delegates are
beginning to tell on their temper, and none of
the tricks of Schurz will be tolerated by the
convention to-day. a
The peddling in the free-trade parlors this
morning is not at all satisfactory. The supper
tiers of Adams are losing their temper, and the
Southern delegates cannot sell their votes for
money enough to pay their travelling expenses
and hotel bills, and they plead poverty.
Greeley is still their first choice, but empty
pockets are poor incentive for an honest ex-
preston of preference, and they may see reas-
Ons for changing their votes.
The California woman, Mrs Laura De Force
Gordon, says she lost:nothing, being kept out of
the convention.
The convention did not open with prayer, but
it will close with Scottish blessing from the
Davis men.
faygg HOW GREELEY WAS NOMINATED.
Perley says: hl
Gov. Brown and his cousin, Frank Blair, ar
rived here last night in response to a telegraph
ic summons from Carl Schurz. They came on
the preteXt that there was trouble in the Mis-
souri, delegation of such a nature that their
presence was required, and it was carefully
given out that there was combination looking
to the nomination of Trumbull, and that Brown
and Blair were called here to work it up: but
the real object of their visit is to carry out Gov.
Fentons programme and secure the nomination
of Greeley and Brown. &