Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-01
The Republican.
WEDNESDAY, MAY l, 1872.
TIE SECRET.

Through the Cincinnati movement
Gov. Gratz Brown and Senator Schurz
of Missouri, are attempting on a Ma
tional scale what they accomplished In
Missouri in 1869. A correspondent
of the New York Times, in letter
addressed to Horace Greeley, lets the
cat out of the bag and lets the'publlc IN
to the secret of the opposition to Grant
and his administration from Brown ana
Scburz. and it shows that from first to
last these men were actuated by mo-
tives purely selfish and personal. The
history of their bolt' is as follows
Jr1867 G. D. Drake was elected to
succeed B. Gratz Brown as U. S. Sen
ator. In January, Carl Schurz was
candidate before the Republican eau
cus in the Missouri Legislature for
United States Senator, in place of
John B. Henderson. Drake warmly
opposed Schurz, but the latter was
elected. Thereupon Brown and Schurz
began struggle to deprive Drake OF
the leadership of the. Republican party
in Missouri, and while Drake supported
McClurg for denomination as Governor
in 1870, they presented Brown for
that place upon the ticket. The con-
yention met and when vote was taken
upon the election of a presiding officer,
it appeared that Drake and McClurg
had the convention. This convinced
Brown and Schurz that they could
not control the Republican party OF
Missouri, and thereupon they deter
mined that the Republican party should
not control the State, and at this IN
stance their candidates Z" bolted" from
the regular convention, nominated
ticket and adopted platform of their
own. It has been charged by Sen.
Schurz time and time again that the
Republican nominating convention did
not support general amnesty" while
the boiling convention gave the ques-
ton an unqualified endorsement, but
any one who will take the trouble to
read the portions of both platforms
relating to this subject, will at once be
convinced of the utter falsehood OF the
statement. The truth is, both parties
proposed to the people to remove all
DISTINGUISHING claims from the State
Constitution, and the two platforms
did not differ particle on the question
There being no difference, then, be
tween the regulars" and " boilers"
on the DISTINGUISHING clauses, there
was no contest in the campaign on the
question. But the fighting in the
election. was fierce and earnest upon
quite another matter, which was the
real object of the Brown and Schurz
movement, namely, the defeat of
McClurg and the Republican party, in
furtherance of the grudge of Messrs.
Brown and Schurz against Senator
Drake.
The result of the election the
country well knows, The Democrats
were induced to be "passive" on the
state ticket, but looked out for the leg
islature. Brown was elected Governor
by 10000 majority, and the Legisla-
ture elected chose Francis 2. Blair,
author of the Brodhead letter, United
States Senator. After their action,
the President very properly, according
to the usage of every party, declined to
treat the boilers as members of the
Republican party. No one read them
out Of the party, they voluntarily left
it themselves. But because of this &C
ton of the President, Mr.. Schurz be-
came also the enemy of Gen, Grant
Having obtained grudge against the
President and placed themselves out
side the Republican party, these men,
with the assistance of some others who
find they can not rule Gen. Grant,
next propose to play upon the national
stage the same drama so successfully
presented in the theater of Missouri by
calling a convention at Cincinnati. 1t
remains to be seen whether this attempt
at disruption will be as successful as
their first undertaking.