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New-York tribune., 1872-11-04
The AMERICAN FLAG IN THE VEST
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Indies.
President Grants defenders praise him be-
cause he has given up the Santo Domingo
scheme (ls they say), now that the country
has refused to let him go on with it. We do
not know that such a surrender would indicate
any remarkable virtue but is it true that he
has given upP
A private letter from the West Indies throws
some light upon this question. The writer,
who is an intelligent and we'll informed Do
rniuican, represents the country to be in
state of chaos. Commerce is suspended. The
people are dissatisfied. The Government is
hated. Every one groans under the evils of
what is there styled "the annexation curse"
The treasury is empty, and Blez, who is per-
sonally wealthy, goes about borrowing money
from the petty shOpkeepers of his capital.
Cabral still maintains himself, and even makes
additions to his forces. Everything in short
seems ripe for a new revolution, to which the
fact that Baez now holds power in defiance Of
the Constitution and by mere resolution Of
the Senate, his term Of Office having long
since expired, would give the sanction of le-
gality. What then holds Blez in place 7
Nothing but the Government of the United
States 1t is unquestiOnabe, says the writer
of the letter now before us, that an under
standing subssts between Baez and Gen.
Grant. If Grant should be reelected, the
scheme of annexation would be revived, and
nobody doubts that it would be carried through.
If he should be defeated Baez would then
make his escape to Europe with his plunder.
A vessel of the United States navy is con-
stantly anchored in the Bay of Samana.
Other vessels of the squadron are frequently
plying between SANTANA and the capital and
by these Baez receives dispatches. He is in
regular communication with the fleet, and freely
asserts that the ships are there to protect him.
Whatever the nature of his agreement with
Grant may be, he declares that he has the promise
of protection from the United States Govern
ment, and the people of Santo Domingo al
most universally believe him.
We. are not at all surprised at this dis
closure. 1t corresponds with all that is known
Of our policy in the West Indies as well as
what is known of Grants character Our
forces have been used to bully and insult the
weak, to interfere in the domestic concerns of
a friendly republic, and to sustain this usurper
in power against the wishes of his people.
Nobody who appreciates the notorious OBJ
stinacy of our President will wonder that he
should persist in these illegal proceedings
after the country has so plainly manifested
its disapproval of them. He has set his heart
upon the annexation of Santo Domingo, and
he will not be discouraged by one rebuff.
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04
ARPAHAu II LAWRENCE.

There is only one man for whom vote can
be cast in the Mayoralty election tomorrow,
in the interest of reform, without any COM
FUNCTIONS or misgivings. If one votes Tor
Abraham r. Lawrence, he knows what he is
doing. 1t is not merely the best vote which
can be cast. 1t is the only one which is alb
solutely safe.
In every point of view Mr.. Lawrence is the
preferable candidate. He is young and strong;
perfectly honest well educated, and good
lawyer. He is q man Of the best character and
undisputed social currency. He is thoroughly
acquainted with the city, its history and its
needs, its laws and its customs. He cannot be
tempted to commit a wrong. He is too intel
ligent and alert to be hoodwinked while others
are stealing. He will give us the strongest
and the purest administration which we have
had in many years. Ho is tho regular
Reform candidate. He was interested heart
and soul in this movement for the reformation
of our city politics, from the very beginning
He was member and the counsel of the
Committee of Seventy which has now cause
lsssly turned against him. He was presented
"a a Reform candidate and should have been
accepted by all honest men. Let every one
vote for him, who wishes TO protest at once
against dishonesty in the municipal govern
ment and blind partisanship in municipal
o1octicna
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04

inside. The Cincinnati Convention met and
adopteda Ia declaration OF principles which have
stood ever since without attack and without
comment by our opponents. There was not
word in tho resolutions there adopted which
does net meet with the approval of every citizen
who sincerely desires to see purity and legality
restored to the conduct of public affairs.
They ask, in short, for reform, reconciliation and
respect for law They demand higher stand
ard Of capacity and integrity for persons
holding Office; the return of just and, If pos
sible, friendly relations among the people OF
the different sections; and an equal respect
for the written law among the governors and
the governed. Upon this platform the Con-
vention nominated for President one OF the
most illustrious public men in the Republican
party of the North, and for Vice-President the
earliest and most prominent Republican states
man of the South.
The campaign has been bitter and active
one. We believe it will result in great good.
If Mr.. Greeley is elected tomorrow the Re-
forms for which the Liberal Convention de-
clared will at once be set in motion. III he
is defeated, the movement is only delayed.
In any event it is matter for the deepest
qualification that the great Democratic party
of the Union has planted itself so firmly on
the advanced ground of progress that it
can never in future be used in the in
terests of reaction. The cOnquests OF
the war are assured at last by the
unanimous acceptance and acknowledgment OF
tho whole body of voters. AS to the conduct
of the campaign, there is much to approve
and littlo to criticise. There is one point
which THE TRIBUNE may be pardoned for
mentioning with special pride. In the face OF
the most furious attacks, and the most per
sstent stream of SANDER ever witnessed IN
any Of our later Presidential elections,
Mr.. Greeley has gone through the campaign
without taking a step which the Judgment OF
his supporters did not approve, has grown
steadily in the esteem alike of his friends and OF
his enemies, and, finally, in his Western tour.
has achieved a triumph which no Presidential
candidate ever touched or approached since
Presidential elections began. He may well be
proud of another thing. Notwithstanding all
the stories about coalitions, bargains, cor
ruptions, and the like, no promise of a single
Office or a single contract was made at Cln-
cinnati OF has since been made throughout
the canvass either by himself or by any person
authorized to speak for him. II elected to-
morrow, he will be elected without solitary
pledge save those which he has publicly given
in his letters and addresses. If defeated,
there are no broken promises to obstruct his
future path.
We do not wish to exaggerate our own
strength nor to depreciato tho enormous re-
sources of the other side in men and in money
IL ia onOuch for ia To reflect, as we truth
fully can, that our cause is undeniably just
that we have made a good fight that we shall
have tomorrow an opportunity to show exactly
what we can do, and that in any case the
future belongs to us.
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04
heed should bo paid to their recommends
tionsf
TURN OFT,

Everywhere throughout the country the Grant
forces will be paraded on Election Day to
man. When one of the Fright sort" proves
tardy, the Postmaster of the neighbOrhOod will
90 after him, take him by the neck, and bring
him up mol. rOl. to the polls. In the Southern
States, the Administration voters, black and
white, viii be promptly on hand; it is not so
certain that the Liberal whites will be equally
prompt. No word of additional exhortation
can we send TO these distant voters, but to all
who sec this mornings TRIBUNE we have to
say:
1. That unquestionably the Liberal party is
in large majority in the United States.
2. That if we are to be defeated, it will be
because the other side has polled every vote,
while we have failed to initiate the adyersary's
promptness.
3. When party has been newly organized
it behOoves every member of it to remember
that everything necessarily depends upon per-
sOnaI promptness and activity. Whoever pleases
to stay away from the polls altogether, for no
good and sufficient reason, has no right to call
himself a citizen. A man, we are inclined to
think, had better vote for Grant than nobody.
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04
As TO MAYOR.

The Committee of Seventy was created ex-
pressly to seek out and present honest, capable,
worthy men for Municipal and Legislativeposts,
and to denOunce and war upon base men who
should aspire to like stations. Such is its de-
clared and proper sphere of duty. Among the
candidates presented by it last year was ex-
Sheriff James O'Brien-a man thoroughly
well known to this COMMUNICATION the
Committee recommended for Senator. Through
their support, he was elected by a large ma
jority.
We do not learn that Mr.. O'Brien is other
to-day than he was one year ago. And yet,
the Committee of Seventy. having nominated
one Of its own members for Mayor now calls
upon the supporters of Abraham r. Lawrence
to withdraw or abandon him, in order to guard
against the fearful contingency of Mr.. 0'Brien's
election to the MayOralty!
Why is this thusi Do the Committee of
Seventy nominate candidates who ought not
TO be elected9 Do they mislead the people
into electing dangerous men to most response
bic posidonsi They have never yet broken
with Mr.. 0'Brien, so far as the public has been
advised. They have not denounced him as q
corrupt legislator. Have they q moral
right to recommend candidates one year whom
they set forth as awful examples the next
year7 If they commend or denounce accord
ing to the exigencies Of their canvass. what
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04
NEw-yORK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY. NOVEMBER d. 1872

sentative, and seems therefore fairly entitled to
lay claim to the Office. The other lives In
district already fairly and fully represented.
The one was q consistent and enthusiastic
War Democrat The other though now assail-
ing Mr.. Greeley for his moderate course in
1860, was himself painfully and alarmingly
conspicuous in protesting at that time
that he would resist q war against the
South at whatever cost. and was
then the loudest, when he found out which
was tho popular side, in urging on the war,
and the most relentless in his unwillingness
to let it come to an end. The one has been,
from the outset, candid and fearless critic
of the abuses of the present Administration. The
other has been equally emphatic, but on
both sides. A month before the State Con-
ventions, he denounced Grant as unfit to gov
ern, and expressed his earnest sympathy with
the Cincinnati movement Tickled with the
promise of nomination, he wheeled about
and jumped about, like veritable Jim Crow,
and is to-day the most thoroughgoing de-
fender of the very men and the very acts
whereof he was, few months ago, the most
relentless of critics.
We believe that we have stated, in this ar
ticle, no fact not substantially admitted on all
sides in this canvass Certainly we have stated
10 one not capable Of overwhelming proof by
record evidence mo one seriously disputed
by anybody. VIII voters consider their bear
ing, and choose for themselves
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04
PJERREpONT,s SUDDEN VIRTUE.

"Dariel Webster and Horace Greeley were born
amid the hills OF New-Hampshlre. In the morning OF
life they breathed the inspiring air-the ar OF b
ery and Of religion In manly life they each moved to
the great city OF their adopted State. Each sought tho
Presidency through the same unworthy means and each
will share the like fate sure as there is God In
heayen The great Creator rules by lawsunerrng and
inexorablc awsand he who resists great moral laws
will be as surely crushed though planet rolled over
him. Horace Greeley will not be the next President OF
the United States"
Among the many astounding things in this
canvass, nothing has been more amazing than
the appearance of the above sentences in n
speech attributed to Judge Edwards Pierre
pont Of this city. Daniel Webster's famous
eth of March speech is the one to which
reference must be made when it is said that he
sought the Presidency through unworthy
means. VIII Judge Perrepont say whether
he did or did not approve of the utterances
of that speech at the time of its delivery, and
praise Mr. Webster for making it2 The views
of Mr.. Greeley concerning the speech are toll
crably well known. but what were Judge
PierrepOnps2
We believe the Judge was in those days a
Democrat of the class especially delighted by
Mr. Websters attitude. We have known him
as a Democrat many years later He now as
sumes to rule Mr.. Greeley out of the Rcpub-
lican party for lack of fealty to Republican
ideas. Mr.. Greeley was leading Republican
when Judge Pierrepont adhered to the De-
mocracy in 1860. Again, Mr.. Greeley was
leading Republican when, after the war, and
in spite of its memories, Judge Pierrepont
chose to remain a Democrat, run as Demo
cratic candidate and secure exclusively
Democratic support in 1867. He is good
type of the sort of people who now assume to
decide what Is genuine Republicanism, and
who ought to be recognized as the real Re-
publican leaders.
When the Judge remembers what he thought
and said about Webster in Webster's lifetime,
what he thought and said about the Republi-
can party in 1850, what he thought and said
about it in 1867, what Horace Greeley has been
aud what ho himself IS, does ne Unlnk, when
he looks in the glass nowadays, that he sees
the face of an honest mani
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04
TO BE NEEDED AND REMEMBERED.

Horace Greeley is Republican, and never
pretended to be anything else since lin 1S5G
the Republican party was foreshadowed and
then nodded by passing events AS Repub-
lican, he for eight years resisted the exten-
sion of Slavery into the Federal Territories.
AS n Republican, he was one of the first ~"
demand the Abolition of Slavery as n war
measure. As Republican, he supported the
XIIIth, XIYth, and XVIII Constitutional Amend
ments, and still heartily sustains them. As a
Republican, he has ever insisted on the sup
preston of the Ku-Klux outrages. The plat
form on which he was doubly nominated for
the Presidency is an advanced Republican
platform, and he can never stand on any
other.
Why, then is he widely denounced as an
apostate and renegadeY
Because the Liberal movement, of which he
is chosen representative, makes the Equal
Rights of Man its cornerstone, and has the
support of Democrats as well as Republicans
There are men following the Republican bread
wagon who deprecate the advance of the
Democratic party to the Equal Rights plat
form. They claim that platform as the patent
right of their party. They would like to warn
off all Democratic trespassers. They value
principles as means Of getting or keeping
Office, and are unwilling that others shall
poach upon their manor. "If you don't like
" your old principles get new ones, but do MT
adopt ours. We want them all to ourselves"
If these people were Christians they would
object to the conversion of heather as opening
gaiDful monopoly.
Mr.. Greeley wants Universal Amnesty rs
well as Impartial Suffrage, and is looking to
that end. Many Democrats are in hearty ac-
cord with him on this point. Otheys evince
little sympathy with this desire, and none at
all with the Liberal movement. These may
defeat it tomorrow, whether by voting for
Grant or neglecting to vote at all. Thus Lib
eralism may be ruled out, and the country
remanded to four years more of " Rally around
"the Aagl" "Vote as you shot &C., &c.
To defeat the Liberals TO protract still fur
ther the reign of anarchy and unthrift, of IN
security and hatred at the Southland for
whatf
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04
LAWRENCE OR HATEMEYERi

The StdatsZeittHg, which gives the Grant
candidate for the Mayoralty its warm and un-
qualified adhesion, has discovered for itself an
evident fact which wo long announced, and
thus gives vent to its indignation and surprise :
"with a single exception the Republican press main
tans most suspicious attitude in respect to these two
candidates. The Commercial Advertiser, the organ OF
Tom Murphy Co.. coquettes shamelessly with
O'Brien The Times does nothing for Havemeyer
HaperS Weekly endeayors 10 render HaYemeyer rdicu
lous by publishing his portrait side by side with those OF
two German rascals OF whom has been IN the Pen
tenary larceny and the other has cured before the
police courts account OF the ofonse Even the
German Republican newspapers do not venture % como
out decisiyely against OBren. These bad signs. II
Hayemeyer Is elected II VIII be In spite OF the Republican
machine. We are prepared for IL, and enTeat every
voter who Is earnestly IN favor OF the Reform movement
prepared election day 70 contend against Re
publican treaehery."
When the danger is so manifest and urgent,
Is 1t not folly 10 run risk 80 unnecessary
If the men who desire Reform will cast their
votes for Lawrence he will be elected and no
one dare say he will not make an exceptionally
honest, energetic, and capable Mayor. lie was
nominated before Mr.. Havemeyer; lie will get
more votes than the ex-Mayor. lie is there-
fore entitled to the preference ON every ground
Of justice and cxpedolcY,
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04
amusemenlo. clr.. chis epemap.

AcapEMY OF MUsIc.-Italian Opera; La Favor
lta." Nile Psulue luecs.
BOOru's THEATER.-" Kerry" and Jessie Brown'
hr sud Nrs Dioa BVueieault and Shiel Barry
FrrTu AVENUE IuFATER.- -"Eyerybodys Friend
CHARLES Fshcr. .
GP,Np OpFRA HoUsF.--"Le Roi Carotte." Mrs.
JOIN wted Mss Rose IIersoe and John brousham
OLYMPIC THEATER. - Opera bOune' La IVY
ehsle" Mne Mare Aimee and Mons Juteau
TN,oS Sor,Rr THEArrR. Agnes" Mies Agnes
Ethe aui D. II. HarkinS
wI1AcKs TrEArER.- Pygmalion and Galatea.'
Mss Katharine Rogers
AMERICAN INsrrTUTE.-Fo y y-irst Annual EXhibi-
Day an Byenng. e.,
ASSOCIATION HMI--Lecture Our First Baby
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CALIFORNIA MINSIREIS. at No 40 BrOau""N'
81. JAMES THEATER.-Sau Francisco M'n'',,iN
ro~,. p ,erop's OPERA HousE.-Va Varieties. Maggie
nar..n ri Ionr pasinr.
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04
3Ieso.2lorIs Quilu GriblIa1e.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER a. 1872.

Sir Bartle Frero is appointed British Commissioners 70
inouirc into the African Slave trade - 1, Is reported
that the German Government has demanded diSaYOwh
OF Gen DuerOts order. The Emperor Of China hls
been married = senior 5agasta is candidate Tor tie
COrtes.
The horse disease st1 prevails from Maine TO Illinois
aud sodthward 70 Virginia. and has appeared ID IN
Gland. == The Coroner Jury exonerated the List
err Railroad Company from blame for the SeaOrooK as
ast,T
Closing Liberal meetngc were hcld az the brooA
ly Academy OF Music front of the Stock Exch'nge'
-, sloss Hail and in the XVIII District === Thomas
Donanuo was murdered in poolsellmg saloon ===
Mrs. woodruff and Miss Clahin were arrested on d
char-e of sending obscene literature by post = Ihe
scott monument was uuyaied in the Central Pard. ==
Gold, ll2 lllt 111s. Thermometer 46o' APP.
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04
THE RITAL T7CKEIS IN TIE STATE.

THE RIVAL TICKETS IN THE STATE.
Two Democrats are candidates for the Gov
ernorship of New-York and Republicans, in
choosing between them, will do well to re-
member some points in their characters and
history.
The one has remained in his party, and has
advanced-morc slowly than we could have
wished-to the hight Of the Cincinnati plat
form, only when the Democracy advanced to
it. The other has been in and out Of his
party so often that his belonging to it has
become q joke to his associates, though n
source of practical profit continuously
to himself Office always took him
out; the lack of Office always sent
him back. The one, with signal ability in his
profession, and boundless popularity, has
never been in more than moderate circum-
stances. The other, with mediocre ability,
and no profession TO speak OF, has amassed
wealth, by q diligent devotion Of his best
efforts, through his whole life, with un-
swerving fidelity, to his own sole inter-
ests. The ono has at least q consistent
record as q party man. The other, after being
in and out of the party two or three times from
1860 to 1861 contIived then TO ally himself to
When Grant failed to give him Office, he
thought ill of Grant NOW that be has been
taken up for office by the Grant party, he thinks
well of him again. He is candidate for Re-
form, nominated by Thurlow Weed, and mainly
engineered by Thomas Murphy. He is a
claimant to honor as q safe man financially,
though he charged the impoverished Erie
Railroad Company sixty thousand dollars a
year for his services; and permitted the
Union Pacific to be robbed by the Credit
Mobiier. He was President of the latter
Company, when 0akes Ames placed its stock
among Congressman, where it would do good
and either knew and winked at what was
going on, or was hoodwinked into ignorance
He is nearly or quite eighty years of age !;
and if elected, would be surrounded by the
Custom house crowd who would have abun-
dant skill at finding the blind side of an old
man too feeble for the active work of the
place.
OF the candidates for Lieutenant Governor,
one is a Liberal Republican who has had
ample experience in the duties Of q similar
place, has long been tried by the people
of the State, has never been found
wanting in any position, and has es-
pecally endeared himself to the young
men of the State, who regard him as one of
their most brilliant and trustworthy represent
atives. The other is soldier who certainly
deserved well of his country during the war, and
was well paid for it. lie has already been
advanced far above his comrades of the
volunteer service, hundreds of whom from
New-York, having exhibited equal gallantry
and devotion, and carried off equally honor
able wounds, have been discharged without
pension, or with the trifling pension awarded
volunteers, while he has been munilcently
provided for for life, under a special act par
ticularly rewarding such favorites as himself,
at the rate of S5,625 per year.
Our people are to choose between two can
didates for Congressman at Large. One of
them lives in this city, which by the mon
strous new aDportionment has lost repre-
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04
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Address. THE TRIBUNE. New-Yofk.
New-York tribune., 1872-11-04

We insist that there shall be no dodging the
src:arian question which the Grant journals
have chosen to raise. 1t is false that any sup
porter of Mr. Herman introduced the question OF
his religion into this canvass. 1t is false that
any supporter of Herman has urged, either
directly or by implication, that he be supported
either because he is or is not member OF a
particular church. 1t is true that active Grant
workers representing an association which
embraces the Grant candidate for Mayor, and
a large number of the other Grant leaders IN
this city, have issued q secret circular to all
the Protestant clergymen of the city urging
them to vote against Mr.. Herman because OF
ms religion. 1t is true that The NelO- York
Times, on the very morning on which 1t an
nounced Mr.. Kernan's nomination, denounced
him as a bigot, and predicted his defeat on
account of his religious faith.
There is only one word moro that it is
needful to say. The persistent story that The
TRIBUNE commended NJ. Herman to the sup
port of the people of New-YOrk as "severe
"and earnest Catholic" is prepOsterOusly false.
THE TRIBUNE said not one word editOrially
on the subject, and even in the correspond
ence which appeared in its columns, the fact
of Mr.. Kernan's religion was mentioned only
to explain that there was no objection to him
on this score because of the school question,
since, unlike many Of his cO-religiOnists, he
was a sincere and hearty supporter of our
common schools in which all his own family
had been educated.