, 1874-08-08
GEN. GRANT AND THE CINCINNATI PLAT
FORM.

II tito Nav York He'-a|t's Long Branch oorrc
Bpoildtalt llas not misinfor1nod ls Con. Grant
not unwilling 10 DO onndidato for o third torn
upon d platform like that Of tho Liboral Ropub
llcaps ih 1879, with the single exception, Or rattle
| addition, tint ho would pledge himself NOR
strongly to tho reconciliation and ro!iaf Of th,
South tlnn that platform does Wo hayo th,
address and resolutions Of tho Cincinnati Con
Vontion boforo us, and VIC find Il difficult t.
ln'agino anything moro incongruous than thcst
TWO documents md thu record, princptos. AMI
character Of Con. Grant. The Liberal Conyon
tion Of 1873 inaugurated movement. the frl
significance Of which WIS not understood nj
first, emily bccauso It did not moot with lnmo.
diato aucccss. Like all u1oyamonts for reform,
1t mot tho combined Opposition of corruption.
Incompetence, and stoliity, and in tho first cum
paign Was worHted. 1t failod in tho Presidential
election, but under one nane or another It has
continued to achieve SUCCESS over since. uers 1t
has boon called Ibord Republican, and thcro
reform; elsewhere Independent, and elsewhere
by still different name, But, wheroyar tho old
orthodox, straight-jacAotod Republican party has
been defeated, 1t has been dofoased by men ad-
voeating tho principles onunc,atod by the Liboral
Republican Convention Of 1872. Let us sec bow
those principles would tit Gou. Grant at tho
present time,
1n their address to tho people Of tho United
stases, tho Liberals Of 1879 say that the prosl-
don't Of tho United States has used tho powors
and nnnnrfnriftna ~ ,in III.
motion Of porsonnl onds. What was true Of tho
President tl,on Ia tr1,o of him now. Doee ho In
tend to stand On this first plank? Secondly,
tho Liberals complain that tho President
has kept notoriously corrupt and un-
worthy mon In places OF power and rospon-
sibltty. Will ho iudono that also They say
TINT 10 has used tho public service Of tho Coy
ornment as machinery to subjugato all iudopoud-
ont thought aud action Will Ao say Anon to
this2 THO Convention complained that tue
President had shown himself dop1orably unequal
to tho taak imposed upon him by the necessities
OF the country. Docs ho inlond to subscribe to
tint when ho runB for d third torm7 Tho whole
platform OF tho Liberals Of 1879 Ia in fact Il
direct contradiction to tue course Of Gen.
Grant. HaVo either Of them changed since?
Not at ell. Tho appointment Of Richardson
aud tho nomination OF shophorl- Of Lis
most recent acts-atteet that le is just the Same
porson TINT he WAS when ho put up the San Do
mingo job md caused Sumner to be depoBed
from the Committee on Foreign Relations. Tho
only percoptiblo lifforenco between tho two
periods is TINT tho public men who woro then his
toadies. ready to fotch and carry for him on oil
occasions. aro now either openly hostile to or
secretly suspicious Of him. II ali the Republlo-
an Senators and Representatives from tin
North, beginning with Morton and Blaine. could
DO taken separately into cornor and asked tn
namo in confidence tho object Of their greatest
political dotestation and dread, they would
namc Gen. Grant. 70 thip extent has the Gin
cinnati platform become tho chief atono NJ Tim
conor.