The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-21
Tho Liberal RepublIeans.

in the recent politics OF the State. The
meeting to-day has larger relations than
those which connect with the approaching
State canvass 1t is the first step in widely
concerted and carefully planned movement
for restoring the broken unity of the repub-
llcan party and receiving the liberals who
went off in the Greeley campaign back into
full communion. Such renewal of old ties
has been industriously engineered by some of
the most experienced of the republican
leaders, with Vice President Wilson at their
head. Ex-Speaker Blaine is also in the
movement, which is the incentive to the
fierce assault made upon him by the Grant
organ at Washington. Ex-senator Morgan,
of this State, is exerting his influence in the
same direction. and the movement is actively
favored by prominent republicans and liberal
republicans in the West, especially in Ohio,
of which remarkable proof will appear in
the course of this article.
The action contemplated by the liberal re-
publicans of New York at Saratoga has been
agreed upon after friendly consultations with
ex-senator Morgan and other regular republi
cans of recognized skill in political manipula-
ton. The programme for the initiatory move
ment in this State is for the liberals to hold a
State Convention and nominate ticket of
such conspicuous excellence that the regular
republican State Convention can adopt
a part or the whole of it and re-
inforce the party by cordial return of the
estranged liberals 1t is proposed that the
liberals nominate Frederick w. Seward for
Secretary of State, Calvin Il. Hurlburd for
Comptroller and William M. Evarts for At
torney General-all excellent names, which the
regular republicans con have no hesitation in
indorsing if they are willing to compose the
old differences and consolidate the party We
have not learned whether ex-senator Fenton
is party to this arrangement, but so dexter
GUS o politician, who has nothing to expect
from the democratic party, cannot be averse
to it. If the republicans carry Ohio in Oc-
tober, of which they have sanguine hopes,
they will not despair of success in New York
with such ticket and such a restoration of
republican unity as is to be inaugurated by
the liberals with the full support of the lead
ers, who share the views of Vice President
Wilson.
The liberal republicans of New York have
nothing to hope from the democratic party of
the State since its great victory of last year.
which has given it an overweening confidence
in it's independent strength. Lieutenant Gov
ernor Dorsheimer no longer considers himself
as liberal but as democrat, and it is quite
certain that the next democratic State Con-
vention will not court the liberals by
again giving one of their number place on
its ticket. The liberals fully understand this
feature of the situation, and have accordingly
selected no democratic name for their pro-
posed ticket MI. Seward and Mr.. Hurlburd
are consistent republicans as well as excellent
candidates, and although Mr.. Eyarts Oh one
occasion sharply criticised the administration,
he has always been cassed as a republican,
and like Messrs. Seward and Hurlburd, has
never acted with the liberals. The ticket
which is to be seemingly dictated by the lib
erals comprises none of their own men, and
has been arranged with ex-senator Morgan
and other regular republicans with view to
its adoption by the party.
The success of this movement is expected
by its authors to depend very much on the
result of the canvass in Ohio. If that State
is recovered by the republicans the party will
cherish confident hopes. A step has been
taken in Ohio which will insure q republican
triumph if its authors accomplish their pre-
lminary aim. 1t is their purpose to bring
Carl Schurz home and put him on the stump
in Ohio against the imitation platform of the
democrats. The ocean cable has been put in
requisition to induce him to shorten his visit,
on the well founded expectation that his elo-
quence will turn the whole German vote in
Ohio against the democrats. The Germans
of the West do not take kindly to the rag
money delusion and their pride in Mr.. Schurz
and their admiration of his abilities will lead
them to give ready hearing to his speeches
in favor of q sound currency He was one of
the stanchest and ablest of the hard money
champions in the debates of last year. and
he could support the republican
side in Ohio without any violation
of consistency or self-respect. He
would not only insure the support of the
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bring back into the republican ranks the ten
thousand liberals who voted for Collins two
years ago. when Governor Aliens majority
was only eight hundred and seventeen. Mr..
Schurz's participation in the canvass would
redeem Ohio from the democrats by splen-
did and triumphant majority and put
drenching wet blanket on the democratic
party in other States. But will he Gomez
Nobody knows until his answer is received,
but if the republican party at large accepts
the healing policy of Vice President Wilson
there is no public reason why Mr.. Schurz
should decline the invitation which has been
sent him. He processes to be as much re-
publican as he ever was. All the liberals who
went into the Greeley canvass were impelled