The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-06
The Utica Convention.

usnt, In leading editorial on the
proceedings of the New York repub
i'can convention, expresses the opin-
'oh that the opponents of the third
stfm i'll the country at large have
great reason to be encouraged. It
concludes that the prospect looks
hopeful for a rapid subsidence of the
Ward term boom ,and the withdrawal
olthe ex-President before the nation.
atconveBtion meets.
iFhe New York Times, a Grant
organ, says the convention "did its
work without making any serious
piunders,' and expresses the opin.
Ion that the moral effect OF the in.
slrnctiods given the delegates will
| not be lost on the Republicans of the
1's0untry by any pretense that the
convention was the mere instrument
Of recording the Will of Senator
Cenkling. 1t contends that Grant is
stronger in New York than Conkling,
and the latter "merely floated with a
current he could not stem if he
would"
The New York World, Democrat,
thinks the "machinists" of the con.
vention are justly chargeable with
mismanagement, and that Grant will
be injured by tne impression, which
will be industrioIsly disseminated
by his opponents, that a very small
majority of the convention was i'm
his favor.
The New York Sun, which is an
earnest opponent of the third-term
proposition, is violent in its denun
citation of Mr.. Conkling. 1t pros
nounces him the worst man eyer
born in the State the deadiest foe to
liberty the enemy of all the tradi-
tions and principles of the founders
of the republic ready alike to betray
his friend or his State, to crafty his
own selfish PASSIONS" and concludes
with the Invocation that "when next
November comes let Roscoe Conk-
ling be made to feel that the day of
his glory is over, but not his years of
shame"
The Philadelphia Times (indepen-
dent says: "Mr. Conkling's almost
matchless eIoquence was drawn upon
at critical moment, and even then
he won, as Cameron had won in this
State, because it was the purpose Of
the all-powerful machine, and not be-
cause the people are overwhelmingly
anxious for a third term of anybody.
Notwithstanding all this is SO dis
tinctly defeat of Gen. Grants hope
of unanimous and hearty ren0mi-
nation, the fact can no longer be dis.
guised, if there were any such desire,
that the intention is to nominate him
whether he snail have bare major
ity or all Of the delegates to the
Chicago convention"
The Philadelphia North american.
Republican, says: 1T is time to be
done with the tomfoolery about de-
mands Of the people and universal
acclaim. 1t may be a sad breaking
of idols, but none the less must it be
admitted that Gen. Grant has thus
far failed to develop a particle of po-
litical strength in the present canvass
that has not been. manufactured for
HIM at large cost and considerable
risk"
The Philadelphia Press, Republi-
can, says; I'm Pennsylvania every
body knows that the movement tor
Gen. Grants nomination is hollow
ness itself. In New York, this is also
row demonstrated. The intelligence
of both States is against it. The
sober Judgment of. the party revolts
at it, and the common sense of the
country presents an infiexible hostil-
ity to it," ...
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Repub-
lican, argues that there can be no
"moral force" in Mr.. Conkling's
victory-that it cannot arouse enthu-
siasm for the third term or inspire
the wavering with confidence. The
Inquirer concludes; "In fact, it con
clusively proves that if Gen. Grant
is to be nominated at Chicago it can
only be done after desperate strug-
gle, continued up to the very hour of
balloting, and one which leave be.
hind it ranking bitterness and pop:
ular discomfort within the Republi-
can party, will lode no good to its
future, immediate or remote"
The Cincinnati Enquirer, says of
the New YORK convention that it has
shown that all that the friends of
Grant claimed for New York was
well claimed, and that the resolu-
tiOns assure the support of the great
State to Grant as surely as though
the delegates were personally pledg-
ed. 1t says it is not easy to see how
the nomination of Grant can now be
prevented, though Blaine is splen
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