The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27
WHAT LIBERAL REPUBLICANS PRO
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the so-called Liberal Republicans, and
hence are not disposed to pay much at
tention to the rumors that come from
Washington respecting their purposes.
AS matter Of news, h0weve, which
may possibly result in something inn
portant, it is well to know that there
is a good deal of consultation going on
among liberal Republicans in anticipa-
ton of General Grants nomination at
Chicago. Many of those who acted In
the Greeley movement in 1872 are 50
much committed to the opposition to
Grant that they threaten to bolt him
should he be nominated. Prominent
among these Is thought to be Secre-
tary Schurz, who would greatly pre-
fer Bayard to Grant. They take the
pointed by the Conventions in Penn
sylvania, New York and Illinois, and
they think. that the exposure OF Sher-
mans manipulation of the Federal
patronage will give Grant the South.
This will be sufficient to nominate
him. 1t is very probable that the
movement against such nomination
would take some such form as Lib
era1 Republican movement. A mass
convention is proposed to be held some
where In the East, and a candidate put
in nomination. This would be before
the holding of the regular Democratic
Convention, so that the nomination
might be ratified by the Democrats.
Should the New York Convention
declare for Grant, as is now expected,
some such movement as this seems
likely to be inaugurated. 1t would
differ from the movement of 1872 in
the fact that the nomiee of the mass
would be a Democrat, a
Eastern Democrat proba-
bly,, and one whom the Democratic
could not refuse to accept
as the regular candidate of the party.
Many Of these anti-Grant Republicans,
however, favor the plan of waiting
until after the Democratic Convention
is held and then holding mass meet
ing endorsing the Democratic nomi-
nation. The nomination of Blaine
would not be any more acceptable to
the better class of Republicans, as it ia
daily becoming more evident that the
same class of men will be dominant in
the councils of the party, whether
Grant or Blaine be the candidate.
1t will be remembered that the Lib
eral Republicans in 1871 nominated
Horace Greeley against Gen. Grant,
and that their protestations were 50
loud and their promises so encourag.
ing that the Democratic convention at
Baltimore adopted their platform and
nominated their candidate. A great
many good Democrats, many even
here in Mobile, imagined that the
Democracy had done a wise thing
and that the breach in the Republi.
can party would become as wide as
a barn door. The result proved that
the Liberal Republican leaders had no
following, and that, SO great was the
disgust of the old rank and file Denoc-
racy who had brains, memory. and
conscience, the falling off from the
Democracy was greatly in excess of
of the Republicans.
While such a result might not occur
again, it would be well for the Demo-
cratic leaders to remember that the
party will not accept Republican as
their candidate. They will take only
a representative Democrat who has
been true to the principles and tradi-
tions OF his party, who has ideas to be
enforced and courage to enforce them.
10 nominate any other kind of man.is
to give even Alabama to General
Grant. It is mistake to suppose that
the Democracy relies for success upon
any but true Democrats. To rely upon
Mr.. Schurz is to lean upon is a slender
reed. .--1lobilc Register.
The trouble with Mr.. Acklen, the
unfortunate member from Louisiana,
is that in the House, about tho middle
of January, he reported, as if from the
Committee on Foreign Relations, of
which he was not a member, a resolu-
tion looking to the appointment of n
special committee on Nicaragua claims.
The next day the Record showed that
this report was made by Gen. King,
of Louisiana, member of the F'orign
Relations Committee, who had charge
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