The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-02-06
The Grant Moekery.

1t is evident from our latest adyices from
Harrisburg last night that the Republican
State Convention will to-day 90 through the
mockery of formal instructions for Genera
Grant for President. We say "mockery, "be.
cause snch deliverance must be made in
utter contempt of the plainly-expressed and
well-known wishes of the Republicans OF
the State. 1t is frankly admitted by the
leaders who are under contract to deliver
the Philadelphia delegation to Grant, that
but one of the forty-sx who are to speak
tor the eighty-thousand Republican voters
OF this city in the convention is in favor o.
Grants nomination. Forty.five of them
sincerely believe that his candidacy would
be offensive to their constituents and likely
TO defeat the party in national contest, and
the leaders who are to deliver the delegation
TO Grant heartily agree in deprecating a
declaration in his favor. But the mockery
OF solid vote for Philadelphia in favor OF
Grants nomination will be given to-day
Mr.. Charles Thomson Jones is single and
and alone as Grant man in the delegation
McManes and Leeds have protested against
the Grant instructions as perilous to the
party and to Cameron. But when heir
protests were unavailing with Cameron they
have delivered their flock to swell the tri-
unph of the omnipotent Senator.
And what is true of Philadelphia is true
of the whole State. There is not a single
county or district in Pennsy ylvana that would
declare for Grants nomination if fair ex-
preston of the Republicans could be had.
Pliable committees nave made pliable del
egates until Cameron possessed clear ma
jority ofthe convention, and then the Blaine
men were notified that they must submit if
they would not invoke the vengeance of the
dominant power of Pennsy 1t is not
surprising that thus held in the lions mouth
they hesitate to assert themselves, and that
Blaine's apparent strength may be cut own
to his seventy-five instructed delegates on
the test vote to-day. 1t is known that about
one-hundred of the two hundred and fifty
one delegates would vote squarely against
the nomination Of Grant but for the per-
sistenly passed fears that Blaine may be ex-
posed fatal resentments by antagonizing
Senator Cameron's purpose to give the State
and the country an exhibition of his supre-
macy, and it is Messed even by most of
the prominent actors in shaping the so-call-
ed deliberations of the convention that there
are not two-score of the whole two-hundred
and fifty-one delegates who desire Grants
nomination or who believe that his candi-
dscy would assure success.
Senator Cameron will achieve great
personal and political triumph to day as
the undisputed leader of the convention.
But, cui bono? When he shall won his VIC
tory aud comes to count his gains, what shall
it profit him? Tie press OF the State will
declare the deliverance of the convention
to be mockery and ie-a wsnton ofense
to the considerate convictions of the Re-
publican people and fraud upon the Re-
publicans of the nation. 1t must make un-
rest and fretfulness in the organization
where there has been comparative or abso-
lutte submission hereto and it is not beyond
the range of possibility that it may date the
decline and fall of both Grant and Cameron
and make the Republican party the sacra-
flee of immoderate ambition. Such is the
lesson foreshadowed from Harrisburg to-day.
.Phikd. Times 4th inst.