Year: 1872

seed, and as your party name smells OF the NJ


bellion and of Tammany, suppose you drop


II and come over to us. Let US run liberal


republican ticket, with the liberal republicans


In front to cover the democratic party in the
rear, they say; and Mr.. Belmont, the acting
provisional head of the democratic party, is
persuaded to try the experiment.


According to this arrangement the plan of
,the battle will be a coalition of the opposition
elements under boiling republican flag
against Grant as the regular republican can
didate. Anything to defeat Grant" is the
opposition war cry. JEFF Davis, who a year
ago publicly declared that he accepted nothing
and consented to nothing, but still adhered to
the "lost cause" is, doubtless, now ready to
support any combination on any compact in
opposition to Grant; for Alexander II. Ste
phens, the great apostle of the Southern con-
federacy, after preaching for many months the
Tammany Hall democratic resolutions of 1868
as his u!timatum for 1872. now declares that
he Is prepared to join any party or fusion of
parties whose great object is the defeat OF
Grant If the Northern democrats, then, are
"
to fall in behind the ticket, flag and boiling
republican party of the Cincinnati Convention.
may they not with the assistance of the labor
reformers and the outside diversion OF the
temperance party faak General Grant, cut
out his administration and achieve great
political revolution? The issue depends first,
upon the Cincinnati Convention, and, sec
ondly, upon the popular Judgment as to the
safety or expedency of political revolution
at this time, which, through the thin lines of
the liberal republicans, would be the restora-
tion Of the old line democrats to power


AS the Rev. Mr.. Bsecher says of the Gin
cinnati experiment, ''what the result Of that
meeting will be no prophet can be found to
tell" Mr.. Schurz this evening, perhaps, may
throw some light on the subject as one Of the
Missouri engineers in the movement. But if
its first success In Missouri has given us a
democratic Senator, its first success in the
Presidential field would doubtless give us q
democratic administration. AT all events
General Blair the lucky Senator in question,
has persuaded the other democratic leaders
that the Missouri coalition policy is their only
chance for the run Of the White House and the
desh pots Of the kitchen. But the initial
experiment at Cincinnati will be liberal
republican affair, and the platform upon which
these liberals propose to stand is the Grant
platform, excepting Grant, his Ku Klux
policy and the tariff In the next place the
Cincinnati men are to nominate liberal
republican ticket, which, together with the
platform, will be acceptable to the democratic
party and at the same time carry off the
balance Of power from the republican camp
This complex piece Of machinery, we fear
will be too delicate piece Of work for the
Cincinnati cabinet makers, aud too fragile to
hold together even if constructed to the satis-
faction Of the contracting parties. Against
the reelection OF General Jackson, in 1882,
could union Of the opposition ele-
ments have been effected, it might
have been successful. But between the
national republicans of that day and the anti
Masons and the Southern nullifers fusion
was found impossible, and SO they were divided
in the canvass and Jackson walked over
the course. And so it was in the election of
Van Buren in 1886; but in 1910, on the disas-
trous consequences OF bis financial collapse,
Van Buren and his party were, by popular
whirlwind, swept from the field.


The conditions Of our political parties now
are alike adverse to a successful fusion of the
opposition factions and to general popular
reaction. Against all the opposition elements
combined Grant is stronger now than was
Jackson in 1882, and upon our existing finan-
cial system and the financial condition of the
Treasury and the country, and upon the issues
depending upon the money question in all lis
bearings, President Grant is as strong in the
confidence of the country as is General Grant
upon his achievements as soldier. There
will be no political revolution in 1872, because
there is safety in the administration and there
is danger outside. At the same time we in
cline to the opinion that, as in 1882 and 1886,
the opposition factions, instead of fusing upon
a common ticket, will be divided upon two or
three, and that the democratic party will not
be sold out to the anti-Grant republicans, be-
cause upon their promssory notes they will
fail to provide any satisfactory securities Of
redemption.


Personal Intelligence.