Year: 1872




Correspondence Of the Journal of Commerce


WASHINGTON, April 2.


Tho keencst politicians here seem TO
think that the Democracy will not indorso
the nominee OF the Cincinnati conven.
ton, unless that body SO attaches The
Democrats to their ticket as to throw the
balance of power in the latters hands.
A contingency like this is entirely sS0s.
peeted The opposition to the reremin
alton Of Gen Grant, in the Republican
party, is regarded as q very formidable
affair, and while it is quite formidable,
numerically or in influence within the
party as the oficc.' olders, who a'a oil
tor Graut, yet it 10 quite formidable, and
increases in strength each day. But it
labors under the disadvantage Of division
in it's own ranks in the matter Of choosing
a candidate for the presidency, while the
Office holders wing, tho strongest, is
united upon President Grant, first, last
aud all the time.


Many Of the Democrats are Of the
opinion that under any ordinary circum
stances the Democratic party should
abandon its organization so far as to ac-
quicsce in the Cincinnati nomination. In
fact large majority Of the representa-.
tive Democrats hero advise that policy,
believing that they can safely trust the
leaders OF the Republican disaffection in
the matter of fair dealing. But OF
course they will not commit themselves
to q positive acquiescence beforehand,
They even 20 so far as to say the politi-
cal reform movement should begin among
Republicans, and the reform be enforced
by addition Of the entire Democratic
strength to that Of the dissatisfied Re-
publicans. They witness with satsfac
ton the work going on in Pennsylvania,
where McCluro's raid has scattered the
confident hosts, and where citizens re
form associations are paving the way to
carry the state at the October election
They see the office holders OF that state
bending low with sorrowful counter.
ances, and want to help the work on.
But they tell us Of drawback in which
they apprebend trouble. For many years
the Democratic party has kept its name
through victory and defeat, and to divest
itself Of that name they fear would be a
task too hard to perform They say the
people a. home, and not the politicians
at Washington, are the throne and the
power.


The rank and file Of the Democracy
have seen its principles disappear one by
one, till now its platform is essentially
the same as that Of the party it opposes
The last act contemplated lie to take away
the name "Democracy' itself. And this
they fear cannot be done. In other
words, "Mahomet will not 90 to the
mountain; the mountain must come to
Mahomct." On the other hand the Re.
publican dissenters say they must be the
managers Of the contest that the fight
will be Grant and anti Grant," that it
must be treated as an emnently Republi.
can quarrel, and the Democracy must, by
acquiescence throw their whole strength
for man Of their selection at Cincinnati,
or they will 90 back to the party they
propose to leave, and the battle will re
suit in an easy victory for Grant. The
Democrats, they say, must abandon their
organization as national party, or, if
they will not do that, fly the naue of the
Cincinnati nominee at their masthead,
without regard to his politics.


This dose, the Democratic prophets
say, Is too much for the Democracy; that
the rank and file of the party will not
yield on this occasion, and that, if their
predictions are to be verified, as they be.
lieve they will be. VIC will have four
years more of Grant.