CHAPTER XXV

THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION

The Liberal Republican Convention in Missouri calls national convention at Cincinnati--Prompt and favorable response in Ohio and other states--Coöperation of leading Democrats--Springfield _Republican_, Cincinnati _Commercial_, and Chicago _Tribune_, Republican newspapers, support the movement--Henry Watterson, Manton Marble, and August Belmont, Democrats, coöperate--The movement in Pennsylvania--William C. Bryant and others favor the nomination of Trumbull for President--Great meeting at Cooper Union, New York--Governor Palmer, of Illinois, favors the movement--Charles Francis Adams, Horace Greeley, David Davis, B. Gratz Brown, and A. G. Curtin mentioned for President--Correspondence with Trumbull on the subject--The editors' dinner at Murat Halstead's house--Platform embarrassment--The tariff question referred to the congressional districts--Frank Blair and Gratz Brown cause a commotion--Carl Schurz made chairman of the convention--Balloting for President--Brown withdraws his name and advises his friends to vote for Greeley--Greeley nominated on the sixth ballot--Consternation of the supporters of Adams and Trumbull--Most of the Liberal Republican editors decide to support Greeley--Carl Schurz is much distressed--Godkin and Bryant reject Greeley--Correspondence between Bryant and Trumbull--Charles Sumner's hesitating course--He finally decides to support Greeley 372