Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1873 — The New Party Badly off. [ARTICLE]

The New Party Badly off.

The new party, the party without a name except the one we have given it—the Pharisees—is not getting along well. We feel some regret at being compelled I so, but a regard for truth renders it imperative. A slight, a very slight, atfiempt was made last week to give it a little life by the holding of a convention in our neighboring State of lowa, but only one-third of the counties of the State could be induced to send delegates, and U« meeting was composed of -something less than a couple of hundred lean and cadaverous politicians, who hanker daily and nightly for the flesh-pots. Mr.. John P. Irish, the-Chairman of the State Democratic Central Committee, lent the gathering the benefit of his name and presence, but there comes up a cry from the unterrifled throughout the State, that though they may be sold, they are not delivered. They inform. Mr. Irish plainer and without equivocation that he may do for himself as he pleases, but as for they will not abear it, aiffi they propose tion within a few days to declare the old faith and define anew the old landmarks. Thus it goes. In Ohio the political infant is-witkout a solitary newspaper to administer nourishment to its feeble frame; Maine and Maryland have kicked it from their it is now a Homeless and friendleag4r«lf. Its puny übbiawafr; arid then will be left the reflecflon toAte CMlago sponsor, that if it was so soon, done for, what in the world was'jt I,e ß na Inter-Ocean. i *. - I tggi ’The idea, that a party large enough to control the destinies of a State or natiorii|an be brought into existence that no men, or that will itot occasionally be deceived and intrust Dower in unworthy hands, is too puarfle for consideration. The only remedy for such cases is to bring to punishment and disgrace those who betray their trust,' and try to do better for the future. The Republican party has been doing this forywuT-M no party ever did before in this country. It has never hesitated to expose, a villain because he belonged to the party, while the policy of the party which preceded it was to cover up the crime by refusing investigation.— Ottawa (III.) Republican. - " A-.; ; • ii possible,” thinks the Misjaiuri “that the third party movement fn Ohio may come to nothing.” All the third party will have to do to come to nothing VviH be to stay right Where it is. It was nothing when it started out, au4 wilfw nothing when it gets io He jonroey’s fott, . 1

UT We repeat that when the cry of “farmers’ rights” is raised, nobody can be found to oppose it. You cannot build up a distinct, well-defined, enduring political organization on that foundation, because there will be nobody to question it or take a place on the other side. The practical attainment of these rights, and the redress of grievances may, indeed, be a work of legislation, and may thus be connected with political action;' but it is nevertheless a question Of detail which does not belong to th<f issues of parties arid politics.' Just here is where we say fanners may exercise their influence upon political parties in securing needed legis ; latiou at their hands; hut there is no occasion or warrant for distinct and independent political organization. The fanners themselves recognize this. The Granges disclaim a political character. Their design Is to unite the fanners and consolidate their strength so as to command such legislation as they neciL, They have already secured a new railway law’which the Republican Legislature of -IllinoM passed inresponse to their call. That fact illustrates their true method of action, and shows their true friends. Securing such results through the Republican party, they have seen no necessity or warrant for organizing a new party. Some Democratic demagogues, knowing well the desperate straits of the Democratic party, have sought to turn this movement to its account, but they have no encour agetnent from the farmers.— Albany (N. Y.) Evening Journal. Cleveland Leader thus dresses up the Ohio Democrat who has outlived all "Spectacles but the goggles of his party: “In 1840, when Gen. Harrison, the hero tlf Tippecanoe, of Fort Meigs and the Thames, was running as the Whig candidate for the Presidency, Mr. Allen invented and circulated a story to the effect that Harrison was a coward in all three of the above battles,and that the ladies of Chillicothe, to show their contempt for him as a General, presented him, in public, a red flannel petticoat! So manifestly false was this infamous story, that the people denounced it as such,' and with one accord they called him ‘Petticoat Allen.’ Nearly every Whig procession carried an effigy draped in a red petticoat, labeled ‘Petticoat Allen.’ Ladies all over the country sent him their cast-off petticoats, labeled as above, to show their appreciation of his slanderous utterances. Whenever he appeared in the streets, the very , boys ’ would yell out, ‘there comes old Petticoat Allen.” protest of these disappointed soreheads is the best evidence that-the Republican party is healthy, and has the .vigorio slorigh off. its excrescences and discard its effete matter. The body and limbs are sound and thrifty. It isnecessary, occasionally, to cut back and head in vines and trees; to lop off redundant, rampant branches that take too much from the others. And right here the policy of the Republican party has differed from that of the Democratic party. The hitter did not dare to prune for fear the parent trunk would bleed to death. This is the reason it sustained tlie Southern policy so long, after the best men in the party at the North felt that it would prove fatal. But the Republican party has freely used the knife when necessary,' and by its use has kept the tree vigorous. This is the true way to preserve health, instead of extirpating the root and setting out a new plant.— Madison ( iFfe.) Mate Journal.

£3F“The Democratic party organs are just now going through their semi-annual protestation of devotion to the “great Democratic part J'” and the reiteration of their resolution never to abandon it —never. The G. D. party thus pathetically alluded to is the party that has “been beaten every year for the last twelve years, which wasTrcaten by a majority of 725,000 at the last. Presidential ejection, and which al this time is in full possession of only three States of the thirty-seven. If there is anything “great” in this exhibit of strength iftalces a blind old war-horse to see it. To be jjreat, Jthe party must do great tilings. The old Democratic party has done some great things in its time, but its time lias gone by, and its greatness has gone with it. It wins no great victories any longer; it does not even make great fights; itsonly distinguished capacity now is for making great blunders and getting great floggings. —s'.', Louis Republican (Ex-Democratir.) An lowa political State Convention, calling itself “Anti-Monopoly,” is in session at Des Moines -to-day. Our Des Moines correspondent tells the whole story, in his dispatch, when he says: “A large number of the counties are not represented at all, and Democrats and Liberals are running the Convention.” Of course, and that is all it amounts to. The Republican party of lowa, having emphatically pledged itself to the' farmers’ cause, all who are honestly in favor of reforming the, transportation grievances and of breaking down monopoly will see that they can trust that party in the premises, apd that the proposed “new party” is nothing more than the “forlorn hope” of the played-out politicians who were so overwhelmingly defeated under the Greeley banner last fall. The” Anti-Monop-oly” party of lowa is a humbug, and the people know it.— Chicago Journal. ElpThese are the glorious triumphs of the Democratic party. Its reign has always been destructive; —When it found the’ country in a state of prosperity, it went to work to destroy it. It got up a war-cry merely to earn' an election, reckless of the destruction it brought upon material interests. The greater part of its regime was either a war upon the business of the country, an agitation for a foreign war, or a civil war in the Territories. It would never let the country have peace. It did not bring forth one measure pf importance in the administration of government tliat is now a part of it. It was never anything but a scourge to the Country. It fitly terminated its reign in treason and treachery, and its infamy will stand in our traditions as a warning forever.—Cincinnati Gazette. tg'The Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania, following the example of those of Ohio, lowa, Maine and Minnesota, yesterday passed a resolution condemning the salary-grab of the last Congress. The Republican party of the nation is evidently a unit upon 'this question, as it is also" upon the question of transportation reform, the expression of the Pennsylvania Convention yesterday upon the latter subject being in full sympathy with the farmers’ movement. In all matters of righteous reform the Republican party niaj- as safely be trusted in the present and future as it has b een in the past.— Chicago Journal. fight, after all, has narrowed down to the Old-time contest between the Republicans and ancient Democracy, and the result will be the same as all the rest from Vallandigham down to McCook. The convention yesterday attempted to go back from its advanced position to the old Camping ground which it occupied during -and immediately subsequent to the rebellion. They boldly threw off the guise which they assumed for a purpose Ihthe Greeley movement, and revealed ‘ifieirtruecliaracter—tlie'BOurboHcharacteristic—hostility to all•, progress.—Clecebind Leader. ’teT'Every Democratic Congressman from Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania. Kentucky and New Hampshire has drawn and kept lite Wk pay,- r