The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-08-25
NEW YORK HERALD.
New York, Friday, August rs, ls43.

New YORK, FRIDAY, August 70, 1913
THE ELEcuoNs-.THE Next CoNGREss--Tu
GREAT RACE FOR THE PRIZE Cur IN 1874 :
Every civilized being knows that this is tn
Creates nation on which the blessed sun eve
shed ms genial infiuence. In years an in
iah' ia strength giant. The past, embracing only
aeehtury or two, albeit crowded with events which
dignity the history of world-the future full OF
nope, encouragement, unexampled national great
ness Every epoch in the progress of suchsa coun.
Try is pregnant with warning and inst uction, and
should be carefully studied by patriot and phoso
pher.
We have Just now reached very remarkable
crisis in national history. A singular and unex
pected combination of events, has scattered to the
winds the schemes OF trading polilicians-gven the
death blow 10 the hopes OF many partzan-dis-
organized much ofthe old elements, and eliminated
from them new ones and above ALL given to the
intelligence, virtue, and dislnterested patriotism OF
The land great opportunity OF fleeing the practl-
cal application of those lessons, which the expert.
ence of the past has forclbly impressed upon
the minds of all who had eyes 10 see, or ears
10 hear. il is in this view, that the results OF
the late elections, afordng as they do the most
lnieilgible and correct manifestations of the
the Union, become invested with greater.
interest Than ever attached To preceding demonsra
ton of The popular mind The party which sue.
ceeds now is certain OF heightened reign. The
present is the very time in which il lay broad
and deep the foundations of its supremacy tor years
10 come. No wonder, then, that the struggle pro-
misses to be fierce and bitter No wonder that
throughout all our borders the sounds of prepare
lion should be q loud nd Continuous
The general results OF the elections thus far,
.,scided favorable TO the de m ,cratic party. AS
ge remarked yesterday, however, the wings OF
Tennessee will be abe to influence the character of
the u. 5 Senate. The next Congress will then
be composed OF Wing Senate and Locofoco
House OF Representatives. Such body, with
Iylerlte administration, presents very agreeable
prospect ct excitement, at all events
The business of Presiden-making is conducted
this time on somewhat different principles from
those which have regulated it heretofore. There is
really In many quarters considerable approach TO
reason and common sense in the discussion OF the
claims OF the candidates. Many people appear now
10 regard the candidate less and the country more
The interests Of ''the party" do not shut alto.
Seiher cut OF view the interests of the ma
ton All this is cheeIfully indicative OF
returning national sanity. The fact is, that
the people have now purchased by expe
Hence the knowledge which they refused to
accept on less expensive terms The folly and
ruinous tendency OF erroneous legislation do not
now need expositors-they have been written in
universal disaster.
What then does the country want II wants re-
pose quiet-adherence the part of its Legislators
to those sound republican doctrines on which the
Union was built ECONOMY, freedom from debt,
unrestricted trade, low taxation. II wants. in truth,
TO be governed less
There is growing up rapidly into strength and in
fiuelce new party holding these views, and deter
mined to apply new tests to the character OF pres-
dental candidates And the best proof Of the pro-
gress of this movement, is the fact, that the can
didates at present in the field, tacitly acknowledge
Its existence and lis Importance by very perceptble
changes In their tactics. There is, for instance, an
evident Improvement in the bearing OF the friends
of Van Buren,, Calhoun, and Cass, towards each
other The respective claims OF these avorites are
pressed with much more decency and good feeling
than heretofore discovered by the adherents OF
rival candidates
These things we alude TO merely by way of intro
duction. The book OF the chances OF the various
hacks on the lists is gradually unfolding its pages
We will take look al il soon, and endeavor to scan
the future.