The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-30

ventions, and extendingto all the party cliques
and clubs throughout the country, by the same
demoralizing agencies of brandy and black
guards, and ruf6ans and rum.
Now, these disgusting and corrupting politi-
cal agencies are practically at an end, or :
will be. The Maine liquor lew, wes soon
-~anL = yAy, does
10, So sas~, but the great ps:::tical, reli-
r;ous moral and SOCIAL rAs .orm movement Of the
Know Nothings does reach them, and lays the
axe 81 their roots. The peaceable and orderly
middle classes of the people have quietly, but
spontaneously, risen to claim and exercise
tteir rights in our popular elections. They are
Doing the work very mysteriously, but very
potently. And they are effecting no greater or
better revolution than In the overthrow OF those
old party tactics OF rum and rufians. Neither
free liquor nor subsidies in cash to hired
DULLES are employed or needed by the Know
Nothing councils. They meet mysteriousiy
and adjourn peaceably; but they do their work
most beautifully. From the progress which
they are making in upsetting the estimates,
plans ard machinery Of the effete and corrupt
old party grog drinking caacuses and club-law
primary elections, it is manifest that our elec-
tioA DULLES will be wofully ont Of liquor, eat
Of pocket, and out Of employ men. in the eam
psign of $50. In fact, with that campaign we
confidently expect that the whole mass of short
boys stool pigeons, cutthroats and druaken
vagabends, who have SO long beaten or intimt
'dsted honest men from the polls, will all be
driven off and superseded by the terrible but
peaccable and temperate Know Nothings.
Is not this "a ccnsummation most devoutly
to be wished?" Is it not-in the political
movements of the day--is it not of all things
the most desirable that these hired gangs of
drunken outlaws, so long controlling our cleo
tons, should be driven to the extremity of star
walton or the State Prison, or to some honest
employment, and that the polls should be
purged Of these fruitful sources of intemperance
and crime? In this light we consider the Know
Nothings as having in hand the greatest aud
most wholesome temperance movements of the
age. In fact, if they accomplish nothing else
than the overthrow Of the rum and rowdy tao
tics Of the old political parties, and the subssi
tuition of sobriety and order in our elections,
they will have accomplished higher achieve
ment than the conquest of Mexico or the pur-
chase Of the island OF Cuba.
We care but little one way or the other for
the new hlmbugging liquor law before the As
semb]y. But, regarding the great moral reform
movement of the Know Nothings as striking at
the head spring OF drunkenness in these United
States and the diseases and cOrruptions which
have destroyed our old political parties, we
wish and we predict its complete success. The
Know Nothings are the great practical, poten-
tial temperance party Of the present day. The
work goes bravely on" Look to the Know
Nothings.
THE VIRGINIA CAMPIGN-HENEY A. WISE
AND THE HERALD REPoRTER.-We publish to-
day the report from our special reporter OF
another Of Mr.. Wise's stump speeches, lately
delivered at Charlottesville, Va. 1t appears
from this report thai Mr.. Wise is sorely al
noyed 10y the presence OF the noffensive re-
porter OF the New YORK HERALD, and has
rather ungenerously attempted to drive him off
the course by u decidedly anti-chivalric effort
at intimidation.
We are sorry for this on Mr.. Wise's account
but as he really appears to be ignorant Of the
mission Of our reporter, we shall endeavor, in a
few WORDS, to enlighten the democratic n0mi
nee for Governor of Virginia upon the subject.
His excitement is unnecessary-hi suspicious
have no foundation in fact-aud his dread Of
our reporter IS very absurd on the part Of SO
sensible politician as Mr.. Wise. The HERALD
reporter in question has been simply engaged
in Virginia in impartially reporting the speeches
of Mr.. Wise for the edifcation Of the readers
OF this paper, and as an atachf OF this establish
meDs. Nothing more. He is not the amoassa-
dor of any clique OF New York politicians, de-
tailed TO Virginia to aid in the defeat of Mr..
Wise. We suspect, that to effect that object,
no such extraneous assistance will be needed;
but we can't help it if Mr.. Wise foresees the
result.
1t IL hardly matter of surprise, how
ever, that Mr.. Wise should fail to ap-
preciate the fact that reporter from the
New YORK HERALD Office has been despatched
all the way to old Virginia to report the cleo
pioneering speeches of the democratic candidate
for Governor OF that State When the local
newspapers of The towns and villages at which
he is addressing the people from day to day
cut him off with short paragraph, it may be
somewhat difficult to believe that young man
should come down all the way from New York
to report him in full for the HERALD Such is
the fact, though. We assure Mr.. Wise there is
no trick in it whatever, except the trick of
superior newspaper enterprise and liberality.
Nothing more.
IL Is trick peculiar to the Independent
press, and particularly peculiar to this Journal,
to look up, explore and ferret out all sorts of
news upon public affairs, far and near, that
may be interesting to our readers. And so, for
good many years past, we have been in the