The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-19

and Madame Octavia LIE Vert and daughters OF Ala
bama are at the Coleman House.
Bull Run Panic-The Party Press-The
Growing Blunder Of Horatio Seymour.
According to our advices from Washington,
the panic stricken clique of democratic plotters
there are making fresh efforts to bring about
the withdrawal of Governor Seymour and
General Blair from the Presidential canvass.
The late elections seem to have created
regular Bull Run panic, or the confusion Of a
mutiny on board ship among the terrified de-
mocracy. We have never had anything to
compare with it in all the ups and downs Of
our political parties. 1t is all owing to little
clique in New York, little clique in Washing
ton and little clique in Cincinnati, seized with
the idea that Frank Blair is the Jonah who has
brought the democratic flagship among the
breakers, and that, Blair thrown overheard,
the vessel might still be saved. Hence through
the telegraph these cliques undertake the des-
perate experiment, and 80 simultaneously from
Washington and New York the proposition is
thrown out. But Messrs. Tilden, Belmont and
Augustus Schell, of the New York board of
underwriters, say s'No. This thing, gentle
men, will never do. A change of front is
impossible. It would be equivalent to disband-
ing our forces. We in New York are not panic
stricken"
This settles the question. 1t would have
been the stupidity of an idiot on the part Of
Mr.. Belmont to have given moments respect
full attention to this proposition for retreat
of the democratic army by flank movement
in the face Of the enemy. He rightly says, SIT
would be equivalent to disbanding our forces.
The same opinion is expressed in terms Of
fiery indignation, not only by the red hot demo-
crazy, but by the rank and file generally. Nor
do they hesitate to charge the treacherous
proposition for a change of front to the weak
ness and the crime which placed poor Maximi-
liam in the hands of Escobedo and gave to
| everlasting infamy the name of Benedict
Arnold. Among the conjectures aaoat it is
said that the most active parties behind the
scenes in this movement for the dropping Of
Seymour and Blair were certain coteries Of
sporting gentlemen who had made heavy bets
upon Seymour and were anxious to save their
money, and hence this shrewd device of with
drawing him from the course If this is true,
then, in addition to the bank ring, the whiskey
rings, the tobacco, petroleum and other specu-
lating and REGULATING rings in this canvass,
must be added the faro bank and sporting rings,
heretofore omitted in the general summing up
We incline to think, however, that the cliques
we have indicated in New York, Washington
and elsewhere really thought that in dropping
Seymour and Blair and taking up Chase and
Hancock, or Chase and Hendricks, or Chase
and John Quincy Adams, the democracy might
still carry the Presidential election, and that
pr0nunciamieDto at the same time from two or
three prominent democratic organs would
bring about through Mr.. Belmont and his COM
mittee the change demanded.
The party organs thus involved in this busi-
ness, instead Of striking oil, have been sold,
and their assets, we fear, will hardly meet their
liabilities But party journals and the cliques
depending upon them are very often pushed to
the desperate expedient Of stalking everything
they have of cash or credit upon the turn of
single card. They are nothing but gamblers
in politics and are utterly INSCRIPTIONS in
their tricks Of the game. The time has been
when they were power In the land, but that
time has forever passed away. Some thirty
odd years ago change OF base, suggested
simultaneously by recognized party organ in
Albany or New York and another in Washing
ton, would have been promptly made; but we
see that such an experiment at this day Of the
telegraph and the independent press excites
only derision, indignation and contempt In the
party camp. The people OF this country Of
all parties, rank and file, have advanced far
beyond the debasing instructions and selfish
schemes Of the party press.
| But, meantime, q world Of mischief has been
DONE not only to the democratic ticket, but to
the morale Of the party. The Manhattan Club
organ here and the johnson organ at Washing
ton having sounded defeat and retreat
the alarm has gone forth upon the wings
of the lightning, and from ell points Of
the compass we hear the echoes Of a
spreading panic, from the centre to both
wings Of the army. A democratic despatch
from Washington says that the regular old
democrats will not swallow Chase, and that
they bitterly denounce the Tammany polti-
clans, whose intrigues secured the nomination
Of Seymour and Blair in the first place, and
who Ohe Tammany politieians are the first to
desert the ticket" Another Washington
despatch says that the President Is in
favor OF q change, and that Montgomery
Blair thinks 1t would have been all right
Frank had been put FIRST and Seymour
second. Another despatch says that there
was an unusually protracted session Of the
Cabinet on Friday, and that some suppose IL
was oil about this proposition to "swap
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