The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-05-25
POLITICAL,

The Massachusetts House of Represen-
tatives has voted in favor of holding a
convention to revise the State Constitu-
ton.
The New Orleans Bee Says that it is
not willing to assign the duty of con.
structing the Democratic platform to the
members of the party in the Norther n
States; that the Southern Democrat S
must be consulted in the matter; and that
they should not be understood as accept
ing the situation.
The local elections in Kentucky have
resulted very satisfactorily to the Repub-
licans. Several cities were wrested from
the Democrats, and, in others, the Re
publican vote was largely increased.
Lexington, Frankfort, Paris, Danville,
Harrodsburg, and Nicholasville elected
Republican officers.
Clement L. Valla audigham-of whom it
is said that he carries the brains and the
vitality of the Ohio Democracy-hasco come
out in favor of a new and progressive de-
parture for his party. with a view to the
heading off of George III. Pendleton as
the Democratic choice for United States
Senator, and securing that place for him
self in the very improbable contingency
of Democratic majority in the Legisla-
ture of Ohio in 1873. The main planks
in the new departure platform are
First, acceptance of the amend
ments to the Federal Constitution as de
tacto irreversible; and, second, univers al
suffrage allied to universal amnesty.
Says an Ohio correspondent 1.-THE ele-
ments are working, and, when the Demo-
cratic State Convention assemblies,
Scene may be anticipated parelleled only
by the lamentable disaster which over
took the good people who engaged in
that famons work Of masonry upon the
plains of Shinar"
Tammany politicians report that the
aggregate valuation of real and personal
property of New York city will be, in
round numbers, $I,0S0, 100000, 2 per
cent. of which would give $2l, 900. 900 to
be raised by tax.
According to the British Board ofTrade
returns, the value of imports into Great
Britain from the United States, during
the year 1870, was $249, ,O24, ,645, the
largest amount ever recorded. This
official statement furnishes the best reply
to the assertion that the present Tariff,
by raising the price Of home products,
virtually excludes them from foreign
markets. Ii reveals the startling fact
that, under this Tariff, the country most
in Free-Trade is increasing its
demand for our merchandise. Mean
while, skilled labor in America, secure
against the aggressions of cheap foreign
la abor, is perfect!ng new branches of art
and opening new channels of trade. The
success of one factory benefits the whole
and thus coworkers be-
come coadiutants. In spite of the tide
of immigration, the demand for labor is
unsupplied. Domestic industry, now un-
trammeled, is developing the resources
of our country more rapidly than ever.
The real question for the people to decide
is this: Shall we have. Protection orsome-
thing else?
Carl Schurz has written letter to the
secretary of the new party movement in
Cincinnati, in which he endorses the
movement as begun there, and promises
70 advocate it on the stump. We are
sorry for this, because, as it now appears
to us, this new party can result in moth
ing else than weakening the Republican
ranks and strengthening the Democracy.
Indeed, it is quite probable that the
Democracy are secretly aiding it, not with
a view of engaging in it, but for the pur-
pose of distracting the Republican party.
While some Of the principles of the new
movement are good, and worthy of sup
port, we fail to see any benefit to result
from it. The time may come, ere long,
when reorganization of parties will be
necessary; but that time is not yet.