The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-03-31
The New.Parfy Spasm-A Democratic
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from the Chicago Times,

| The new party has broken out IN
Inew spot. For months past little gen
man, s. whose smile it was chidlik
and bland" has been travelling up ant
down the country, dining in New
York, wincfng In Washington, and launch
Ing thunderboIts at the White Houst
from Chicago, all to demonstrate the where
abuuts and whatabouts Of the new party
But since the solitary galvanic spasm II
New York last winter, the new party ha!
been something less than q name to conjure
by. ".We -ran call spirits from the yasty
Deep" said the new party wet-nurses q,
Delmonico's; but the spirits, most per
versely, did not come when called.
| But now, like an electrical flash out of q
clear sky; like celestial phenomenon
which science has not prognosticated like
sunbeams from cucumbers; like day in
| Chicago without a divorce case like any.
thing: preternatural and opposite to the
established order of events, comes the az.
founding intelligence that the new party
| has broken out in Cincinnati 's1'1@
The occurrence is formidable one, SAYS
the telegraph. The spectacle was witness
| ed-in point of. fact was assisted-by no less
than formidable array of g a dozen OF fif.
teen Republicans, a number of them prom
inent in the partyfl" .l>s i Ge-iIiti :.
monico's two notable circumstances have
ever appeared in connection with the new
party: 1st, That it is a select party; Cd,
That the select men are willing to furnish
the candidates ifithe Democrats will fur
nish the. voters. From which the public
Will be- enabled to perceive the generous
impulses OF the dozen or fifteen prominent
Republicans who sattended the neW-party
outbreak in Cincinnati. .sIl.i1.r = :;
:: The dozen or fifteen proceeded to organ.
ize the new party upon platform of pre-
clsely four planks, which gives just one
plank to every section of the new party,
consisting Of 3X prominent Republicans.
But the most remarkable fact is that every
plank IS borrowed. Or stolen from the De-
mocracy. The first is declaration in favor
Of general amnesty to all persons concerned
In the rebellion. This is obviously Demo-
! cratic. The second is an anti-protective
tariff plank, which is nothing if not Demo.
cratic. The third denounces the Radical
practice OF corrupting the ballot-box by
the use OF government patronage, which
needs only that Federal bayonets be added
TO make it thoroughly Democratic. The
fourth condemns an irredeemable shinplas.
ter currency, and declares in favor of the
Democratic hard.noney system.
NOW, as every one of these propositions
merely asserts Well-knoWn and long.
standing doctrine of the Democratic party,
and rs the language in which they are
spread upon the record by. the dozen OIL
fifteen Cincinnati organizers of the new
party expresses not single sentiment In
which Democrats do not heartily coincide
some people may not discover any particu
lar public use which the new party wants
to exist for. All; the public objects pro-
posed can be accomplished by returning
the Democratic party to power, and mos
certainly cannot be accomplished in ant
l,other way. If, then, the dozen or fifteen
new party Republicans in Cincinnati are
patriots or honest men they will waste nc
time and spend no breath or brains IN nurs
| ing this new party nonsense, but will at once
| turn their backs on Radicalism and hence
| forward cooperate with the party whose
principles are those which they profess tt
hold. One thing they and all like them may
| set down as certain: The Democratic party
will not 60 to them. The Democratic party
will select its own candidates-men who are
Identified with and can be trusted to carry
out Democratic principles-and will elect
them if it can. II the new party operator.
desire that he Government shall be admin.
istered upon Democratic principles more
than they desire to be ofice-holders or can
didates for office they will foregO all thi:
Spasmodic new party business and help tC
elect Democrats to administer the Govern
ment. Their proceedings at Cincinnati de
not indicate patriotism that is of any par
ticular value to the country. ~