The New York herald., 1871-11-29
The Democracy on Their Last Le9s-Propo-
Convention 10 Reorgauiye the Party.

hees, OF Indiana, a wheel-horss of the Western
democracy, with his universal panacea. as the
only thing that can save the sorely afflicted
and fast-faiing believers in the unfortunate
democratic party. His remedy is National
Convention as soon as possible. He thinks it
ought to be held not later than the 22d of
February; that the call should be issued by
the National Executive Committee; that the
delegates should be appointed by State
and District Conventions, and that ''thc busi-
ness of this body should be to carefully and
patiently weigh all views laid before it aud
| to agree upon and publish clear and
definite declaration of principles upon
all matters affecting the political welfare Of the
people and the safety of our free institutions.
| ''Ihs being done, the Convention" he sug
gcsts, ''should adjourn to a day fixed for the
nomination OF a candidate for the Presi-
dency.' Thus, he thinks, the democracy may
be rallied into q solid column, and, in his
opinion, ''if the entire democratic vote can be
consolidated, inspired with enthusiasm and
brought TO tho polls, General Grant cannot be
reelected"
Now, Of all the plans submitted for the sal
vaton OF the forces Of the democratic party
this, We think, is the best 1t proposes con-
sultaton of all the doctors of the party-allo-
pathic, homeopathic, vegetarian, electrical
and cold water doctOrs-and that the treat
ment upon which they agree shall be
applied to the patient. To change
the figure, the Missouri democrats and all the
Blair family propose that the democratic
party, as such, shall be withdrawn from the
Presidential fight; that the disa6ectcd repub.
licans shall be permitted to come to the front
with their ticket against General Grant, and
that the democrats, rank and file, shall then
give them lift. The regular democratic old
liners, however, have no faith in this PROPOSE
tion to sell their birthri .,ht for the doubtful
chances offered Of mess of pottage. The
pig in the poke may turn out swindle. The
plan of the Staats Zeitung, Of disbanding the
democratic organization and Of forming a new
party npon new men, new ideas, new issues
and new name, comes mp to the mark but
as convention will be necessary for this new
birth the proposition of Mr.. Voorhees, me cts
the case.
| II is in view of a new org anization, with q
new name and a new equipment out and out,
that we recommend the adoption by the
Democratic National Committee, Mr., Belmont,
chairman, of this suggestion OF Mr.. Voorhees,
Why not2 We are informed from Iowa that
George II. Parker, prominent democrat
of that State, has published card, in
which he says that ''the democratic party as
an organization is dead, and shat If the demo-
Gratis expect to resurrect it's principles and
succeed in 1872 they must abandon the old
organization and become the integral portion
Of new party" Mr.. Parker talks like man
of sense when he says that ''the democratic
party as an organization is dead" 1t is, for
Presidential purposes, dead Ms Marley-dead
as a door nail 1t was dying when the
lamented vallaudigham took his ''new depar-
ture," aud that surrender in the last ditch
killed ii. The fact that this organization is
''played out and defunct is practically admit
ted by all the leaders and organs Of the party
with the figures before them Of the late cleo
tions, including the overthrow Of their strong
citadel of Tammany Hall.
| elections made of democratic calculations and
Presidential candidates. The quarrel among
the republicans on Sumner and st. Domingo,
with the aid of few hundred labor reformers,
turned over New Hampshire to the democracy
in her March election, and instantly q score
of democratic Presidential availables popped
up their heads between Connecticut and Cali
fornia. Among them we're English, of Con-
necticut; Hoffman, of New York Parker, Of
New Jersey; Hancock Cass and Packer, of
| Pennsylvania Pendeton, Groesbeck and
Chase Chief Justice( Of OHIO; Hendricks, of
Indiana Doolittle, OF Wisconsin, and Haight, Of
California. Nor was there over before such
Growing Of democratic roosters as that which
followed their glorious victory in New Hamp-
shire. But the tables were turned in Connec-
ticut, and from that day to this, and from
Maine to California, State after State, tho
demoralized democracy have been routed
right and left, down to the grand and awful
crash and smash-up of Tammany in our late
New York revolution And so it is that all
the regular democratic Presidential candidates
trotted out last March have been trotted in
again, except Joel Parker, of New Jersey; and
so it is that the idea Of running the demo-
cratic party itself in 1872 against General
Grant is generally admitted by its leaders and
organs as an experiment which will hardly
pay expenses.
The proposition of Mr.. Voorhees, then, for
National Convention for the reconstruction
of the democratic party is, we repeat, the only
| thing which meets the dismanted aud demor-
shzed condition Of the party organization.
He goes the right way to work in proposing,
first, TO reconstruct the party in . preliminary
national convention, aud then in another con-
vcntion Of tLa party as reconstructed 10 nomi-