The New York herald., 1872-08-19

same farce over again, and that with this col
lapse the whole movement will end in smoke.
The Presidential ticket of the temperance
reformers-the ticket of Black and Russell
has not, we believe, been withdrawn I; but it
has apparently died and made no sign. If
abandoned, then, as the temperance teetotalier
never could reconcile his cold water notions
with 'the time-honored principles of the demo-
cratic party" he will doubtless go for Grant
and Wilson. This temperance faction has
some strength, too in Connecticut. Massachu-
sets and New Hampshire; but outside of New
England, as political force, it amounts to
nothing OF all these unknown quantities,
therefore, that of the German vote going for
Greeley and Brown remains to be considered.
1t will be large in this city; it will draw more
or less of the German strength from the ad-
ministration party in the West but 1t will
require the actual results of the October State
elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana
to indicate how much In short, the i'm
portance of these October elections cannot be
over estimated, for, as in reference to every
Presidential election, with hardly On excep-
ton, since the timo of Jackson, they will be
apt to settle the question.
TO sum up these doubtful political elements
and their unknown quantities, the labor re-
formers, the temperance reformers and the
free traders par eroelIcnce may be dismissed as
of no consequences, for in their dissensions
they will be neutralized. There will be gain
to the administrations clear gain in all the
Northern States-from the blacks, the fifteenth
amendment having become law since 1868;
there will be the loss to General Grant of the
Cincinnati boiling republicans, and loss, no
doubt, of considerable body of Germans in
the West; and these losses would, perhaps, be
conclusive against him but for that unknown
quantity of the old limo or Bourbon anti
Greeley element of the democratic party Ac-
cording to the test of the North Carolina
election this refractory element does not sensi-
bly, shake the integrity of the democratic
party; but the Maine election will be sharper
test in being fought moro directly upon the
Presidential question, and it will go far to in
dictate the general drift of public sentiment in
the North on an issue between Grant and
Greeley before which all these outside dis
turbing forces will be absorbed or swept away.
This issue is on the general merits of the
administration, and it may thus be pre-
sented:-Do the people desire change in the
White House at this time and are they pre-
pared to substitute Greeley for Grant? Upon
this question the great body of the people
s. f,o ot, roro acbo pico r,orcho
men of capital and workingmen-willb be apt to
determine respectively for themselves whether
the time has or has not come for change in
the national administration, and under the
conditions presented in this canvass. Upon
this issue the result in Maine is not yet fore
is because, with all that may be said in favor
of General Grant there has been and is a
growing popular desire for reform among the
'powers that be-, and q growing conviction
that the reelection. Of the President is no
longer necessary, as in the case of Lincoln, to
the public safety or general welfare. Whether
this popular desire and this conviction have
become strong enough in Maine to inaugurate
there in the coming election political revolu-
ton is the point to be determined. Meantime
the labor reformers will have their national
convention number three at Philadelphia,
which we dismiss as signifying nothing and
the ''straight-out'' democrats, under Colonel
Blanton Duncan's management will have at
Louisville their second national convention,
which will be important, at least, in determin-
sv~r, kIo y1no&h &c io of
against the liberal coalition ticket Of Greeley
and Brown serious detection among the rank
and file Of the democratic party We enter
tain the opinion that this Louisville Conven-
ton will also prove a failure-that it comes
too late as q third party movement, and that
even should it put ticket into the field with
so respectable name as Charles O'Conor at
it's head, its success will be so utterly hopeless
and its mission so self-evident that in tho end
its best friends will see the folly Of throwing
away their votes on it, and will divide between
Grant and Greeley, according to their several
inclinations.
Peruvian Revolution and Presidential
Murder.
Dy Speciui correspondence Hom Llna,
under date of the 9th of july we are enabled to
publish in the HERALD to-day full report of
the inception and progress of the revolutionary
movement which was initiated against Presi-
dent Balta, of Peru, and which eventuated in
the murder of that statesman, the chief of
the executive, in prison, by the representative
of rival house, the leader Of an opposing
political party. The chronicle is of exceed
ing sadness, the misery of its details being re-
lieved in the eyes of civilization merely by