The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-25
Bold, Declarations Of the Leading
Democratic Journal OF the North.
West. .4

CHICAGO, ILL, June 24.-The Time
this morning, in double.leaded editorial
under the heading 1.-THE Party of Ad.
vancement Makes the Party Of the Flu,
ture," takes'the ground that the nomina.
ton of Greeley by the Baltimore Conven.
ton Is ioregone conclusion, and that the
result is due to the manipulations to place
hunters and wire.pullers, who have as
efectually packed the Baltimore Conven.
ton for Greeley as the Philadelphia Con.
Vention was packed for Grant.
Such being the outlook, the Times says
the nomination Of Greeley at Baltimore
will terminate the organic existence Of
the Democratic party. In that act the
party organization will abdicate its fuuc.
tions, and Of course with'such abdication
the idea Of party allegiance will cease ;
for there is no such thing as party
allegiance to men, to candidates, or
to conventions, such allegiance is due
only to principles. Party organizations
are nothing but instrumentallties by which
some aggregate Of persons seek to carry
certain principles into effect. When these
instrumentalities cease TO act for that pur.
pose, or are perverted by schemlng indi.
viduals to different purpose, as the
nomination for Office Of declared enc
my of the principles of the party, itceases
to exist as party authority. Thenom.
ination or Endorsement of Mr.. Greeley at
Baltimore will place no person holding
Democratic principles under the slightest
obligation to cast his vote for Greeley.
1t will be the. abandonment OF the party
and the surrender of all its delegated au.
thority to the members who delegated it,
to be used by each and all Of them as
in their judgment may seem proper, thus
leaving the Democrats wholly without an
organization and perfectly free to act as
each individual shall see fit. The enc.
miles Of Democratic principles, the writer
continues, have captured the Democratic
organization in order to WELD it for,ihe
destruction of the Democracy. The
hope for the latter Is in the forma-
tion oGa new party that will resur-
rect Democratic principles. The resur.
rection Of those principles under the ban
ner Of an enemy to them is impossible.
Democrats might as well go to the Grant
party as to the Greeley party, inasmuch as
one is as pronounced an enemy to Demo.
cratic principles as the other. Passing to
the question as to how the new party
shall come into being, the writer quotes
the platform adopted by the recent Con-
ference of Liberals in New York, and
endorses it as containing the vital doc.
trines Of the Democratic faith, every
plank expressing not onlya vital need Of
the times, but Of higher and more ad.
vanced stepin the progress ofcivilization,
and concludes as follows. 1.-THE time for
the organization Of the party Of the fu.
ture Is now-as an organic instrumentality
of progressive ideas as the nucleus around
which will gather menof earnest and en-.
lightened purposes as a means of rescur.
ing from a contemplate fate, the moral
influence Of adherence to the principles:
The vital need of an organization is up.
on u.s." ,I.Ele sh'Aii
In another article the Times eulogyzis
VIM. s. Groesbeck, and asserts that his
nomination at Baltimore would insure
the defeat Of Grant, while the endorse.
ment of Greeley assures Grants election.