The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-25
THE FREE TRADERS TICKET.
A Chicago Journal as the Modern DON Quixote-
The Lance Put Out in Defence Of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel Conference and Endorse
ment Of Their Nomination.
CHICAGO. Ill. June p. 1872.

CHICAGO, H., June "a, 1872.
The Chicago Times Of this morning, in double
loaded editorial, under the heading '.The Party Of
Advancement Makes the Party OF the Future"
takes the ground that the nomination of Greeley
by the Baltimore Convention is foregone concu-
sion and that the result Is due to the manpuatons
of place hunters and wirepullers, who have as eff
fectually packed the Baltimore Convention for
Greeley as the Philadelphia Convention was packed
for Grant. Such being the outlook, the Times says
the nomination of Mr. Greeley at Baltimore will
terminate the organic existence of the democratic
party In that act the party organization will alb
dictate it's functions, and, Of course, with such alb
dication, the idea OF party allegiance will
cease, for there Is no such thing as
party allegiance to men, to candidates, or to con-
ventiOns. Such allegiance Is due only to principles
PARTY ORGANIZATIONS ARE NOTHING
but instrumentalties by which some aggregate
number OF persons seek to carry certain principles
into effect. When the nstrumentaity ceases to act
for that purpose or is perverted by schemng indi-
viduas to different purpose, as the nomination
for office of declared enemy OF the principles OF
the party 1T ceases to exist party authority.
The nomination or endorsement Of Mr.. Greeley at
Baltimore will, therefore, place no one holding
democratic principles under the slightest obliga-
ton cast his vote Mr.. Greeley 1t Will be the
disarmament of the party and the surrender of all
its delegated authority to the members who dele
gated 1t, to be used by each and all Of them in
their own judgment may seem proper, thus leav-
ing the democrats wholly without an organization
and perfectly free to act as to each individual shall
seem fit.
CAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The enemies OF democratic principles, the writer
continues, have captured the democratic OrganiZa-
ton in order to WELD 1t for the destruction of the
democracy The hope for the latter is in the forma
ton of new party that will resurrect democratic
principles. The resurrection OF those principles
under the banner OF an enemy Is impossible. The
democrats might as we'll go to the Grant party to
the Greeley party in such hope, as one is as pro-
nOunced an enemy to democratic principles as the
other.
THE NEW PARTY.
Passing to the question as to how their new party
shall come into being the writer quotes the plat
form adopted by the recent conference Of liberals
In New York, and endorses II as containing the
vital doctrines OF democratic faith; every
plank expressing not only the vital need Of
the time, but of higher and more adj
vanced step in the progress of civilization,
and concludes as folows:-'sThe time for the or
ganiZatOn of the party OF the future is now As an
organic ins!rumentality OF progressive IDEAS the
nucleus around which will gather men of earnest
and enlightened purposes, as means Of rescuing
from cOptemptible fate the moral influence of adj
herence to principles, the vital need OF Organi-
cation for the future is upon us.'
GRoEsBECK.
In another article the Times eulOgizes William S.
GrOesbeck and asserts that his nomination at Bal
timOre would insure the defeat OF Grant, while the
endorsement OF Greeley assures Grants election.