The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-27

Second National Conventi0n--No Time
and No Room for Third Party.
The labor reformers held National Oonven-
ton at Columbus, Ohio, in February last, at
which they nominated Judge David Davis, of
Illinois, member of the Supreme Court of
the United States and liberal republican, as
their candidate for President, and Governor
Parker, of New Jersey, democrat, for Vice
President; very good combination ticket. It
was generally believed at the time, however,
that the main object Of the managers of this
Columbus Convention was to impress upon the
then approaching Cincinnati Liberal Republi-
can Convention the importance of these labor
reformers as political balance of power; and
they were not without the hope that their ticket
would be adopted at Cincinnati, and next by
the democratic party. If SO, the managers of
the initial Convention at Columbus, in the
event Of the election of their ticket, would
have good claim for the first choice of places
in the Cabinet, foreign missions and so on.
But the Cincinnati Convention, strangely
enough, perhaps, overlooked this Columbus
labor reform coalition ticket, and nominated,
on liberal republican platform, the ticket Of
Greeley and Brown, both liberal republicans,
whereupon Judge Davis declined his Columbus
nomination, and Governor Parker likewise,
and for good and sufficient reasons in each
case The Democratic National Convention
next coming on, all doubts respecting the ticket
from that quarter were soon settled in the
adoption of the liberal republican ticket of
nd And fha nh md Of
the democratic party and the liberal repub-
lcans have rallied to the support Of this
ticket with degree of enthusiasm which
should at least satisfy every doubling Thomas
that the only alternative now is Grant or
Greeley.
And yet it appears that these labor reformers,
as Presidential wire-pullers, are not satisfied,
and that they intend to hold in this city, on
the SOth of this month, convention for the
purpose, as their newspaper organ puts it, Of
renewing ''the laudable efforts begun SO aus
piciously at Columbus last spring, but which,
through the efforts Of those with more ambition
than honor, has thus far proved futile" Next,
the men who are to meet in this convention are
admonished ''to take lesson from their sad
experience, and steer clear Of the rocks which
ore sure to be thrust in their way, and not be
beguiled by glittering promises" from fatter-
ers, who only smile to betray them. Then we
are told that driven to desperation, and taught
by sad experience, the laboring masses, IF
only to a certain extent, will be shrewd enough
to see where their true advantage lies, and
sweep, with a mighty wave, which has not
hitherto been equalled, their oppressors to the
wall" This is little cloudy as to the real
purpose of this movement, but we suppose it
means the organization of new party for the
Presidential contest
There was ON interchange of views on this
subject the other day between Colonel Blanton
Duncan, straight-out democrat, of Kentucky
and Mr.. Horace H. Day, of this city, Vice Pre-
sident of the Labor Reformers General Com
mittee. The hint thrown out by Colonel Dun
can in this correspondence, that coalition
Presidential ticket between the straight-out
democrats, and the labor reformers would be a
good thing, seemed to please Mr.. Day, and we
may, perhaps, hear something more of this on
the 3Oth inst But the battle is now arranged,
the lines are drawn, and there is no time and
no room, and there are no materials for
third party. The issue is between the party
supporting the administration and the ele-
ments in opposition to it, and between these
two parties, and by this issue, all outside fac
tions and questions will be swallowed up in
this contest. The temperance party, with its
Presidential ticket, and the free traders, par
excellence with their ticket, and the women's
rights ticket with the ticket of the labor re-
formers, have disappeared from the public eye
and the best thing that these labor reformers
can do is to resolve that each man of them
shall be free to go his own way, Grant or
| Greeley.
| The democrats have wisely in this canvass
taken this new departure out and out upon
liberal republican ticket and platform. Tney
have done nothing wiser than this hne OF
action since their nomination of Pierce, In
1852, upon the compromise measures OF 1861,
the Theory of Henry Clay, the embodiment OF
the wing party. On that wing platform they
literally in that campaign extinguished the
whig party, for after that crushing defeat that
party was disbanded and dispersed Since
that day. on Buchanan, on Breckenridge and
pouslaA On Mcclellan and % Seymour ~