The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-04-18
CLIPPINGS.

| to reSuScItate the Democratic party
| Without the prospect of aid from this
convention, the party would voluntarily
wrap the drapery of its couch about it
and lie down to fearful Dreams" But
like the smell of whiskey bottle to a
dying drunkard, the action Of the coz
vention may serve to give the party a
short and fsful lease of life, Oshkosh
Northeastern =
A new amendment to the Constitution
has been proposed by Mr.. Hawley, of
Indiana, which proposes that the Senate
of the United States shall be composed
of two Senators from each State, chosen
by the people thereof for six years. in
stead of by the legislatures as is now the
practice. By the proposed am endment
any man who is qualified to sit in the
lower branch Of the legislature of the
state for which he is chosen is eligible to
the United States Senate.
The lessons of the Connecticut election
are thus admirably summed up by cor-
respondent: ''For the Democratic par
sy, that it can deceive nobody by parad
ing in Republican disguise fer the La
Dor Reform party, that nobods cares fer
it; for the Temperance party, that il is
| dangerous only to it's friends and fer
the Republican party, that it has nothing
to fear except failure in duty
r.. Al. L,
management of the navy Department has
surface. Mao York Tribune.
$50 far the soreheads in Congress
have frittered away more than half the
time of the session in mere accusations
and political schemes and Investigations
designed to destroy the confidence of the
country in President Grants Admins
tration; yet in not one instance have TIE
schemes and Investigations brought any
serious matter to the surface" In 9TH
er words, the Summers, Schurzs, Trum-
bulls and ''big and little I5-ibunes" have
utterly failed in their spiteful and persis-
tent attempts to damage the Administra-
tiou, and have succeeded only in damag-
ing themselves Champaign (In) I'm
| aon.
Judge Stallo, of Ohio, one of the get
ters up of the Cincinnati movement, has
written letter.. saying that he will not
vote for j Judge Davis no matter by whom
he is nominated. He clinches his declar
alton by remarking that ''the only reason
L could think Of for desiring to promote
Judge Davis to the P. esidency would lie
the expediency Of removing him from Il e
bench" Judge Stallo canrot support
Horace Greeley for reasons, he says, ST.
milar to those which compel him to re-
pudiate the Labor Reform cand date.
A bold, bad man may conduct an un-
just raid, and, if successful, profit there
by; but when he fails miserably, as Carl
Schurz has failed. and stands with moth
ing but his rags of conceit, vanity, spite,
and faithlessness to cover his nakedness,
we scarcely think he can have mag netism
enough left to draw true German Ame. :
cans to bis support. PttsJurg Ga@ctie.
It is reported that not single melnl er
of Congress will attend the CinciI natl
Convention, and but three Senators.
However Liberal the new party may
be in princi piles, it is decidedly the oppo>
! site in numbers It is melancholy spec
tacle to contemplated is such deleful
failure,
| In speaking of the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, its prospects and projectors, the
GAINESVILLE Gazette says:
They may play with it and nibble at
it under the influence ofthe delusiou that
there is in it the control Of the presidency
at the other end of the line. When
parties can be organized on basis of
dissimilar sentiments by a class of men,
every one Of whom is a candidate for the
presidency then we may expect such
movements as that to be represented at
Cincinnati to possess vitality ani perna-
nence. In 1870 Mr.. Greeley denounctd d
the Missouri bolters with considerable
bitterness, Frequently the Tribune has
dealt heavy blows at men who, from 9th
er reasons than those which originate
in strict adherence to principle. assume
to dictate party policy, or failing in that, :,
abandon their friends and assist the enc
my. For to elect Republican by Demo-
cratic votes or for Republican admins
tration TO pursue course so antagonis-
| tic to the wishes of majority of its
friends as to become dependent upon
Democrats for support, to all practical IN
tent makes it Democratic Administration.
Reform is never accomplished IN that
way. When few men of advanced
thought on some of the questions OF the
day break away from party that con-
tains within its membership all the pro-
gressive elements in the country, and
unite with the conservatives or reaction
lists, they necessarily lose their influence
They may accomplish some personal end
but they cannot regenerate the mass of
inert matter with which they have unit
ed. nor csn they hrea he into it the breath
Of the life of thoughts which it has al
ways resisted. When The leopard chang
es his spots, Republican aims and pur-
poses can be effected in the national
councils by union with the Democracy.
Then and not till then.
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Globe writes gossipy letter
about the probable nominees Of the Gin
cinnati Convention He says