Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-25
A BIG SCARE.
A New Prophet in Israel-The Sensation
Of the HOur-DisSOlutiO With
out Death.

! CHICAGO, June 24.-The Times of thi,
morning, in a double-leaded editorial
under the heading, "The Party of Ad.
vancement Makes the Party of the Flu
ture," takes the ground that the nomi
nation Of Greeley by the Baltimore Con.
vention is foregone conclusion, anC
that the result is due to the manipula-
tons of place-hunters and wire-pullers
who have as efectually packed the Bal
! timore Convention for Greeley as the
Philadelphia Convention was packed fol
! Grant. Such being the outlook, the
| Times says the nomination of Mr.. Gree
| ley at Baltimore will terminate the or
ganic existence of the Democratic
party. In that act the party organi-
zation will abdicate its functions, and,
of course, with such abdication the
idea of party allegiance 10 men,
candidates, or to conventions of such
allegiance, is due only to principles,
Party organizations are nothing but in
strumentalities by which some aggre-
gate Of persons seek to carry certain
principles into effect. When the ad.
ministration ceases to act for that pur-
pose, or is perverted by seheming indi.
viduals to a different purpose, such as
the nomination to Office of a declared
enemy Of the principles Of the party, it
ceases TO exist as a party authority.
The nomination or Endorsement of Mr..
Greeley at Baltimore will, therefore,
place no person holding Democratic
principles under the slightest obligation
TO cast his vote for Mr.. Greeley. IT will
be the disbandment of the party. and
the surrender of all its delegated author
ity to the members, who delegated il 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 to each individual, as shall seem lie.
The enemies of Democratic principles
have captured the Democratic organiza-
ton in order to WELD it for the destruc-
ton of the Democracy. The only hope
for the latter is in the formation of a
new party that will resurTect the Demo-
cratic principles; the resurrection of
these principles, under the banner of
the enemy, is impossible. The Demo-
Gratis might as well go to the Grant party
as to the Greeley party, as one is as
much the pronounced enemy of Demo-
cratic principles as the other" Passing
70 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 the city of
New York, and indorsesit as containing
vital doctrines of Democratic faith,
every plank expressing not only a vital
need of the time, but also of higher
and more advanced step in the progress
Of civilization, and concludes as follows:
" The time for the organization of the
party of the future il now as an organic
instrumentality Of progressive ideas, as
the nucleus around which will gather
men of earnest and enlightened pur-
poses as a means of rescuing from a con-
temptible fate the moral influence Of ad-
herance to principle. The vital need of
an organization for the future is upon us. y
The Times also eulogizes VIM. s. Groes-
beck, and asserts that his nomination at
Baltimore would insure the defeat of
Grant, while the endorsement Of Gree
ley assures Grants election.