The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-22


tendant on such criminal speculation, how
Fair dealers, forced to buy at exorbitank
rates, suffer In the inevitable decline, and
thus the ruin becomes widespread, including
the innocent with the culpable among it's VIC.
Tins. 1t is to be hoped that the conclusions
of this last Chicago corner will admonish
the speculative operators in oil the great sta-
pies to caution.
Colonel Blanton Duncan and the
Bourbon Democratic Movement.
The spicy and graphic report published in
yesterday HERALD, from Louisville corre-l
spondent, of an interview with Colonel BIan-
ton Duncan, the chief engineer of the Bour-.
bon democratic movement, has created quite @
sensation among the Grant and Greeley poli->
ticians. The Grant men chuckle over tho
revelations of this report touching the numerr,
GUS old-liners who are in favor of the straight,
out democratic ticket proposed in the call Of
the Louisville Convention Of the Sd of Sep
TENDER, while the democrats, who have COR
daily joined hands under the banner OF,
Greeley with the liberal republicans pooh
party movement as the vainglorious boasting
Of noisy politician, who is destined to ex-
plode on or about the Sd Of September like a.
gas bag. The Grant men profess to be Salts,
fed from Duncan's numerous sympathizing
democratic correspondents that Duncan has
sounded the knell of Greeley, while the Greeley
men are as well convinced that Duncana
forth so h,,t CT obo
contrived by the administration party man. 5
ayers, and that, like the Woodruff and Claflin
Convention and the Fifth Avenue Free
Traders Convention, this Louisville straight
out democratic affair will hardly rise to the
dignity Of a nine days wonder.
AT all events our graphic Louisville report-s
er's report Of Colonel Duncan and of his ex-,
forthcoming Bourbon Democratic Convention
brings out this bold and dashing Kentuckian
into bold relief as something more than nine
days wonder. And from our reporters PEN
and ink portrait of the enthusiastic son Of
chivalry we judge that he is the very man to-
conduct such movement as this of the forlorn
hope of the straight-out democrats to the "lase
it appears that Colonel Blanton Duncan is a.
little over six feet high in his slippers, is some-
what staggering in his gait and wears his
clothes loose and comfortable; that he ia
portly blonde, with clever face and is just
turning his first half-century; that his fore
head is high and his face physiognomically
fine; that he has rather large bluish-gray
eyes, a well-set Roman nose that is neither
large nor small, well-cut mouth, full
beard; that his general appearance lacks q
little Of being imposing, and his talk is free,t
decided and self-confdent; that in physical
energy he has few superiors, and that onca
interested in cause, as he is in the Bourbon
movement, he is one Of its most indefatigabla
workers. IL
1t is not, therefore, surprising to hear that
Colonel Duncan has been and is working like
beaver to make his Louisville Bourbon Con-
vention 80 clap of thunder to the Greeley
coalition" But still, as something more than
sympathizing letters and protestations Of in
dignant democrats is needed to organize a
third Presidential party in the eleventh hour
of the day, we adhere to our original impress
sion that Colonel Duncan's Louisville move
ment will only be another flash in the pan, or
that his programme will be reversed by tha
sober second thought Of the Convention in the
endorsement Of the Cincinnati candidates on
by a division Of the body into two parts-ona
part for Grant and Wilson and the other for
Greeley and Brown. If q straight democratio
ticket is to be the fruit Of this tree it will
doubtless be the ticket Of O'Conor and Dunn
con. In this event what will they or what can
they do with it2 That is the question.
The Labor Rcformers' Convention. =,
The labor reformers are to meet in
national convention at Philadelphia to-day.
This is political guerilla party which has
been operating in New Hampshire, Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut for several years
past, but which has made no impression any
where as a balance Of power except in the
New Hampshire election Of 1871, when, as 4
third party in that closely divided State as be-
tween republicans and democrats, 1t gave thu
victory to the democrats. These labor re-
formers, however, for this Presidential CON-
test were the first in the field, with their
Columbus (Ohio) National Convention of
February at which they nominated judge
Davis and Governor Parker as their ticket as