Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-07
THE RUTLAND HERALD,
THURSDAY, AUGUST Z, 1878.
THE NEWEST PARTY.

we are so frequently Calieu upon W
record new political departure OF the
opponents of the staunch old Republlcan
marty. that we are getting confused over
the many schemes that are being pro-
iected as nucleus for the organized OPP
position of the future. Over a year ago
the convention assembled at Cincinnati,
adopted platform of principles for the
guidance of political action, that was
claimed by many brilliant minds, as per-
lection itself They nominated as candi-
dates of theInew party, the leading and
most revered journalist of the East, for
the first place upon their national ticket,
and gave the second position to the most
popular and enthusiastic leader OF public
oninion in the West. The arrangement
was perfect, the candidates were salts
factory, and the great tidal wave swept
on with irresistible power, and threaten
ed to absorb the affections of a great
people, by reason of its wisdom and pur-
ity. The venerable old Democratic par
ty, became suddenly purified, as by fire,
and deserving their old theories, joined
in the grand march for the spoils of of
flee, under a banner protesting to repre-
sent greater purity of official life, and
sounder principles of political faith.
With such a satisfactory scheme as
that of last year, it is somewhat surpris-
ing that the leaders of the tidal wave
movement should be so willing to sur
render the whole thing this year, and
rush 80 enthusiastically after something
else, and usually in an opposite direc-
ton. Why are not the cunning pre-
cepts of the Cincinnati platform as
sound and perfect doctrine this year as
last? The answer is easy, they do not
cheat the people, and their creators are
willing to acknowledge them to be a
delusion, while they call attention to
another fine drawn theory of political
perfection, devised and adopted for the
same purpose of imposing upon the peo-
pie of the nation, to carry some played
out politicians into power somewhere.
On Wednesday af this week two con-
ventions met at Columbus, Ohio, for the
nomination of State officers and laying
down platform of principles for their
respective parties in the State canvass.
The Liberal Republican was first called
to order, and with scarcely an organiza-
ton, adopted a resolution, agreed upon
in caucus the night before, to dissolve
their organization and unite with the
Allen county new departurists, Thus
passes away the great Liberal Republi-
can party of Ohio, to be followed in
other States as fast as the State conven-
tions can be held.
1t is too bad that so grand a scheme
should meet with such an untimely
death, with so few people deceived into
its support. Tie other convention was
named 'People's Convention" and
was called to order by T. E. Cunning
ham, the leader of this Allen county
movement, and in his opening speech he
said few words of consolation, in view
of the death of the Liberal party, and
then asserted that the condition of the
Republican and Democratic parties was
such that a new party was absolutely
necessary for the protection of the peo-
pie, as one would not, and the other
could not help the dear people in their
difficulty. George E. Pugh was made
chairman, and announced, upon taking
the chair, that he was a Democrat of
the deepest dye, but was willing to
unite with all honest CD men for re-
form. .......s... .r..
A full ticket of State officers was
nominated and a platform laid down for
the new ''Peoples party" This platform
was adopted with much enthusiasm, of
course, and declared against the infalli-
bility of party, and that it was the du-
ty of all citizens to support the best men
presented for official position regardless
of party affiliations; that the republican
and democratic parties have outlived
their usefulness that the republican
party is responsible for the "salary
grab, and all other evils of government !;
that economy and purity are virtues to
be cultivated. They were down on Ma
tional banks, and believed stockholders
in them ought to be ineligible to office.
Theirresolutionsw were strongly free trade
and denounced protection to home in
dustry, by means of protective tariff,
and finally eliminated in the eleventh
resolution, that it is the duty of govern
ment to repeal all laws that favor CAPT
ital to the prejudice of labor. Thus is
initiated in the powerful State of Ohio,
another of those clap-trap combinations
In behalf of hungry Office seekers; but
judging from the weakness of the last
great tidal wave, the republican party
of Ohio will have even less trouble, this
year than last, to overcome their enc
mics, and can easily keep their State in
triumphant accord with the great party
that has saved and successfully guided
the policy of the nation.