The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-22
The Newest " New Party.o

, The Newest "New Party"
In McWade's version of " Rip Van
Wrinkle" the latter is made to say in his
gratitude to Derrick Won Beekman /:
!" For this kindness vat you do me !
shust change my dog Snyder's name,
and I calls him Derrick" This CRATE
full proceeding on the part of Rip did
not alter the appearance of Snyder, how
ever, for he was the same ungainly,
sneaking-looking cur he was before. A
band of patriots has been in consulta-
ton at Columbus for couple of days
past who propose to render the same
service to their country that Rip did to
his friend. For the support which they
hope to obtain they will change the
name of the Democratic party, and they
will call it ".Anti- Monopoly. But a
leopard cannot change his spots, and
this party cannot change its .distin-
g,lishing characteristics. The conven
tion was q gathering of the same old
fossils and their pupils, who have made
the Demicratic name cdious. Almost
the first one that meets the eye is the
name of ex-senator George E. Pugh, a
relic of antique Democracy, of the
woman whipping, children selling and
slavery extending era, who has been long
since forgotten by every one but his
personal enemies, and who is brought
forward now like swathed mummy
from the catacombs of Egypt to give
"tone "Or "flavor" to the assemblage.
Then follows Judge Caldwell, jolly old
Democrat, of ante-bcllum, who takes
his toddy regularly and often, and OBJ
serves ell the other requirements of o
good Democrat of the Nasby school.
Chiffon A. White, who was prominently
mentioned in connection with the noml-
nation for Governor, is lawyer and an
other old Democrat. Ewing, Cunning
ham and Lowe are all of the same ilk.
BrinkerhOff was Chairman of the Liberal
State Committee and, as administrator
of the estate of that deceased party, Is
supposed 20 be authorized to close out
the effects of that organization to the
best advantage /; but at any rate to close
them out. These are the representative
men of the "new party" movement in
Ohio. A dispatch to a morning paper,
written in advance of the construction OF
the platform, says the convention would
probably ignore the fact that there
was political yesterday. We should
think so. If there is anything that they
naturally desire more than another, it is
to "ignore the political yesterday" :"
But it will not be ignored. They may
fall to cursing their old organization
like very drsbs, but
"They cannot kill the past some way
They cannot shut the door
That stands between what they are now
And what they were BEFORE
II their ancestors had all been hung,
the Democratic party could not be
more anxious to "ignore their history
than now, but there are so many incon-
venient memories that the political
yesterday Will hardly be forgotten.
Aping the foolish ostrich, however,
the Democratic party hopes to escape
detection by hiding its head and, like
the organ of the new movement in Chi
cago, the convention at Columbus courts
| confidence by telling what unapprOacha-
BILE rascals its members have heretofore
been. According to Mr. Cunningham,
the Sairy Camp of the new birth, the
| two parties have heretofore been fortifi-
cations into which the robbers have re-
treated with their plunder therefore,
he proposed TO organize new party
composed of the old robbers and others,
in the vain and illogical supposition that
fresh deal" las tho Liberal Demo-
cratic papers, with q charming attach
ment to their favorite terms, call the
redistribution of things)wi make every
thing honest and lovely. The Demo-
cratic party, "says the organ in Chicago,
"has not been associated with progress
and reform, but rather with conserva-
tism, corruption, and despotism." And
it might have truthfully added We
have done all VIC could to fasten this
corruption and despotism on the com-
try, but failed and now we propose,
in company with others who have been
engaged in the same business, to as
sumo the role OF the saint for the reason
that We failed in the character of sin
ners, and lead the children of Israel out
| of the wilderness.
| ''WlIen the devil was sick
| The devil monk would be;
'r' When the devil got well, +;
The devil q monk was no."
| The old Democrats and Liberal Re-
publicans are just now engaged in play
ing the monk most assiduously, but
let them once succeed and the cloven
foot will be again displayed in all its
frightful deformity. 'H
This newest "new party" movement
eliminated yesterday in the nomination
of Mr.. Isacc G. Collins, of Hamilton
county, for the Office of Governor and
tho adoption of n platform. The can
didate and the platform nre about
equally pointless. That is to say, the
| candidate is comparatively unknown Ia