New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-26
THE NEW PARTY DISCUSSION
VIEWS FROM VARIOUS QUARTERS.

vvov 20 -ocIntate such movement would be for the
Democratic party TO dissolve, which b OF course I'M
practicable are var0usly commented o. thou0h receV
ing in the main the assent OF the OF tho country
The World Of this city, which aspres between spells 70
be Democratic organ Is the only journal that exhibits
anger at the suggestion OF the dissolution OF tho Demo-
cratic party and perhaps its circumstances jushy the
feeling 1t expressed itself somewhat warmly upon tho
subject az follows:
These outsiders who rant for dissolution Of tne 1e
ocratIc Organization would learn IL they oonld get
access 20 Democratic audience, that the party was
lees inclined TO adopt or tolerate tne nOnons
was an blunder. Instead OF being prepared 70
go further n the same direction sae PSs e8
pertinent never had anything To- recommend pus an
o6shy burn s fingers By putting them into the same
fire. He must yerdaut politician indeed VINO THINKS
this promising time TO convince Ihs snas
heller II they had failed last year 10 spite Of good
.s saf p gasg 1'ST We sp
we have taken your medicine once and do not doDt AZ
all that the larger dose you now propSge SotS dsesse
and patient .
whereat the Hon. A. H. Stephens OF Georgia makes 1t
cheerful for The World in The Atlanta SHa by giving u
his approval aud adding :l.l Fi
But who would have thought 10 months ago. thst the
superciousy berated one behind the age far re-
:" Bourbon who could learn nothing and forget no
thing" would soon be brought to the open confession
recommend II but an impatient hope OF SUGGEST Very
The World moves, and verify ian honest
good for the SOUL"
The Sprinaed Republican, in reply to The Worlds re-
mark upon this head, that "H seems more honest ana
respectable to display our own coors and elmer WIZ
success or go to the bottom with truth nying az the mast
instead of skuklng under an alias" says Ut quite
agrees with The World in preferrng honesty 10 hypoc
rsy and in deprecatng the Of false Tags but ADDS
quite pertlnently: 49,.
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the Cincinnati platform last year. was an lnsncere
trek knays dodge e get power and once , nnae Of
its purpose The Republican has not hitherto thougnt or
spoken OF 1t 10 that Lights IL st believe that the Dem
ocratic masses honest and patriotic enough IN what
they did however the case may have stood WIN some Vi
their qls0nddIa leaders.
or its own views as to new parties, The Republican
Gays:
For the rest II may add that It has present dspos
ton purpose to take passage In any party ra new
or old hece. that It's interest in this matter OF
this that set Of men shalt hold the seems 70
Il 70 U @ Tsy s ss soWS Of an opposition
representing and In good time enforcing return 10 hrs
principles in politics. legislation and government, seems
10 il question OF some considerable Importance. 1t has
merely said that there s Widespread ana deepseaseq
disrust Of the present Democratic organzat0n .nas
ing against human rights war policy when lhe mass
OF the people approved, and reeonstr1ctl0n pOcy IN
situation lastly that the continued presence IN
the field Of this party prevents I e raD and is
thus Of invaluable help to tho Republican leaders in
war party In this country has presently disappeared
from politics, 1t did not seem 10 very presampt
might perhaps be expected to follow suit
The Albany EreRing Journal says, with approval, bat
not without something Of the tome OF organ IN It's
treatment OF the subject:
THE TRIBUNE has struck vein OF sound political PIN
osophy-the valuable and Impressive as reached
through its experience last year IN the effort TO or
gsnze new party II our cotemporarg ma eylnced INC
same perception year IL might have been spared
the error IL committed and the failure II encountered
But let that pass The point OF present interest Is that
THE TRIBUNE longer shares the delu0n or those VINO
were IFS yokeellOws In that campaign and recognizes
the folly OF the revived talk about new party 10 has
nOregard fOT the Republican OrganZato on III would be
glad TO see destroyed and another party erected upon
s ruins But in this its feeling DIES not betray its
Judgment.
The time for the discussion has not come IN its opinion
for the that Notwithstanding the very sharply
defined differences between the Administration party
and its Opponents argeV superficial after all
they furnish fundamental question or principle upon
which poitical party could found peImanent orSan
distinct policy or principles t ~ true But y woum
be more that the difficulty lies IN the fact
that the Republican party alone possesses any postye
pies and policy, while those of the opposition con
sst i'm mere negaliOns An old party rarely succeeds
and no new is built upon negatons. The Dem
Ocratc organization has no other policy but that OF IN
discriminate opposition. The loose, outlying elements
which attempted coalition with IL we're mpeled by DO
principles IL was thus as inevitable thar the eomona-
ton should fail that the old opposition should continue
hopeless. The conditions OF new party did not
exist aud do not now The people saw no reason for
change.
The Harrisburg PENN Sl4te Journal treats the
matter ia "a lofty style quite becoming In the organ
OF the party which carried Pennsyyaua by such
as IL well knows Of It says OF Liberal Republicans aud
Democrats:
They come under the same ban-tbe same rebuke has
Inundated both aud put mark on eGcb like unto that
which sent Cain vagabond over eaTth, warning that
he could not be trusted. How can a new party be
formed of sueh materia Asd general rule 1t Is the
and the wise, leaving corrupt organization,
who are able TO form nov party But IN this case the
and ba patri naVA an
tratoous orth and those are the men who now propose
TO organize new rarty 1t Is prepoSterous to think
Of IL.
The Syracuse Standard, in a very calm and sensible
ticle, supports THE TRIBUNEs position, and says:
We have not been able from the public sentiment
which has manifested itself there Is any immediate
prospect the Institution OF new party. desirable as
this might be deemed There apathy In the Republican
tom That the ReVsbear leaders should be warned by
this apathy, that they should take prompt measured TO
and censurS the evil essation for which it is largely
responsible, the Jaess evident propositions OF the
publican party save ITSELF Whether 1t has the bravery
and prudence 10 do this Is very auestionabe but II IL
OF the people against its managers will the form
OF Oper hostility to Its continuance In power; IL
among The masses that it will yet justify the reasonable
s the oTe TO Of s sraaS
which still felt for rs past la6ors IN saving the Unon
party indeed afflicted with fell disease. but disease
whose diagnosis does not yet demonstrate IL to be In
eurable. Tue RepuDlean party may commune 70 i've ior
many years but IL must subject Itself 70 heroic treat
meut IL Il would have the ailments which weaken II
bscOme chronic, and lead 70 inevitable dissolution. Nor
does ri Democratic party show signs OF Immediate dis
SOLUTION I'm, World had Mandatory article upon De-
mocracy the other us which not unjusty claimed for
born refusal to die during the sst ten or Twelve years
during which t has many lines been most erievously
wounded The exact discipline the faith IN olden ira
ditions certain inconroyerIible theories OF govern
ment It has entertained, the admirably courage OF us
membership, mas kept Il together when>pllnost any
other association, under the same elroum 'anses o
hardship would long ago have disbanded IL Is sruy
reasonable to suppose that It will deliberately con-
nit suicide when begins 70 entertain hopes OF ut-
mate success founded upon the errors OF the Repub-
leans and the few local triumphs they have recently
acheYed. which lis lonrAs ara lnter-