Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-16

xxxmovoN, no. .
WEDNESDAY,. July 10. 1871
The Parties OF tho Future.
The year ~surcccdiHg a presidential
campaign has hitherto been, ut least
10 The masses, a comparatively dead
year In American politics. Tho vic.
tors have found in tho division aud
distribution Of the spoils, ample aud
congcniai employment, whilst the
vanQuished have been content to settle
down into the negative attitude OF
nero opposition, trusting 10 tho am
plo time intervening before the mex,
great contest, TO furnish them will.
che. material Tor another and o
~saccsssf0l canvass. New combine
tiohs or the presentation OF new
issues In of years has been regarded
with disfavor by the most sagaciou.
and experienced party leaders, as
tending to prejudice after efforts in
that behalf, when. the public temper
might reasonably be expected 10 6e il.
better condition, aud the moro abun-
dsat and Of better quality. Local
elections at such times have either
goae.by default, or have turned upon
the merits of rival candidates, o,
e%xtraneous and non-partisan, 1ues.
lions. The current years has been,
40 far. altogether exceptional, and
the remaining months Of it are likely
TO abound In events which will cxer,
apowerful. il not a decisive Influence
on the composition and course OF
future parties. The last presidential
canvass was in many material respects
exceptional, if not anomalous, and its
rcsults-a n neither satisfactory nor
acceptable toa majority Of those who,
by their votes, swclled tho owe
whclming majority Of the successful
candidate. This is unmistakably mani
tested in the political restlessncss
which for some months has prevailed
and still prevades the W,st aud
Northwest. The farmers of Illinois
and Iowa who voted with So mucl,
ananmity for General Grant and
four years moro of. Republican rule,
proclaim within a few months after
his Inauguration their condcmna-
tn Of nearly all the distinctive prin-
ciples by which his administration
has hitherto been guided aud in nc.
cordance with which he and his
friends propose 10 conduct it in the
future. This condemnation would
doubtless have been uttered in due
time and effectively expressed al
the ballot box if these mcu could have
emsncipated themselves from tho
tyranny of prejudice and party, and
voted according to the plain dictates
OF their common sense and the expe-
rience of their everyday life. This
fact many of them doubtless realize.
and hence they seek in new combina.'
lions, ostensibIy. for redress Of local
grievances, the solution of the great
problem of free government under
just and equal laws. Tho bone and
sinew of the old Democratic body is
still sound and vigorous, and read, |
for action. Those principles of ad-
ministraton under which the country |
grew iii two generations from feeble |
infancy to robust age, from primitive
poverty to great aflusnce, whilst
providing for every emergency and
protecting all classes and,conditions,
with equal and exact laws, are d.
sound to day as they were forty years
ago, and are just as susceptible of ap-
plication to the existing diseased con-
dition as they were in 1915 and. 1874.
The faith of the intelligent Democrat
who comprchends his political creed
is not easily shaken, and if he is guild
ed, as we believe the mass of them
are, by an honest aud patriotic desire
for u just distribution of the burdens
of government, he will not be led
away into any more crooked and un-
known paths of expcdiency. The
late movement on the part OF the AL
len county Democracy of Ohio, in
calling for o great state convention
on the S0th of July for theipurposc OF
organizing a new party, de only All
expression of the iutense anxiety
which possesses the public mind rcla-
tive to the future, and an earnest de-
sire to make provision for it before il
Shall be too late. The state Of Ohio
is o prolific Of democratic politi-
clans than it is of leading democratic
ideas, and we predict even within that
state . more careful scrutiny of this
movement and its possible fruits
than was given to q departure which
had the distinction of originating
there, was duly branded "new," and
speedily went back on it's authors,
being utterly uncurrent and non-
leading. The movement, provided
the cali is generally responded to
throughout the state will be produc-
tive of much good, in showing the
drift of sentiment and the status
and opinions of representative and
leading men. Agitation is now in
order, and the o agitation VIC have
the better will VIC. be prepared for
action when tue time for action ar
rtves. Democrats will hold to their
organization until it shall become
evideut to them that to hold longer
will result only in defeating the meas
ures for Tho practical application of
which the organization is now aud
has been hitherto maintained. This
will probably not become evident if
the 5000. 600 of voters who have borne
up ahdrr adversely for thirteen years
will continue constant in tho faith
which has SO long sustained them.
A revolution Is certainly impending,
and the party which in the days of its