The Republican journal., 1873-08-07
Kew Party in Ohio.

A convention was held at Columbus
! Ohio, on Wednesday of last week, which
represents the plan Of Mr. Grosbeck, with
| the exception that the Democracy was not
| there as a mass-indeed it can scarcely be
| said to have been there at all. The Liberal
Republican element was there. with the
Grosbeck and Ewing democrats, what
| there are Of them, with any number of
patriots from the radical party, now will
ling and anxious for places in the new
movement rs well as offices hereafter
The platform adopted is very radical and
sweeping. 1t sets forth that both parties
have outlived the issues in which they had
their origin and their usefulness that the
Republican party is responsible for squan-
dering the public lands to private corpor-
ations, the Credit mobiler and other cor
ruptions, and the salarv-gra that the OBJ
iect of government is the protection of
person and property. and not the control
OF the business or the conscience of the
people; that there should be reduction
of offices and Federal patronage, and no
further fostering of railroad and other
| monopolies, and no election Of bank Off
GERS and railroad kings to Congress that
the tariff should make no determinations
for the benefit of particular companies at
the expense of the whole people; that To-
cal interests should be under local control :;
and that all laws which favor capital at
the expense of labor should be repealed.
The nominations were for Governor,
Isaac {. Collins, of Hamilton, Oem) :;
for Lieutenant Governor, A. Sanders Pratt,
of Logan, LiberaD for Attorney Gener-
al, Seraphim Meyers, of Stark, UibcraD :;
for Supreme Court Judges, p b. Ewing
Of Fairfield, Dem) and ID. W. c. Lon
,i"r of Brown GLiberaD; for Board of
Public Works, JAS. McBeth of Allen,
Oem); for State Treasurer, Jonathan
HarShman of Montgomery, Oem); for
Comptroller of Treasury. {. p. l.. Butler,
of Franklin.
The promoters of this movement hope
for democratic endorsement, or at least to
draw oft Il large portion Of the vote from
the regular nominations. But the new
party is not warmly received by the de-
mocracy. Senator Thurman opposes the
Columbus ticket, and says that his party
can give it no encouragement. The dem
ia all tba 81, I'M. Il
shoulder, and it is evident that the demo-
cratic party will move right along, as
though this ticket had never been put in
the field. The Cincinnati Enquirer, which
represents the democracy of Ohio, saws
The new party, Judging from our standpoint
does not come into the world under tlattcrn9
auspices. The men who stood as godtather> to
1t at Columbus yesterday may be earnest and
sincere, but they will be looked upon as pOliti-
cal adventurer>. Their desire to reform the POI
ilticS of the country may be intense. but their
promise is no greater than that of other politi-
cal organizations which will lift obscure men in
to place and notoriety. 1t is apparent TO an OBJ
server that the liberal element which co-opera-
ton with the democracy last Fall was but
slightly represented at Columbus yesterday
The rank and file OF the liberal republicans will
act with the regular democratic organization,
we take it, i'll counties where they have no or
Sanization of their own. To sum up, the new
party which comes to us with Il flourish of
trumpets is but "A weak and puny affair The
nleagp Convention, the indifference with which
its action is received and the character and an
tecedent> of the participants all 90 to prove that
the oft-repeated declaration that there was Il
great popular demand for Il new party was but
Il delusion and IA snare. 1t is not Il peoples
movement and it viii never become a peoples
party. The managers, through their platform,
propose nothing that cannot be obtained through
the regenerated, liberalized and modernizcd
democratic party. We look upon this move
ment now as but an insurrection among the quar-
termaSters and contractors OF the democratic
party. Their efforts will be mainly directed
against that organization; but it will rise supe-
rlor to their assaults. 1t is understood that the
founders OF the new party ask no utilization or
cooperation with the democratic party Let
Us see TO it, then, that they do not receive any.