New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-16
LOST LENDERS.

The rumOrs of a possible surrender of the
Syracuse Convention to the initiation conspira-
tors of Ohio and Pennsylvania were doubtless
nothing more than an expression Of the popu-
lar feeling that the country is now standing
on the brink, of danger. All the signs of the
day point to the return of the Democratic
party to power. The vote of Maine shows
that the prevalent disgust with the Admins
tratiOn extends much further than the Opposi-
ton imagined. 1t has filled even the
remote rural districts where the noise
of Washington scandals rarely Denetrates,
and belief in the purity of the Republican
party has been held heretofore with all the
ardOr of religious faith. DisaffectiOn in the
back country of Maine is symptom OF gen.
eral breakup 1t is no wonder that men are
beginning to study the policy of the Democ-
racy on national questions with the utmost
solicitude, and that out of their rascally pro-
ceedings in Ohio and Pennsylvania has sprung
a crop of the most alarming and disgraceful
reports.
The truth is, up to this time the progress Of
the rag-money madness has met with no earn
est opposition from any source whatever. The
infationists OverpOwered the Ohio Convention
cratic leader in the State surrendered. They
imposed their policy upon the Pennsylvania
Convention, and there too was enacted
the same scene of cowardly and dis
honorable trucking. And what have
the Republicans done Z In Pennsylvania
they have put up Ring ticket so bad that
the whole State will laugh at them whenever
they talk of honesty in any form. In Ohio
they have tried, until within few days, to
shirk the money question and lead the cam
paign into false issues, so seeking to save
offices for themselves at the cost of irrcparable
injury to the honor and prosperity of the ma
ton. From one end of the Union to the other,
not solitary Republican of commanding in
Huence and recognized position in the party
has appeared to lead the fight of honest men
against the demagOgues, rOgues, and half
cracked doctrinaires who are driving headlOng
toward ruin. What has become of the lost
leaders
The Republican masses may well survey the
situation with alarm when they find that the
mismanagement and recklessness OF the Adj
ministration have left them at crisis like
this without commander. Who, of all their
chief men in Congress or the executive offices,
can strike the key note of policy for them, or
rally their half broken ranksi They had no.
body to send into Maine except Senator Nor
ton, who is moro thoroughly identified than
any other man in public life with the Odious
measures which have brought the party into
disrepute. Boutwell, is involved in the same
disgrace as Morton. DelanO dare not take the
stump for fear Of damaging his own side.
| The leaders of three years ago are politically
dead-destroyed by Credit MObilier, or the
Louisiana usurpation, or the Force Bill, or the
Outrage Fraud. The survivors of remOter
and purer generation of politicians have been
driven into exile. Mr.. Copkling could only
help the campaign in New-York by keeping
away from the Convention; and when the
party in this State undertook to make the best
possible show for itself in desperate circum-
stances, it could think Of no better means
than sending all its leaders to the rear and
passing pointed condemnation of the course
of its own Administration. Here is the result
of six years of Grantism the party is drifting
upon the rocks and there is nobody at the
helm. Where will it be in 1851