The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-10-07
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PARTY RECONSRTCTION.
Is Tbers . .Conspiracy Between fhe
Democratic and Republican Hard
Money Leaders:-The CODtrae-
ton ProgfaInRne for 1875, .
New YORK corresppndcnce Of the. Zinc
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New York ccrfespeh'lcnee Of the Cincinnati
The harH-tt10ney leaders, headed by
Gov. Tilden;- WIS Is himself worth
several millions; hre'the men Of money
in the Deliberate patty. Thes are
shrewd, as such Iieh Usually are.
Heretofore all they really. cared for
was, that the platforms Of the two par
ties should be conservative on the
money question, whatever its particu-
lar shape at the time. Their money
interests were then, Safe, no matter
which party got bBwer. They now
see they will have to Heal with a new
condition of affairs. They have ITO
doubt of the election of Allen vi Ohio
and Pershing in Pennsylvania. They
have no doubt of carrying New York
on the Syracuse. platform. The tide
has been running strong against the
Republican party, which has really
become nothing but Gfantism, for
years now. Their defeat this fail
in the three greatstItes of Ohio, Penn
svlvania and New York, will he virtu:
ally. the end of the Republican par
ty. The questions with Republicans
will be, where isliaK We 60? The I'll
den managers of the Syracuse Cdhven.
! tim are not. the only ones who see
~tat is coming Heading Republi-
cans acknowledge that the etH Of their
party is drawing high The fight thai
is now making, particularly in Ohio,
is one of despair. 1t isthe dying strdg-
gle: They admit that their defeat in
those three leading States is an end of
the partS.a ind they have no hopes VI
CARRYING either. What thenY
Ohio and Pennsylvania, with other
Western States, ard all or nearly all
delaware and Maryland cut1 the
Southern States, will be able tocontrol
the Democratic National Convention
Of 1875. ans en- PITT their pdbGlar
mdiios plank into tie platform The
Thden managers see that. Now vii
COME in flreirstrqtegy. The Republi:
can party is denidralized and ready I'd
fall 10 pieces, abFits iiiembers readA
to 90 wherever the affinities shall at
tract them. Not Il third party, buta
new pat,t, will be formed by the
"hard, n,6ney secede,s" from the Deih-
ocratic National Convention, headed
by Gov. -Tilden, which will dram to It
all of the RepublicanpartS that is in
accord with the Iildeh leaders on the
money question; the balance-minori-
ty or majority-will gravitate toward
the regular Democracy. The Repub-
lican party will+A,s appear; as did the
Wing party, lis members going sotne
TO the Republicans, some 10 the DefH-
Ocraac party. the new party will be
called, very likely, Democratic Repnb-
Ecan; ard it Will assume IL be the par
ty of property, of conservatism, If re-
form; of responsibility, Of strong gov
ernhient. 1t will seek 70 array on ITS
side the wealth; the aftstoctacy, the
army and navy, and all who want to
be ranked among the distinguished of
the country. The regular Democratic
party will be whatthe snobs have al
WAYS called it, the party of the com.
mon people, and viii be denounced as
in the days Of jefferson, as the party
Of Jacobins, sans-cnloaes, Agrarians,
Communists, Responsiveness. The
new pnrty's underlying, idea will be: