The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-24

General Cary appears to have had his
Columbus Convention we'll in hand, for it
promptly adopted the platform he pro-
duced, which is certainly sufficiently ex-
IRENE to please the EXTREMIST infiationists
and sufficiently impractlcable and foolish
to frighten away all prudent and intelligent
voters who have anything to lose.
The Syracuse Convention spent yes
terday in listening to speeches. while
the Committee on Credentials labored
to decide which, if any, of the con-
testing New York delegations should be
admitted. The New Workers are not favor
ties with their country cousins; they are
called "shysters, and suspected ola design
to break up the Convention, and Mr..
JUNO bluntly told one of them, who
threatened fight, that if they began fighting
he was prepared to ''send them home in
boxes with ice around them" All the New
Workers were finally excluded, and most OF
them, with some delegates from Brooklyn
and the interior, late last night determined
to hold an Independent convention OF their
own. to meet to-day.
Among the speakers at Syracuse was Mr..
Troup, of New Haven, who said, what we
believe to be true, that the people have be-
come dissatisfied with both political parties,
and have lost confidence in the ability OF
the party leaders and their inclination to
establish necessary reforms. This general
dissatisfaction and want of confidence
forms, in fact, the main promise OF
strength to the various greenback,
labor reform and other organizations.
who are what dissatisfied religionists in
New England used to be called, ''come-
cutters" But it seems to us that neither
Mr.. 1roup nor any others of the greenback
and labor leaders have the wisdom to see
that to consolidate the dissatisfied ele-
ments into an effective party requires
that they shall adopt platforms and
put forth policies of q practical kind.
Mere wild balderdash, such as General
adopted, attracts only tramps and repels
sensible men, however they may be con-
WINGED Of the inefficiency of the old parties.
TO demand an unlimited and irredeemable
paper money, the payment Of the national
debt in such paper, the taxation of the ma
tional debt, the re-enactment of an income
tax, and other disgraceful vagaries of that
sort, is to drive sensible voters back into
the old parties, and to defeat the
very objects which, if they are sincere, the
reformers and 'come-outers" should have
at heart. The country is now in a condi-
ton when the repeal of only a few bad laws
would send it rapidly forward on new
career of prosperity. The nationals"
might do an important service if they had
wisdom and conservatism enough to pro-
pose certain practical reforms which are
generally conceded to be necessary. But
their organizations appear to have fallen
into the control OF men who, probably often
with good intentions, do not know enough
to guide their adherents in the right direc-
ton, and the result will be that the mass of
the people, who have something to lose,
will stick to the old parties, or if the fall
elections should show the nationals to be
unexpectedly formidable, will combine
in one party against them and beat them.
The country is not going to put itself into
the hands of the tramps.