The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-04-14
A Political Sensation.

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A Political Sensation
WASHINGTON, March 18.
1 am enable to apprise the Tribune of
a political move of the first magnitude,
which tho chief promoters are not vet
ready to announce, but the facts of which
reached your correspondent from perfect
iy authentic sources. It has been az
open secret that in less than forty.eight
hours after the result of the November
election was known an important con.
ference Of leading Democrats was held
in New York City, with O view to
promptly meeting what was even then
regarded az the final crisis in the career
Of the old Democratic party. At that
meeting. were no less than eleven men,
bers OF the National Democratic commit.
tee, besides q considerable number of
Bourbon Congressman and State politi-
clnns. Out of that meeting has grown
the movement referred to, and IL has
gained such impetus and dimensions,
especially in New York State and the
South, as to warrant the prediction that
1t will prove a revolution. The move,
ment involves the virtual abandonment
of the Democratic name and party frame
work. In other words, disbandment
of the Democratic organization and
permanent fur]ing of the flag. AS one of
the Southern leaders in the new departure
put 1t '"The Democratic party is as dead ms
Julius Cesar, go far as concerns any hope
of again. controlling the Government or
shaping the poiicyiof tho Nation. We
can shin along from one campaign to an-
other as o minority party, playing tho
| part Of spy and critic on the successful
and governing PARTY: but nothing more
md for one I've got no time or stomach,
| for .eny such --.-- nonsense. ! didn't 20
into politics for, a.. such purpose, and
I'm In for q change"
There is to be new party, and that be-
fore another congressional election. The
| new generation Of politicians at the South
| will come to the front; the election of
Garfield and Congress Republican in
both Houses will be accepted as the Ma
tion's final arbitration and disposition
| of the subordinate questions left rs leg
acy by the war; and the main elements Of
the old Democratic party, putting the
past behind them, viii appeal TO tho
country under new name, largely new
leaders, and on entirely new issues. 1t
is claimed and hoped by those who are
at the front of this movement that war
and negro questions finally and perma-
nently out of the way, the solidity of the
Republican organization will yield that
the time is ripe for recasting of parties,
J for fresh division of the people North
| and South by lines of political sentiment
| and opinion that have had no influence
whatever since 1860.
Appearances indicate that the chief
plank in the platform of the new party
| will be "No Protection-No Special Priv
ileges." 1t will attempt to draw off from
the Republican ranks all who favor FREQ
trade, and will endeayor to fill it's sails
| hostility to railroads abuses. The present
! Toledo in travelling overthe country and
organizing free trade leagues in each State
is in fact feeler for the new crusade.
and, while he is ostensibly working Of
his own accord and on his own respony:.
bility, he is in fact She agent of the coali.
tion. Senator Thurman is known to
Bympathise with with the new party idea
| and there is scarcely Southern Con-
gresham below the age OF so who has
not lent friendly ear to the new gospel
of change.
There will shortly appecr in number
! OF leading Western ard Southern jour
nails, nominally independent, with Demo.
cratic leanings, ten.atives, articles and in.
te views with prominent Democrats, look
ing to this change of base and designed to
break tho news gently to the rank and
| file. Charles A. Dana and his New
York San, cx-Mayor Cooper, of New
York, and the World, of that city, the
Butler wing of the Democracy in Mas
sachnsetts, Senator Pendleton and the
Cincinnati Enquirer, q majority of the
Kentucky delegation and the Louisville
| Courier Journal, both Senators Hampton
and Butler of South Carolina, are all
named as sure to take an early place in
the movement.
Tie detection of Malone and the ad-
lnltted fact that he can carry a majority
of the Virginia people with him have
given great stimulus to tho new party
"boom," for it is recognized that q very
large aud probably a controlling element
ut the South are on the verge of rebellion
against the hide-bound policy of the
Bourbon Democracy, and It's is felt to be
wiser to join and direct this new current
than to resist and be overthrown by it..
1t is part of the plan that the old guard
Of the Democracy shall keep up an i'm
posing front in Congress while the details
of the retreat are being carried on by the
subordinates in the rear, but the Demo.
traticarmy is moving out of camp all the
sane and looking for q place to hide
their uniforms. The name of the new
and future opponents of the Republican
party has not yet been born, but it Is ex.
rsc.sd to be stroke Of genius end an