The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-01-04
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THE NEW IORK DEEOCH.ICY.

! pcnsc Of solid merit.
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| THE NEW IORK DEEOCRICY.
| a Highly Successful Meeting and Reor.
| gnnizntIon.
NEW YORK, December 28.-The re-
organization and union mass meeting
at Cooper Institute, under the auspices
OF the Brunswick Hotel Committee
and the Young Mems Democratic
| Club, was well attended tonight by
those interested in the reorganization,
OF tho Democratic party in this State.
John e. Dcvlin opened the meeting.
The object OF the meeting lie said, was
to again raise the party to its proper
| sphere, and that object was entitled to
the support Of all true Democrats,
whose hearty sympathy il was ncccssa-
~ TO have to insure success.
Franklin Edscn was elected Drcsid-
ing officer. Among the vice presidents
were Geo. W. Lane, Samuel -. Bah
cock, David NJ. Stone, Charles A.
Dana, Henry l.. IIoyuct. Allen Camp
bell, Wm. n. Beach. Wm. II. Apple
ton, Pierre Lorilard, Abram S.
Hewitt, l.. j. N. Stark, James W.
Gerard, Daniel i. Ticman, Oswald
Ottcndorter, Wm. Henry IIurlbut,
Charles S. Fairchild, Simon Stcrnc,
Wm. G. Whitney, Erastus Brooks,
Robert Is. Roosevelt and s. L. NJ. Bar
low, and most of them occupied seats
Oh the platform.
Resolutions were read and aloDtcd
declaring that the late defeat OF tho
Democratic party could have been
avoided and victory secured but for tho
unfortunate disScnsiols in its ranks in
the city and county of New York; that
the voice Of tho people had not been
1cit IN the selection ofcandidatcs, and
could not, under existing oryaniza-
tions, find expression; advocating full
and free elections, honest count, and
all measures which opposed the right
OF Federal officials to make arbitrary
arrests on the eve Of election, use Of
troops at the polls, and any intcricr-
cncc which impaired the right OF sul-
iragc; declaring that the Democratic
party opposed unnecessary ccntraliZa-
ton OF power: that the army of office
holders and the established practice of
compelling them to contribute money
towards carrying elections were
iraught with the greatest danger to the
State; that the tariff issue should be
more sharply defined, and that the
Democratic party should cease to
compete for the support and votes OF
those who do not believe in freeing
our commercial Legislation from its
contradictory and obstructive fca-
lures; that to restore our maritime
power American citizens should be
permitted to buy or build ships for the
foreign trade in any part of the world,
and obtain from them American regis
tcrs; that Congress has no power in
time OF peace TO attach q lcGul-tendcr
quality to any other currency than
gold or silver; that the triumph OF
these principles was certain when they
were not suborlinatctl to local inter
cstS, private ends or personal ambi-
ton. The resolutions ended by. pro-
viding for tho appointment Of a COM
mittcc of fifty to reorganiZc the party
upon popular basis after consultation
with tho Democratic State central COM
mittce.
One of the principal speakers was
Ahram s. Hewitt. lie said neither
Garfield nor Hancock had obtained Il
majority OF the popular vote at the late
election, and he laid the Democratic
defeat to the schism in the New York
City Democracy. Eleven thousand
votes in this city would have changed
the result in the city, State and United
States, and had the city Democracy
been united, more than the needed
votes would have been obtained. lie
rcpulintcd Tammany Hall and did not
accept Irving Hall, but argued that n
new Democratic organization should
be formed out Of the best elements OF
those factions and Of those who held
aloof from both.
The other speakers were John r.
Fellows, Rufus Pcckham and Town
send Cox. The list Of the committee
OF fifty was then named, and COM
priscs nearly all Of tho above list of
vicc-prcsidcnts, with others equally
prominent.
HOME AND IT'S QuEEN.-Thcrc is
probably not an unpcrvcrtcd man or
woman living, who does not feel that
the sweetest cnnsOlatious and best re-
wards OF life arc found in the loves
and delights Of home. There arc very
few who do not feel themselves in
dcbtcd t. the influences that clustered
around their cradles for whatever
good there may be in their characters
and condition. Home, based upon
Christian marriage, is SO evident an
institution Of God that man must
become proianc TO deny it. Wherever
1t IS pure and true to the Christian
idea there lives an institution conscr-
Vatlvc of all the noblcr instincts OF
society. or this realm woman is thc
queen. 1t takes the cue and hue from
her. If she is in The best sense wo-
man!y-if she is true and tender. lov-
ing and heroic, patient and sclC.dc-
Votcd-Sho consciously and uncon-
sciously organizes and puts in opera
ton set Of influences that do more
to mould the destiny Of the nation than
any man, uncrowncd by power OF
eloIucncc, can possibly effect. The
men Of the nation are what mothers
mate them rs Il rule; and the voice
that those men speak in the expression
OF power is the voice of the women
who bore and bred them. There ca,
be no substitute for This. There is nc
| other possible way i'm which thc ,vo.