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

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ment. Some pretend that the horse has
n bad constitution or is sick. Others
call it lack of vitality. I should call it a
lack of common sense in the Uranium of
his owner.
A Political Sensation.
WASHINGTON, March 1S.
I am enable to apprise the Tribune Of
political move of the first magnitude,
which the chief promoters are not yet
ready to announce, but the facts of which
reached your correspondent from perfect
ly authentic sources. 1t has been an
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 view to
promptly meeting what was even then
regarded as 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 considerable number of
Bourbon Congressman and State politi-
clans. Out Of that meeting has grown
the movement referred to, and it has
gained such impetus and dimensions,
especially in New York State and the
South, as to warrant the prediction that
it will prove a revolution. The move
ment involves the virtual abandonment
of the Democratic name and party frame.
work. In other words, a disbandment
of the Democratic organization and a
permanent furling of the flag. AS one of
the Southern leaders in the new departure
putt "The Democratic party is as dead as
julius Cesar, so far as concerns any hope
of again controlling the Government or
shaping the policy of the Nation. We
can shin along: from one campaign to an
other as a minority party, playing the
part of spy and critic on the successful
and governing party; but nothing more
and for one I've got no time or stomach,
for any such .----- nonsense. didn't go
into politics for, any such purpose, and
Tim 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 a Congress Republican in
both Houses will be accepted as the Ma
tion's final arbitration and disp' tion
of the subordinate questions left as leg
acy by the war, and the main elements of
the old Democratic party, putting the
past behind them, will appeal to the
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,
for a 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 rotection-No Special Priv
ileges." It will attempt to draw off from
the Republican ranks all who favor free
trade, and will endeayor to fill its sails
with the wind of antimonopoly and local
hostility to railroads abuses. The present
labors of ex- Congressman Frank Hurd, of
Toledo in travelling over the 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 response
bility, he is in fact the agent of the coali-
ton. Senator Thurman is known to
sympathise with with the new party idea
and there is scarcely Southern Con.
gresham below the age of 80 who has
not lent a friendly ear to the new gospel
of change.
There will shortly appear in number
of leading Western and Southern jour-
nails, nominally independent, with Demo.
cratic leanings, tentatives, articles and in.
teryiews with prominent Democrats, look
ing to this change of base and designed to
break the news gently to the rank and
file. Charles A. Dana and his New
York Sun, ex-Mayor Cooper, of New
York, and the World, of that city, the
Butler wing of the Democracy in Mas
sachusetts, Senator Pendleton and the
Cincinnati Enquirer, a majority of the
Kentucky delegation and the Louisville
Gdurier-journaE, both Senators Hampton
and Butler of South Carolina, are all
named as sure to take an early place in
the movement.
The detection of Malone and the adj
mitted fact that he can carry a majority
of the Virginia people with him have
given great stimulus to the new party
aboom," for it is recognized that a very
large and probably controlling element
at the South are on the verge of rebellion
against the hide-bound policy of the
Bourbon Democracy, and its is felt to be
wiser to join and direct this new current
than to resist and be overthrown by it..
It is part of the plan that the old guard
of the Democracy shall keep up an i'm
posing frent in Congress while the details
of the retreat are being carried on by the
subordinates in the rear, but the Demo-
cratic army is moving out of camp all the
same, and looking for a 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'
pected to be a stroke of genius and an
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