St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-20
THE NEW PARTy CRANK.


party on the free-trade issue. like all other
attempts of late years TO create new parties,
will Idle a bornin'." 1t will 20 the way of
the Greenback party, the Prohibition party.
the Woman Suffrage party. the BRICK Pom
ERoY party, the BEN BUTLER party, and
all other similar organizations. For some
time 10 come all the great political issues
will be fought out and decided by the pOlit-
zeal parties which now contest for suprem-
acy i'm the government. Politicians do not
create parties. The people do that. and
whenever the emergency arises demanding
the creation of a new party, popular senti-
ment crystalizes the movement and the poll
ticians fall into line afterwards.
The attempt OF the projectors of the new
party movement TO coquette with Mr.. Nor
RIsON, and induce him To accept the leader
ship, with promise of the presidential
nomination in 1883. is without any special
significance. So far as practical results are
concerned, it doesn't make q particle of
difference whether Mr.. MORRISON goes
into the new movement or stays out. Bigger
men than Mr.. MORRISON have led off in
new departure movements without creating
a ripple on the current of political events.
BUTLER and GREELEY are notable illustra-
tons of this. But, so far as Mr.. Nor
RIsON is individually concerned. he is prob
ably too old bird to be caught with chaff.
and is not going to be tempted into death
trap. The Washington correspondent of
the New York Sun has outlined a more i'm
portant program for Mr.. MORRISON. Ac-
cOrding to that authority, MORRISON and
CARLISLE have figured out a policy for
the Democratic party by which the fol-
crum of political action is TO be transferred
from New York to either the state of Hi
nOis and Kentucky. and to put the Democ-
racy of the Mississippi valley in control of
the party organization. Another part of
the scheme is to make Mr.. CARLISLE the
presidential candidate i'm 1888, with Mr..
MORRISON and Mr.. WATTERsoN as general
managers. The West is to be attracted
TO the program by making free
trade conspicuous in the platform,
while the East is TO be held i'm place
by favoring the suspension of silver coinage.
1t is cited as an evidence that this scheme
is incubating that Speaker CARLISLE has
packed the coinage committee in the inter
est of the gold bugs and Wall street wreck
ers in the face of the fact that large ma
jority of the Democrats of the house are
opposed to the demonstration of silver.
To the ordinary observer this looks like a
pretty cranky program. Without any in
tentiOn to dscredit the source from
which the information comes, we
confess that we are inclined TO the
! opinion that there must be some mistake
about it. 1t is possible that to man of
Mr.. MoRRIsoN's sanguine nature there
may be gllttering evidences OF future politi-
cal preferment and distinction Just ahead
involved in a scheme of this kind. but TO a
cOol-headed man like Mr.. CARLISLE it must
have very funny if not very foolish
aspect. AS the matter now stands Demo-
cratic supremacy rests upon New York.
New jersey, and Connecticut in con-
junction with the Southern states.
If the new-fedged MORRISON program pro-
poses to ignore the solid South entirely and
to kick New York and New Jersey and
Connecticut out of the way, where does it
propose 10 gather strength for its new
establishment The West may take kindly
enough to free trade, but it will not join
with the CARLIsLE-MoRRIsON faction i'm
its crusade against silver. So. after look
ing the whole field over. we are forced to
the conclusion that the new party move
ment is vanity and that the reported CAR
LIsIE- MoRRIsoN-W ATTERsoN cOmbina-
ton is a myth. The country is well
enough satisfied with Democratic adj
miniStration TO let matters remain in statu
quo. The nimble capers of self-constituted
party leaders may amuse the public. but
they will have no perceptible effect on dis
turbing party relations.