New-York tribune., 1891-12-19
THE NEW PARTY.

We rejoice to learn that "The Committee OF
Seven" are still at it, though we confess that we
are little disappointed that it has not grown
by this time to a committee of at least eight.
1t will be remembered, perhaps, that the original
call for the new party was issued by Com
mittee of Six" and that good men everywhere
were greatly encouraged by the fact that in less
than month the committee was enlarged to the
present Committee OF Seven" SO cordial and
enthusiastic response TO the trumpet-call OF the
committee seemed sure proof that the great pop
ular heart was in the right place and beating
with more or less regularity 1Or the cause OF good
government. 1t is not to be sonied that at the
beginning Of the movement there were persons
of naturally sceptical turn OF mind who said
the whole thing was too sudden, as it were, that
it was altogether too brilliant to endure, that
political parties do not originate in spontaneous
generation in short, that it had the appearance
OF fatuous Mugwumpery and the odor of an ad-
vertisement. But when it appeared that the
committee had rented q postoffce box and en-
larged itself to seven and was issuing circulars
and leaflets and printed matter of various sorts
in which cOnundrums of the most vital impOr-
tance to free institutions were hurled at the
effete parties of the old regime in way that
made their corrupt leaders scratch round in utter
bewderment, it was recognized that something
of Importance had happened.
THE TRIBUNE has already received four
"leahets' from "The Committee of Seven" from
one of which we learn that I" the 1892 campaign
begins now," and that documents, leaf>s,
blank forms and full information" can be OBJ
tanned in quantities on application TO the oOm-
mittee. 1.-THE chief questions which concern the
two great parties Of to-day" the committee say,
are these: How shall we get IMP and How
shall we keep in?'" In that dismal state OF
affairs the committee "has been compelled by
the force of circumstances TO form The New
Party,n with large T. similarly sized and
a no less conspicuous p This party, they say,
comes marching along under a new banner with
drum and fife,' and the words Join Us' in
scribed on the banner 1t says to the voter
"YOr vote is your weapon, and it is keener than
any sword how will you use II? to support one
of the aged parties whose only claim is to per-
petuate themselves, or to support The New
Party, which will soon have the power TO die
tate to the old ones ?" When it gets the power
to dictate it will "send TO the rear a large body
of men who are politicians for the sake Of leye-
nue. only III VIII give the patriots chance 10
control the government" There is something
in the easy and confident manner with which
this plan of operations is put forth that inspires
trust. And when it gets to be generally known,
as it presently will through the circulation OF
"leahets," that The New Party will send to the
rear large body of politicians, there will, no
doubt, be a grand rush to get into its ranks.
Thousands of citizens will be curious to see tho
procession to the rear, and hundreds OF thousands
will be still more anxious to know who arc the
patriots who are going to control the govern
ment.
Meantime let the great work Of circulating
"leahetsp 90 on. Even if it does not accom-
plish the political reform aimed at, it will help
out the printing business, bring revenue to the
Postofice Department. and, as Orpheus c. Kerr
said about the circulation of tracts in the Army
of the Potomac, will fill the air with spitballs