New-York tribune., 1891-05-23
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BORN-d NEW PARJf.

| birth in the political family is always an
| event Of interest. The advent of the third
party at Cincinnati on Wednesday therefore
calls for more or less honorable mention. Ihat
an infant brought forth under the combined
auspices of lgnatius Donnely and General
| Weaver is destined to gaudy and pecuhar
career need not, perhaps, be predicted. 1t is
one of those propositions that go without say
ing. But as Messrs. Donnelly and Weaver
were not entirely alone in the affair, it may be
well to consider the other influences at work
and attempt some estimate of their conglom-
crate value as vital energies. So far as we are
able to anayzc the declaration of principles by
the convention, the proposed party Is to consist
of the Farmers Alliance, the labor organiza-
tions the Socialists, the free-coinage advocates,
the income-tax disciples, the woman suffragstS,
the Know-Nothings, the Free Traders, and the
reformers generally. But for the Nearnest and
painstakng bounce administered to Delegate
Miller, of California, we should have had tee
totallers also in the combination, and that would
have left no one on the outside except John
Most and Lucy Parsons. The convention, how
ever seemed to think that it had enough special
features in its programme, and accordingly shut
down on Miller with vigor which must have
made him thirsty.
There are some difficulties in the way of this
interesting infant, perhaps; though that TACT
need not daunt the enthusiastic DOnnelly nor
the rapt and impassioned Weaver. The Dem
ocratic party is already the advocate OF free
coinage, Free Trade and unlimited whiskey.
The Republican party has already declared it
self as the champion of the agricultural, the
Iaboring and the manufacturing classes, and
has illustrated It's claim to that title by legisla-
ton which is now making profound impression
upon the country. The new party is thus left
with little beyond the Sub-Teasury and the
fat-money and the Know-Nothing vagarles'
upon which it may draw with any large re-
suits and even this prospect is darkened by
the probability that the Democracy will event
ually take all three into that yearning stomach
which has never yet experienced the pang OF
indigestion.
We would not, however, sprinkle one drop
of chilling water upon this hacyon occasion.
Rather. much rather would we wait for further
and still more interesting developments. Moth
ing has been heard as yet from Jerry Simpson,
or, indeed, from Calamity Weller nor has the
hirsute PETER himself spoken to any great eX-
tent except with gavel and splintered desk.
IL is hardly worth while to close jamboree
from which all these powerful elements have
been omitted. The proposition to establish
Sub ub-Treasures in all the agricultural districts
where the frugal and far-seeing farmer may
borrow money at per cent by the simple pro-
cess of throwing load of wood into the back
yard or sliding barrel of peanuts down the
cellar stars-thiS proposition, we say, long since
lost the charm of novelty. 1t is useless for Mr..
Donnelly to try to misead us by speaking of
" "non-perishable products" There are no such
things in agriculture. The only absolutely in
destructible articles we have ever seen in the
rural districts arc the rhubarb pie Of New
Hampshire and the bhndled jackass of Mis-
sisspp and neither of these would be negO-
table. The Sub-Treasury plan contemplates
the indefinite borrowing of money upon water
melons, roasting ears and goOSeberries, and
consequently, the unlimited manufacture of
paper money to meet the demand. But, as we
have SAID. this is not new. The principle in
yolyed has been advocated for centuries, and,
even within our own recollection, by such
fnancers as Mr.. Harold Skmpole and MIR.
Wilkins Micawber. The country Is not TO be
nut off with this. 1t is waiting for the leaders
of the new party to get together in real earnest
and begin the work of formulating its phloso-
ply. 1t wants to hear what Mrs. Lease has to
say about her somewhat nebular hypothesis OF
government 1t wants to hear Mr.. Jerry Simp-
sons later view on hosiery. 1t wants Mr. Don
nelly to apply his Baconian theory to the aver
age Northwestern smoke-house. 1t wants Cen
eral Weaver to tell us why Mr.. Bland has been
ignored in the deal and left to pine neglected in
the hoop-pOle junges of his native State. And
finally, it wants the Hon. Calamity Weller to
come forward and spill into the appetizng
potpourr the sad bat potent relish of his choicest
! tears.
The country does not often get tailhold
on so good thing as. this right on the brink
of an otherwise unpromising summer. Earnest
ly and prayerfully would we work it for all
| that il Is worth =