New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-17
A NEW P1RTY.

Good men everywhere will rejoice to learn that
a new rarty was started last Saturday in Boston,
Started like country newspaper, ito supply
long-felt want" 1t was not minute too soon
For month or two this industry has been passing
through period of depression. The monthly
statements of new political parties have been
showing such a marked falling off that there was
rason to fear a great many deserving per-
sons whose chief occupation is the organization
of new political parties would be thrown out OF
business at the very beginning of what may be
hard winter. The distress on this account
seemed likely to be increased by the fact that the
u1ants of large number of parties organized
during the "boom'' of the last seven or eight
wears. and which have been found to be over
capitalized, have been thrown upon the market.
The Farmers Alliance, for instance, which started
only last year and was under an enormous press
IRE of new business for some time, seems on the
point of retiring from the field; the Changers
have already disappeared of the Labor Party
there remains only Mr.. Powderly. Mr. George
O. Jones is all there is left of the Greenback
partv. Mrs. Belva Lockwood has resumed the
practice of law and left all the machinery OF the
Womans Suffrage Party to rust from disuse
The beautiful winged creatures who 50 long
scared and futtered in midair over Massachu-
sets, irradatng with their plumaSe the whole
political atmosphere from the Berkshire Hills to
Buuards Bay, have alghted in the Democratic
Party, atop of which they sit with the falsiied
serenity of the parrot on his perch. The Mug
wum plant is abandoned also, and Mr.. George
Frederic Williams will uncover the noisiest part
Of the machinery next month at Washington,
when the House of Representatives is called to
order Colonel Iligginson has been doing very
little lately on his eclectic plan of political CT
ganizaton, and that active and aggressive po-
litical PARTY, Mr.. Faxon of Quincy, has fallen
into innocuOus desuctude.
In this state of things nothing could be moro
opportune than the action Of Mr.. James Means,
who is described as ga well-known shoe manu-
factmer'' of Boston, and who, it is said, some
time ago conceived the idea that there was no
iJarty which represented accurately the opinions
of a large body OF men who were in favor of
honest money ard tariff for revenue only"
Mr.. Neans-which we understand to be his rea!
name and not pseudonym-saw the vacancy,
recognized the long felt want, comp-ehended
the crisis and realized the emergency. Nor
did me sit long and stare at it. 1t is not the
habit of the Boston shoe manufacturer TO see
condition like this-for this was condition, not
a theory-without putting his foot in it. Mr..
Means Immediately wrote a circular; which is the
way they always begin new political parties in
Boston the next step being to bond the party
for the amount of the portage TO be followed by
the issue of watered stock at par to candidates,
and subsequent consolidation with the parallel
line. These circulars he sent to persons who in
politics "follow their consciences and their in
tellect." In Massachusetts, :" the woods are fulr'
of this class of persons. The state ct things
about them obliges them to " take to the woods"
Mr. Means must have made very handsome
contribution to the postal revenues for it is Ie-
ported that the replies which came in nearly
overwhelmed him."
BY a singular coincidence "The Boston Pcst'
has recently changed hands. That journal had
been living along for many years in lonesome,
precarious way on the traditions of Colonel
Green; commenting itself to the "better Glass
of Democrats by careful avoidance of exciting
topics. It's candle fckered, and was near going
out when it was rclighted few weeks ago with
one of the lucifer matches which have been 50
useful of late years in illuminating the world
"The Globe il distinctly Democratic, and
having "pull" could not be the organ of tho
new party. 1.-THE Herald is too much occu-
pied with It's functions as newspaper detective
to take much interest in anything except thrill
ing and exciting crimes and "The Transcript
which would naturally favor the new patty, would
probably insist on the insertion of a plank in
the platform denouncng the use of the muzzlo
as cruel and unusual, and demanding larger
liberty and more untrammelled circulation for
the poodledog In this state of things "The
Post' evidently saw is opportunity. Doubt