Show THE ST LOUIS CONFERENCE It is natural that there should be some confusion of tongues in convention where there is no little confusion of ideas The Industrial conference at St Louis was a conglomeration Where aims and objects range from labor questions to national finances and from sumptuary laws to woman suffrage it is no wonder that they are followed by incongruous results Tho political moral and social conditions to which the Republican party has brought the country are indeed alarming and it is not unreasonable that there should be varying va-rying views as to the proper remedial agencies The main trouble seems to be I one of pii < e Dissatisfied Republicans hate to join the Democracy the only organization organiza-tion which can give any promise of practical prac-tical reform They imagine the result they wish may be accomplished by disintegrating disintegrat-ing both the old parties and forming a new one on their ruins But they ignore the power of party mechanism mecha-nism and would go into a Presidential campaign as an army without proper equipments and their trains loaded down with impedimenta Because they have lost confidence in the old methods they rush wildly to the extreme of novel experiments experi-ments Instead of rallying around two or three great fundamental issues grounded in the public mind they busy themselves with a multitude of small ones upon which they are far from being a unit themselves Take instance the subject ot coercive coer-cive temperance The St Louis confer I once imagined they had settled that by their agreement to ask Congress to submit a constitutional amendment to the several states for universal suffrage not doubting its adoption But the truth is not even in the cause of legal prohibition will the women of the country demand or care for the right to vote And if they voted it is not at all sure that they would separate from their husbands or male relatives in their political affinities As intimated above originators of new I parties are not sufficiently regardful of the details of politics and their exactions It is not an easy task to set an army in the I tield In this respect it is not unlike organ izing a military revolution which may be followed with the good wishes or sympathies sympa-thies of thousands who will not join the ranks for the practical and sensible reason that the movement does not promise success suc-cess Sense and sentiment are very different differ-ent elements in revolutions In revolutions men will willingly risk their lives if in so doing there is a reasonable chance of accomplishing ac-complishing the object but not otherwise So In the formation of a now political party men will rather keep In line with that one I of the old armies which gives the most reasonable promise of reformation than throw theirvotes entirely away upon spme evanescent transitory movement even i though it more nearly represents the passing pass-ing fancy At this time all the intellectual leaders of the nation have concentrated their attention atten-tion upon a few salient and conspicuous conspicu-ous issues and in their wide scope they embrace many of those objects ob-jects that the manipulators of a third party seek to bring Into prominence It is absurd to expect that the two existing exist-ing national parties with all their ramifi cations branches and divisions will stand aside to witness a mere spectacular parade of an unorganized unarmed undisciplined noflicercd host respectable though it ben I be-n both character and numbers Under such circumstances without the slightest expectation of carrying the electoral vote of a single state the third party move moot seems preposterous THE HEKALD feels too warm a sympathy for the animating spirit of those who participated ticipated in this third party conference the laboring men mechanics farmers and others who feel themselves oppressed to treat their movement with ridicule Such a movement is alarming in proportion as it is likely to defeat the action of Demo crats and obstruct recruiting to the only party which can offer the hope and expectation expecta-tion of ameliorating their condition condi-tion If the Democracy do not goo go-o the length of endorsing the sub treasury loan scheme or government management of the railroadsif in other details of policy it has not attained the advanced vanced points reached by the Alliance its it-s rt least abreast upon the questions of low tariff increase in the volume of coin currency opposition to trust monopolies and generally with regard to tho main subjects sub-jects of legislation wherein they differ from the Republicans It is to be hoped that In the convention of July 4 which will be after the two recognized national parties have put forth their platforms and named their Presidential candidatesthe way will be found clear for all the elements which were represented in St Louis the other day to join cordially and heartily with the Democracy if not in organized effort then in individual endeavor So will they practically promote the interests in which they justly feel so much concern |