Show THE NEW YORK Herald nhuh modestly assumes the position of the hading newspaper of > the United State liberally disposed to advise its 1 great constituency in all matters pertaining t per-taining religion politics or social t life > Must now in these exc ting j times of election it is skilfully driving itehfouble team of democratic end republican 1 re-publican families in opposite direc tiooeJ One of itd nags having perversely i per-versely left the track is thus gently K whipped If the democrats bad had tltho courage ii of their opini ns and had made their w fight on tariff reform free ehips and the old democratic hard money policy they I t might have lost Indiana but they would kt have been stronger in Ohio and might r have looked to carry Illinois and somo 1 C olluSr I northwetern states where these questions are in the peoples miL s S a C Fortunately whether Garfield or Hancock Han-cock becomes president present party lifcca cannot lonlt be maintained Real I questions arc forcing their way to the I 4 r iiI surface even duringtha present canvass The republicans in Ohio latterly rojptd their inflammatory and foolish appeals against the south and lookup the tariff the democrat might do wisely even now If they would get boldly upon their platform plat-form af revenue reform free hip and a tend fur revenue only It 11 perhaps per-haps the only chance left them 40 save themselves from overwhelming disaster in November Both these paragraphs are replete with more than ordinary common 1iensei = Tbe TifsTebbwa clearly the cansettfHemocratic detect in lodi nose andth alsJt points at the only pjssiblB way tin which ho du J aster may redeemed Moreover More-over it i will j6e a happy day for the country a when the bloody shirt is forcYitr taken down from Jbe line and in its place lre huns up two peaccaole flg one bearing the motto of Free Trde and the other that of Protection to Home Industry Farmers and mechanics me-chanics hvaeideby side all over the land northernfarmers and southern farmers northern mechanic and southern mechanics black and whita farmers black and white mechanics too and although tome states may have a greater majority occupied in either of these industries than others they are jo generally decided that neither free trade nor protection can be considered local as General Hancock absurdly assumed that one ot them might bo These vast interests inter-ests are scattered everywhere from north to south and from east to west and they arc every day coming in closer contact eaclnsrQwdingapon the other and eeekjnefor the mastery It is i not Lobe aupposeiLthftt the men who framed the democratic pisiform did not realiza this condition of f things andthat theyvdid Jiof < anea455fhat they saidbanJhey jlearly enunciated enunci-ated their declarations in i favor 01 a 1tarifl for revenue only free ships no subsidies and public money for publio purposes alone This platform plat-form ai the Herald justly observes was a good one to stand onfar too good a one to spit upon Instead of standing upon it the party has been ashamed of it from the beginning and at last has flatly repudiated it At the outset it should have scattered documents broadcast to preve that the farmers the great producers of the land were made to pay for the supportof manufacturing monopolize bat owing to our absurd navigation laws which were made to protect those dogs in the manger the American Amer-ican shipbuilders but in eflect give the most stalwart protection to for ign ship owner tbat our farmers are made to pay exorbitant freight in which their own countrymen are not allowed to participate on their produce pro-duce and that subsidies whether on sea or land were for the benefit of individuals in-dividuals at the cost of the nation The democratic party is fond of talking talk-ing of dead issues being rated out of the canvass and rightly so and yet while it eschews dead isinea it refuse to adopt the live issues called into being by itself We have before us two pamphlet one by Mr Loring lately a representative from Matsa lusetta in which he enderori to persuade the American farmer that protection is a benefit to him that the more taxes ho pays to the manufacturers manu-facturers the richer he become and that if his hand is upon the oar at all it muit be a pleasure for him to pull it The other is by Mr Graham oAdam the secretary of the New York free ttade club in which if word figures and facts can prove anything at all they all go to chow that the farmer is the galley slave who has rot only to pull himself along but to pull everybody else who are carried at his expense We have no space today to mike exit acts from this admirable work but shall take I an early opportunity to recur to it and to commend its genuine live startling issues to our agricultural population We have no votes now but we shall have them soon and when we do have them we ought to vote intelligently looking at the great interests of a majority of the people In the meantime we venture to affirm that if the democratic party had stood squarely on the platform it had built and had circulated this tract of Mr McAdams and others of a like character over the grainpro ducing states of the west following up this practice by crying aloud the doctrine of revenue reform from the stump and manfully advocating itin the newspapers it would not to day have bad occasion to sit in sackcloth and ashes mourning over its defeat in Ohio and Indiana |