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Show A BAD PB0SPECT FOR HEW PARTIES. Of making political parties there is no end. It is a species of creation of which politicians never tire, although al-though the instances of success are about as numerous as those of the inventors of perpetual motion machines. ma-chines. Wo hear of one or more new parties yearly starting under the grandest auapicies with tho moat popular and influential leaders to euyinoer them through the calamities and drawbacks incident to infancy and childhood. They usually make a great flourish in the culumus of friendly journals, and manage to inveigle in-veigle some genial nssociuteJ press agent into a recognition of their existence. ex-istence. Thoy generally keep afloat until thtir backers discover that they are not likely to secure any great number of followers, and that the time and money expended on such projects will be wasted. Then these noble schemes, from which so much in the way of political civilization and reform had been expected, are suffered quietly to dropout of the public pub-lic attention, and thereafter they are known only to a few curious people who care to preserve Buch incidents as features of historical interest. Our recent political history is not barren in Buch experiments, the most notable of which was the creation of the famous Greeley party an organization organ-ization more wonderful in its compo-'sition compo-'sition than anything of the kind ever before created save, perhaps, the j prophet Daniel's great image with its golden head, silver breast, brass belly iron legs and clay feet. The Darwinian Darwin-ian doctrine, the survival of the fittest, fit-test, made speedy havoc of that re-1 markable composite party, and its constituent parts were eoon dissolved into their native elements, leaving few traces of their monumental greatness. great-ness. Yet there have been few more sincere or honest movements than the Greeley campaign. There might have been millions in it, if the people had understood its ideas and objects. But there is no time to study constitutions consti-tutions and preambles in the scrimmage scrim-mage of a presidential campaign, when the crowd invariably revert to the inner consciousness of their past experience in deciding upon new and untried experiments. Since the campaign of 182, the politicians have been skirmishing for J position, with little result so far. Last year the democrats nominally Bwept the field in the congressional fight, indicating a popular dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion with the present administration, and giving the old national party fresh hopes of a future. But the uneasy un-easy politicians were not satisfied, and during tho present year the country has been flooded with prospectuses pros-pectuses for new parties, which are said to be essential to settle the next presidency satisfactorily. Thero are the grangers' party, the greenback party, the hard money party, the Booth party, the Adams party, the Banks' Boston party, and heaven knows how many more. In Ohio, however, the democrats have struck out on a new financial 'platform, the principal feature of which appears ap-pears to be opposition to the national banking system. If clearly success ful in that state this theory is likely to rule the democratic roast and furnish the grand idea for the next presidential presiden-tial contest, when, there is reason to believe Gov, Allen-.will be pitted against Gen. Grant in oneof the hardest presidential fights experienced since Jackson's time. The democracy of the west and south are greatly dissatisfied dissat-isfied with the financial policy of the administration, crediting it largely with the present business depression , and monetary collapse; and the greenback currency policy, coupled with an anti-contraction plank, may be a ''good-enough Morgan" to carry the country on. It is evident, however, that there is no time or room to get up a new party before the election of 1S76, and tho people must make tho best of the two now in existence. If the democracy democ-racy shall carry California on Wednesday Wed-nesday the game of the Booth mile-pondentB mile-pondentB will be up for the present, and the two great pwties will begin to get in harness for the mighty strugglo of next year, which will probably bo only preliminary to a more important canvass at some subsequent sub-sequent period. The radical democratic demo-cratic elements may mxjii bo unloosed, un-loosed, and no ono can tell to what extremes thiy may carry tho Country. - |