In The Appropriate Column And Place

will be found the cali for a Democratie County Oonvention to be held on the 3()th of September prox., at the Court House in this city. It will be seen that the County Committee has adopted the suggestion of the State Committee, and invited all electora who are opposed to the corruptions and maladministration of the party in power, both in the State and nation, to particípate in the primary meetings. This iuvitation should be accepted by the so-called Liberal Eepublicans, unless indeed they have made up their iniuds that they made a mistake in breaking with their party in 1872. The same and stronger reasons exist today for antagonizing the men ruling at Washington, and the meaBures fulminated therefrom, that did in 1872. And it is as certain now as then that to be successful all the elements of opposition must be combined. In 1872 the, experiment was tried of carrying the Democracy - much the larger portion of the opposition, say nine-tenths or even nineteen-twentieths ofit - over tothe smaller party or party of Kepublicau seceders, but without success. The recent convention at Lansing has developed even less vitality in the new party movement than it had prior to the Cincinnati Convention, and must have 8atisfied the originators of that convention and. the foufiders of the "National Reform Party" that it cannot absorb or swallow up the Democratie organization. It is equally certain that a coalition of parties, a doublé jointed organization, with separate conventions, separate coinmittoas, and a patched up ticket, cannot io effective wqrk. The Democratie party of to-day has aocepted all the issues of the war, the issues on which it split, and in splitting gave life and victory to the Republican party. lts creed to-day, is the creed which is accepted by those Democrats who left the party on the slavery issue, and by those Republicana, or most of them who looked to the Cincinnati Convention of 1872 for help, but were sold out to the small faction of protectionists who secured the nomination cf Horace Greeley. The chief articles in that creed are : Home liule, - the right of the State to legislate on purely local affairs, the right ef the State Courts to construe State laws, the confinement of Congress and all other branches of the Federal Government, a government with only delegated powers, within the boundaries prescribed by thö Constitution. ü4 Oonstitutional Currency, - gold and silver alike for the rich and poor, the bondholder and the tax-puyer, with whatever paper is issued by State or National baiiks convertible iuto coin at par. This in opposition to the currency the Eepublican party is pledged to inaintdin : national bank bilis redeemable in greenbacks, greenbacks redeemable in nothing, and gold and silver for the favored classes. With gold and silver the standard and a free and well-guarded banking system, there can be neither dangerous inflation nor pinching contraction, but the laws of trade instead of the blundering legislation of demagogues, ignorant of the first principies of finance, will regúlate the volume of currencey. A reveniie tariff, - knockingthe shackles off froni commerce, and levying tases for the sole support of the Government. These are the live issues of the day ; they are the issues which the Democratie party must blazon on its banners. Men who do not accept them, who havo run after strange gods, who have come, from personal or business interests, to favor a strong or paternal government, or class legislation, must seek political association elsewhere, and those who hold them, but have heretofore acted in opposition to the Domocracy must, from necessity, strike hands with the Democracy. The electors are to act and vote for to-day, to-morrow, and the future, and not fight over the battles of ten years ago. We therefore repeat, that the County Committee has done well in opening the doors of the priinary meetings to all who have lost confidence in the dominant party. The Tilton-Beecher case approaches in end, we hope. H. W. made his statement yesterday, - it' the evening dailici are reliable. The so-called Eeform Convention, held at Lanaing on the 6th inat., was not ' a Biioce88, judged either by the attendance or the utterances. The convention was preaided over by Hon. Eugexe Pkinole, of Jackson, and during ita session was addresaed by Gov. Blair ; Henator Wilher, of defunct Detroit Park 110toriety ; a Mr. Gibbons, of St. Johns ; aud one I. Eansom Sanford. The otlier prominent men present, and engaged in manipulating the proceedings, were Sonator Cook, of Hillsdale ; Hon. C. C. Comstock, of Grand Rapids ; John C. Bi.axohard, of Ionia; and an ex-member of Congress, whose name it was Stricklaxd, with a few others who hiive always held office in one party or the other or always wanted to. The convention, hs ali conveutions do, adopted a platform, which will be found in another column, the preamble of which sets forth tho bill of griovances and the ïeasons for separating from existing parties, and the first resolution of which declares the organization of a " National Koform Party." The second resolution is the fínancial plank, and while it seems to declare in favor of a " sound currency " - gold and silver - the declaration is drawn so mildly that we wonder that the Kent County inflationists took umbrago at its adoption and left tho convention. The other resolutions are well enough so far as they go, but compressed into half the space and made more pointed, they would have been more telling. But the platform is more noticeable for its omisnions than for its milk and water declarations. There is not a word touching the unjust and burdensome and outrageous. logislation by which millions of dollars are annually extracted from the pockets of the people - the great eonauining classes - and transferred to the vaults of the manufacturera by whatever name known. And this " Reform Party " may therefore be taken to be in favor of the exploded doctrine of protection ; in favor of shackling trade ; in favor of quartering the manufacturera upon the farmer, uuder the pretense of creating a home market for wheat and oats and corn and wool ; in favor of keeping up a chain of custom-houses, and of maintaining a horde of custom-house officers, not to oollect revonue but to restrain importations and keep up the prices of homemade fabrics : for this is just what our tariff laws mean and do. Denuuciations of political parties - the one out of power and irresponsible for the legislation, or lack of legislation, equally with the dominant party - is not enough to compénsate for such shortcomiug8 of the "Reform Convention," and will not give the " Reform Party " a name to live. Asidu froui the adoption of the platform, the convention appointed a State Committee, which has issued a cali for a delegated convention, to be held at Jackson on the 9thday of September, tonominate candidatea for State offioers, etc. The committee was also empowered to appoint Congressional District Committees. - We are safe in the conclusión that this convention, in its make up and action, has demonstrated the wisdom of the Democratie State Committee in calling a, State Convention. It is also safe to say that the Democratie party should go forward just as if this new party had not been organized, nomínate its ticket, announce its principies, cali its hosts to action, and deserve success if it does not command it. The Democracy, warned y the past, should shun entangling alliances, and if tha " Reformers " are honest in their denunciations of the corruptions of the party in power, and wise as well as houest, they will also take lessons of the past and make up their niinds to cast thoir votes in a way to do the most good : that is with the Democracy. The sigtu are not rife for a new party. The Common Council of the city of Detroit, acting in accordauce with the adviee of the City Attorney, has elected Stepiien J. Martin to be o. justice of the peace to fill a vacancy. Now, Mr. Martin may be just the man for a justice of the peace ; but although we are neither a judge nor the son of a judge, a lawyer nor the son of a lawyer, we venture the opinión that he is no more a legal justice now than he was before the Common Council declared hira elected. We inake this assertion with the presumption that the said Common Council has followed a provisión of the Detroit charter. The Judiciary Article of the Constitution provides foi Supreme and Circuit Judges, Judges of Probate, and justices of the peace. It provides that vacancies in the three former omces may be filled " by appointment of the Governor." It malees no such provisión for filling vacancy in tha office of justice of tho peace, nor does it authorize the Legislature to provide for filling any such vacancy by appointment. Providing for four justices in each township, with authority to increase the number in cities, it says : " They shall be elected by the electors of the townships, and, shall hold their offices for four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. A justice elected to fill a vacancy shall hold his orneo for the residue of the unexpired term." This and nothing more. We take it, thercfore, that a vacancy can only be filled by the electora. The framers of the Constitution designed no other method or they would have said so, or would have authorized the Legislature to so provide. With four justices in ench township (and more in a city) they recognized no necessity for an appointoient or for any summary means of filling a vacancy, and left it to the body of electors. The Council having no appointing power, it cannot even be olaimed that justice Martin is an officer de facto, or that his acts will be good if unquestioned. His commission is no better than if coming from Gov. Baoley or Gov. Dix of New York, and will not make his acts good, or even protect him against a criminal prosecution for assuming to act, - for usurpation of an office to which he has not even the color of right. The Pemocratic Congressioual Convention for the Toledo (Ohio) district was held on Wednesday, and Hon. Frank H. Hurd nominated on the first ballot. The resolution in favor of " such legislation (by Congress) from time to time, as will adjust the volume of the eurrency to the commercial and industrial wants of the country," exhibits an ignorance of financial principies not creditable in a Democratie convention, while the one ooncerning the 5-20 bonds is " mere sound and fury." It is time for the Ohio Deinocracy to look to the old landmarks. }