New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-25

Mr. Samuel b. Ruggles went into the " otraight
"Wbie" Convention, and attempted to LIT 1t oH
of contempt into respectability by assalllng the
Ranpblican State ticket as hostile to the More
speedv Enhancement of our Canals. simultaneously
with this attack The Journal Of Commerce and
other antcana journals assail that same ticket as
identified with the Enlargement policy, and call on
voters to oppose it in order to arrest the progress
OF the More Speedy Enlargement policy. Every
Journal in our State hostile to the Speedy Enlarge
ment policy takes similar ground. Mr.. RuggleS Is
thus seen to be playing into the hands OF his own
enemies, and supplying them with weapons where
with to break the heads of MS friends Twas
L" that done like Cassiusl"
The burden of Mr. Ruggess story is the former
hostility of Preston King and AbJah Mann to
the Speedy Enlargement policy The fact Is adj
mtted These gentlemen ably and zealously adj
vecated the policy of enlargng only so fast as the
surplus revenue would defray the cost. But that
policy, which might have been wise at the outset,
becomes absurd when the State has borrowed
Fifteen or Twenty Millions and spent it on the En-
larpement and only Six or Seven Millions more are
wanted to complete it, To fall back now on the
policy of enlarging with the surplus tolls only ia
In nav interest on the expended Twenty Millions
for an indefinite period yet derive but partial ben
eft from its expenditure because canal enlarged
but two-thirds of its length is practically OF the
original dimensions throughout Only boat
adapted to its smaller dimensions can pass from
end TO end of it, Messrs King and Mann are prac-
tical men, and propose to do now, not what they
thought best before any money had been borrowed
IL L hao no pir
existing They propose to enlaSge the canal forth
with. but to watch carefully the expenditure and
see that the utmost economy is secured. The fol-
lowing resolve was submitted to the Platform Com
mittee Of the Republican and Wing Conventions,
and unanimously adopted by that Committee and
thereafter BY both Conventions;
Resolrcd, That while the policy of Cansl Enlarge
meni settled by the change OF The State GO non
sntbori7ing the increase Of the State Debt to III.
amount Of Zine mill Of dollars for that purpose tue
Republican party will insist upon the homes aud iatn-
full application OF these funds to the purpose for ~scn
they appropriated. That 10 the management OF the
State Floances will require rigid syse OF account
ability aud the stricest economy In ali expenditures
from the public Treasury.
- Such is the ground with regard to the Canal
Enlargement on which Messrs. King and Mann
have voluntarily placed themselves. 1t is the
ground which our deliberate Judgment approves
the ground unanimously taken by the representatives
of the Wing and Republican parties. And no man
really believes that those who proposed and
accepted will prove unfathful to it.
The success of the Republican ticket assures
the vigorous and economical prosecution of our
unfinished Public Works TO a speedy completion.
No rival ticket is even OsteDsibly committed to
that policy, unless it be that of the Hsrds No m
telligent man will seriously maintain that our
Canal policy has anything to gain from the success
of the Soft or of the Know-Nothing ticket. Mr..
Rugges therefore, INDUCES his personal dislike to
Messrs King aud Mann to the serious damage OF
his consistency and fame as public man. For
his sake, we deeply regret this subOrdinatiOn OF
public interest TO private luminosity.