New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-10
POLITICS on STATEN ISLAND.

punors have reached us ell cf SOTO cFsrerce
sr,erg our Repubcsr b;srts on Staten lsand, which
however We hsd hoped wculd Be- sets.ed snorg them
selves without public exposure ard scsrca- Bu' we
sgIet 10 Learn that ire cogrss pursued by enc psy
the primary ueetrgs on Saturday evening" renders
i rpcesibs 10 corcsa longer tie fscs that splh has
taken piece which in its ccnseqreuces may have an
irportsr. bes,ins Upon the poEt:os OF Ns SsA's'
Richmond County NAY be represented at tie approsch
irg Convention a. Syracuse by men who g. totre
pledged TO certain cours ard 10 cbedieoce to snge
interest; it may be represented sy those who VII
act with their fellow citizens a. IL, interest OF the
party ard the wbols State sha! require. " Is well
tbst the public should know beforehand ecr,ethirg OF
the preliminary steIs TO tbs choice OF delegates as
seems mole than likely thai two sss viii ssA tor OIL
niisson to that Convention.
on Sstufesy eyerrG reetrgs we're held IN the sev-
eial districts to cbcose delegates 10 Convention a.
Riohmord on Saturday rext, which Convention is to
choose delegates to that corveerg at Syracuse in Sep
temter. In those primary meetings two distinct par
ties were al woIk-why distinct we forboar 10 say a.
pre- pNs-and each chose in different districts eight ds
gates. This, Of course, vii make tie at Rchmsai,
snd these sixteen delegates will have first to decide fs
claims Of rival delegates sen. by s TIE otier dstros
Ifneher shall be abe 70 ousvole tie otherif there
sha so. othsr words four os sde ore more
who will be honest enough to vote tic other and the
right rde, then two Conventions an two sets OF dole
gates to Syracuse are inevitable snd indeed, at any
rate that viii probably he the result.
Now how came about tn;s state OF thin9si Let Us
explsir. At New Brighton, when the meeting was
shout to assemble and where, it was supposed, the
hone It ard stragh forward Republicans we're strong
enor Oh to suppress al factions and Interested oppoe
tior a staanbost hsulsd up a. tbs wharf snd dis
charged, to the CONSERVATION of the pesceab!s and
quiet eitizens boat-load Of Border Rueians. They
we're Of ths. soit Of DimOcrsts' which we in New.
York are 20 vel used to seeing about at certain polling
bco.hs election day, and who ev:datly ertered with
great Zest upon little practice at an odd season 10
"rural dltIic" Some of tiess worthless he'd other
scqu Gntance il s said, with Staten Island than they
had gained during temporary soourn within the Hoe
rita wss; Others bcssted Of theI coming down from
Whitehall with pugpacious intentions toward peaceful
islanders and there is no doubt tast more than hun
drsd of these rufIisns were there with no
more right to interfere in political meeting
in RicLmord County than they had, from
any title which their manners and appearance gave
them, TO mix amorg decent ard sober people any
WHERE However, they took possession Of the meet.
ing, organized it their own way hissed down
ard hooted down al remembrance al thsse high.
handed proceedings from the citizens, and ohose such
delegstes to the Rchmord Convention a. their leader
saw t to Indicate. And having thus bettsred the in
struction" which the Democratic patty have learned
from the border scoundrels Of Missouri they returned
to the wards of the Yellow Fever Hospital and the
scsrcely more wholesome pureus out Of which they
Mad orept in this city. The Republicans Of New
Brighton were, Of course compelled to retire from
meeting Of this sort, and orgsnze e!sewheIs,
where they chose the tue delegates to the
Ichnond Convection. Who vii 10 received there
on Sa urday re1t, remains 10 b. scee, though it to
be iopad that scme of thce wno were honestly cho-
sen 10 otter districts The same side with these fel-
,ow Jackets, will be honorable enough TO refuse to
countenance such proceedings and give the Convsn-
ton into the hards Of the ether party. 1t IS well, at
any rate, that The public should know, in Gaze of tao
sets Of dslegates from RichnoLd County appearing at
Syracuse, bow they come there.