New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-14
KEEP FAITH!

In the accounts which reach US from Republican
friends in the various Counties Of our State we are
struck with the uniform nonehalanee wherewith
the fact is avowed that our State ticket was
neglected, if not sacrificed, by those who should
have proved its steadfast and efficient friends
ssThe contest was not on the State ticket"-"Ver
sttle attention was paid to the State ticket'-"ln
he heat of the contest on this or that local candl-
date. the State ticket was not much regarded
such, in varying phrase, but in uniform sub
stance, is the general and matter-of-course aver
ment. Hence in Westchester, Suffolk, Ontario,
Orleans, and many other Counties, the vote for our
State candidates is disgracefaly less than it should
have been.
Now. had the election of our State Ticket been
either certain or hopeless we could have excused,
while we must still have deplored, this maltreat-
ment. In that case, it might have been plausiby
urged that vote for candidate who could not be
practically helped or harmed by it, was well barter
ed for a vote for one whom it was important to
elect, and who by that trade might, perhaps, be
carried. We say we could comprehend and excuse
this, though We could not approve it. 1t is always
safe and wise to vote for those candidates who, in
the voters judgment, ought to be elected-for each
and all of them. II was an excellent rule given by
an old legislator to young successor In his seat,
Always give the vote that won't need any explain
cation" We may not always have lived up to this
rule but il is sound and good one. If you ind
the name of knaye or a ninny on your ballot,
scratch it Of, whether you do or do not put that OF
better man in its place; but leave traffcking In
votes to jockeys, and go straight for the men you
want to see elected-for all of them-smply be-
cause you want them elected and not because
will vote for B if you vote for c.
But in the case before us it was loudly pro-
claimed and fully understood that the triumph or
defeat Of that portion of the Republican State
Ticket which had to overcome the combined vote
of the Democrats and the Americans was exceed
ingly doubtful 1t might be beaten, it might be
elected; but in either case the majority for or
against it must probably be small. Nobody OBJ
jected to the candidates as incompetent or unde-
serving No man denied that they were entitled
to the hearty support of every Republican. Yet
they were treated by thousands Of Republicans
must oiepil-cuauiciuHy' AHC io"cot ouone
them would have had at least Five Thousand ma
ority had they been faithfully squarely supported.
II any of them shall prove to be defeated, he VIII
owe bis discontinue not to his adyersaries, but to
those who should have been his compatriots, his
supporters, his friends Who would not pray to be
delivered from such friends
We speak feeGnsly of this matter, for it is one
that affects the integrity and honor, as well as the
success, of that party in which is bound up our
hopes of the Freedom and Progress Of Mankind. 1t
may not be necessary, nor even essential, that we
should elect a Prison Inspector this year: 1t IS
necessary that we should evince good faith and
due sense of our responsibilities TO the Republican
cause and ts standard bearers II this has uniform
y been done, then our structures are polntess and
unjust.