New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-25
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

blage Of the Republicans OF our State at this
"City of Conventions, is just going out in a per-
feet blsze of rockets and torches. and farious
tempest of enthusiastic hubbub of all sorts. From
the window where write can hear the echo Of
the speeches OF Bruce, III. b. Stanton. J. w. Nye.
and others, to dark multitude Of up-turned faces.
fringed around by the brilliant torches of aoma
three thousand Wide-Awakes from all nar.s n
Western and Central New.York. Cannon ara
booming, men are shouting ladies are waving
their handkerchief and the Central square Of tho
city is all alive with an excited throng Of Lin
cOlnites.
Upon the whole we have had good Convention.
In some respects it might have been little better.
In many respects, it might have been great deal
worse. We have good ticket, and good prinei-
pies to plant it upon. The triumph in regard to
the former would have been more complete and
satisfactory if those who plotted and ardently de-
sired the defeat of Gov. Morgan and Lieut.. Gov.
Campbell had dared to put their purposes to the
test. They exhibited the better part of valor by
having the discretion to smother Though yainly
trying to conceal an opposition TO these faithful
officers, which they could not make effectual to
their overthrow.
Every welliL formed Republican in the State
knows, and every leading Republican out of it
ought to know, that certain persons and presses
that have of late been ostentatiOusly mag lifying
the claims of Gov. Morgan to denomination,
were, until within few weeks, intent upon his
humiliation by the State Convention. They had
resolved upon his defeat if he dared TO allow his
name to go before that body for its Endorsement.
To this end, their marked cards. were sent
hitber and thither through the State. But they
soon learned that the very acts for which they de-
sired the overthrow Of the Governor had
aroused sentiment in his favor among the honest
masses of the rural districts which nothing could
resist. They found that the vetoes he had thrown
in the face of corrupt legislature had made him
so popular that the people had resolved TO run him
again, even though they had to run him over the
necks of the cOnspirators who had plotted his dis
grace. These "marked cards" reported these alarm
ing facts and instantly the plan of operations was
changed. 1t was resolved to make Morgan seem
to be the candidate of those who, till this startling
report reached their ears, were bent upon whist
ling him down the wind as they had other Gov
ernors when no longer available. So, his re
nomination was on everybody's e" slate"
Not so with Lieut.. Governor Cam pbell. This
clique had always dislked him; for, they had
never been able to use him. For weeks after theil
attempt to PROSTATE the Governor was abandoned
in despair, they continued to delve and mine
against the Lieutenant Governor. But, they had
not the courage to make, broadly and in open day,
the invidious distinction involved in the renomna.
ton OF Morgan, and the refusal to renominate
Campbell. A fight, feeble in numbers, but intense
in bitterness, was kept up against him until the
last moment. But, when the motion 10 nominate
Morgan by reclamation was pending and about to
be put, and Mr.. James s. Wadsworth moved to
amend by inserting Campbell's name, the applause
which greeted the original proposition and the
amendment, satisfied everybody that the chief and
his lieutenant were both in the same boat and that
it would safely reach the haven. So the conspir-
tors were again foiied.
The most marked feature of the occasion was
the attendance in and upon the Convention Of
large numbers of the last Legislature, and of the
crowd of faces which filed every noob and corner
of the State Capitol last Winter and known az
4" the lobby" One spectator, who had been faml-
lar with the scene at Albany, remarked that it
looked very much here, yesterday and to-day, as it
did there when the two Houses were about to take,
vote ION the yetoes of " the grdron bills only he
thought the erOod looked rather paler and more
frightened than they did then. Then they were work.
ing for the wages of corruption; now they were
struggling to escape righteous retribution.
The dreaded bolt descended. The condemnatory
resolution Of the Convention, though mild when
compared with what some deemed to be merited.
was crushing. An excuse urged by many of the
culprts and their friends doubtless had some infu-
ence in modifying the censure of the Convention.
1t is worthy of special attention. They alleged
that many Members of the Legislature were in
duced to vote for these corrupt schemes not
from pecuniary considerations which were
to enure directly to their own benefit, but
because certain leading Republicans urged
that the passage of certain bills would bring into
the Golfers of the party large sumo of money, to be
used for political purposes. Itwas also stated that
some of the less wary or weaker minded members
yielded to the artful appeals and stronger wills Of
lODg-headed managers, and voted for some Of
these schemes without fully understanding their
precise bearings, and without being aware of the
corrupt appliances employed upon other members,
and the pecuniary interest, direct or indirect,
which they had in them. 1t was urged in extenu.
alton in behalf of still another class Of members
that, being rather good. natured, and willing to
oblige friends in cases where no harm was to ac-
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