New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-26
DEMOCRATIC BENOyATION.

DEMOCRATIC RENOVATION.
| The Democratic State Convention just held
at Albany was respectable body; yet not SO
strong as we had anticipated. Mr.. A. j. Ian
ming as temporary Chairman, and Mr.. +. o.
Perrin for Secretary, are not up to the standard
of other years. Judge Parker for President is
fair; but on the list of Vice-Presidents and
Secretaries there are not three names of any
n.srk or strength Judge Parker's bitterly, nm
patrioticary COpperhead speech must have been
an uuwelcome surprise to those who conf
IDENTIFY believed that last years Elections mpd
have beaten some sense into the heads Of Ill but
downright idiots. But the Judge is in the
downhill of life, and old politicians are all but
imperyious to new ideas. Mathew l.. Davis
died at seyenty-iye BuTite; and John Me
Keen viii be haranguing, fighting, voting for
Slavery long after Slavery is utterly dead and
gone. 1t il so easy to travel in the old nts,
that a Thoroughbred partisan rarely lifts him
self out Of them.
The chronic quarrel between Tammany and
Mozart was complicated this time, by the APP
pearance Of third Richmond mot exactly
DEAN in the semblanee Of the Gunther-Mc-
Keen faction-apparently stronger last De-
cember, than its two rivals combined. The
managers lot them all in We consider this
good policy, though bad precedent. The rural
chieftaius want to control the party, manage its
vote at Chicago, and make il State nominations,
But the CITY delegate, acting rs unit,
headed by a clever, daring, ambitious lead
er Ike Fernando Wood, and constituting
oue-cighth of the entire Convention, might
give the Central managers some trouble,
which dividing and auaying them against
each other utterly prcclUdcs. They neu.
tralize each other like an acid aud an
alkal, and are thus precipitated in an inert,
negative state, thoroughly harmless Yet the
ready welcome and equal consideration extended
to new factions tends TO tear our City Dcmoc-
racy into smaller and still smaller cliques.
Mozart beats Tammany, and is accorded half
the City delegates. AiGKeon beats Mozart and
Tammany combined, and there is a fresh d.
yision--one-third to each. This premium on
DoitllE lilust Nhi Il'hAt 4t'h4pi0 i''
existence, reducing our Democratic organiza-
tion TO anarchy and chaos. Perhaps that Is
best, but il has It's drawbacks.
Gov. Seymour is made spokesman at Chicago
by way of letting him down easy; but it is none
the less Obvious that he Is gone in lie can.
not be nominated this year, whether for Presi.
dent, Ycc-Prcsident, or Governor. And Dean
Richmond we infer, viii WELD the delegation
as usual, reducing the Governors function to
very modest dimensions. Belmont is State
delegate from this quarter by virtue OF his
purse. Washington Hunt was 10 have been
third, but gives place to Mr.. Isaac Butts OF
Tie Rochester Union, reducing the rating Of
Gov. Hunt to that Of district delegate. We
did MT suppose Butts was strong enough for
that; but be is thoroughly with Richmond, and
SO has come ideas which originated this side OF
the year ]; while Hunt is essentially fossil.
WC.do not doubt that Richmond will control
the delegation; but, leave him at home, and 1t
is intensely Copperhead, and would throw the
country at the feet Of JEFF. Davis tomorrow, in
order TO save Slavery from ls impending doom.
Only look Mt this sample:
Uoratio Seymour Amasa J. Parker.
Benjamin Prince. John A. Greene
Luke i. Cozsns Samuel ]. 1ilden,
John McKoon, John j. Taylor.
Gideon j. Tucker, Washington Hunt.
TIE delegation may vote that Slavery is dead;
but such men as most of these don't believe a
word of it, They win vote it, if at all, purely
as party ncceseity-as the eat in the fable
rolled herself in flour in order to get within
striking distance of the mice. Most Of the
delegates are new men, who will mainly 80 as
they are led; and here is where Dean must find
his majority. We do not doubt that he will;
but il will be difficult to bold them as firmly
ard as long as he did their predecessors TO the
support of Douglas at Charleston in 1860
There arc strong men in it, yet the delegation,
as a whole is below an average. But, with a
good head, almost anything may do for O body
GOGUs DIFFERENTIATION.