New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-08
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

Albany closed its labors yesterday, having
formed the following State Ticket:
Sec Of S,ate-Gen. HENRY W. sLOCUM. Onondaga
Controlcr-The Hon. LUCIUS ROBINSON. Chemung
Attorney. Gensral-JOHN VAN buren,. New York.
Treasurer-Gen. MARSENA X. PATRICK, Ontario.
Canal Comm.-CORN'S W. ARMSTRONG. Albany.
STATE Engineers. II. SWEET, Oneida
Prison Iaspcctor-ANDREW J. MCNETT Allegany.
Judges Of Appeais-JOHN w. BROWN. Orange
MARTIN GROVER, Alegany.
| Clerk Of Appeqls-EDWARD o. PERRIN, Kings.
This ticket is composed Of men Of very un-
equal fitness and merits, but, on the whole, is
not a bad one. We think mistake was made
in dropping Canal Commissioner Skinner, who
| has been twice elected in defiance of the proba-
bilites when he was nominated, and who, we
Judge, strengthened his ticket, being a good
officer, though a bitter partisan. We presume
he was sacrificed to the clamor for "new men,"
Was that wise 7
We understand that Gen. Slocum, who heads
the ticket, was a fair lawyer in Syracuse before
he went to the War, and q Wing in old-tme
politics. He is now presented to catch the
votes of soldiers by John A. Green, one of
Seymour's home-guard Bngadiers, and so in
tense Copperhead that he openly blamed
Pemberton for surrendering Vicksburg to Gen.
Grant when he might and should have held out
longer. We believe Green has never even pro-
fessed or pretended to desire the triumph of
the armies of the Union. He edited through
ont one Of the rankest anti-National journals on
the continent. Three years ago, we stood IN
its Office while q regiment OF Onondaga
VOlunteers-Gen. Slocum's, perhaps-marched
by on its way to the Binghamton station, TO
take the cars for the seat Of war; and we shall
not soon forget the jeers and sneers with which
! the Democratic crowd collected in that Courier
Office signalzed its departure There goes
another lot of id fools :" exclaimed one. 81
hope not one of them will ever get back"
yelled another; and such was the burden Of
the universal howl And now John A. Green
places Gen. Slocum, rather than GuSiayus W.
Smith or Mansfield Lowell, at the head Of the
Democratic State Ticket If this is not an at
tempt to win votes by false pretenses, what
could be
LUCiUs ROBINSON is renOminatcd for Con-
ltroller- one good candidate on the ticket, who
does not run to be beaten. Mr.. Robinson is
truly Democratic, and left the party so called
because they were not He had abandoned 10
principle he ever held while a member of that
party; but when it sunk into amere convenience
of the Slave Power, he refused to sink with it,
, and united with the Republicans. He is to-day
what he has always bcen and if bis old assoc
ciates like him well enough to support his
reelection, it is a proof that some Of the false
gods they have for years been following
have fallen from their pedestals and been
, erumbed into dust We can assure "the
party" that their present candidate for Control
{ Ter is a great improvement on their last, and
likely to run at least 300, 900 ahead of the resi-
due Of their ticket; for We presume lie viii be
also nominated at Syracuse, and 50 have no OPP
ponent. He has proved most faithful, yalua-
BILE officer, whom every would-bc plunderer Of
the State regards with unieigned detestation.
Being genuine Democrat, true Republi-
can, a hearty Unonist, and an iniexibly honest
and faithful guardian of the Treasury, he must
be elected by majority OF more than Half a
Million.
JOHN VAN buren,, if we mistake not, was
ionce Attorney General, and runs now in hopes
to prove that he is not necessarily a bad one.
The ambition is laudabe, and may some day
be gratifed, but not this year. John is one of
"us youth, and can wait.
Gen. NJ. X. PATRICK has been Provost Mar
shall General, or pckerup Of straggers, to the
Army of the Potomac, and made rather poor
fist of it. He is a poor copy of Mcclellan in
most things, and would have had the negroes
Of Richmond back in Slavery TO their old masters
by this time if he had not been "taken up
short" and superseded. If John A. Green had
nominated him, he would have strikingly Illus
Itrated the fitness Of things.
c. W. ARMSTRONG, nominee for Canal Com
missioner, We know only as the nominee of Peter
Cagger, who ought to be above foisting weak
men upon the ticket. OF S. II. SWEET, who is
put up for State Engineer, we know not even
that much. In our ignorance, We will presume
that he will do.
+. o. PERRIN who is put up for Clerk of APP
peals, was little the most rancorouS and yolube
Know Nothing in these parts throughout the
hey-day of the Dark Lantern persuasion. He
will run all the better among the Irish Roman
Catholics who must give him the greater mum.
Dor of his votes. They wouldn't be sure o
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