The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-02-07
The Ticket and Platform OF tho Republican
State Convention.

Tho Ticket and Platform OF tho Republican
State Convention.
The Republican State Convention made
short work with its business on Wednesday.
To organize, to make party speeches for out
side consumption, to nominate candidates for
President and Vice President of the United
States, to construct and adopt platform, to
choose delegates to the National Convention,
and to hear, by way Of winding up, the last
speech and confession of Horace Greeley, took
only few hours. 1t is evident all this work
was cut and dried beforehand. No oppo-
sition or any other piece of political workman
ship was to be tolerated. There was great
deal Of suppressed bitterness and disappoint-
ment, but this was smothered under the neces-
sity Of making q show Of harmony and una
nimity, in view of the hard, uphill work the
party has to perform next November. Greeley
confessed "they could not win without strong
supporters" and the greatest effort, and there
fore he and tho other Chase radicals secretly
grinned and swallowed the nomination Of
General Grant. However, the end is not yet, for
the National Convention at Chicago will decide
who is to be the standard bearer Of the party.
The declaration of the party in the great
State of New York in favor OF Grant will have
its weight undoubtedly upon the National
Convention, and, looking at the Grant move
ments in other directions, it seems probable,
from present appearances that the General will
be the Chicago nominee He Is regarded just
now as the strongest man, and his conduct
toward the President and in the Stanton affair
has placed him right within the radical party.
The radicals take him to win with on bis mill.
tary reputation if they can, and he takes them
to reach the object of his ambition. II is
a mutual accommo lation and, perhaps, the best
that could be made under the circums .ances.
But the politicians are very uncertain, and
Grant may yet find himself cheated out Of the
nomination at Chicago. L. Is evident his nomi-
nation at the State Convention fell like a wet
blanket upon the radicals, though they silently
and sullenly submitted. The Chase wing OF
the party is powerful, cunning and not easily
defeated, and it has several months to work in
before the National Convention meets. As to
the nomination OF Governor Fenton for Vice
President, that is q sop to the ultra radicals
and compliment from tho party Of bis own
State, such as is usually paid under such cir
cumstancea
The resolutions adopted for the platform Of
the party are mere gli!tering generalities,
utterly negative in character, avoid in plain
terms the real issues before the country, and
in some respects misrepresent facts. They
state that the republican party Of New York
''reaf1rms its devotion 10 the principles Of JUS
tee, equality and nationality" When did any
party not reaf1rm those principles in their
PLATFORM All parties in this country have
done so heretofore and will do SO again. The
democrats will reaflrm them at their conven-
tons. They are, as we said, nero glittering
generalties. They mean anything or nothing,
just as they suit party purposes There is
something more positive, however, in the next
clause, where the Convention says ait declares
its approval Of the reconstruction measures
adopted by Congress" In these few words 10
the real issue Nothing is said about the
negro, but We all know what tho policy and
object OF these reconstruction measures OF
Congress are Every intelligent man in the
country knows that the object OF these recon-
struction measures is to place the political
power Of the Southern States In tho hands OF
the brutal, semi-civilizcd negroes, so that the
radical party may use that power to maintain
its existence.
We know that this radical Congress has
kept these States from being restored, and well
nigh ruined them, for the purpose Of creating
this barbarian negro balance of power in tho
republic. With the Acknowledgement of a large
body Of the white people Of the South, with
the military despotism established there. and
with universal suffrage given to hundreds of
thousands Of negroes wao hardly know their
right hands from their LETT the radicals intend
to bold the balance Of power over . m jority
Of the white people Of the North. Those radi-
Gals are aware that few hundred thousands
Of negro votes thrown into the scale Of the
Presidential election May mako q balance TO