New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-23
YORK DEMOCRACY.

We thank the Democratic State COnVehtioh
Gov ~ loost one thing 1T has told with reason
ohlo dr.ctness what it means The contest
this Fall need be involved in no doubt new
York Democrats mean to hight the Az vi
Amendment to the bitter end; they mean "
avoid committing themselves to the honest
navment of the National Debt; they mean 10
oppose the New Constitution.
We accept the issues. We have sometimes,
In moments of 0ver-sanguine charity, hoped
for better things but we are not disappointed
The State of New York, acting through hei
duly qualified authorities. has indeed gwen
her ratification to the XVIII Amendment
and. so far as the power OF leglsla-
tive action could go, has sought to eliialhate
the perpetual negro question from our politics.
But the Sham Democrats taking advantage
of miserable as well as questionable technl-
cality. come eagerly again to their con-
genial task of fighting against Democ-
racy. To the veritable last ditch they
mean to carry their hopeless struggle against
the cause of Equal Rights for All. Graspng
at straws. clutching here at shadow and
there at barren form, they eonvulsively
resist the inevitable. The party that last year
was almost persuaded to take Chase and UNI
versal Suffrage, might have met the Ger
tain future at least with better
grace, less blind devotion to Odious preJu-
dice, reader recognition OF the triumph it
must yet help to celebrate. But what could
be expected from an organization whose
highest concern is whether Tweed or Belmont
shall be permitted to manage the machine
that grinds out fraudulent votes enough in the
city to cover any possible muster OF outraged
voters in the country
Some hopes may be disappointed, but few
will feel much real surprise at the declaration
against the New Constitution. That instrument
tended too plainly in the direction of good
government to receive the support OF
party that lives only Oh the hopes
of plumber 1t involved too many re-
forms to find favor in the eyes OF those
to whom reform is poison We do not believe
that intelligent and patriotic members of the
party can all be carried against it by the SYRIA
cuse edict, and we still hope to find its vote
swelled by some accessions from the inde-
pendent Democrats; but the struggle for it Is
to be close, and the result not so certain as
we could have wished.
Whoever expected financial honesty from
the party that year ago adopted the Tam
many platform and nominated Seymour need
go no further than the studiously two-faced
resolution adopted yesterday to realize his
mistake. If there be one Govern
ment creditor who, after reading it, feels more
certain of the National faith, more secure in
the honest intentions of the Opposition party,
he must have failed to comprehend that party 5
past acts and present exigency.
And now, friends in Pennsylvania and Ohio
may we not look for aid from the inspiration
of your success Defeated last year by shame
less frauds in this city, the majority against us
was 27,946. There is scarcely a possibility of
so glaring an outrage on the ballot-box again
and our rightful vote in the rural districts
cannot be overbOrne without 1t.