New-York tribune., 1869-01-14
KEEP COOL

I There il (as is well known) a canvass for
L. s. Senator now going on at Albany. There
being decided Republican majority in Joint
Ballot, the interest mainly centers in the nom
nation of that party; but we note significant
hints, and winks, and sly suggestions, in certain
quarters. that the Democrats may at length be
called in to settle the matter by uniting with
n boltinc minority of the Republican members
to elect some other Republican over whom
soever shall be fairly nominated by a majority
of the Republicans.
This " little game" has ulteriOr objects. The
State Senate is barely and somewhat dubiously
Republican. Messrs. Tweed, Sweeney, and Hoff-
man want to run it for the benefit of their fol-
lowers with whom they desire to GUST the
present Republican Harbor Masters. Port
Wardens, &C., &c. If they can break us down
on the choice of U. S. Senator, and help MI
nority of the Republicans to triumph over the
majority, they may reasonably hope to have
their will of it on all vital points for the re-
mainder of the session.
Here is a danger which, being in plain sight,
must be averted. The Republican ascendency
is of more account than any mans success or
disappointment. We must under no circum-
stances permit ourselves to be divided; for
division is defeat and prostration.
We must agree to differ as brethren; each
commencing his own choice till some one re-
ceiyes Republican nomination; from that mo-
ment. that one must be the candidate of us all,
having every Republican vote in the Leglsla-
ture and every Republican voice out of it.
ANY other course leads straight to ruin
Our choice among the names before the Leg
islature is known to be MARSHALL o. ROBERTS
of this City. We assail 10 one disparage no
one, and shall permit no one to be assalled II
we can help it: on the contrary, if any OF the
rival candidates shall he unjustly DETAINED, our
columns are open to his friends for refuta-
ton. And should Our choice be oveTuled, he
who is preferred is thenceforth our candidate,
and his friends shall receive our hearty con-
gratuations.
Let the struggle be courteous and manly from
first to last. The post is Il noble one, worthy
of any mans ambition. We have not a shadow
of i'll will for any of those who are competing
for it. We prefer Mr.. Roberts as one who,
while no wise inferior in capacity or worth to
his rivals, has done as much good work for the
country and the party as either of them' and
has never vet received any public recognition
of his services. When fairly chosen Mayor,
he was counted out by the return; when head
ing the Grant Electoral ticket, he was beaten
by the grossest frauds, in Naturalization and
in stuiling the ballot-boxes by "repeaters,'
ever yet perpetrated. He had more than
Twenty Thousand majority of the votes le-
galy honestly cast but wholesale swindling
defrauded him and his colleagues of the GER
tifcate of election. We would like to send
him TO Washington to attest and proclaim the
villaiuy whereby the vote of Ncw-York was
stolen from Gen. Grant.
Republicans in the Legislature hear every
one who addresses you respectfully and prop
erly, but show the door at once 10 any inn
pudent varlet who shall presume 10 dictate, 20
bully to wheedle, or who hints at any con
sideration aside from the dictates of justice
and pubhc duty