The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-24

Editorial Opinions Of the Leading Journals
upon Current 7 Topics-Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.

If1E NEW 1Ohh DEmOOhAO1. l..
From the NJ Y. World l"#
We do not remember any State election
which has been so widely commented on by
the press of the whole country as that which
resulted in the signal Democratic victory of
last week. There is one point on which the
, Republican journals seem quite unanimous.
They are all struck with the pitiful weakness
to which their party has dwindled in this
State. They all confess that it lacks efficient
leadership; that it lacks organization and dis
cipline; that its former pride, zeal, and arro-
gance have sunk into respondent apathy. -f
= On the other hand, the Democratic party
of the State was never so full of hope, conf
dence, and enterprise; never acted with more
perfect unity; was never more conscious of
indomitable and victorious strength.
The wild and stupid cry of election frauds
in this city as an explanation of the Solferino
defeat of the Republicans is made ridiculous
by the fact that the Democratic party has
handsome majority outside the city Of New
York. If Manhattan Island had been loosened
from its foundations, foated out into the
ocean, and sunk, we should still have elected
our ticket for the Court of Appeals.
The great gains in the interior are of happy
augury for the future harmony of the party.
It depriyes the city Democracy of the power
of diotation which they have heretofore pos
sessed in virtue of their ability to elect or de-
feat any ticket which State convention
might put in nomination. The Democratic
organization of the State is no longer ILL
balanced and lop-sided. The Democracy of
the city and of the interior will hereafter
meet and consult on equal terms, in that
spirit of mutual Difference and forbearance
which results from q feeling that neither is
wholly dependent on the other. The
success of free government requires
wise checks and counterpoisss; all unre-
strained power, in whatever hands, tending
more or less to abuse. Even if the profuse
Republican charges of frauds in the city were
true, the recovered strength of the party in
the rural districts would work perfect cure.
No Republican can pretend that dishonest
voting is necessary to enable the Democratic
party to carry elections in this city; and when
the party in the interior is strong enough to
stand alone and outnumber its opponents,
there can be neither motive nor inclination
to poll fraudulent votes, Our victory in the
rural districts enables us to dismiss and de-
spise that obsolete charge. ~ l'
Leaving, therefore, the things that are
that are before" what are. the prospects of
the Democratic party of the Empire State 2
First, certainty that the party will act with
unbroken unity in the fall election. There
will be no elements of distraction in our State
Convention. The public sentiment of the
party seems settled and unanimous in favor of
nominating Governor Hoffman for re-elec-
tion. The nomination will probably be made
without the formality of ballot, with such
acclamations Of applause as have seldom
greeted a new expression of confidence. We
have men enough in the State who would
make excellent Governors; but the feeling is
so universal and unequivocal that Governor
Hoffman deserves this continued recog.
milton of his services, and that he
is the fittest man to consolidate the strength
and insure the ascendancy of the party, that
no rival candidate will contest his claims 1t
is fortunate for the party and of good augury
to the country that in this great transition
period of our politics, when we are in the
dawn of a new era, the statesman who holds
the most important and conspicuous official
position of any man in the Democratic ranks
is gifted with so many of the qualities of q
wise political leader. He has no crotchets;
he is identified with no set of extreme opi.
MONS; he has such comprehensive appreca
ton of the new exigencies now emerging as fits
him, beyond almost any statesman who could
occupy his prominent position, for reconeilne
4 differences, harmonizing dissensons, and
3 ,csmenting the party into that compact unity
which Is q guarantee of success in the ma
tional contest that will soon be close upon us
As between the wisdom and craftsmanship Of
our State executive and the national execu
tive, the great State of New York has pro
nounced its judgment in manner which il
d not complimentary to General Grant. Under
his administration, with the vast patronage Of
the Federal Government to aid him, the Re
publican party of this State has fallen into
decrepitude and contempt; while under the
admirable and popular administration Of
Governor Hoffman, the Democratic party o
the State has risen to a triumphant position
of commanding strength.
The Democracy of New York are stronge
in votes, in official power, and general pres
tige than it has been at any time during tn
present generation. We have Just carried tn
State by majority which will nearly or quit
reach eighty thousand. We have the Gov
ernor, all the State officers, both branches O
the Legislature, and the assured possession G
the Court of Appeals for fourteen years. w
shall bear our victory in no spirit Of assumI
ton towards the Democracy of other States
We shall be glad to have them emulate ou
example if they find anything in it worthy {
imitation; but when we meet them in a ne
tional convention we shall cheerfully subm
our action and policy to their revision, an
be bound by the joint counsels, ripens
Judgment, and collective wisdom of the who
party.