New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-22
AN APPEAL TO THE REPUBLICANS OF

OUR STATE.
We are to hold most important State Elcc-
ton ten or eleven weeks hence. Meantime, a
State Convention is to be held, and ticket
thereby framed and presented. THE TRIBUNE
| and those who generally agree with ltSn this
! CITY have no candidates to present and no
| special ends to subserve. We wish that Con-
vention to frame the strongest possible ticket,
| of men we'll known to the people and deservedly
trusted by them and we do not care whether
they be "Conkling" or "Fenton" men, but
prefer that they be neither. We want nothing
done by that Convention calculated to
divide the Republican party or exalt one
"wingn of it at the expense OF another. Had
the power to call it rested i'll our hands, the
Convention would have been called ere this,
and held before the close of this month.
With proper effort, seasOnably initiated, and
not paralyzed by feuds, we believe that the
State can be carried for a strong Republican
ticket. and we have no doubt at all that we
can carry both branches of the Legislature.
If we should be defeated, that disaster would
be the work of men in our own franks, who
pursue their factiOus ends at the expense of
their party's well-being.
As to our City, we believe her electors fully
ripe for a combination of all the elements OPP
posed to the rule of the <Tammany Ring,
whereby all the County officers to be chosen
this Fall, with at least two Senators and six
OF eight Assembymen, may be carried. We
are confident that, with such a combination the
Republican vote here for our State Ticket will
range from Forty to Fifty Thousand, and the
majority against it be reduced below Thirty
Thousand.
These results are clearly attainable. If the
triumph within our grasp should elude us, it
will be the work of the faction monopOlizing
the Federal patronage in our City, who will
permit no Republican victory unless it shall
inure to their special advantage.
The cry under which this faction hopes to
alright and paralyze the rural districts is
"Tammany infuencew Tammany is SO de-
servedly Odious that they hope to carry the
country Republicans by charging their adver-
saIios with Tammany affiliations. In pur-
suance of this game, they have put
forth a long list of members of the
Union Republican General Committee, whom
they charge with holding Office under Tam
many Hall. That list is a fraud. Many Of
those named i'll it hold no Office whatever; the
rest hold under the Police, Fire, Tax, and
Health Commissions, which were made up as
bipartisan, and of which the employees are
accounted removable for cause only. Messrs.
Henry Smith and Benz, +. Manierre were elected
Police Commissioners by different Republican
Legislatures for terms which have not yet ex-
PRED. When the Tweed Charter was passed
in 1870, by the help of The Times and its
friends, against our most earnest remon-
STRANGE, it was agreed that these Commission
ers should be appointed by Mayor Hall for
their uneypired terms respectively. They are
now in Office by virtue of that arrangement
and of the Republican votes thereby secured
They can only he removed for malfeasance in
Office and of course they have share of the
appointments Of the Police Board. All these
Republicans are III Office as Republicans, by
virtue of an arrangement which We strenu-
Ously resisted, but which gives them q right
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