New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-10
OUR CITY ORGANIZATION.
pose.

The Republican State Committee was yester-
day brought up to the point long meditated, of
ordering u dissolution and reconstruction Of
| the Republican organization in this City. The
decisive vote was as follows:
YEAs-Mesrs French of suffolk Webster of Brooklyn
| cornell Of Ne0 York, Opdyke OF New-York Sharp Of
Ulster Brown OF Montgomery, Latin OF Herkimer jew
Seneca. Chathed Of Otsego. Daniels Of Erie, Mad
dox of Brooklyn Gardner OF NewYork, Arthur OF New
York Robertson of Westchester Vandercarr Of Column
bia Ramsay OF Albany, Blakey Of Delaware, Place OF
OSwego, DOty of Genesee, Crowley OF Niagara-20
NAYs-Messrs Smith of New-YOrk, Milligan of New
York Martin OF Orange, Hammond Of Essex, Merritt OF
st. Lawrence, Field OF Orleans, Cole Of Chsmung Will
nams of Chautauqua-6
ABsEET-BtdkSee Of Oneida, Gere OF Onhndaga, Waite
of WashingtOn-3.
Federal omee-holdes in Rallies so far As knoWnS
-"Well," says one who does not understand
these matters, what g the harm of reOrganiz-
&" ingi viii not the majority still rule n
! We answer, II may, and it may not. The
vote will in no case be free, nor any thing
like it. Every tide-waiter and letter carrier
will be menacingly told that, if he votes to
| sustain those at whom this movement is
aimed. he votes against the Federal Admins
tratiou and will DO marked for early dismissal
from the public service. All who want Fed
eral place or patronage will be given to under
stand that, if they would be successful in their
suit, they must manifest zeal, activity, and
efficiency, in support OF what we may
distinguish as the CustOm-HOuse ticket
Whatever may be the result of fresh enroll
ment and the choice of new General Com
mittee we know that the immense prepOnder-
ance in our City of Republican opinion adverse
| TO the influences which now control the dis
pensation of Federal patronage here will not
| thereby be adequately manifested.
| The Republicans of this City have been re-
| peatedly required by outside authority to dis
organize and reOrganize. We have no idea
that the present requisition is final. Human
ingenuity has not yet proved equal to the
task of making IA b weight pull down SO
in scales fairly and evenly balanced; and,
until this feat is achieved, there will be an
incessant cutlery for Reconstruction. Never
was any thing more thorough or moro favor
able to malcontents than the reorganization at
the close of go, when the outsiders had two
of the three members of each board of enroll
ment yet the very first General Committee
chosen under this regime was bOlted from
last Fall by considerable minority, who set
themselves up in business as the regular
NViniisVOc, ouu NcIt GENEROUSLY buppUeu
with capital by the State Committee,
by whom the regular Committee was
thenceforth ignored and discredited When
the time came for choosing a new Committee
for 1871. the usual call was issued by the regu-
lar Committee and none at all by the boiling
minority. The election followed in due course.
and was very harmonious for the boilers de-
clined to participate, saying that they would
have q reorganization and that the voting at
this election would go for nothing. The State
Committee has at length complied with their
requirement.
And now we say most emphatically to our
friends in the regular organization, Let ia
defer TO the dictation of the State Committee
uuwise and arbitrary though it be. We
do not. because We cannot, assure you that
the boilers will not bolt again If beaten now !;
for We presume they will. They seem to labor
under chronic incapacity to realize that five
are more than three, and never to have pom
dered and taken ~ heart the profound 0bserv-
alton of that prince Of philosophers, Doeberry !;
"When two ride horse, one must rlde be-
"hind." We presume that thoy WI want