New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-30
ticket Gained no votes by It and the few

Republicans who refused to do it were, in
party sense fully justified There is such O
thing as selling yourself too cheap.
Mr.. Cornell would have the public believe
that the regular Republican Committee OPP
posed the Ledwith County ticket; but such
| is not the fact The most that can be truly
| said is that those who c0ncurred VIII MN anu
| with us as to the policy of supporting the Led
with County ticket were not permitted TO
make their conviction rule OF faith Tor
| others.
Mr.. Cornell repeats the misstatemcnt that
ten thousand Republicans petitioned the state
| Committee TO reOrganize the City. Not haif
that number signed the petition at oil, and OF
these many signed repeatedly, while hundreds
were non Republicans or non-voters. The
lists were thoroughly scrutinized by sub
committee of the General Committee and their
hollowness publicly exposed months ago
But Mr.. Hotchkiss had asked if it would not
have been wiser to refer the matter in dis
pute to the State Convention. Let us have
Mr.. Cornell's answer in full:
81 answer that in my opinion 1t would not The State
Conventions are usually held within few weeks OF the
election If tho state Convention found it necessary to
previous TO the election would not DC sufficient to accom-
plsh the work The recent exposure OF the monstrous
corruptions OF the Tammany officials by The hec-fork
Times demonstrates the wisdom OF action In what
condition would the Republican party be- TO so before
the voters OF the State II Its machinery IN the City OF
NewYork wero stil under the control Of Tweed Co
Could the State Committee have justified itself II IT had
failed act promptly and thoroughly Oh question 30
vital to the welfare and perpetuty OF the parDf
Now we call the whole State to witness
that we have for months been urging that the
State Convention be called and held at an
early day. Mr.. Cornell is Chairman, with an
obsequious following of the Republican State
Committee, which calls our State Conventions
Why has he delayed issuing the call till late
in August and the assembling of the COnvcn-
ton till the last of September7 Estate Con-
"ventiOns," he says, care usually held within
"a few weeks of the election" No, they are
not, but they may be, and sometimes are
You, Dir. Cornell, have postponed this Con-
ventiOn to a late day to subseryc other ends
than those of the Republican party. You
have delayed the opening of the canvass
to within a few weeks Of the election"
in order to pack it with the nominees
of Federal ofhce-holders, and thus enable you
to say, "There is no time. We must sustain
" the State Committee" and its Custom house
bantling. You have deprived the Republicans
of our State of such reasonable time for Or
canzation and preparation as they needed and
should have been allowed. Many of our Senate
and Assembly nominations will now be made
too late to allow of a thorough scrutiny of the
characters of the nominees and, if bad men
are thus fOisted upon US as Republican candi-
dates, they will be beaten, and you will be the
cause of our disaster Look well to your re-
sponsiblity
Republicans of the interior be careful 20
send good and true men, who are neither
otficc-hoders nor the nominees of ofice-holders,
to our approaching State Convention Let
them meet resolved to do justice and you need
not fear the result.