New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-29
TIE STATE oAxnAss OPENED.

~ CyEucUoci uuu Pi0uBo W tss suppoft dios
solid three fourths Of tho entire Republican
vote Of this city whose delegates were
insultinsly driven from the Convention.
We accept the miracle Of olumsiness
called the Platform; and bow to the monstrous
State Committee. Come what may, We must
carry NewYork for honest government and
against the thieves, Let the new -made ora
cles of Republican party, who yesterday strut
ted their brief hour On the stage at Syracuse,
enjoy their feeting triumph I'VE have nobler
work in hand: Ours is the task to save the
easy Republican victory over City robbery and
State misgoyernment they have done their best
to throw away tits not the first time it has fallen
to US to rally the noble people Of New-York
under the encouragement which the successful
intrigues of false ofice-holders created, while
the victOrs In caucus and convention,
hating us far worse than the common
enemy, spent their time in dividing
our raiment among them. Let them
revel in the spoils, and parcel out the Offices
al for us and for all whom we can in
fuence, we shall carry the banner Of vic
tory in the front, elect the ticket 80 many
good and true men shared In selecting,
and settle with the stragglers and ma
RAIDERS on the field, when we have won
it. To this good work THE TRIBUNE calls
every delegate, who resented the insult of the
ofice-holders' scant and blinded majority by
retiring from a Convention that branded Moses
II. Grinnel and Marshall o. Roberts as Tam
many thieves.
And now, let us deal briefly with one or
two Of the features that marked the memora-
bic Syracuse Convention of 1871.
L. The one side preached harmony; the
other practiced it, The regular delegation
from New-York accepted the unexpected COM
promise proposition Of Hamilton Ward, pro-
viding that both it and its Custom House rival
be admitted, and that the new State Commit
tee be directed to consolidate and perfect
the organization. The Custom-House delegates
proposed an amendment, guarding against
Tammany or other hostile influences, with
which they declared they would be
perfectly content. 1t was instantly and
vociferously accepted by the regular
delegation; the Convention loudly ap-
plauded the compromise thus harmoniously
perfected and accepted before their very eyes,
both sides agreeing to the Custom-Ho
amendment, and not voice, in or out OF the
New-York delegations, being raised to object
to it, till, at the very moment when it
seemed about to sweep through the
Convention by reclamation. Senator Ros-
coe Conkhng sprang into the imminent breach,
and, in one of the most successful speeches of
his life, won the victory Of defeating this
accepted compromise, destroying this attained
harmony, and driving out Moses Fl. Grinnell
and his associates. The Custom-House dele
gates had no word to utter, but Mr.. Conkling
had. The Convention was ready to ratify
the settlement but Mr.. Conkling was not.
Peace and harmony with safety were at
hand, but Mr.. Conkling preferred to cram
an insult down the throats of the men
he was exhorting to concession.
Equally glazing In effect, though less
blameworthy In purpose, was the amazing
action of that presiding officer who closed the
most apostolic exhortation to mutual forbear-
ance by giving to a minority comprising
barely less than one-half the Convention
a representation of precisely two out of
the fourteen members on the most important
Committee Doubtless it was done in ign6r-
ance; but the man who seeks such position
is responsible for his ignorant discharge of
its duties and, much as we have loved
and honored Andrew D. White, the truth
constrains us to say that, in blindly
consenting, with beguihng words on his lips,
to be thus used by the State Committee, he
was made the instrument of such an outrage
az no respectable presiding officer of any
prominent deliberative body has ever commit
ted.-We do not care to trace in detail the
other illustrations of the same policy. 1t ruled
throughout. The Chairman of the State Com
mittee sought to put the Custom House dele
gates On the roll, TO vote on, their own :cases
his followers refused to, initiate the magnani-
NOUS conduct of Chaan6ey Depew, and with
draw their partisan candidate for Temporary
Chairman, that cofnpromise might be made
on Mr.. ,Scribner, candidate upcommitted to
either wing. They were only forced into fol-
! lowing the uniform rule OF ell previous State
| Conventions as to contested seats, after q