The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-21

the last election proved false to their pledges
after election, and they will require something
moro than words to induce them TO put their
faith in political reformers hereafter. de-
nunciation of the Senate and Assembly of last
year. a protest against the denomination of
any republican Assemblyman who was at
Albany last winter. request to all
the republican Senators who hold over
another year to resign their seats
and suffer new Senatorial election to
take place-this, and little short of it, will
satisfy the people that the republican party,
as now constituted is not responsible for the
failure of the reform demanded by the people
last November and is not ready to again
betray the cause it then advocated. Let the
Republican Convention do this, and it may
again stand before the people as the champion
of honest government After the experience
of last winter it will be idle for the repub-.
licans to attempt to set aside this reform Issue
by the mere reiteration Of the cry of ''Tam-
many Tammany!' against IN opposition
party headed by such democrats as Belmont
Tilden and Schell.
matters the Convention must not lose
sight of the fact that it is admitted
by the republicans that the New York
battle of last November will not be the battle
of this coming November; that all the oondi-
tons and the issues between the belligerent
forces are changed, and that there ore no pre-
cedents and no election returns by which we
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coming election The bolt of the liberal or
anti Grant republicans from the administra-
ton camps, and the union of the democrats
with them on their Cincinnati candidates and
resolutions, give us new opposition departure
and new contest in this State and throughout
past elections will apply. The republicans at
Utica know that their party in this State is
weakened by the loss Of Mr. Greeley and his
numerous republican followers; but they do
not know that General Grant has been strength
ened, or will be, by democratic Bourbon rein
forcements, though his party leaders and jour-
nails profess to believe that their democratic
recruits will outnumber their republican de-
serters.
Mr. Freeman Clarke the able and clear
headed republican Congressman from our
Twenty eighth district has expressed the opin-
ion to HERALD correspondent that tho No
vember result in this State will depend almost
entirely upon tho State ticket that the
republican party is just now in such condi-
ton that it will require tho utmost caution
and good judgment to prevent serious break,
because all the republicans of the State are by
no means of the same mind about certain
matters with which the administration has
between Senators Conkling and Fenton, Mr..
Clarke further expresses the opinion that, from
the present outlook, eff General Grant does
not carry New York he will have a tight pull of
it," This idea will, no doubt, so impress itself
upon this Utica Convention as to compel it to
do the very best that it can do in candidates
and principles, national and local, to secure
the State. We know, on the other hand, that,
in view Of the closeness of the contest in other
States, New York may turn the balance one
side or the other; and we have thus the i'm
pelling motive on both sides for the most ex--
citing and desperate contest we shall have
had in New York since the closely contested
and doubtful battle of 1874 between James X.
Polk and Henry Clay.
In the interval to November we shall have
the Maine election and the Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska State elections,
which will 60 far to determine or to modify
the results in New York. In the meantime
the organization of our State contest between
the opposing parties will draw the lines
closely between them. The republicans of
Utica open the ball to-day, and the democrats
and liberal republicans will meet to give them
battle on the 4th of September at Syracuse;
and we now await the candidates and the
platform Of the Utica Convention.
The Question Of Bread in the Irish
Metropolis.
From Ireland we have news of the sudden
presentation of fresh social difficulty in
the shape of an agitation for bread in the
metropolis. The journeymen bakers of Dub
lin have gone out on strike for higher wages.
The masters refuse to comply with their
demands, and hence the daily production of