The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-22

/ Tne ssspublioan Convention and state
observation-disclosures Sohn A. DIX
| for Governor.
| The republicans met in State Convention at
Utica yesterday and completed their business.
contrary to usage. In single day. NOMINATING
their candidates for Electors and State officers
and adopting their platform with extraordinary
unanimity. The ticket they have put into the
field is as strong one as they could well have
selected the nominations being General John
| A. Dix of New York, for Governor; General
John G. Robinson, of Westchester, for Lieu
| tenant Governor; Reuben NJ. Stroud, of On
ondaga, for Canal Commissioner Ezra Graves,
of Herkimer, for State Prison Inspector Lyman
Tremain, of Albany, for Congressman at Large,
and Frederick Douglass (colored), of Monroe;
Emil Sauer, of New York. and Stewart L.
Woodford, of Kings, for Electors at Large. The
fault of the ticket, if it be fault, is it's ten
dency to this end of the State, all the prin-
| cipal candidates-the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Congressman at Large and two of
the Electors at Large, being taken from Albany,
Westchester, New York and Kings, while the
Canal Commissioner is given to Onondaga, the
State Prison Inspector to Herkimer and the
colored Elector to Monroe. Otherwise the
selections have been made with political
sagacity. Mr.. George w. Clark, Of
New York, who proposed General Dix
in the name of Thurlow Weed, absent
through illness, stated that the General would
draw to his support large numbers of the hon
est democrats of the State, and E. Delafield
Smith expressed the same opinion, adding:-
''We are about to meet powerful coalition,
and we must meet it with all our strength.
Greeley will secure republican votes, and we
must Offset these with the votes of honest
democrats" While strength is thus drawn
from the democratic ranks, the nomination of
Frederick Douglass at the head of the Electoral
ticket will satisfy the colored voters and render
certain their almost solid support of the
republican Presidential candidates. Inde-
pendent Of the question of policy, how
ever, the nomination of General Dix is
good one and will be acceptable to the
people, as a sign Of an improvement in the
selection of candidates. The record of Cen
eral Dix is SO familiar to all our citizens that
it is unnecessary to repeat it here. 1t is suf-
fcient to say that his public services and his
private character alike commend him to the
confidence and respect of the citizens, and
that, should the republican ticket be success
full in November, he will make an acceptable
Governor. General Robinson, the candidate
for Lieutenant Governor, did gallant service
in the war, and lost leg at the battle of
Spottsylvania The nomination was worthily
bestowed
The platform adopted by the Convention is
of the usual commonplace character, but as
very little attention is now paid to the string
Of platitudes drawn out by all such bodies, it
is probably all that is necessary. The first
resolution starts with the postulate that the
rightful purpose of government is the security
Of individual liberty and equality before the
law, and then goes on to show, as the republic
cans have shown on every occasion since the
party had an existence, and as the wings were
accustomed to show before them, that power
in the hands Of the democracy means the re-
versal of these legitimate objects of govern
ment The second resolution declares that
the welfare Of the State imperatively requires
that the reform which broke the Tammany
Ring last year and has purified the |
Bench shall be continued and extended to
every branch of the government. This reso-
force from the fact that Senator Robertson was
the strongest candidate for the nomination for
Governor before the Convention, except Cen
eral Dix, and that Assemblyman Hustled, of
Westchester, was one of the most active men,
bers of the Convention. The third resolution,
as in duty bound, offers high tribute to the
modest patriotism, the earnest purpose, the
sagacious Judgment, the practical wisdom, the
incorruptible integrity and the illustrious SER
vices of Ulysses S. Grant," and declares that
with him as a leader the party cannot fail of
success. The fourth resolution pays compli-
ment to Henry Wilson, the party candi-
date for Vice President, and the next
ratifes formally the nominations of the Phila-
delphia Convention. Then comes the stereo-
typed laudation Of ''our gallant soldiers and
Sailors" with the pledges Of extensions of
bounties, pensions and homestead grants ad
Hbit,n. This Is followed by the usual aston
ishment and indignation at democratic extrav-
agance in the State, especially when compared
with the wonderful honesty and economy of
republican rule in the nation by declara-
ton that reforms must come from the repub-
lican party, no reforms prepared in any other
shop being reliable or genuine bya resolution
in favor of canal enlargement to steam capa-
city; by grateful recognition Of the services
Of the liable and faithful republican Senators
and Representatives OF Washington during the
war and since its cessation and last though