New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-24
institutions.
UTICA.

The denomination of Gen. Dix was impera-
lively commanded not merely by the voice OF
the people, but by the needs of the Republic
can organization. His administration has been
so thoroughly good bis executive ability is
SO marked, and his personal character stands
so far above reproach that any serious oppo-
sition to him in the Convention would have
thrown discredit upon the party. Cliques
and individuals have. of course. had their
particular preferences, and Gen. Dix was
not the choice of certain politicians
who are accustomed to lead IN
affairs of this kind but personal disappoint-
ments have perforce been smothered, and the
people have now the satisfaction of knowing
that whichever party may carry the day in
November, the State of New-YOrk is sure OF
a good Governor for the next two years. 1t
is one of the best results of the present weak
ening of partisan ties, the spread of indie
pendent principles, and the growing influence
of an independent press, that Republicans and
Democrats have alike been forced to select
candidates of such irreproachable lives and
such thorough political honesty as the eminent
citizens who head their respective tickets this
year.
But in making nomination, which it could
not help but make, the Convention seems to
have exhausted its power for good. 1t rushed
through 8 wholesale commentator of the
rest of the ticket, and adopted in riotous
haste a string of resolutions which touched
upon not one vital contrOverted subject except
the debt and the currency. Upon these topics
the voice of a New-York Convention must of
course be emphatic, and no particular credit
is due for speaking when it would have re-
ouired courage to be silent. What honest and
reassuring word has this Convention uttered
upon any other question whatever 1t has
clamored for the protection of every citizen in
his rights against Ku-Klux and White
Leaeuers, but has no care for his rights against
swindling carpet-bag legislators and usurping
Governors. 1t has denounced the revolt of the
people of Louisiana against their fraudulent
State government, and has emphatically
approved the infamous abuse of power
by which that government was forced
upon them. 1t has "reaffrmed" the prin-
ciples of the old Republican party
whose name it unworthily bears, and "pointed
"with prider to the achievements of the past
in which it has no share; but it has no sense
of the duties of the present and no promises
TO make for the future. 1t offers to the people
no hope of reform in a corrupt civil service,
no prospect of tho punishment of thieves in
Office or relief from the Shepherds, Harring
tons, Jaynes, Sanborns Durells, and Kelloggs,
who have brought such disgrace upon
the American name. 1t has no word of
sympathy for the oppressed South, no rebuke
for its plunderers, no Indignation at the
stupendous crimes against the suffrage which
have been committed in that unhappy region.
1t has no disapproval to express of the Gag
law, or the Custom house abuses, or the COM
plications of the Revenue system. Upon the
special interests of the State of New-York it
has nothing to say. 1t has no scheme OF tax
reform, no opinion upon any of the constitutional
amendments, no policy respecting the rail-
roads or the canals, OF all the State Conyen-