New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-20

therefore, the party IN new Orh sp'"n" Wv"
a fullness and expGcitness that leave nothing
to be desired
Q. Next for the Canal Reform. Here the
Republicans are weak and tlm0r0us. Ihcy
commend "the action of all officers, whether
"of the State or National Government in
their efforts for the correction oil pubic
abuses; but this vague and general resolution
has no ring of heartiness in it, and seems to
Mace the efforts of Gov. TTden to break up
the Canal Ring on par WITH the at
tempts of Secretary DelanO to investigate
the charges and insinuatlons OF MI
Marsh. When it comes to particulars
the Saratoga Convention studiously ignores
the Governors work, and presents cool
recommendation of It's own that the Governor
shall begin to do something about these canal
scandals, as if that bad never occurred to
ANYBODY before. The Convention would nave
done wisely and caught great many mae
pendent votes if it had despised, or affected TO
despise, mere party jealousy, and given MI
Tilden praise and thanks for what he has
accomplished. Generosity and frankness, now
over ara NOT the characteristics of the average
nolitician. and conventions are usually unfair
when they have the temptation ana the
OppOrtunity The Democrats OF course pieugeo
themselves with enthusiasm Ito follow where
an honest and fearless Chief Magistrate mas
"dared TO leadn in reforming the adminlstra-
ton of the canals and proclaimed tins the
paramount, immediate, and practical issue
of the New-York reform campaign-which 1t
certainly is.
8. The Democratic platform is superior to
II. !tnh n IT,
tackled the vital points of the campaign. 1t
sets forth the financial question first oil all,
with completeness and energy that snow
q full appreciation of its importance, and
its concluding resolution, on the subject OF
Canal Reform, is lifted by its vigorous and
comprehensive language into appropriate prom
nence. No one can read the Democratic plat
form without feeling that financial honesty
and Canal Reform are the commanding issues
of the day in the State of Newly ork. Inc
Republicans, on the contrary, beginning WIN
a rcpudiation of the Southern policy OF their
marty, and concluding with a foolish string OF
undeserved compliments to the Administration
and a covert fling at the "boastfu, ostenta-
"tious pretensions" OF some unnamed adyer-
sary-prcsumably the Reform Governor OF
New Ork-tTeaJ tne HldHctS anu VIZ |o'"''i
War only briefly and incidentally.
4. The Republican platform Is disligurcd by
n resolution of thanks to Gen. Grants Admin
istration for its assumed success IN UNFOLDING
the national honor, opposing unsound financial
schemes indicating the national dignity, root
ing out abuses, and enforcing retrenchment-
in all which particulars it has in reality dis
played an inetiiciency-or something worse
that has aroused the disgust of the country
Such are the chief points of difference between
the two platforms, and the people OF the State
have reason to congratulate themselves that
they are not more serious. Both in the main
are sound. Both contain an unusual proper
ton of common sense, and both eVlnce, Ill
their freedom from political rant and the we'll
worn rhetoric of the stump, respect for the
opinions of intelligent and Independent voters not
common in documents of this description. The
superiority of the Democratic platform III the
four particulars we have mentioned Is perhaps
attributable rather to the greater skill OF It's
trainers than to the better intentions of the
party. But at all events either platform Is
good enough, and the choice of the voter in
the approaching election will have to be gov
erned almost wholly by the personal merits OF
the candidates, and the greater probability OF
one party or the other redeeming the promises
of which both are SO liberal.