New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-23


till the formula OF the Cincinnati Convention had
been dgested by the general sense that an unwilling Con-
enactment OF the Civil Rights bill the exercise OF ts
rreveren spirit OF inquiry has not failed to eT p Sas
managed, at the time TO withdraw funds from te
Treasury and food from the mouths OF hungry INDIANS.
cured has at least assumed mlldcr type. The dirty
shirt OF the average Congressman does not noW m toss
formerly when, under the Congressional frank took us
Way 70 o S that the postal Service
of the country has been benefited There ~ vigorous
a s"nSng ppyoge should NOT be suffered to Divert
lions Of the peoples treasure to the petty ana mean pu
poses Of local politicians
LIBERALISM IN NEw-YORK.
Within the limits of our own State has the Cincinnati
crusade expended Insignificant part OF It's force For
many years the canals lay within the enterprise OF
political adventurers The Canal Ring doomed up at
last the portentous growth Of canal frauds. Canal
Commissioners couded with canal contractors in the
confused vocabulary Of rock and earth excavation and
of slope and vertical walls to accomplish the frauds con-
ceaed by "the unbalanced bd," and the plastic egsa-
ton State, in the hands of the willy contractor
tho servie instrument OF the masters OF the
Ring. But party allegiance, that had parayzed the
individual Judgment, became thing OF the past; ana
the enlightened elector reinstated common honesty III
State offices, and the OldDe honesty In the Gov
errors chair Notable have been the effects OF the Liberal
movement upon the voters OF the State The reyeses OF
1872 intensified ny the death Of Horace Greeley IL
anticipated that the removal OF the great leader nom
the would close tho drama. Little however, ana
be dependent upon his breath. His followers remem-
bered the lessons he had Taught them ana from ms
their hopes and carried 1t trlnmPhan'y INTO ihe T
fe p Sf 1Ss by forcing the
parties of the State upon their platform. and re-
spect for themselves by eecng Office those candidates
only who answ requisites Of honesty and capacity
Eighteen hundred and seventy-four witnessed another
hzagded their success upon faulty platform, with I'M
pronounced candidates upon it, Their Democratic adj
versailles, ia Difference to inc aT6ieIs Oh inc eiee-
ton Of 1873, avoided the error Ihg Liberals VOTING
with their principles, conferred the election upon tile
ssluary lesson. 1t would be TO regard as
against the perverseness OF party, ana ther reDuke
to selfish and schcnling leaders. The election was
proof Of the canesness and conStancy OF the ndepe-
tnt electors of the truth. they professod.
The result denoted not simply triumph ut the polls.
thenceforh the strength Of the candidate was not to CON
sis merely in developing his canvass, but also IN con,
opion The prestige Of party dri viii never recover,
it Is u be hoped. from Its overthrow in 1874.
TIE FATE OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES
No are the times without other signs, The parties
that formerly divided the country by distinctive
and definite issues, upon subjects OF commanding
mp cr;ance disclose no difference now, only
in their opposite policies Of success. The great
questions which, at the foundation OF the Govern
required consideration, have gradually disap-
peared. Men coming 70 consider that the political
parties do the necessities OF tie country,
and that they who lead them as far removed
from o true apprehension OF its wants The indie
pendent voter dsdans their supremacy and the boier
Is power in he land In the following As
semDiy were elected In 1874 by majority OF
40 or ees-in some Instances "a low 80, viz In the
III Of cataTangq. the Ist q cayusa ~ Of Mad'son,
LIST and lid of Monroe, XIIIth aud kVHith OF New
Counties of Seneca ana Tompkns and Republican IN
bers were elected by mjonties ranging below 30, and
in some Instances touching even 10 in the following A.
sembly Districts, viz: The lst Of ChauauGua, INth
York Ist aid ia Niagara % Ontario st W@{{ne
arc 90 Assembly Districts i'll hch change Of anywhere
from five 70 seveniy-iye votes wold sin ineir POI,
itics in another form, in winch there having hcrn
an average majority for the II Democratic members
members, a change of 40 votes in The II demo.
cratic districts would make them Republican, ana OF
Democratic not tn he disputed flat in these dis
trcts the liberal and independent voters favored the
successful candidates of whichever party and thus, as
they Thought assured the election OF 70 unobectonahe
Assembymen Now, IT, in l97i 20 Asse EN- D'lc1.
voters, certainly the prediction may TO hazdcd t4t
power but that will brought TO the same con
dion by the Informative tendenc OF events. ,..,
sonetnug OF the of the Republican party It's
corruption, In losing something of its prurency, has
grown less conspicuous and at some points reformed
Many however, still its faults, and many charge
docs an honest public sentiment sui score alinst H. III
fruitful parent OF excessive taxation; s1oooOoOo
have increased the annual national burden Whrn
practicabe economy should have taken $50 10000 600 o.
pfouseess unircquenty reminds the country of INC
evils OF irregular government for Pis ,nH i'm M
embrace. Its expenditures for the yeai ending sept 90
those of Maine, New-Hampsire, Vermont, Massachu-
setts Connecticut, Rhode Island, and NewJ'tey Tor
The period-scven states whose united population
than equals tiat Oh Now GIk Ihe .ast ana! ~
OF civil reform brnss US inevitably to pu4e and un'
biased civil service.
The few last years developed considerable body
whom reflection Las taught tbs opprcssivcnes 9t
to sst it, Under the guidance OF their impulses and
by strength of their convictions TINS body OF M
| ale growing into army Of action Against tie
desp0tism OF the they rebel and from the party
decree they appeal to the opinions OF their fellow
sfrr. Iay nj
mental principles belonging 10 good laws; Dut hey be-
leye that even VIII coca laws GOO them
They consequently seek not only honesty III rule but
honest men Tor their IuicIs
THE INDEPENDENT vorER-wHO Is HE
Such the Independent voter, neither partisan nor
theorst, neither Democrat Republican, but only a
dutiful citizen. Eclectic in opinions and composite in
practice aims select the best measures to vote for
the best men, and in all things 10 be guided by the best
lights of truth He is strictly the outcome of the wants
of the Republc-s latest centennial grOwth-its great
these independ voters grit with power TO shape
reesrdess Of the Establishments of the Republican
| ard OF the menaces OF the Democratic party, ana
canddafcs shall represent the body OF opinions supposed
to be essential to the public veal In finance they must
believe that the constitutional obligation enJoned OIL
Congress "to coin money and to regulate the value
thereof inhbits the power to create paper eurrcney
and n nas q spice basis Is Tue only sure Of
And independent voter procaims speedy return
TO spece TO be among the chief OF his political
opinions There others which follow by no means
Ondary in his schedule, and without which he thinks
scheme of sautary government be efectua He in
ssts that the military authority shall be subordinate to
INDEPENDENT civil service; that single Presidential
term s enough and third too much for any man that
local Government in State rights shall be recognized
but repudlated in state sovereignty He holds to both orig
spirit their judicial exposons, subject neither to
Executive eaprces nor 70 The s1igencies Of
equal and Justice TO all men, and that social civil,