New-York tribune., 1875-08-18
THE DFuOCRATIC OPPORTUNITY

The Democratic State Committee OF New
York will moet at Saratoga to-day to issue the
call for the State Convention. In Ordinary
times such proclamatiOns have no very great
importance, and it is common enough 10 ekaS-
gerate their significance; but tins year tho
preliminary declarations of the Committee may
have a great influence upon the fortunes or
tbe campaCD. There has been an uneasy feel
ing in some quarters that the Governor in
his attack upon the Canal Ring is really
engaged in tremendous battle with his
own party. There is an impression that his
course is not relshed even by some OF the
most respectable and personally honest leaders
of the Democracy, and that he will not receive
the hearty support OF the organization II 1t Is
possible for it to lee withheld without making
public scandal. The unfortunate and almost
unaccountahlc demonstration OF ex-Lleutcnint-
Governor Beach against the investigating
Commission has lent so much strength to these
suspicious that q great many well-meahins
Democrats survey the situation with unoon-
cealcd anxiety. OF cetlrse we understand that
these rlmOrs, suspicious, doubts, fraIS-call
them what YOU wiil-arc in laIS" measure I'M
reasonable if not altogether unfoundcd; but
they exist, and it weud be foolish TO pretend
ignorance of them. The Committee therefore
will do good service by incorporating IN
its proceedings to-day pledge OF that ful
and enthusiastic support which the Governor
expects Of the Democracy in his Canal fight.
II is better to speak now than to wait for the
Convention.
The party cannot set itself right on tins mat
ter too soon There is no question that ult-
o1,. q t,-in 81 in lac Governor
its might; it cannot help doing that; and any
one who intcipa,cs objections, whether because
he fears for himself or is afraid to alanaic
other persons who are useful INSIDE politics,
will have to be thrown overheard. But the
lines ought TO be drawn now. the party com
mitei so frankly to the rcisrm that no Dem
ocrat can hold back any longer without con-
Teasing him elf dishonest. and 40 RcpuhIcan
or independent can doubt how the party
stair,s. Many of the Administration Repnb-
leans have committed the great blundcr OF
holding aOof from tins movement and abnS-
ing The author of it. The Democrats, ii they
act promptly and deeiIivcly, can control the
direction of the campaign III this state and
place thcms, lives at the head OF a great popu-
lar risin. which is almost certain 10 become
Irresistible.
Whatever may he the leading is,ucs in
national politics next yeal, the duty OF good
men th, year in New -Aorh is very plain. Our
fight is the fight for reform the destruction of
a long established system Of public robbery,
which has not only depleted the treasury, &c
pressed commerce, and loaded the people with
intolc10lle taxes, but has made The trade of
politics corrupt and ccrup,ing. II the re''r-
NATION Of oHical abuses and t'ic breaking up
of Rings are to be the chief business af tilc
next Presidential campaign orr share oi il hcf
night here ready to or h9nd, and We may a5
weh do this before we take any more extern
syc contracts, We skall be in better condition
to attack frauds III the ludian country and the
District of Columbia when we have cltaucd
out the state Of NcW-YOyk.