New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-06-09
KEEP COOL.

has collected more than his due.
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KEEP cool.
There never was so good a time to Keep
perfectly cool and avoid worry and fret, anu
loss of temper, as the present For even pro-
fessional politicians. and the men who have
substantial interests, as they think, involved
in the great questions to be settled at Clncin-
natl and st. Louis, it will pay in the end to
exercise a fair degree of self-restraint and
preserve an eaual mind. And everybody else
ought certainly to keep cool. 1t does not pay,
and there is really no induccment. although
there nav be frequent and abundant provOca-
ton, to do anything else. The political stna-
ton is very exciting to persons e. eXcltable
temperaments For the nomination Oh each
party there are candidates and candidates;
great hu ly-bully of them pushing and pushed
for the leading place amid much confusion
and noise and a great raising OF dust. There
are charges and counter charges, rumorS
and refutations of rumors, denunciatons
and dcnials, investigations, yndicatlons, ana
what not: and all for what Simply that
some Cne nav be nominated or hindercd from
being nominated for the Presidency. Let US
all possess our souls in patience, and make up
neither help nor hinder it by engaging in
heated discussion and getting red in the face.
Some one of the gentlemen who have been
named for the Cincinnati nomination VIII get
it. Let us hope he will be- ii not an ideal can
didate, one ut any rate whose candidacy VIII
not disgrace the party that nonlnates MN.
so too some one doubtless of those promi-
ncntiy named for the st. Louis nomination
will carry off that prize. Let us hope III that
case also the selection will be one which
will do honor to the judgment and us
erection of the great party that makes
the nomination. And in any event,
whether either or both Conventions make
their choice from the list of prominent names,
or 60 out and take up some Great Unknown,
let us try to believe that both will recognize
thc popular demand for candidates of well
known ability and integrity and will respond
to it in their action.
The People can afford to wait and look on
calmly. The nominations will be made by
delegates and the delegates are for the most
part active politicians who are aiming only at
success That may not be IN encouraging
view of it, but there is encouragement IN the
thought that the politicians have been learning
something during the past three or four year,
and among tie things learned is that the
PEOPLE are not going 10 vote tickets this year
simply on account Of the label. The managers
of the Conventions are fully aware That they
cannot safely tly experiments on the pa
tiencc and crcduliy Of the people, but
that thcy must Offer names actually worthy oil
confidence and support if they would succeed.
II il not probable that a majority OF the
members of either party will be entirely sat
i,fcd with the party nomination. Personal
prcfcrenccs and predictions have to be sacr-
feed in any event. The consolation we may
derive from the circumstances of the existing
situation il that both the great parties have
been compelled to defer to the unmistakablc
| impulse for political improvement and reform.
1t is hardly possible that the aspiration for
pnrer politics, for higher standards of morality,
for more dignfed administration and more
wholesome rule shall be wholly denied by
both the great parties. But even should both
DEFY public sentiment and offer for the
suffrages of the voters candidates OF question
! able character or doubtful position, there
still remains the alternative for the
largo number of conscientious voters who are
not bound by partisanship, to put another
ticket in the field and establish the beginnings
OF Il new force III ponies NJ tle Siluc tiIic lhd'
they register their protest against existing de-
noralizati0n.
Just now we may have our favorite candi-
dates and our neghbors may have theirs; we
may be quite convinced that the success of
our favorite is essential to good government
and the perpctuIty of free institutions; and
our ncighbor may be equally certain that ruin
| impcnds if his favOIite Is not successful; but
| bayn't we been through all this beforef
The Republic lives, and we grow wiser, or
ought to. We shall be drawing away from
the excitemcnts of tho Conventions i'll o
few days, and the things which seem
large and important to us now Will re-
sumo their old proportions, or smaller
| Then of course we shall encounter still greater
temptations to passionate and angry discus
sion and hot disputes, which few months
later will likewise fall back into juster rela-
lions and seem very petty and small. The
country goes on very WELL and will continue
10. The ultimate good sense and honesty OF
| tho People can be safely trusted All we have
to do is to keep cool, and not only act hon
estly and conscientously ourselves, but be-
lieve that our opponents may be equally hon
est conscientious, and sincere.