New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-04
SIC or THE TIMES.

The Worcester Conference has issued lts hd-
dress. To put the thing in few words it
means Brstow and Reform. But, like the
similar resolutions adopted by the Union
League Club of this city, it may be followed
by remarkable paucity of performance. The
eminently worthy and respectable gentlemen
who sincerely want better government are not
in the habit of packing primary meetings.
The not eminently respectable persons who run
with the machine have that habit. The differ
ence IN net result is considerable. The emil
nently respectable are heard all over the land
before the election of delegates. Tine not
cminently respectable send delegates, and are
heard in convention. We should be glad to
believe that the distinguished and worthy men
who met at Worcester would be heard from
again, and that they would be represented in
National Convention by men who would act Ill
the shirt of these declarations from the ad
dress:
We are heartily united in believing that there but
practical method by which distrus be aayed conf
restored and national assured and that Is
by insisting upon tho nomination OF such men only rs,
without aid OF tho rhetoric OF platforms embody IN
themselves the popular demand for honesty ana mde-
pendence. To this popular demand mere parsan'bip
| must yield Nothing ismore important than that
the candidates be nominated by the next National Con
yenton shall be men whose are already watch
words OF REFORM whose capacity and courage Tor the
work arc matters OF record rather than OF promise who
will restore the simplicity independence, and reeude OF
the early administrations and whose lives will be guar
autec OF their fidelity and fitness Under no other Ie0der
| shin Is success desirable or possible.
| These are brave words, and true words,
moreover, but, as the capacity and courage of
candidates should be matters of record rather
| A. q, tba MOI wi l.
dates arc those who work rather than those
who talk. If it were possible to reform by
resolution and pronunciamento, this country
would have been effcctually reformed long ago.
| 1t is not possible, and the practical question is
whether there are men enough in Massacliu-
sets who not only want reform but mean to
work for it, to secure delegation from that
State TO the National Convention. If not the
excellent gentlemen who met at Worcester
have said their say, and that is all.
There are some cheering signs, however.
Popular demands and protests have some per-
ceptble effect. 1t was feared that Z" the ma
chine" would grind out the entire delega-
ton from New-York thanks to Mr.. Curtis
and some Others it has not. From Connect
| icut most Of the delegates are known to be
men of the right stamp, and from NewHamp-
shire part, at least. Cameron still includes
| PENNSYLVANIA among his assets, but there are
sounds in New-Jersey which betOken trouble
ahead for the machine politicians. Ohio has
chosen delegation which The Commercial and
! Gazette believe will give "a or 26 votes for
1 Bristow, IL or II for Blaine, and z or for
Morton and though other estimates change
the proportion for Blame. nobody supposes
that this peculiarly influential delegation
will on the whole help Morton, COnkling, or
any other representative Of Grantism. 1t is
even said that Illinois, Iowa and Missouri will
throw tho Senatorial ring overheard, and Wis
consin declared for Blaine some weeks ago,
without instructing its delegates. Nor has
Morton clear field ut the South, where it
was expected that the delegations would DO
nearly all machine-made.'
These things show that tho good people Of