New-York tribune., 1876-08-26
THE CONVENTIONS.
THE WORK DONE AND THE WORK TO
COME.

NOM!NEEs-THE DEMOCRATIC SlTUATION-DOk-
STEINER AND TILDEN-poTrER, HEWITT, ROBIN
SON. GREEN, AND CHURCH.
IYRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THIS TRrBUNE.l
SARATOGA, Aug 25.-Thcre is always less to be
said about o good ticket than a poor one.
Its merits are obvious. In this respect the
reception of the nominations Of Morgan and
Rogers has been much like that OF Hayes
and Wheeler at Cincinnati. The names tcid
the whole story. Coy. Morgan was satisfactory TO
many more party men probably than Mr..
Evarts would have been. His record as
War Governor and War Senator, his unwearied
devotion to the party, his political skill and power
of organization made him candidate acceptable to
almost every element and repugnant to none except
where perhaps thero was some fear of his future
prominence in the organization. Ills nomination is
universally accepted. In place of the usual
grumblngs and predictions of disaster that,
In the first rage of defeat. are heard
from the friends of unsuccessful candidates,
there seems TO be absolute accord. The friends OF
Mr.. Cornell are glad to have defeated Mr.. Evarts
the friends of the minor candidates were too few in
number to count, and the nomination made was
more of victory than of II compromise for them.
Even the supporters of Mr. Evarts did not seem to
feel the ordinary chagrin Of defeat. Many
of them had been elected under recommends
tions to vote either for the candidate they
favored or for the one who was nominated, and the
margin of difference in their liking was narrow
enough in some instances. Then the canvass for
Mr. Evarts was one for an ideal candidate. Delega-
tons were instructed for him, simply because there
was a popular demand for him, not because any of
his friends had attempted to fix things" The del
egates voted for him in convention for the same
reason. His supporters were so anxious TO AVOID
ANYTHING like machine methods that they refused
in their meeting to appoint committee TO wait upon
delegations and urge his name. Ii was not per-
sona canvass probably no one who engaged IN II had
the slightest personal interest in its OF acted
from any motives except the desire to give the party
its strongest candidate and raise politics to his higher
level. Failure was not personal disappointment to
his supporters in the usual of the term With
most of them the feeling that they had not got the
very best was merged in the pleasure OF believing
that they had got the next thing to it, Indeed there
were many who we're kindly disposed toward Mr..
Evarts and who sincerely desired to do what was best
and safest for the party, but who seemed inclined
to think that tie average sense CT the
convention had been right after all. Their
argument was that the experiment OF nominating
man who had not always seemed in full sympathy
with the party, who was not politician at all
much less practiced and practical one, and who
was not likely to attract the mass OF party men,
nomination of ex-Gov. Morgan meant a systematic
and thorough campaign, with which the head OF
the ticket would be identified, and which he would
direct something that could not be expected of
Mr.. Eyarts. Then, too Gov. MOrgan's nomination
was much less dstastcful to the CustOn-houSe
than that Of Mr.. Evarts would have been, and one
of the chief anxicteS of Some of the Evarts dele
gates was that no should be nominated after
the choice Of Mr. Eyarts had ceased to be possible
who was especially Objectionable to tho party
workers.
The omination of Senator Rogers for the second
place was the strongest that cOuld well have been
made 1t fresbened the ticket and gave it the vigor
O. man new to active politics Mr. Rogerss work
j. the Constitutional Convention of 1873 was his
only service to the State prior to his election 10 the
Senate in which his tenn is only half expired. Brief
as his public service has been it has impressed upon
the whole State strong sense of his ability,
and he has taken his place easily &s
perhaps the abiest Republican member, though
not as the shrewdest Republican politician
of that body, now largely made up. as 1T
was a generation ago, of pure and able men. Mr..
Rogers can lead on the field the canvass which Gov.
Morgan can direct in the closet. His face AID bis
voice viii win him votes wherever he goes
Perhaps the best proof of the strength of the ticket
Is the general verdict of the Democrats here and III
Albany that it is in their opinion the strongest that
could have been made. The Democrats invariably
favored Mr.. Cornell, though some OF them
made desperate attempts to disguise their
real wishes by asserting that the Democrats
had os.to fear in the nomination of the head of
the machine, who would have the highest per-
sona interest in the success Of the campaign. But
most of the Democrats present IN Saratoga
did not attempt to conceal their hopes Of Mr.
Cornelrs nomination, and were wildly but briefly
elated at the revival of his name for The second
place They were candid enough when the result
was finally reached 10 admit the force Of the com
bination. One experienced Democratic observer
said IL was altogether the best State ticket he had
ever known the Republicans to put into the field.
The Democrats see that this ticket is solid; they
understand that the other ticket must weigh just as
much. How it is TO be made UP is yet matter OF
entire uncertainty. 1T has been given ont that
Leut~Gov osllcmcr is Gov. Tildens candidate,
though there are many who deny it and none who
can prove it. There can be no question, however,
that certain external signs which have prophesled
Mr. Tden's nominations before no" point
10 his lieutenant in government and in pol
itcs as his choice. The Utica C6S0rG',
sesa,-.,fical organ. has pronounced for him, and
The Brooklgn E0gle which first to test the tenn
Der of the party on the nomination OF Nh. Bigelow
last vaar has done pretty much the same thing.
The BROOKLYN delegation, which always does what
Gov Tilden wants is for DOrshener, so far as 1t is
chosen and will be solid for him, IT is understood,
when it is fully made up. Nevertheless, 1t has been
noticeable that the declarations In favor
of Mr.. Dorsheimer have seemed TO be with
mental reservation: they have not been
so earnest and outspoken az was to
be expected if it was definitely understood
that he was Gov Tilden's choice. In his home MT