New-York tribune., 1876-09-04
Russian friends, who are always ready for a
fight with the Turks.
GoH SEYM0uRS DOUBTS DECLSIVE.

COZ SEYMOURS DOUBTS DECISIVE.
The condition of American politics during
the last few days has been anomalous, and
we may say unprecedented. The people
have been thinking of something more than
Gov Seym0ur's nominatiOn-of the insincerity,
the intrigue, and the incapacity of the Demo-
cratic party, which his rejection of that NOM
ination will imply. One week ago the num-
Der Of voters who had not declared themselves
was much larger than 1t is to-day. If the Sara
toga Convention had given them the considera-
tion of strong and honest nomination for their
votes, with the promise of Governor who
would be in some sort the guarantee of an up
richt national administration, these citizens
yet undecided would naturally have supported
the St. Lonis nominee. But now the demOr-
aliZati0n has been general and absolute. The
spectacle of its nominations hawked up and
down the political market, and actually going
begging is one TO Which the great Demo-
cratic party of the great State OF New York
has not been accustomed. 1t is not merely the
delay which this makes inevitable; it is not
merely the modification which every lover of the
old Democratic discipline must feel to his hearts
core it is not altogether that indefinite ap-
prehension which such muddle of matters
must awaken in the breasts of the veterans
who never heard of such thing before.
There is clumsiness, stupidity, an awk-
ward influence in it but more than all and
worse than all, for time at least, it nrc-
trievably damages the reputation of the party.
Moreover, the same effect will everywhere be
felt. in far distant States the practical sur
render OF the New-York Democracy will be
heard of with eXultatiOn by one side and with
dismay by the other To the mind of the
good Democrat all this must be uncommonly
irritating; and yet he has only his own lead
ers to blame for this early and almost ire
trievable disaster.
One good result of these important events will
be an increased thOughtfulness and larger
sense of personal responsibility upon the part
of tbe voters. The refusal of its nomination
| by one OF its most prominent members, and
in fact the making of nomination which
car bo thus refused, creates natural distrust.
| Ii is not desirable to create administrations
which viii be likely to break down almost at
once through the weakness of their judgment
or the incongruity of their elements. Thus
forewarned, thoughtful men turn TO the
candidates of the Republican party, and
give them support which otherwise
might have been withheld. We can
imagine what would have been the cOnster-
nation if Gov. Tilden had rejected the nomi-
nation of the National Convention. Morally,
the course Of Gov. Seymour amounts to much
the same thing. 1t indicates IN inherent in
capacity to govern wisely, or TO select trust
worthy public servants. Under such circum"
stances those who hold the balance of power
have no resource except to go to the organiza-
ton which Is strong enough to go alone; and
tlither we shall see them vending in numbers
which will settle long before November the
Presidential election Of 1876