New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-29


PEOPLE.
IN fhe Rditor OF The Tribune.
SIR: The priori publicists, those pure and
unlefiledall honor them who believe IN things as
they ought to he tell that the chief duty OF man Is 10
60 to the primaries. II but do this the country Is
safe Very we'll Desiring to save the country Tor one
would 20 the primaries. wish could take space 10
ave Won the satire of my experience. Having made INC
experiment honestly. 1 doubt and think most people
would doubt the country is to DO saved or the party
purified through the primaries II is possb e. but IL Is
scarcely probable You have DO better chance to vo'e
discriminatory with but ticket OF 20 Names none OF
which you know) at the primaries than You nave
at the polls: you cannot even cast your vote
intelligentIy without STEADY attendance at the
noiteal migratory of the ward meetings; even then
Won must keep pretty well "nside" TO accomplish re-
suits And this takes 10 20 evenings out from the
year-a time most unselsh patriots are ioth 20
nay. know that honest and steadfdst man can 40
his duty and bring another TO do his. ana may thus o"
up power against corruption One man VIII ten Always
and anywhere. But the hard logic OF events goes W
show that can't get tho ideal voter to take nod anu
keen hold of the primaries Either things are going
pretty well and he'll "lct well enough alone, or they
are going so badly that its no use for MN 10 ty MS
hand The skilled professional must always have the al
vantage Of the amateur in politics as Ia everything else
Moreover emphasizing the primaries exaggerates 'he
Importance of party machinery that Old Man OF the
Sea which has mounted the shoulders of our Democracy
and therefore makes It's dcspotsm the more sure
Ia there then, no way QUIT Freedom Forbid MT.
Editor, / have walked through New-Hampshire ana
talked with the people. know therefore That every
word OF your beratcd correspondent was true Even the
New-Engaud town meeting. OF which the primary IL
mechanical imitation has lost Its purity and is in this
stage of social development, of questionable use in
the rural of that fine State there Is commonly
scattering body OF independent voters, deciOusy non
partisan whose the day These votes are iOr
sale Everybody knows that and the politicians act on
It. The chief uncertainty about the New-Hanpshire
election comes from the selfevdnt truth that men who
will sell their souls and their votes cannot always be de
pended on. Having taken money from poth siues' 's
independent voter votes dspassOnatey with the party
that captures him last and carries him To the Ols Is
for this you can bet ON the Newfiampshiie
election in honest uncertainty, up to the last moment
This IA indeed amentable state Of things for our Re-
public Shall 1t be dooms Nay, Sir, see i'll IT'S
lesson salvation.
This prostitute vote, small. without organization.
every for himself holds the key to the political STU
alton in ew-Hampshre. There must be s0mo reason
The politicians will give anything to gain it, Whyf
Simply beca Sc Of ths II is not the great majority they
need he anxious about but the small minority which
makes the majority They can depend on the rest
The dishonest voter in Newampshre knows this, and
makes the most OF it. We forgetit
Yet here Is the method OF governing our gov
ernors the potcans-nOt from the inside, for there
they beat us, but from the outside, where they can't
reach U.S. In word, must trade our vote They nay
the New Hampshire votes with money; let them ulor-
stand that wowi compel them to buy ours-With sound
principles and honest practice OF tham the Dest cahd
dates and honest support of them That is what we
"strke for" And when Is understood that the best
Republicans will vote against the Republican party If its
politicians play false TO them again. the honest intel
gent vote however small, will regain through the conn
try that control which tho corrupt minority undoubtedly
holds in New-Hampshire.
think it las not been pointed out that after ALL Is
your intelligent voter upon whom the politician relies as
the surest partisan There may be scientific reason for
this; the thoughtful man secs the far reach or small
causes and he bestates to precpitate revolt whlch
may put into permanent power tendencts whose NAL
results he breads He has not tho faith to see That II he
can block party no curb or in turn overthrow the
other The politicians know him better than he knows
himself they know that talk he will before the clcc-
tion there less likely to vote against his party
when the time This has always been peculiarly
true the Republican partnever moro so than at the
election Of I'd. Mr.. Geo wm Curtis is himself the
best Illustration OF the timdty OF the patriotism ana
purity of this GLASS; who need only bravery to give them
the command they may have If they will Each year he
has protested nobly; each year-unti now-when the
time to act came, he has "knuckod down" lie didn't
know that he would; but The politicians did AT last he
has stood up like the man nc is 1t remains Tor us 10
follow his example.
Mr. Editor some gentlemen who good Republicans,
but better patriots confer the 18th of May as to
what shall done with the independent vote. Let them
take they do not bind IL hand and foot to
the politicians by telling them just what 1t Will do
friend in journalism, young Democrat. who keen
observer politics from the inside once said that the
best thing an honest voter could dn practical politics
was to ask questions about his Assemblyman." The
Assembly Districts he said, too large for count
and too small for average, that very sna minor
ity could disturb the professionals And the
best way to turn them out OF business
was to make bus ness Improbable, and the
best way to mako it Improbable was TO
make 1t unsafe would suggest Sir that the best thing
the independent voter is questions about the
candidates Let it he rod in rrorem over the heads Of
the nominating conventions and let the boiling be DONE
n needs be- after and not before. third party is
niece of artillery under fro from both Sides that com
monty does moro execution by kicking the wrong way
than by the accuracy Of its shot, a. any rate 1t de-
fined force which tho politicians can take into their cal
citations truly independent voter is an indefinite
spook, that may brighten them into good behavior But
am trespassing upon your patience. Let ME simply
add for the present that there two divine rights
given to the American people which for propose to
exercse-the divine rights 10 scratch and to bolt
Geto- York, April 81. 1876. Young REPUBLICAN.
MR.. CONKLING NOT TIE RIGHT MAN.
UNPOPULAR WITH THE MASSES AND WITH TIE
POLITICAL MANAGERS.
To the Editor Of The Tribune
SIR The proposal to nominate Roscoe
Al. - 10, ~ fAe