The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-30
The Gubernatorial Contest ut Sara

| Church. considerably narrowed the held oil
choice, but left the nomination in as much
doubt as ever between the candidates
who are not ruled out. Among those
whose fate was decided yesterday
was Abram S. Hewitt and it is for
tunate for the democratic party that n
reason for rejecting him has been discovered
which is so entirely conclusive that he is no
longer talked Of The State constitution re-
quires that the Governor and Lieutenant
Governor shall have been residents of the
State for five years preceding the election ;
but Mr. Hewitt has resided and voted in New
Jersey within that period. The fact that he
is a carpet-bagger in New York disposes OF
him completely; but. even if he were
not under this disability. there are
other conclusive reasons why he should not
be nominated. lie is too shifty and insin-
cere to be trusted. SO far as he is known in
this State, outside of the city, it is in connec-
ton with the broken down Midland Rail
road, and victimized citizens of both parties
would have Indignantly voted against him in
all the counties through which that road
runs. If he were constitutionally eligible
his nomination would have been the sure
forerunner of defeat for himself and the
democratic party of tho State. Mr.. Hew-
tits sudden candidacy was bubble
which collapsed as soon as it was
touched. Had his nomination been posi-
Bile he would have been assailed as the SON
in-law Of Peter Cooper, the venerable rag
money candidate, and have been suspected
of covert leaning to the family heresy.
Judge Church is also among the collapsed
candidates, although he has been much
talked of. His way Of coquetting with the
nomination has lessened the esteem in
which he was once held. He has acted like
an ancient maiden, who, having toyed with
and missed a number of good offers in days
that are gone, does not know her own mind,
and stealthily solicits advances which
she lacks decision to accept or
repel. If Judge Church were not blinded
by political vanity or the fattery OF indis-
Greet friends he would long ago have seen
that his nomination is impossible, and have
made his refusal so firm and explicit that
nobody could doubt what he meant He
lost the great opportunity of his life two
years ago, when he could have had the dem
ocratic nomination by sgnitying his willing
ness to accept it, and might have fallen heir
to the honors and prospects which
have come to Governor Tilden. 1t
is too late to rectify that mis-
take, and it would have been more
consistent with dignity to peremptorily for
bid the use of his name in connection with
any political Office. Governor Seymour is
also quite outside the pale of choice, but
only by his voluntary and sincere refusal to
be again candidate for any Office
The selection of the democratic nominee
for the Governorship seems to be narrowed
down to three namcs-Mr. Dorsheimer,
Mr.. Potter and Mr.. Marble Any
one of the three would be a pop
ular candidate and make n respectable
Governor if elected. The advantage of run
ming Mr.. Marble would lie mainly in the
conspicuous record he has made of sound
opinions on tho great question of the cur
rency There is widespread feeling that
MIR. Tiden weakened his canvass by the
concession he made to Hendricks in his let
ter of acceptance. The only way in which
he can now retrace that false step and re-
cover lost ground is by the nomination of
stiff and positive hard money man for the
Governorship of his own State. In this view
no nomination could be so significant as
that of Mr.. Marble, the hardest of all the
hard money men in the democratic party
NJ rio1-c nd oil
his works. He is the one democrat in the
United States who has had the courageous
fidelity to his convictions to publicly de-
nounce the action of the democratic House
in passing the repeal bill, which he did in
his recently published letter. His contempt
for that cowardly yielding to the imitation
lists is the consistent result of long estab-
lished convictions. His aggressive, unre-
lenting war on the rag money heresy in the
columns of the World so long rs he was its
editor nttests his unwaveriny devotion to
principle. lie is the author of the strong,
incisive, untlinching hard money platforms
adopted and readopted by the democratic
party of this State for series of years.
There could be no better way of undoing
the mischievous effect of Mr.. Tildens ill
Judged concessions to Hendricks in his letter
Of acceptance than by nominating so pro-
nounced, intrepid. unyielding and well
known champion OF hard money
as Mr. Marble. He is, besides, u citi-
zen whose character for integrity is I'M
assailable man of wide political knowl-
edge and various accomplishments, who
would adorn any public station to which he
might be elected.
The nomination Of Lieutenant Governor
Dorsheimer would have many of the advan-
tages which would attend that of Mr.. Marble.
He also is strenuous and courageous hard