The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-10

tingency is so remote that we may assume
that as New York goes so will 60 the Union.
For this reason the utmost care should be
taken in the nomination of a ticket. The
Governorship under the new constitution
will be one of the most important offices in
the Republic. The salary will be ten thou
sand dollars q year, with mansion In Al
bany. The term of office is three years
When we add to this the importance Of New
York the Empire State we see that the
Governorship is second only in dignity and
power to the Presidency. SO far as political
preferment goes it may be regarded as
step toward the Presidency. Under the old
constitution the Governorship was good
office; now it is great one. Considered,
therefore, as prize, there is no citizen in
the Commonwealth who should regard its ac-
ceptancc as beneath him. This makes the task
ofselection in either party easy 1topens up
to the Convention every department of po-
litical and social fitness. There will be no
excuse for the conventions if they do not
democrats and republicans alike-select
their best men this more especially be-
cause the State ticket in canvass ms
equally divided as the present may deter
mine the vote for the Presidency.
The Republican Convention will be gov
erned largely by the wishes Of Senator Conk-
ling the Democratic Convention by those
Of Mr.. Tilden. In the republican party we
hear great deal Of muttering about ''ma-
chine" candidates. Throwing over Grant
and Grantism" and reform" All of this is
directed against Mr.. Conkling, who is sup
posed to favor the nomination of Alonzo B.
Cornell and whose power must be
broken" We have no evidence that Mr..
Conkling desires the nomination of Mr.
Cornell. He has given no such impression
to the canvass. The inference is natural
that our Senator would rejoice in any honor
to as loyal friend as Mr.. Cornell, more
especially as that gentleman is an upright
and able man and entirely fit to be Gov
ernor. The cry against Mr.. Cornell is the
cry calculated to give him the sympathy of
the party, more especially as this talk
about machine" politics and Grant
ism is nonsense. A machine" or
an organization is as necessary in
carriage. The men who run the tina
chine" are as important to the party success
as the men who run the steam cars to Sara
toga. To raise the cry, therefore, that be-
cause gentlemen give their time to pol
itics. to the management of a canvass and
conventions; because they look after the dis
ciplne and working Of the party, and see
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outlawed, is to strike Mt the success of all
political government. There is no more i'm
portant officer in the English parties than
the whip" He is Secretary of State
generally holds relations Of confidence with
the Premier and always shares in the rewards
and honors of power The objection to Mr..
Cornell that he is machine" man is cant.
IT this were the only argument against his
nomination he would go on the ticket by ac-
clamation The best friends of Mr.. Conk-
ling, however, think that an election so i'm
portant as this should be removed from any
Of the contests in which he has been en-
gagged They feel that he and Mr.. Cornell
are both too young and with too much prom
Use to waste their strength upon n local con-
test They think that some names should
be selected which would recall the Seward
days of the party. Public opinion points to
William NJ. Evarts for Governor and Andrew
d. White, the President Of Cornell Univer-
sity, for Lieutenant Governor. The reasons
for these nominations are so self-evident
that we shall not recite them Mr.. Conk-
ling should present these names to the Con-
vention and then go into the canvass as he
went four years ago, when he supported
Grant with so much enthusiasm as to
win from the President the nomination to
the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court.
If the republicans, whose Convention
meets before that of the democrats, should
nominate William M. Evnrts and Andrew d.
White grave duty will devolve upon the
democrats. Mr. Tilden was nominated upon
the assurance Of his friends that he could
carry New York. That promise carried the
Southern States, which cared only for sue
cess, and defeated Hendricks and Bayard. If
possible Mr. Tilden must redeem that prom
Use. and to do so he should name ticket
which will excite the enthusiasm of the
party and draw out its latent vote. To do
this he must find new, fresh,
genuine man, free from any associa-
ton with the old rings. The sug-
gestion that Governor Seymour should
be forced upon the ticket against his will
was really an insult to proprie'y and State
pride. Governor Seymour's administrations
when he was Governor were not remarkable
for reform, and he would have no special
force as a reform candidate. Chief Justice
Church, of the Court of Appeals, will not
run, which is very proper as it would be q
blunder to bring the Bench into politics.
Mr.. Murphy, of Kings, is named but the
New York Ring will not consent to this, and
Tho rllnrs Of tho Eroaklyn Riun