New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-31
THE UNFINISHED WORK or The DEM


1t was supposed that Gov. Tilden would
control yesterdays convention. The reports
leave it uncertain whether he really controlled
it, or whether it only followed the persistent
believing of John Morissey and Tim Campbell
in its final mad rush for Seymour. From the
Democratic point of view the nomination
would seem, at any rate, to he the very
strongest that could have been made. Gov.
Seymour is unQuestionably their most promi-
nent and popular man. For half generation he
has been the pet of the New York Democracy
has filed places of the highest dignity, has
led them in reveTses as well as IN trlumphS,
and has throughout maintained his easy as
tendency, over all associates or rivals. III the
aifectionate esteem of his party. No other
mans name could lend such weight to the
Democratic ticket; no other could in
sure such enthusiastic Democratic support.
GOV. Seymour will bring to the Democratic
canvass all that Gov. Morgan brings to the
Republican, plus an affection and cnthusi-
asm which no Republican and no other Dem
ocrat in the State could arouse Such Is yes
terday's nomination, Us regarded from the
Democratic point of view
Bat there is another side to it. There are
not Democrats enough in New-York TO elect
their ticket. 1t must be elected, if at all, by
help from outside. Is Gov. Seymour the man
to get that help
We think not. We think, indeed, that the
nomination lifts the Democratic canvass from
The plane on which it was strongest-that OF
reform, and SEES it back on the plane on which
il is weakest-that of the old war issues. The
man who spoke at the City Hall during the
draft riots and who ran for the Presi-
dency against Grant, with Frank Blair
AS his associate on the ticket, can
not possibly be candidate now without
reyiving and intensifying the old war feeling
No man in the State was so bitterly disliked
and so profoundly distrusted by the
men most in earnest in carrying on
the war as Horatio Seymour. Yet the
most fcrvid of those who dlstrusled him then
are precisely the men from whom he must
draw support now if he is to be elected. The
Liberal Republicans were the radical, not
the conservative wing OF the kepuDhcah
marty. They were the men who most
hated Seymour then, and are now the very
last who could be brought to support nm.
No other nomination could so well secure the
full Democratic vote, or so thoroughly repei
Che Liberal Republican and independent vote.
There are other drawbacks to the nomlna-
tiop. Gov. Seymour has refused the use OF
his name on the ground OF his Ill health. III
il known that his physicians have peremp-
torily required him to abstain rom
the excitements of political cam
paign. He has been SO often suspected
of refusing nominations only in order to get
them, that his acceptance now would SAVIOR OF
the ridiculous. A man may refuse to be a
candidate for the Presidency, and afterward
accept the nomination but he cannot do the
same thing afterward with the GOyernorsllp,
without arousing an amusement which Is not
calculated to win votes On the whole
therefore, the Democrats have nominated
sick and unwilling man who will bring out