New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-28
TIE NDNIN4TIONS.

The worst deceived are those who deceive
themselves. 1t is quite possible that Mr. C0nk
ling was sincere when, after filing Rochester
with riot and unhappintsS, rOusing all the
rivalres and animosties Of the past ten years,
tearing open wounds that had begun TO heal,
and converting the convention into an arena
for the most furious faction fights. he urged
the delegates to "put contentious aside" and
complete in harmony the task for which
thy had come together. Of all the astounding
proceedings of Wednesday there was nothing
that so staggered the world with establishment
as the spectacle of Mr.. COnkling lashing
"spurious refOrmers," "sentimcntaliStS," "self-
righteous" persons, obnoxious" mcddlers,
"sOothsayers,' "phrasemongers," and mag
"aMnists y" pouring a torrent of wrath and
contempt upon the Administration and the par
ticuar friends and counsellOrs Of the President
hurting defiance at the true leader of the party;
and then declaring that "nO Republican should
" seek to wound and annoy another" He
coupled the grossest assault upon the Admin
istration with a plea that for the sake Of peace
the Administration ought to be let alone. He
clamOred for concord all the while he was
breaking heads. Half the sentences in his
speech were ludicrous satires upon the other
half.
Perhaps by this time he has recovered from
his decisions. The convention dissolved on
Wednesday in an uproar having been too
busy fighting to do the work for which it had
assembled and the delegates dispersed to their
hotels to sleep off anger and excitement before
they attempted to make nominations. But
that was really the end. The convention as a
whole never came together again. Early yes
terday morning gentlemen began to go
home, alarmed and ashamed, and the
remnant who resumed the interrupted
proceedings at the City Hall had 10
heart in their work and not much confidence
in its results. There was general belief that
the occurrences of the day before had de-
strOyed whatever chance the party might have
had of success at the polls, a belief that the
leader to whom they had surrendered them
selves did not look for victory, a suspicion
perhaps in some minds that he hardly de-
sired it, That suspicion, if it existed,
we have no doubt did him injustice !;
nevertheless depressing reaction followed
the first days quarrel the nominations went
a-beggng; the party no longer, as in former
days, searched for its best men to go on the
ticket, but cast about to find any one who
would run; the selections were announced
without enthusiasm the gathering broke up
with modification and fOrebodng. Never be-
fore, in all its history, has the Republican
party of New-York gone into a campaign in
such condition.
Nevertheless there shall be no faltering or
faintheartedness among the Republican voters
The convention is a thing of the past. We
shall try to forget its blunders and Offences
and do our duty as fully and as hopefully as
if the convention had helped instead
of hurting u.s. Mr. Conkling and his
800 are not the party; they are not even
the representatives of the party; what
they may say and do concerns nobody
one-half as much as it does themselves. For
tunately they have given US good ticket
though they have done it with a bad grace.
The nominees are not men to inspire frantic
admiration, for they are not very widely
known; bat they are men whom honest Re-
publicans can safely support and honest Re-
publicans throughout the State, laying aside
the contentious which have been SO miserably
revived, will work for them with all their