National Republican., 1877-10-08
TIE NEW YORK rHARIsEEs.


Republican State convention to themselves!
That is to say, they have selected four of
their most unco'-good men to name fifty
others to call meeting. The meeting is
to be composed only of those who agree
with the pharisaical faction. II is not to be
meeting of Republicans in general, who
may vote after debate. Those who attend
must be loaded with indignation against
senator CoNKLING and the majority of the
convention, and be impatient to vote for the
adoption of resolutions which will serve US
plaster for the wounds 40 unkindly dealt
upon Mr.. GEO. W. CURTIS and his friends
at Rochester. The four have met and des-
ignated the platform statuary which is to
ornament the stage, when CURTIS, like
ancient Pistol, smarting under the enforced
eating Of leek, makes good his dire threat
that "all hell shall stir for this"
The Republicans of the State of New
York recently elected delegates to State
convention. Every Republican who cared
to do 40 voted for delegates Of his choice.
There was no snap judgment taken nor
fraud charged in the election. Due notice
was given by the State Central Committee.
All was conducted in order. Mr.. GEO. W.
CURTIS induced the Staten Islanders to send
him as delegate. Every other neglected
office-sceker in the State made his best ei-
forts to be elected, in order that he might
shout for the good President who holds the
great national spoils tickets and at the same
time shout against senatorial influence over
the distribution of them 80 long as CoNK-
LING is Senator. The people who voted for
HAYES and WHEELER, and who sang Hold
the Fort" and all the other campaign songs
last fall, listened to the various applicants
for convention honors, and on the day ap-
pointed marched solcmnly to their respec-
tive ballot-boxes and voted for representa-
tives The lam -holier-t han thou" candi-
dates had all the press of New York city and
all the anti-CoNRLING papers in the State
clamoring for their success. All who arc
controlled by the New York Tribune, Times,
Post, Hdrper's Weekly and the Nation, or by
their echoes throughout the Empire State
voted solidly for thick -andthin anti-CoSK-
LING men. The Republicans who admire
Senator CoNELING, and who especially dep
recatc the unmanly attacks constantly made
upon him by men who claim immunity
from return blows under some infantile
statutory provision of their own enactment,
voted for friends Of that gentlemen. The
result was that about three hundred CoNK-
LING men were elected by the Republican
voters to about one hundred of the other
sex-we mean TO say, section Of the party.
The three hundred voted and spoke as they
thought best for the Republican cause,
while the one hundred voted and spoke as
they thought best for themselves. And now
come a few who foolishly placed themselves
in the way of the cudgel, and make moan
to the public through the papers and ask
that all who feel sore in their behalf shall
meet together and resolve that three hun
dred delegates chosen by the people had M
right to differ with one hundred delegates
chosen by other people. Is IL not a most
characteristic display? Who but these pooi
beaten egotists would think of making "a
merit of their disgrace" and parading theii
discontinue before the public? But they
say that the three hundred not only showed
contempt for the vaunted self-righteousnes
and the overdrcssed assumption of superi
ority of prominent reformers, but they even
expressed their own opinions IA to tn,
rights of citizens holding Office, and, not
content with that, they added the outrage
of Withholding their opinions concerning
Mr. HAYEs' response tothe call of the Loui.
siana Legislature last March for national
aid to suppress domestic violence in that
unhappy State.
The martyrcd one hundred want tc
know, you know" if majorites are to go oil
in this way, expressing political views no
in harmony with the interests and plans o
the minority. They ask all who voted TO
them and their kind to meet and resolv
agninst the great body of the party, win
spoke through their thrce-fourths of tn
convention. Then the papers which figh
against the party majority always viii
make loud proclaim that the beaten foil
have expressed real downright public opin
ion, which means the opinions Of highly
respectable old hacks, male and female, ant
proiessedly non-partsan newspaper mer
who would rule the Republican party ifthe
could only get following enough; and who
because they cannot, are generally foun
supporting the Democratic ticket.
We shall await the report of the pharise
meeting with much interest, and if NJ
HAYES does not give some Office to eac
embryo Senator JEREMIAH JoNEs-AH, VIII
figures therein as q vice president, why, thel
''let him kill the next PERCY himself"
RECIPROCAL RECONCILIATION.
From twenty to twenty-five Republca
voters according to Democratic authoriti,
at the time were assassinatcd in cold bloc
at Ellenton, in Aiken county, South Carol
ma, about u month after the Hamburg ma
s,cre. General HAMPTON asked Presidei
HAYES that the prosecutions against Il
murderers of these black men should
discontinued because their crimes were "p
ltical oflenses." Only one man (if we +
member rightly was prosecuted and Il
though the evidence against him was clca