The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-09
An Ovation to Governor Robinson,

Arrangements have been made by the
democrats for giving Governor Robinson
the most snowy and fattering reception ever
rendered to a chief magistrate of the State
on visit to this city. Such an ovation will
be new experience for Governor Robinson !;
but we trust no is too solid and sturdy
man to let his head be turned by it. Tam
many Hall has been bent on capturing him
ever since his Inauguration, it being the aim
of that ambitious and INSCRIPTIONS organiza-
ton to control the politics of the State
as we'll as of the city. There are
people who think that the espousals
between the Governor and Tammany were
arranged during the session of the Legis-
lature, and that he is to come to New
York on Monday in the character of BRIDE
groom to celebrate the marriage festival.
not yet gone so far, and that Mondays ova-
ton is merely mode of continuing the
courtship. We wish no ill to the demo-
cratic party and should be sorry to see the
rural branch of it inveigled into subservi-
ency to Tammany Hall. The great ovation
in that direction, and Tammany hopes to
seduce by batteries o man who would be
impervious to grosser forms of intrigue.
But it would be fatal error for
Governor Robinson to permit himself
to be cajoled into o surrender of his in
which he is to be made the object. 1t would
be bad for his personal reputation, which
has heretofore been high and enviable, and
bad for the prospects of the democratic
party of the State. which cannot afford to
march as captives at the chariot wheels of
triumphant Tammany Hall.
The undoubted purpose of this grand
ovation is to cement such an alliance be-
tween the city and the rural democracy as
will install Tammany as the ruling influence
| in State politics. Such IN alliance, once
established and known, will cost the demo-
cratic party of the State hundred
thousand votes in the next election.
Tammany Hall-both the. name and the
thing-is stencil in the nostrils OF rural
voters. If, as a result of this ovation, the
Tammany chiefs shall control the next Dem
ocratic State Convention, everybody will
see that the whole party cuddles together
under the Tammany blanket. Governor
Robinson ought to understand the senti-
ments of the rural districts too well to be-
lieve that such an association can promote
the interests Of his party.
The Tammany chiefs have still another
object in their attempts to capture Governor
Robinson. They have found Mayor Ely a
little too independent and they hope to
bring him into the traces by gentle
| coercion from the rural democratic
leaders. If they succeed in consum-
mating the union which they project
between the city and the country democracy
they expect to be in a position to say to
Mayor Ely that he must choose between be-
longing to the democratic PARTY and stand
ing outside it, If he atterward persists in
his refusal to make such nominations as Tam
many dictates they mean to bull-doze him
and read him out of the party. We trust
he has too much self-respect and manliness
to succumb to such tactics, and that he will
not be swerved from his sense Of right by
this coalition if it should be successful.
This cajoling ovation to Governor Robinson
is q movement that needs watching by
all democrats who think they have any claim
to be peers and not vassals.