New-York tribune., 1878-10-24
TIE SITE CANTASS.


The Republican who fails to cast his vote
,,r Republican candidate for Assembly may INV
.yrav tine chance to name tie new Senator t"eus ~
members Of the last Assembly "ero e'''N
OF less than 100 o-,5o p
The unexpected nomination of Orianuo DE-
Potter for Congress by Tammany IN place o ., 9lI
q referred 90 in glowing terms by the rural -.
press as a OF the Office seeking inc iia' 49,
man .he ,S when after long search, it found hm'
hadn't the slightest idea who ne was t,
The Democracy of this state Is Paiy
,vltbout an issue Fraud is dead-cplerS NM -
and tne financial question is very delicate one 70
-, Too c,nch leaning toward hard money VIII uii'o
- ,bo Domocrats who are infected with Greeno".A
,ottons and imperl the numerous alliances VIZ VIII
ereenbackers themselves; too nuch IeaHlus -
soft-,nopey win drive away the hard-nohe1 -
So the Democratic campaign ON the Anauce 70 =, e. 20
nilvsbai,y and the utmost the party pres The Re-
siE seehs dpmagogism to the wOFklhsinod d n is mat
publican party is united a., anu tSs ~
kind of party which usually WIS =, 49,, &c
r. 1on,,e that the Hon. Willard johnson, OF
-, C,Yntv a canal contractor who occupied d
- ~ the pnbllc attention IN 1872 mas Oeen prop's-
,, N himself to reGnter active pOiues' he hau III
tended 10 run for old place in the Assembly up 10 'he
dav fhnt the publican Convention met and nominated
Mr Rreed Then he withdrew, seeing that 1t was
ood time moi 10 run But Mr. johnson is quite right in
thinking that the time arrived for him to slip back
10 the front ranks of the Democracy The old pretence
OF honesty and public purity mas psep wei-ntgn m aDSo
cannot better than 10 put himself where the people o
tie whole State see him as Democrat ln goOd
standing received again into the bosom OF the elder
The Buffalo Express says that without the
suppori OF the Republicans of Oreaus Mr. Van Voorhis
cannot be elected and there is neither honor nor profit
IN urrsisting in hopeless campaign Both equity ana
,ccess would be served should Mr.. Van Yoroms nave
she ,raee TO withdraw his candidacy. and 60 IN
stronely for the election OF one of the
and Pam
Tbe Rochester Democrat the other hSnd'
ssvs; I've bave received assurances from some OF
HE most prominent Republicans Of Orleans County tnat
although they regard the action OF the RepuDcan ON
gressiona Convention unfair toward their section
they will manner ard the election oil lamRsIJon, %
whom they regard as fraud, II VIII support M '
VoOrhs aud will do all they can to secure his elec9h
This intelligence is the evidence OF the high sense VI P
cple that actuates them"
The Greenback party has more Quarrels on
tts hands than IL can afford To all the other districts
where reenback dissensiODs have been noticed is now
added Ulster County where the party would seem to be
ON the point OF disruption, not to say dissolution
Thomas G. Southland, the chairman OF the County Com
ittee has issued an address which dscoses the fact
that the party although II has nominated full county
ticket is almost without active candidate of any SORT
The nominee for County Treasurer sought and failed
TO receive The Democratic nomination, whereupoD,
according to Mr. southard he began negotiations 10 be-
tray the party the Republicans The candidates for
Assembly and Congress have not accepted Their n0mna
tons ana an principal candidates have refused to 10
spy work OF subscribe any money. The Chairman de-
nOnneeS them by In a fIantc manner, and plunges
madly about in bis rhetoric without once seeming
to suspect that the Of the whole trouble that
there is room for the Greenback party IN Ulster
County Illuminate on that idea, Mr. Southard, and then
dsband yourself.
At a recent meeting of the Oneida County
Republican Committee reports received concern
Ing the strength of the Greenback party in the various
towns OF the county, and the antecedents Of its men-
bers which are OF interest showing the different de-
grees in which the old parties viii suffer These are
the more important figures given by The Utica Herald;
'AnnsvIlle reported Republican Greenbacker and 30
Democrats; Augusta II GreenhaekeFs, Of whom were
formerly Republicans Deered, II, OF whom 10 were
Democrats; Marshall, 100 Greenbackers drawn equally
from both parties; Rome First Ward, 90, OF whom 80
we're Republicans; Second Ward. 40, so Republicans;
Third Ward, 1s2 Greenbackers, only or Repub-
ucaps: Fourth Ward, 92 Greenbackers, 80 Repub-
icans; Fifth Ward, 70 GTeenbackers-an Demo
ocrats but 10; sangerheld 80, Of whom 10 were
Democrats 10 / Republican; Trenton. about 100
Creenbackers mostly from the Republican party The
reyor1s from Utica showed from the First Ward, 10
Creenbackers. Is Democrats Second Ward 40 Green
hackers, ouly Republicans Fourth Ward, q GreeL-
hackers, IL of them once Republicans Firth Ward, 80
Greenbackers Republicans; seventh ward, 20
Creenbackers twO-thrds of whom had been Democrats;
Eighth Ward 200 Grecnbacker, only 25 or 30 OF whom
had been Republicans; Tenth Ward, y Greenbackers
and Independents. most of whom bad been Rcpubl-
cans These figures prove that the proportion which
has been observed In States will he Observed here
and that the Greenbaek party Will draw much the ar
est share Of MS vote from the Democracy"