New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-03-16
TIE REPUBLICAN WiTCHWORD.


The Republican party needs to be united.
That is the lesson of the returns from New
Uampshire II is also the warning which can
be clearly read i'll the new phase OF politics III
New-Yorl. 4 letter which we printed ye-ter-
day disclosed the fact that new influence
has grown up i'll a day iii the Empire State
4 party whose strength was considered CON
temptibe has proved itself respectable IN
numbers. If not in doctrines, and "A political dis
ease which before has broken out only in sore
SPOTS. now shows an alarming tendency to
sprcad over the whole State. What the varl-
0ns organizations know IA " Grecnbackers,"
Workngmcn" etc, have already accom-
pushed in electing Supervisors and Assembly
men is only Il faint Indication, if their growth
is TO continue as it has begun, OF what they
will effect, when they have consolidated
under n single name, and their ranks
are swollen by the adhesion of the poor,
the Ignorant, and the viciOus-Of all
those. indeed who think that workingmen's
parties will some day make workingmcn's
fortunes. They have already three representa-
tives in the Assembly and, in the late cleo
lions, have chosen One-twciith OF the whole
number of supervisors in thirty-nine cOun
ties Of the State, and the Mayors Oi four i'm
portant towns. But they are aiming even
higher In the Elmira District they intend it
is said to put Il candidate for Congress in
the field and it would not be strange if they
should elect him. In other districts they are
likely to do the same. But their strongest
efforts will doubtless be made towards
securing rs large representation as
possible in the Legislature. And it is
here that the movement is dangerous
Grecnback Supervisor can do some damage,
but not much and Grcenback Congressman
or two would be lonely in the NewYOrk del
cgation; but if the Greenback or National
patty could elect enough members of the AS
sembly of 1879 to hold the balance of power
and dictate the choice of the next United
States Senator, the hardmoncy State of New
York would be i'll strange prcdicament!
IL is 10 resist this danger that the Republic
can party should close up its ranks. 1t is true
that the Democracy suffers most by the growth
of this movement--scyen-tcDihs of the losses
il supervisors are Democratic; ; but it is also
true that the new party will naturally grali-
tate into alliances with the Democrats, and
probably succeed in this way in controlling
many candidates, too often i'll electng
them. There Is battle to be fought
in this State for honest money and
good faith with the Nations creditors the
Republican party must fight it. The Demo-
cratic party, when it finds itself so weakened
in numbers by assertions to the side OF rag
money and the red flag, will inevitably fall
away from those sound financial views which
four State Conventions have affirmed because
no one raised an issue against them. The
Democratic party would sooner abandon prin-
ciples than lose votes, and the Nationals are
carrying off Democratic votes very fast.
The men who are the hope of the State
must stand their ground. The proportion of
Republican loss in these elections is too large
even ut threc-tenths only. Republican voters
who are straying after these strange gods must
be brought back. Riyalries must be forgotten,
dissensons quelled; Quarrelling must be con-