New-York tribune., 1879-04-08

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though they didn't believe word OF IT,
| Whether it is because they really want 10
bopor him. or only to use him to slide of a
| nomination on to some other person, is ho'
ALWAYS clear. The one indubitable TACT Is
| that they have got into the habit OF nominat-
| ing him, and can't seem to break themselves
of it.
The victim of these persistent addresses has
our sympathy. His political associates are
evidently utterly unable TO comprehend him.
They can easily understand the uncommon
"anxiety" of Mr.. Tildcn to secure an Office !;
that seems entirely natural; but that any
Democrat should be really anxious to escape
taking Office is altogether beyond them.
They cannot bring themselves to credit
it, 1t is only little over two years
since they made their last dead set
upon him, and actually nominated him in the
face of his positive and unconditional re-
fusal to stand as a candidate. That was the
occasion when Spriggs, of Utica. immortal
lied himself. Spriggs was chairman OF
committee appointed to procure Mr.. Sey-
mour's acceptance of a unanimous nom
ination for Governor, and SprgRs
was so certain that no Democrat would
decline nomination, so assured that
Mr.. Seymour was only offering the public
what is known to the street as "taffy" when
he absolutely refused to accept, that he tele-
graphed back from Utica to the Convention
at Saratoga to go ahead and nominate
the rest of the ticket The Convention
did it and adjourned, and few days later
Mr.. Seymour, who is too amiable a man to re-
sent such an imputatiOn upon his sincerity
mildly informed them by letter that he was I'D
dead earnest and they must find another can
didate; which they did. And still they are
unable to credit his assertion that he does not
want an Office or a nomination.
They are again proposing to run him for
Governor This time they have taken an
early start, and set about it with great de-
liberation. A committee has been appointed
at secret meeting of persons who have
voted themselves to be leaders in the party,
to prevail upon him to consent to the
use of his name. We do not hear
that Spriggs is on the committee, or
even that he was present at the meeting.
That statesman has Outlived his usefulness
rs committee. On former occasion he
showed himself ga little too previous; ne
will not be trusted again in that capacity.
different committee-one of a higher order
with such men upon it as Mr.. Bel
mont, Mr.. Augustus Schel, Chief-Jus-
tice Church and LieutenaDt-G Governor Dor
sheimer-was appointed to lay siege to
the Great Democratic Decliner, and induce
him, if possible, to consent to unite the De-
mocracy and rescue the country. Perhaps they
will succeed. But, after man has re-
fused a unanimous nomination under such
circumstances as those referred to, and
is so strenuous in his refusal as to
compel the calling Of another convention,
it requires some assurance, we should
say, for a sef-appOinted committee of an I'M
authorized secret caucus TO urge him to accept
a nomination not yet rendered from con-
vention not yet chosen or even called. 1t was
not at all complimentary to Mr. Seymours
honesty that the Saratoga Convention NOM
mated him in spite of his declinatiOn
but what sort of a compliment is 1t
that these men pay TO his saSaclty
and common sense in supposing that, after he
has so positively put away bird in hand, they
can tempt him with the offer of an unmatched
bird in a bush not yet pantedi
Nothing even IN Ncw-York politics was ever
so absurd as this ridiculous movement. The
only way to account for it is the habit the
party have fallen into. They will probably
keep it up so long as HOratIo Seymour lives,
and perhaps afterward.