New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-04
TIE REPUBITSAYs At S1RAToGA.


TIE REPUBLTCANS At SARATOGA.
The Convention at Saratoga has nominated
A. B. Cornell for Governor. with good State
ticket, on which all sections Of the party are
represented has adopted ringing plat
form, to which every Republican can sub
scribe; has listened with equal enthusiasm to
admirable speeches from Senator Conkilng
and Vice President Wheeler and after
session of unusual harmony mas
adjourned with an unusual confidence
in the success Of the ticket. We believe
that confidence will be justified. The
ticket will be elected, because it Is
good ticket, on % good platform. because
New-York on fair and full vote is nat
urally Republican, because the sharp contest
and the subsequent harmony insure an
active canvass, and because success this Fall
is q duty we owe not only to New-York but
to the Nation.
We are on the eve of Presidential election as
vital we verify believe, as that of Abraham Lin
coin in 1854. Defeat now will be as disastrous
as it could have been then. The rebels, the
fate of whose enterprise was settled
by the ballots of 1864, are again
in power, with only the Presidency
between them and absolute mastery of the
Nation they sought to destroy. They have
utterly suppressed the Republican vote, and
have their whole Confederacy solid. and
every Border State with them. They need,
as Mr.. Conkling well said, just forty
seven electoral votes out OF the whole
North, and New-York has thirty-five of
these. Who does not see that unless New
York holds the fort the Presidency is gone :
What then We showed the other day
thet, with single exception, every State
that went iinto the Rebellion has, III some
way or TO some degree, repudiated Its
own debts. What will they do with
ourSl We have seen what they have
made of their own elections-when they
get the power, what will thay make OF
ours Does anybody doubt. VINO remem
bers what elections were In this city under
Tweed, and how persistently the Confedcrates
in Congress strove last session to break down
the safeguards we now have7 What will the
Solid South, ruling the Democratic party.
10 which 1t gives all but forty seven of its cleo
torl votes, and paying so little taxes,
do when it gets a chance to handle
the taxes the North pays ga South
which opposes resumption which be-
its cotton tax refunded; which wants payment
for the slaves that were freed; which has some
hundreds of millions of war claims; which never
can see why our National debt should be
paid and its unpaid; which las never believed
in the Constitutional Amendments, and is al
ready whispering its plans to nullify them;
which talks, il word, of sending Jefferson
Davis back to the Senate, with all that that
implies
We believe that this is a pressing and vital
danger. We know that the South Is solid we saw
at the extra session what is their temper; we
know that if we now lose New-York,
they are sure TO capture the Presi-
dcpcy. Are we not speaking, then, the
words Of truth and soberness when we say
that since 1864 there has not been an election
when, in the eyes of the whole Nation, there
was laid upon the Republicans of New-York
so urgently and solemnly, the duty of success
The campaign opens auspiciously. The Con-
ventiOn is the best we have had for years, the
most representative, the most harmonious, the
most resolute. There is as little soreness
as usual over personal defeats, and there
Is more cordiality and promptness in the
support rendered by the defeated candi-
dates. The ticket covers all wings. We
should have been glad if MIR. Sloan could have
been forced to go on it; but his hearty APP
prevail is the next best thing to his
candidacy, and Mr.. WadswOrth though a
younger, is still an excellent representative of
the same element The platform is strong, d.
rect, and Republican to the core. What it says
of the Administration is enough, though we
should have been glad to go further; AMI what
it says of State policy is more than enough for
the sham Reformers at Albany who must now
face the people on their record. Altogether
it was d good days work