Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-09-27
NEW YORK AGAIN.

Il way that gives no decisive lndlca-
ton of their action in the struggle
of next year. Both have elected
Governors, but in both
the Republicans were in minority
of the whole vote cast, and only \
escaped defeat by the divided cOun
sells of the opposition. In Ohio the
contest is kept up with vehemence |
on both sides, the Democrats gain
ing confidence by the accession of
Independent voters to theirsupport.
In New York the very event
which threatened ruin to the Dem
Ocracy seems to be telling in its
favor. We allude to the detection
of Kelly from its ranks, with so
much of the Tammany organization
as he can carry with him. To un-
derstand the situation there we have
to consider the action of both parties
in their State conventions. In both
it may be said in general terms that
there was a struggle between the
machine and the people. On the
Republican side Mr.. Conkling was
directing the machine in the interest
Of his own personal influence and
with a view to appropriating the
spOils for his friends, and on the
Democratic side Mr.. Kelly was
doing precisely the same thing.
Both these gentlemen were acting
IN the interest of office-holders and
tax-consumers, their antagonists in
that of taxpayers. On the Repub-
lican side the machine beat the
people; on the Democratic side the
people beat the machine. Mr..
Conkling's candidate was Mr.. Cor
nell, a man whom the President
lin his reforming days. had dis
placed from the head of the Custom
House, because, as he alleged, any
substantial reforms were impossible
while ne remained there; and the
result proved that the President
was right, for his successor largely
diminished the expenses of the Gus
tom House, and at the same time
caused a much larger revenue to
reach the treasury. Useless en-
ployes were discharged by hun
dreds, excessive salaries were cut
down, systems of wholesale fraud
were broken up and the Custom
House was conducted in the interest
of the national revenue instead of
that of COnkling and the machine.
The discharged officials were Conk-
ling's political agents. The profits
of the cancelled frauds had fed fat
the Conkling clique; hence the
thunders hurled by that Jupiter to-
mans against the President and Cab
met. The Custom House had been
COnkling's private concern, and the
President had dared to touch the
Custom House; the President there
fore must receive a crushing rebuke;
Cornell, dismissed from the Custom
House, must disappointed Governor
of New York, with full credentials
from His Majesty King Conkling
the First; the edict is issued, the
convention is packed full of King
COnkling's liege subjects; few I'M
cOurtly dissidents resist, but His
Majesty's behests are paramount,
and Cornell is the nominee; the
spoils against principle, the ma
chine against the people, are ire
sistible.
Not so in the Democratic conven-
ton. Here too the late incumbent
had given dire offence to the ma
chine and its engineer by removing
appointees of the latter. John
Kelly had been bestOwing offices
wholesale on his supporters in New
York City and creating offices to
bestow, and Gov. Robinson had
discharged appOintees and abolished
offices during his first term, thereby
giving mortal offense to King John.
John swOre that Robinson should
not be nominated again, or, if NOM
mated, should not be reelected, for
Tammany had declared war against
him. He was nominated and seems
likely to be reelected by larger
majority than his former one, for
the Democracy is a unit for him,
and large number of influential
Republicans are refusing to swallOw
Cornell rs Governor and Conkling
as Dictator. One hundred and
thirty of the most influential Re
publicans in New York have pub
lished a protest in which they
declare that nothing shall induce
them to vote for Cornell, the ma
chine-made nominee of Conkling.
In reference to this movement the
Nation, a conservative Republican
paper, thus expresses its views.
An excellent address to the Republicans
OF New YORK has been circulated during the
week, calling upon them to scratch the
names of COrneu and of SOule, the candidate
for State Engineer. 1t opposes Cornell on
the grounds of his having, as Chairman of
the State Committee, manipulated votes To
secure his own nomination: because of his
want of fitness for the office; "becauSe he
was nominated, not in the interests of the
Republican party, but in order to demon
Strate who controlled it," an undenfable
proposition; and because he is a notorious
opponent of President Hayes and of admin
sStratiVe REFORM Mr.. Soule'S election, il is
declared, "would give practical encourage
ment to canal corruption" The address
points out the danger, in case the appeal for
"harmOny" is listened TO, ana no protest is
made now, that "thc machine element will
force upon us, in the supreme issue of $780,
"A candidate who will he defeated by the
diSheartened apathy of his own party" that
the attempt to thwart this element in pri-
marieS and conventions has always proved
abortiVes and that 1.-THE one way for the or
binary citizen to oppose the machine pOiiti-
clan, with his professional skill, is to make
his trade uncertain, by giving him practical
notice that bad candidate may be defeated
by those independent votes within the
party which he chooses to defy" The In
dependent Republican COMMITTEES, as the
promoters of the address in this city call
themselves, offer to supply at cost Republic
can ballots with the names of Governor and
state Engineer in blank, and invite CORES
pondence "with view TO a more general
organization after this election"
In another article the Nation says: