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

no man III CITY uctu 'N>' Nc'%
that for year past the tide was running WIN
steadily increasing strength in MIR. Corneils IA
vor He managed the last canvass, ana mp 10 the
last hour the i'm preston of the average ne"spa-
per politician here was that he was to be peaten.
When the returns that night began to show,
as the result, in part at least, OF bis skiiiui
work, the most brilliant and overwhelming
victory this State had seen for years, "A. Is.
Cornell became, and from that hour he has
remained the leading figure in the state Tor
the GOvcrDorship.
1t is judiciously remarked by The Graphic
that he has been greatly helped by MS
enemies. Some of them have perslstentiy
lied about his chances, when every Intelligent
citizen knew they were lying. Nearly all OF
them have raised their cutlery against his
nomination without giving the puDiic
any plain, straightforward reason why
it was so, important to defeat HIM. HIS
private character is spotless his oniciai
record is without flaw. In all the hurry
burly of clamor, no Ian has dared to say
word against either. They have seemed 10
think it was enough to beat the tom-toln ana
make n big noise-vocIferating merely that
such man must not be put forward. That
ia NOT. in an intelligent party, the way to keep
him back.
One charge they did make, stereotyped ana
vague, but still damaging he was the machine
candidate. The machine candidate, wheh ne
was turned out of office over year ago, ana
has not since been able to secure the ap-
pointment of a waiter-when the very
head of the old machine in this city
was first against him-when the Custom House
WAS Differed by his foes-when there was
not q Federal Ofice-holder i'll the State
who had not been led to think his head
would somehow rest firmer on bis shoulders
If he let Cornell alone! The machine
candidate, and therefore specially obnoxious
to every Journal in this city that defended
Murphy, every journal that defended Leet
g. Stocking, every Journal that upheld Bel
KNAPP and Babcock. every journal that, through
all the scandals OF Grantism which Grants
best friends deploro the most, steadily bowed
the neck to every yoke tho machine imposed
The machine candidate, whom 1t is tho duty
of all free Republicans to oppose, by support
ing such an ant-machine man as Senator
Pomeroy, such despiser OF the machine as
Senator Robertson, such an absolute enemy to
the machine as Mr. Stirin! In one breath we
are told that IL is the best Conven-
ton the State has ever seen,
full of the ablest men, most truly representa-
tive of the unbought, unbullied Republican
masses, who will never yield to the machine,
and the next moment that 1t is machine
packed Convention that merely registers
the order of the machine by nominating
on the first ballot, by reclamation, the ma
chine candidatei Bah!-the people have plenty
Of prejudices, but they are not fools! Even
if they dislike the candidate, this sort of
opposition will make votes for him.
"But it is y slap at the President and the
Secretary OF the Treasury" Well, we sup
.pose THE TRIBUNE is about as sincere 4 friend
as the President and the Secretary have-sincere
enough, at any rate, to tell them the truth,
even when we knew it to be unpalata-
bic. We take leave to say that this
is no slap at them. and is not so
intended by the Republicans of New
York. who make this nomination ;--and if it
were, it's the more pity that they put them
selves in position to be slapped. The re-
moval of Mr.. Cornell, without charges, in the
face of his excellent official record, and in de-
fance of the Presidents own rule that there
s,ould be no removal save for cause, was
an unnecessary mistake, anu 'heio arc ho
votes to be gained for the Administration. or
for the Republican party anywhere, by raking
ii up now and discussing 1t over again.
But it Is a move TO aid Mr.. Conkling in
"another struggle for the Presidential nom
"ination." Well, If 1t Is, are we going to help
matters by sacrificing New-York this Fall,
and so throwing away the Presidency alto
eetherl But Mr.. Conkling is in nobody's
way for the Presidency. He has declared
that he will not be candidate
and he won't be anyway. no matter
what he or anybody else declares. 1t is
a very dull political student that cannot
read that fact In the present situation, as
plainly as the alphabet. If Dir. Conklng is
bogy, and if the Republicans are children,
they will refuse to support Mr.. Cornell for
Governor In order to keep Mr.. COnkling from
being President ;--Othorwise not.
The sum of the whole matter ia this Mr.
Cornell is not an inspiring candidate, but he
will prove n good one. He Is as old, Us tried
and as true Republican as any OF his .Op;D-
nents. He is q better organizer than any of
them. He has more experience of
an executive sort than any OF them.
And those who suppose, from the tenn
porary pother raised in this city, that the
son of Ezra Cornell is going to prove unpop-
ular in the State of New-York will find their
mistake on election day. Like President
Hayes, too, he will go out of Office more pop
ular than when he entered it.