New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-25
THE C1JlP1IGN IN NEW- YORK.

TIE CAMPAIGN IN NEU-TORK.
The call of the Republican State Committee
makes the date of the State Convention three
weeks sooner than that of last year. This
means an early campaign, with the Rcpubli-
cans in the aggressive, as usual. The policy
is a wise one, for in one respect at least the
coming campaign in this State must be re-
garded rs the most important that has been
had in many years. The entire State Govern
ment is at stake. Usually only certain pOr-
ton of the State officers have been chosen at
each election and thus as the scales inclined
now to one side and now to the other, each
party, as a rule, had some representation in the
State Government But this year all the terms
expire togcther-those of the Governor and
Lieutenant-G Governor who have served three
years with those of the other State officers
who have served two. There must be elected
in November beside the Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor the Secretary of State, At
tOncy-General, Controller State Treasurer,
and State Engineer and Surveyor. Also new
Senate, as well as, necessarily, a new Assem-
Div. The term of the Superintendent of
Public WOTks-a most important oi1ce-eX-
pires with the term of the Governor who
nominated him, and the place must be filed,
therefore, next January. The term Of the
present Insurance Superintendent ends III
February next; that of the Superintendent OF
Public Instruction in April; the Acting Bank
Superintendent, who is a Republican, could
be superseded at any time If the Democrats
should elect the Governor and carry the
Senate. The term Of the present Superinten-
dent of State Prisons will expire during the
incumbency Of the Governor who will be
chosen in November. The present political
situation in this State will not repeat itself
until 1885, and the State Committee has
done wisely, therefore, in resolving to force
the fighting while the party is fresh from the
moral victories of the extra session, and the
Democracy are still in disOrderly retreat.
If it be true that this is the most import
ant of the purely State elections of recent
years, with regard to the number and chaIac-
ter of the offices to be filled, it Is also true
that its National significance, respecting the
new attitudes of parties and the influence in
next years election of the State which has
the casting vote for President will be very
great Happily, it is true also that the Re-
publican party approaches the campaign in
exceptionally good condition. The Presidents
Southern policy, with the discussions which it
created two years ago in this State, has passed
out of the range of active politics. All Re-
publicaus are Hayes men now, in a certain
sense for they all recognize the firm
ness and dignity with which the Presi-
dent has resisted Congressional usurpatiOns.
There is q notable lack also of purely personal
conflicts. Though there are at least half
dozen conspicuous candidates for the Domina-
ton for Governor, their riyalrles seem to be
entirely without bitterness. No one hears of
any hostility on the part of Mr.. COrnells
friends toward Mr.. Sloan, or of Senator Pom
er0y's friends toward Judge Robertson. If the
machine" has a candidate, 10 one seems
able to discover just who it is. The active
leader of the party has, so far as can be dis
covered, expressed no preference for any one
of the candidates who have been named in
the past three months, and all of the most
prominent of them are his personal friends
and cordially recognize his leadership. The
State Convention will act for itself, and we
venture to predict that whatever the decision
may be as between the rival aspirants. the
supporters of each will be as Jealous for the
success of the ticket us they would have been
if their favorite had been chosen.
In the Democratic party, on the other
hand, quarrel of five years standing
has reached a pitch it never reached
before. Since 1874 Mr.. Tilden has been
the great bone Of contention in this State,
but there never have been such snarling and
showing of teeth as now. Governor Robinson
is the recognized candidate of the Tilden wing
of tue party, and only few days since The
Express, ore of the organs of Tammany Hall.
declared that i'll It's opinion mot one of the
$50, 49, Democrats who voted for Augustus
''Schell for Mayor last November will support
"Lucius Robinson for Governor, under any
conceivable circumstances next Fall" No
one supposes for moment that this DECLARE
ton represents any avOwed purpose on the
part of Tammany Hall, or that it would not
be meekly retracted if Governor Robinson
should be renominated. But the quarrel has
reached an extraordinary pass when Demo-