New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-04
T0-n1I,S ELECTION.

n rests with New-York To determine, IN the
election to-day, whether the Southern States
shall elect the next President. Sober ana
cleor-headed men will brush away all the
minor issues of heated campaign, ana hN
then minds upon the one which oyershadows
all Others in importance. Ii is claimed, OF
conrse. that votes against Mr.. Cornell. or
votes for Mr.. Robinson, Will not tend 10
secure TO the Democratic candidate the
electoral vote of this State. But men OF
sense know that the claim is false.
There are men, too, who claim that the Re
publican party might profit by defeat OF Its
candidate for Governor III this State. Men oi
clear head know better. Every vote Tor Mi.
Robinson is vote for Democratic lresi-
dent
Perhaps it is unfortunate that State cleo
ton should turn upon National questions so
largely. If so. we cannot help it, The fact
stands. Public opinion in every other State
waits for the verdict here. Ii 1T is adverse
TO Mr.. Robinson, the conclusion in every part
of the country will be that the Democratic
party, as at present organized, has lost the last
chance of electing its candidate next year.
If the result is favorable to the Republican
ticket, the conclusion in every State VIII be
that the reactionary revolution has spent
its force, and that the nominee of the Repub-
lican Convention will be the next President
Voters of New-York who do not like the
situation must remember that this State has
TO pay something for its imperial position. 1t
sways results more than any other State, and
therefore il cannot afford to tTitle with Its vast
responsibility.
Luclus Robinson ought not TO be elected
Governor again if no question of National
character were involved. His deliberate, re-
peated and persistent prostitution of the
cravest trusts to the uses of an inscriptions
political clique, if thrre were no other objec-
tion. ought to de- 1T him. Other objections
by the score have been heard. To the end
this stands the chief, however,; Mr.. Robinson
is merely the figurehead and dummy for the
Tilden Ring, and vote for him necessarily
tends to promote Mr. Tiden's chances for the
Presidency.
The Republican party, too, ought not 10 be
indeed bv its nominations in a single State.
It is the embodiment of all that is grandest
and most glorious in the National life for
twenty years. Yet it willingly accepts the
issue shaped by nominations III New-York.
1t knows the ability and int, gritty OF Mr..
Cornell. II does not hesitate to contrast him
with the Governor who unlawfully removed
Police Commissioners from office in order to
yet control of the ballot-boIes and leased
the States property to Smith Weed for moth
ing for three generations, just after signing an
approDriation for $50, 900 more to be wasted
upon 1t before it was given away. The Re
publican party has found Mr.. Cornell faithful
wherever he has been tried, and it is quite
willing TO stake the success of Republican
principles in New-Yoik upon his success. And
vet, behind the worth of the man, 1t sees the
might of the principles which he represents.
The Republican State ticket stands for equal
and exact justice to all men. 1t stands for hon
est elections, here and in South Carolina for
full protection against the repeater, the ballot
box suffer, the assassin and the mob-leader.
It stands for fearless and faithful enforcement
of United States laws, in order that the votes
of free men of the Northern States may not
be swamped by the rife-cubs of the South.
Other grave questions wait in the background
Ii we can ever have an honest election at the
South we propose to find out whether the peo-
pie of that section are in favor of repudiating
debts IN order to avenge themselves upon
Northern creditors. We propose, too. to find
out whether tne Oiu spirit oi Itpciiion'
which has so boldly defed Federal authority
in the revolutionary plans of the last session
of Congress-, has the support of the Solid
south.
The thing to be done to-day is to elect the
whole Republican ticket in New-York. Cap
tious criticism must wait, in the presence of
the gravest National emergencies. If the
North has voice, this is the time to hear 1t.
The Solid South has spoken. The country
waits to hear from q Solid North.