The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-09-06
NEW YORK REPUBLICANS

at Saratoga on wednesday, ike Inc recent re
publican convention IN Pennsylvania, was
very tame in its proceedings, both conventions
having met simply to record the decree of the
party's grand mogul-in Pennsylvania Simon
Cameron, and in New York Roscoe Conkhng
The ticket Conkllng had selected for the con
vcntlon to nominate was As follows:
For Governor-A. b. Cornell,
For Lieutenant Goy.--Geo. &. iloskins
For Secretary Of Stale--Joscph t. Carr
For Contradictions W Wadsworth
For Trcasurcr-Nathan ID. Wendell.
For Attorney GENERALIZATION Ward.
For State Engineer and Survcyor-lIoward
SOule
| G. W Curtis, of Harptr's WeeiiN was OF
course ON hand heading the administration
opposition to Conklng, but the test vote on
Cornell and Robertson for Governor, showing
pa for the former and but 12G for the latter, SO
disheartencd the opposition that the balance
of the ticket was allowed to 60 through gencr.
/ ally by reclamation,
The New York Times lantiConkling rcpub-
lican) says, THE result shows that Mr.. Conk,
ling and his friends still retain control Of the
republican machinery Of the state, ... but their
satisfaction over the victory mast be some.
what dashed by the reflection that the vote at
the Syracuse convention three years ago in
favor Of Conkling was thirty.threc per cent.
larger than at Saratoga on Wednesday,
The decision is regarded as deriving its
chief importance from its bearing upon
Grants Candidaturc in 1880 The nOmina-
ton of Cornell really forecasts the nomination
of Grant next year, and in that light threatens
to brew serious trouble among the New York
republicans tins fall. AS the WORTH says
"Mr Sherman and Mr. Evarts must see that
the asccndancy of Mr.. Conklng is fatal to the
national promotion in 1880 of any one identi
fed with the administration Of Mr., Hayes, and
hence the partisans of the administration will
this year be very likely TO stay at home, as so
many democrats did when confronted by IIor.
ace Greeley in 1872"
The platform adopted is Of the true stalwart
pattern, though differing widely from that of
the same party IN Pennsylvania in ignoring
the tariff question and committing the party
to the gold currency basis. The first resolu.
ton is a lie by inuendo, maintaining as If any
body denied 1t, that "thc republic Of the L. S.
Is nation and not league" and that "as a
nation it is supreme within Its own constiu-
tional sphere" This is mere trusm and
would have been complete with the addition
that the states also are supreme within their
own constitutional sphcrc"-anothcr trusm
which the resolution by inuendo denies The
second resolution ~ bolder lie by charging
The democrats with revolution" in attempting
10 compel the assent Of the President to meas.
lres he is opposed to. The practice, in max
ing appropriations, Of adding qualifications
and limitations distas,eful to the executive
power is as Old as the reign of King James l.,
and not even tyrants and their truculent tools
ever before called il revolutionary Nc one
disputes the statement of the I'd resolution that
the safety Of the government demands free
md pure elections" but that, as the resolution
proceeds to assert such freedom and purity
,an only be assured by placing the elections of
he states under the partisan control of the
party IN power, as is done by the Davenport
aw, rather than to entrust il, as the consttu- |
ion does, to the states, is an assertion so con
radictcd by reason and experience AS to
mount TO Il deliberate talsehood. The 4th |
csoutlon is a re assertion and enlargement of
he talsehood by asserting that "the republican
'ar'y neither justltles nor tolerates military
Interference with elections" in the face of the
lndcniabc fact that the republican party for
ears interiercd with and controlled every
lection in the South by bayonets, and had It's
'ayonets around the polls IN northern cities
n 1876 and again in 1873 for the same puI
ose, and forced an extra session of congress
ast winter solely because the democrats in
listed on taking from them the power; thus
tampng the 9th resolution also as lie, III
he assertion that the democrats forced the
X,ra session of congress" The balance of
he platform relates to local matters, and if no
acre truthful in its statements and inuendocs
nat the part we have quoted from, the whole
: one OF the most mendacious pieces of part.
an convention literature we have encountered
a dozen of years, and that, we take 1t, is
utting 1t about as strong as the English Ian.
uage is capable of.
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