The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-08
CURTIS ON CORNELL.

CURTIS ON CORNELL.
"Harper's Veezly"' Advises Scratching
Harper's Weekly. g/ ,..r5g. 81.
Some days ago the New York Herald said
The Herald has lately been accused of
troublesome habit of advising the politicians
and tho voters; hence it modestly offers no
advice to anybody in the present case. But
We respectfully PROFOUND 9 question: Har-
per's Weekly and the Fleming Post are
prominent and able representatives of the
''anti-machine" sentiment; will our eminent
and respected contemporaries of
which is an "organ,' - we observe tell us and
the public how an opponent of machine
politics" ought to vote this fall ~ - "@f
We have received also many letters like
the following: aas zR tte
"Did the silence of Republicanism at the
Saratoga convention mean defeat and sur
render, without the honor. of last struggle
even9 don't know what to make of the
situation. don't want to vote 'gag''
ticket; don't want to vote the Democratic
ticket; do aoant to cote. Yours truly,
sa--, ,-...., .a...... A REPUBLICAN,"
From another quarter we have many re-
ports of this kind: 'A@ aE.}sst1 -
'Much to my surprise and anxiety, hear
from several old Republicans that they will
| not vote for Cornell" -Ha El' ...
From still another part of the State comes
this vehement protest: .t3agj!F
am not surprised to find universal dis
position among our Republican friends to
vote for Robinson. The farmers and indie
on%v Ill l.
and, were it not for national issues, You
would see universal revolt. x x I
have never known such wholesale discon-
tent. It only needs word of assurance for
the revolution to break out beyond control.
These are signs of the deep and serious
Republican dissatisfaction with the action of
| the Saratoga convention. 1t is feeling
| which has not been hasty in expression. 1t
has no disposition to take the form of bolt,
because it believes Republican ascendency
to be indispensable to the welfare of the
country. But it believes that Republican
success in New York, whose vote is essential
In the election of next year, has been
wantonly endangered by the nomination
of Cornell, the especial representa-
tive of quarrel and of ''the machine.'
Those who hold this view believe also that
the only way to save tho State from the
Democrats is to show independent voters
that Republican success does not mean nee
esssrily the triumph of mere "machine''
politics; and they desire to prove both that
New York is really Republican, and that
there are Republicans enough to rebuke the
management of the party without reducing
the Republican vote. Proof of such q
spirit within the party will, in their judg-
ment, persuade independent men that
the party is not .hopelessly
hide-bound. l.s There is. :unquestionably q
widespread Republican apprehension that
the election of Cornell would be conclusive
evidence to the country that Republican
success next year would mean a restoration
of everything that nearly lost the Republic
cans the election in 1876, and would work a
administration of Mr.. Hayes. In other
words, it is feeling that the election of
Cornell in New York this year would proba-
bly, lead to the defeat of the party in
the country next year; while his
defeat, which would be the
overthrow of the system of purely personal
politics in the management of New York Re-
publicans, would next year rally the sound
public opinion of the country to the Repub-
lican party as a party capable of reform
Those who hold these views are, as We
said, the sincerest of Republicans, and their
object is one which the management at Sara
toga seems not to have had in view, name
ly, Republican success next year. As very
many of these Republicans have done us
the honor to ask us how they can &C
complish L. their purpose, we answer
that there is but one way in which they can
vote SO as to defeat the machine, and at the
same time to keep New York Republican.
1t is the only way in which the individual
voter can ever affect party management: for
when party managers discover that, if they
outrage the convictions of party followers,
those followers will not follow, the managers
will take heed. To Republicans, there
fore, who think of the party as
Lord Chatham said of parliament, that
ut will reform itself from with
I in, or be reformed with a vengeance from
without" and who are resolved not to vote
fonCornell because they regard his nomina-
ton as blow at the best interests of the
party, our advice is not to vote the Demo
cratic ticket, but to make their votes
count for Republican principles, and
against Republican mismanagement, by
| scratching the ticket. Should the whole
| ticket bs defeated, they would not be re
sponsible for any results of Democratic
success. If the whole ticket should be
elected, they would have done what they be-
lieved to be best for the party and for the
country. and they would have learned a
courage which is the great need of our poll
tics.
"MILLIONs IN IT,"
Mrs. Marie Gordon Raymond Granted an
absolute Divorce from "Mulber7.u Sell