New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-08

Maryland Convention was achieved by IricA-
cry. The acting chairman excluded Diaihe
delegations from the preliminary organization
of the Convention on the ground thaI tneir
seats were contested, and at the same uIhe
admitted Grant delegations whose seats were
also contested Words need noe be multiplied
to show that there should be only one rule Ior
all such cases. In this way Mr. Blanes num-
Der of delegates to Chicago was reduced 10 Six
ont of sixteen, when the very men who ac-
complished this knew the sentiment OF the
State was SO strongly for him that they did
not dare to resist the passage of resolution
in his favor.
The historian of this era must, in fairness,
record an Improvement in cOrOners' jurles. Inc
Jury that is not afraid to call spade spade
is no longer O rare phenomenon. The twelve
citizens who have sat in the Madison Square
inouest have found verdict which is fearless
and lust. The Harlem Railroad Company seem
sured for employing an incompetent person 10
superintend the construction OF the building
The Department of Buildings is censured 1or
negligence in permitting the law to be violated
in the work, and the destruction of the entire
building is recommended, on the ground that 1t
is dangerous and unfit for the purposes OF
"public assemblages." There may be differences
of opinion respecting the correctness of this
latter conclusion, though it is not likely that
the public confidence in the present building
will ever he fully restored. But the censure
passed upon the Railroad Company and the
Department was thoroughly deserved. Even
Superintendent Dudley was compelled to admit
that his subOrdinates failed in Their duty when
they allowed tie-beam to be made yin pieces"
If the result of this verdict should be a change
in the Office Of Superintendent, under when
such infamous work as this would be lmpOsSl-
ble the public would gain much. The super
intendent should have been quite as familiar
as any of his deputies with the character OF the
work in q place of amusement like the Garden,
and he is not only officially but actually to
blame for the loss Of four lives sacrificed there
The speeches of Mcssrs. Woodin, Sessions
and BirdSall in the Senate yesterday, following
the publication of Senator RObertsOns letter,
constitute, with that manly paper the new he
publican Declaration of independence IN the
State OF Ncw-York. The comparison need not
seem strained to any one who will reflect that
| the slight and accidental majority IN the Utica
Convention, held before the discussion OF Prcsl-
dental candidates had fairly opened, claimcdthe
right, informally and nOtby specific resolution,tO
bind every delegate to Chicago to do their will !;
to compel the delegate from Chautauqua to
vote, not in accordance with the wishes OF the
| Republicans of his own District who selected
him as their spokesman, but in obedience to
resolutions adopted solely by the powerful aid
of the New-York delegation; to require the
delegate from St. Lawrence to vote rs the dele
CATION from Albany or Erie directed him.
without reference to the wishes of the people OF
St. Lawrence. The claim is un-Repub!ican, in
consistent with the whole theory of our Gov
ernment and our politics, and ought to be put
down. THE TRIBUNE believes that the time has
come when tile death-blOw can be given, in the
Republican party, to the system Of unit delega-
| tons, made so by the tyranny of trfiing ma
jority, and therefore hopes and expects to SEQ
many other delegates, whether their prefer
ences he for Blaine or Sherman, Wasl'burnc or
Edmunds, follow the example of these gentle
men and declare at once their independence as
men and their duty as honest represent atiVes OF
| their constituents