, 1880-02-26
PRESS COMMENTS.
THE NEW YORK "TRIDUSE."
Spxctat Dtspateh to The ChieaQo Tribune:

Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune.
NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-The Tribune says
editorially: "The Republicans of New York
may be congratulated upon the absence Of
browbeating and nl-temper, and upon the
general disposition toward harmony which
prevailed in the State Convention. There
was sharp difference of opinion rs to the
wisdom of indorsing the candidacy of
Gen. Grant, which found free express
sion in the debate and divided
the body into two sections Of nearly equal
strength; but this difference produced no
hostile feeling, and no wounds were inflicted
in the debate which will rankle in the ap-
preaching campaign. The advocates of the
tlird-term project controlled the Convention.
Everybody knew that this would be the case
when it was called for so early date Their
majority In the body was
MUCH SMALLER THAN THEY EFFECTED,
however; so small, in fact, that they felt
obliged, as prudent politicians, to seek to ac-
complish By indirection what they had per-
haps proposed to do boldly and with a strong
hand. They refrained from instructing the
delegates to Chicago to vote for Grant; they
refrained from adopting the unit rule; and
they did not copy the Pennsylvania plan of
overruling the wishes of the Congressional
Districts and forcing upon them delegates
selected to misrepresent their views. Mr..
Conkling and his associates in this third-term
business acted with fairness and courtesy
toward the minority in the steps taken in
making up the Chicago delegation. Nor can
any complaint be made Of the resolution ex-
pressing their preference for Gen. Grant, and
pledging New York to his support as far as
it affects
THE DELEGATES AT LARGE.
The resolution is Objectionable because it has
the color if not the form Of positive instruc-
tions, seeks to do what the Convention had
no right to do, compel portion Of the dis:
trict delegates to vote at Chicago against their
consciences and against the known wishes
Of their constituents. It was the right Of
the majority to instruct these delegates at
large, or to pledge their vote, which amounts
to the same thing, but here the power Of the
Convention stopped. The efforts Of the
Grant managers did not stop, how
ever. They sought to make the
delegates from anti-G1ant districts believe
that they are in honor bound to accept the
pledge as applying to them as well as to the
delegates-at-large. Some Of these delegates
are reported to have made the mistake OF
giving in their submission to this interpreta-
ton Of the resolution. If they really have
done so they had better correct their error at
once. No man chosen to represent Blaine
at Chicago
CAN VOTE FOR GRANT
and plead the Conventions resolution In
justification of his course, unless the nonl-
nation Of Grant should be forced
conclusion. The question is not
one Of personal preference or State pride ut
ALL It is whether the tradition Of two Presi-
dental terms aud no more-which goes back
to the foundation of the Goyernment-sha
be violated. Certain districts in the State
are opposed to departing from this I'M
written law which has heretofore been
respected by all parties. They have chosen
delegates to Chicago to represent their views.
4 small majority Of the State Convention
!. disagreed with them, but that is OF no ac-
count The delegates are bound by all con-
siderations of political honor to vote at Chi
cago as the constituents who chose them eX-
pect them to vote, and they will be held close
II to their duties''
THE "HERALD."
The Herald says: "The Conkling star IS
still in the ascendant, but it shines with
faded lustre. The Senator has succeeded IN
controlling the Convention. but BY much
narrower majority than his supporters eS-
pected and his nnponentS conceded. Ihe