New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-31

hate each other so cordially, continues. Yes
terday communication was sent by the
Anti Tammany Committee of Twenty-four to
the Tammany Hall General Committee
proposing, in order to preserve the Demo-
cratic majority in both branches of Congress,
union on oil candidates for Con-
gress and the Assembly. The Tammany
General Committee received this IN a
most touching spirit of harmony. They
broke out with a guffaw when the names OF
the Irving Hall Committee were read and
winlzed at one another in the most harmonious
manner. No one can blame the gentle represen-
tatives of Tammany for their merriment. III
he laughs longest who laughs last, they are
justified in laughing. The Tammany victory
with respect to the State Convention Is COM
plete, and the Committee are entitled to be
in a good humOr.
The Republican party is running upon It's
record in this campaign, while the only use
the Democratic party is making of It's record
is in running away from it. Secretary Sher-
man has freshened the familiar comparison OF
the percentage of delalcations under Republic
can ard Democratic Admins STATIONS by bring
ing it up to date. Under Van Buren, the
Government lost $11 II by defalcations on
every $1,000 collected, and the best the
Democratic party ever succeeded ID
doing was in getting the percent
age down to So Sc, under Pierce.
The Republican party has practically ex-
tinguished defalcatiOn. Under Grant the
loss was only 81 cents on every $l,Ooo,
and under Hayes Oh the same amount
the loss has been exactly onr-third
of one cent. 1t is fair inference
that the Republican party, in the Western
phrase, knows how to keep hotel, and that
the country IN choosing public servants Will
not prefer the incompetent to the competent
Democratic orators and newspapers ridIcule
the statements made of the general prosperity
under Republican rule, and say that the Re
publican party did not make the sun shine or
the corn grow. They are well answered by a
single sentence in Secretary Sherman's speech
at Cincinnati last night" We owe no part OF
"our prosperity 10 the Democratic party"
Let them meet the Issue i'll that way, II they
prefer Let them show single Democratic
measure or Democratic act by which resump-
ton was furthered aud prosperity restored.
Let them meet the charge that the Democratic
party year after year, by platform after plat
form and vote after vote, Obstructed and
fought resumption at every point. Let them
dismove. if they can, the assertion that every
legislative measure by which resumption was
fastened was a Republican measure. and that
every Executive act which aided in its con-
summation was the act of Republican Ad-
ministranon. Let them be asked, furthermore
what the Democratic party has done in itsiive
years. control of the House Of Representatives.
and its two years. complete control of Con-
gress. TO make permanent reduction III the
expenses OF Government or benefit the indus
tries of the country. 1--WE owe no part OF
" our prosperity TO the Democratic party"
This may well be the answer of the business
man TO the party which demands " change"
simply for the sake Of change. and it may
wisely be added that the party which had no
share in creating that prosperity cannot be
trusted with the care OF it.