New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-16
- ~ 49, ,r,,uuNE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER TO- 1880

1t VIII be interesting to observe the effect OF
th. upon that large proportion OF women III
the State entitled to the rigat who have So
far refialned from using it.
The award of the arbiters in the elevated
railroad consolidation puts the New ork
stock AT 10 per cent above par, ana the
Metropolitan lust as far below par, for the
purposes Of the consohd lion. These are the
fsur $ proposed by the Ncw-York Company,
! through Cyrus w Field before the question
W submitted to arbitration and they are
natural received by the METROPOLITAN Com
any with some disappointment. The ratiii-
| cation of the stockholders on both sides will
be necessary.
| Ii would be a curious outcome of the " DEM
ocraic victory" in Maine, which has caused
so much premature rel icing, # the election
of the Governor should be thrown into Re
put llcan Legislature. The Republican gains
have steadily continued. The returns from
1873 towns give the Republicans 67,93S votes,
the Fusionsts 66.493, scattering, 1913. THIS
brings Governor DAVIS majority OF LIZ,
in towns which last year CAV him MAJORITY
of GOA gain OF 500. If the towns which
are still to be heard from vote as they voted
last year, the Republicans will lack 2o2
votes of a majority, the Fusionists 2oS.
| II the Constitutional Amendment which
proyiGes for the election of State officers
by plurality instead of a majority of the
votes cast, is found to have been adopted
and its application to this election is not DIS
! ly oil
| Governor DAVIS, though the margin Is too
small to speculate upon. But the question
has been raised that the Amendment, which
declares that il shall take effect upon the day
of its adoption, is retroactive, and to that ex-
tent void. If Governor DAVIS should have Il
plurality, however, it would do the Green
hackers 10 Good TO raise the point, as the
Legislature is Republican.
The platform adopted by the Republicans
of Massachusetts, in their State Convention IS
strong, and. in some respects, singular
document. The rhetorical cXlgencieS OF plat
form making often compress into clause or
sentence, and sometimes one that can be
charged with ambiguity, an issue which
will be debated at length by thousand news
papers and thousand speeches The Mas
sachusetts Republicans prefer to state Their
views in a "long talk" evidently upon
the as assumption that the voters will
have time to read such plat
form, and may he Influenced by the
arguments embodied in it. 1t may be ques-
ton whether, in spite of the prejudice of man
| kind against long political documents of any
kind, such a statement of principles does not
gain in responsiveness what it loses in eli
makes. Certainly no platform has been put
forward of late, except that adopted at Chi
cago, which was itself long that seems likely
TO carry such conviction with 1t as the Massachu-
sets platform Its tone is admirable through
out, and especially on the Southern question.
1t breathes thoroughly cordial spirit toward
the South, and yet states the uitimatum of
the free and intelligent North in courageous
words, which must be received with respect
in the South itself. When the Massachusetts
Republicans say that in order to bring about
cordial feeling between the sections they
will "make any concession save one of prin-
ciple," they state the foundation issue OF
the campaign.