The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-16

a. Mr. KxnxAx Il saId 10 have gone TO
rr.ica to obtain from Dir. SEYMOUR himsen
. nosItiyc reply either 10 the affirmative or
the negative to the question whether nc WI.
accent the nomination Of the Cincinnau
Convention. we feel as II It were hard'y
allowable TO be writing anything more al
She present time TO show why he should re-
ce,ve that nomination. But inasmuch as IL
IL at least possible, though not prooso'o'
that he win answer In the affirmative we
will ada a few remarks to what we SAID yes
to-day ~ 10 the importance OF running Tor
President candidate who can certainly
carry New York.
We do not regard II as at all likely that
Goyernor CORNELL will convene the New
York Legislature next fall for the purpose
Of having a law passed providing for the
election OF presidential electors by distr'cls'
The Republican Journals Of New York city
are known to be opposed to any such move
ment. Il was proposed during the last ses'
,on OF the Legislature, but received WIN
mn sort OF favor. II is scheme which no
skiisul party leader would for moment
entertain seriously. 1t would damn the
Republican party in New York, ana rum
the prospects for election OF its candidate
for President. The indignation OF the gen.
cral public would be so great that ONO ana
Illinois would almost certainly each cast us
solid electoral strength for the Democratic
nominee for President. Instead OF car
rying only fifteen districts IN the S'a'e
of New York the Democrats would proba-
bly carry two thirds Of them. Mr.. CoNK-
LING would be buried beyond the hope OF
resurrection. The fifteen votes which 1t Is
conceded the Democrats would get In New
York, let the State be dstrcted as 1t might,
would be all that the Democrats would need
under the circumstances. Either Illinois
or Ohio gives votes enough to elect the
Democratic candidate when added to 13S
from the South, Is from New York, and 10
from Indiana. These 16S votes may be con.
sidered Just as safe for the Democrats as IL
they were already cast, lin the event that
New York should elect by districts.) Only
II more are needed; and under the clrcuni-
stances supposed, either Illinois would be
sure 10 cast her 21 or Ohio her % votes for
the Democratic candidate.
Even, however, il Governor CORNELL
should he stricken with judicial blindness,
and should convene the New York Legis-
lature for the purpose indicated above, that
body would refuse TO carry out his wishes.
Out OF the III Republican members OF the
Legislature there would surely be found
enough to prevent by voting with the Dem
ocrats the consummation OF so impolitic
movement. The Republican members are
not all fools. To assume that they would
commit an inexcusable and irreparabe blum
der-one Of the kind which TALLEYRAND
declared 10 be worse than crimes-is to as
sume that they are indeed lot OF incompe-
tents.
We have tried to show that there is no
ground whatever for suDposing that the
New York Legislature will be so foolish as
to pass law providing that the presidential
electors in that State shall be chosen by dis
tricts. We do not for one moment credit
the statement that there is any danger that
such a law will be pas: ed. II is MOI, how
ever. because we have advocated Mr.. SEY-
McUR's nomination that we have been led to
this conclusion. On the contrary, II 1t
could be shown that the Governor OF New
York desires the Legislature to pass the
law in question, then it would also be de.
monstrated that Mr.. SEYMOUR is the one
man in the United States who ought to be
nominated at Cincinnati. For il there is
any man whose nomination would put an
end TO that project, HORATIO SEYMOUR is his
name.
First, Mr.. CONKLING controls Governor
CORNELL and the whole Republican party
of New York. 1t works under his hand as
q machine under the hand OF the engineer.
He is Mr.. SEYM0UR's brother-in-law. He.
therefore, would not be likely to allow so
uniustiGable a trick to be played upon Mr.
SEYMOUR. He might wink at it II no per.
soual considerations should bring the OBJ
iectionableness OF the scheme home to bis
own breast; but he could not fail to see its
bideonsness when he saw how it was In
tended to operate upon the fortunes Of one
OF his own family's nearest connections
II, therefore, the scheme could be success
fully killed of, it would be by nominating
Mr.. SEYMOUR.
Secondly, MIR. SEYMOUR is the most popu
lar man in New York State. He is recOg
nized BY everybody there as the very EN-
bodiment OF all that is pure in politics, ex
emplary in social and private life, and ele
waited in morals. To attempt TO cheat hin
out OF the vote OF his own State woul(
arouse such a feeling Of indignation among
all her people as would bring to nought al
the calculations OF the machine-politician
OF the Republican party. The voters would
make Mr.. SEYMoUR's cause their own; ant
they would see to it that be should, in spit
OF the districting Of the State, have mor'
votes In New York than are cast in all tn
Pacific States. From the Atlantic ocean K
the lakes the cry OF injustice, wrong. ant
trickery would be heard, and there would
be response from the voters which would
stln The brazen conspirators, and rende
all their tricks unayallng.
In word, II New York is to be districted
then Mr.. SEYMOUR is the only man who's
the benefits that ought to result TO then
from that act OF treacbery 10 the people
and II New York Is not TO be districted
then Mr.. SEYMOUR Is the only man who's
nomination would certainly secure to th
Democrats the entire electoral vote OF tn
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