New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-22

that the first city in the State and district INFERIOR
represented in the National Councils Of their party
by Conrad Meyer Zuliek, Gottfrled hru1er anu
Larry Fell
Nevertheless General Grant is not yet rcnomi-
mated.
It is one thing to suppress minority In con-
vention, and quite another thing to induce that
minority to vote with its suppressors on election
day.
If there sanyforc in logic Logan is committed in
favor of admitting at least twenty anti-Grant
delegates to the. Chicago Convention. He had his
faction bolt the Cook County Convention because
he merely suspected the Blaine majority OF
purpose to elect q full Blaine delegation TO
Springfield thereby supprcssing the Grant
minority. At Springfield he directs his followers
to admit as many Grant delegates as the boilers
would have been entitled to If they had remained
in the Cook County Convention. Then he turns
s0Ht ana totally fSou se e WSs much
nearer o majority than his friends had in Cook
County. The anti-Grant minority, therefore, mas
precisely the same excuse for electlng cOntesting
delegation rs Logan pretended to have, and the
Chicago Convention has Logan'S act as precedent
for admitting the contestants.
Keep it in mind that mino rites count in elections
if they don't in nominations.
Tho representative Democrats of New-Jersey, in
the sonOrous declaration Of alleged principles
adopted in Trenton the other day, pronounced
themselves the jealous friends of Economy" IN
government, and then placed: at the head OF their
ticket the Hon. John p Stockton, whose most
conspicuous service to his country was voting for
the back-pay grab and taking his share of the
proceeds. This consistent body of statesmen also
declared that "sOund currency with specie
basis" is Democratic doctrine, and proceeded at
once to select as State Delegate the Hon. Hezekah
r VIII wa nominated CONGRESS
Greenback platform at a Greenback Conyentl0n
After this it is hardly to be wondered at that the
New jersey Democrats should resolve that @ free
and fair ballot is the right preservatiye OF all
rights" after having set up as an object OF worship
the Democratic iInmortals by serving Tammany
in its most corrupt days, when ballotbox stuing,
repeating and every form of classifying returns
made voting in this city mockery.
The gag-law and the unit rule are the sole props
of the thrd-term scheme, and they are likely to
prove inadequate.
The number Of men in the Pennsylvania delega-
ton to Chicago who have openly declared that
under no circumstances will they vote for Grant,
advances now from II to TO- Two names. Howard
Reeder and Harrison BOetz delegates from the
Xth District, were added to The Vest Chester
Villqqc Records list on Thursday. They announce
that, in compliance with the unequivocal in
structons Of the counties comprising their
district they will vote for Blaine. In the face OF
delegates, making 10 in ali, It is dificult to see
how the Third Tcrmers can count Pennsylvania |
solid for Grant and triumphantly figure out
majority for him at Chicago.
Does anybody suppose the proceedings Of Senator |
Logan in Illinois are calculated to draw indepen- |
dent Republicans to the support of third term in
case that issue is thrust on the partyI
The Republican party has only one duty at |
Chicago, and that is to nominate the candidate |
who is best qualified to unite the party and poll its
full vote. With that candidate success in November
will DO assured, but it will be won only after
hard fight With any other candidate success will |
be doubtful and tho fight harder than the party |
ever encountered. There is nothing to do but |
look the situation calmly and sqnarely In the lace,
duit blowing and shouting. and come to Judicial |
decision. Any other course OF action Will DO |
simply stupid
Asa "spontaneous" boom the third-term COM
bination presents funny spectacle
Mr. N NJ. Allen, delegate to Chicago from the |
XXXIIId New-YOrk District, joins his associate,
Senator Sessions in his resolve to ignore the unit
rule and vote against third term at Chicago. He
writes to the Senator in letter which is published:
" was glad to hear of your fifty spoken words
abont the vote you intended to give as delegate
TO the Chicago Convention. What yOu intend to
do intend; and have no doubt at all but that
the votes VIC shall give in that Convention will
correctly reflect the wishes of very large majority
of our constituents. The success of our party this
year is of more consequence than the eleyatlon OF
Republicans arc saying here every day Is to be |
taken as correct then General Grant could not get
the united Republican vote, and there are others
who can 1t seems to almost or quite fatal folly
TO nominate him, and you and l will not help tO
do It,"