New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-20
THE REPUBLICAY CONTENTION

A call has been issued for a meeting of the
Republican State Committee in this city on the
3lst inst, when the date of the State Conven-
ton will doubtless be announced. The Com
mittee will best satisfy the wishes of all classes
of Republicans, we believe, by fixing upon rs
late a date for the Convention as will give time
for thorough and vigorous campaign. There
is no practical need of an early Convention.
This is the year following the Presidential
election. when the people at large feel that they
have right, if ever, to be somewhat weary of
politics. There is natural lull in National
politics, which is not likely to be disturbed so
long as the President lies upon q couch of pain
and 1t begins TO be evident that, at the best the
Presidents full restoration will be Il matter of
months rather than of weeks. There are no
burning issues i'll State Affairs The people Of
New York may almost be said to be in the
happy state of the people who have no annals
Their Government is faithfully and efficiently
administered. No suspicion or suggestion of
corruption is visible in any part of it, From
present appearances, the chief issue of .he cam
paign this fall will be whether the people will
choose to leave the State Government in the
hands of the party which has conducted it dur
ing the years past economically, prudenty and
honestly, without a scandal and without mis-
take, whether it will take tie risk of turning
it over to hungry and quarrelsomc Democ-
racy.
While there is no pressing need Of an early
Convention, there are reasons why it may prove
expedient to hold a late Convection. 1t is ONLY
four weeks since the Senatorial contest at
Albany ended, and while we believe it to be the
testimony of all impartial judges that the end
was reached in the midst of good feeling in
stead OF the general bitterness that 80 many
feared, 1T seems best, nevertheless, that the Re-
publican voters throughout the State should
nave as long time as practicable to deliberate
upon the significance of the result arrived at
there and It's bearing upon the future of the
party, before meeting in State Convention
Nevertheless, if the Convention should meet to-
morrow, we are firmly convinced that it would
show the people Of the State a party stronger
than it has been in many years,-made more
vigorous with the strength of many men who
have been kept in the background for long
period, and who will come to the front now that
the principle of the equality of all Republicans
has been established, and harmonious to q de-
gree that will bring chagrin to the enemy.
Those who suppose that the struggle at ALBANY
left wide breach in the Republican party Cor
get that many things happened between the
beginning and the end of that famous contest
Ihey forget that % number of the men who
stood with the minority at the opening stood
with the majority at the close. They forget
that the sentiment not only of the minority in
the Legislature but of the press and people
throughout the State underwent great change
during the two months between the resi- gnations
and the elections. The minority at Albany
grew weary of serving a leader who cared moth
ing for the party and everything for HIMSELF,
and were glad of an opportunity to surrender
That portion of the press and the party, small
as it was, which sympathzed with the minority
in the Legislature, showed a similar change of
feeling. The number of Republicans to whom
TIE result finally reached at Albany represented
personal grievance was too small to be worth
considering, and these men, if they do not
themselves forget their resentment in the
arduous work Of the campaign, viii soon pass