New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-29

an election of Senator'S by this Legislature, OF
refuses to vote in such way rs TO make an
election possible, ought to be and will be held
Ia the strictcst accountability by the people
whom he helps to rob. But if the fraud iould
for the time prevail and an election OF Senators
should be prevented, or Senators duly elected
should be denied seats in the Senate, the Re
publican party will have the best possible
ground for an appeal to the people OF New
York, against the Democratic party ana the
renegadcs who help it to defraud the state.
Politicians are very apt to listen go much to
each other. and so little to the plain people,
that they become blind 70 their own interests.
In their small rings, politicians find that any
rasealitv whatever for the sake of party Is ex-
cuscd therefore they bndly fancy that the
people excuse rascaity for the sake OF party.
Among themselves. they find that the getting
and the control of office is the chief end oil
man; therefore they imagine that the people
care for nothing but the distribution OF SpollS
In their cOnclaycs the mcanesi ialSehooda ANA
the bascst deeds for the sake oil faction are
thought praisewor;hy if crowned with success
therefore they suppose that the plain people
who vote with that faction will also wink at the
mcancst falscLOOds and The bascst deeds Tor
the sake of its success. Sooner or later there
comes rude awakening, when the knavi'h
Dolit,ian finds himself dcspiStd and cursed 10y
the decent voters who have been hi associates
in party or faction. The people OF this State
and Of the country have been getting more and
more thoroughly diSgustcd, year after year,
with two sets of dishonest poticians-thc Re-
publican knavcs who fight for sp"ils ana i've
bv trading. and the Democratic knavcS who
stick at 10 scolmdrcli>m to get power for their
party. If the people could get fair chance to
show their opinion of these creatures IN a
straight and plain issue, the verdict would he
utterly amazing to political trick'tcrs OF every
sort. For it is the bottom fact OF politics that
the people hate dishonesty and despise Office
grabbing machines.
The Democratic party has missed no oppor-
tunity during many years To make itself odlo'is.
Its recent performances have reached sur
! prisins depth of infaiuy. 1t has tried to buy II
Presidency, ana to get Presidency 10y forgery
and perjury. 1t las stolen more than one
State, and made elections \ wrctchrd farce III a
third of the country. Ii it now tries to steal
the Senate, by refusing seals To duly elected
members from the largest and richest state III
the Union, there are thousands Of plain and
honest men who have voted with 1t steadily
who will turn from it in dis ,iIst and wrath.
Again and again the politicians of that party
lave d,,piscd similar warnings. They would
not believe that any Democratic voters mad
either conscience or scIsr of dcccncJ. But
after each offence they have been beaten ] he
politicians and the so-callcd respectable GraIc-
heads have made lisht 81 all char'rS against
il, hu; tie plain people have testified their ia
dignal.ln los drci>iyrvotr II the party wants
To- try the same experiment again u can hr sire
that the public wrath viii not bc the cooler for
the persistent repetition Of such Iu>dccdS.
As for Mr. Conklinc. aud the clique of trad
ing politicians vino folnw him, they have a.
rcsdy aroused - dr-'rcr ui disgust among the
plain people Of this >t,'c which they are uch-
rablc Of approaching. II thcy want to know
how e.n,iai AID intense that di>.l>t l.. they
have only - ut within range of The voters
with separate candidates OF thoIr own. The
Republicans would set up candidate, IN cyciA
district who support lie Administration and
are in harmony with The Republican majority
in i!,c Senate. and who world p.,i-r Themselves
never Ia vote for any col the len who have
sought tO rob the state at IL Il prr-'uidii"n. II
anyone think, that ! cr,-uli in such c"ui'-t
would b, doubtful. let him MAKE The tIial. The
hon,,; voter, ol this state can bC trusted to
take care of him.