New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-09
THE CANDIDATES.

The utmost limit of compromise and con-
ccssiOn has now been reached by the friends
of the President in the Legislature. Mr.. De-
pew having withdrawn his name in = manner
which reflects as much honor upon him an
election could possibly have done, the caucus,
containing eleven more than majority of the
entire Republican vote of the Legislature,
nominated candidates for the Senate to be
voted for to-day the Hon. Warner Miller and
the Hon. Elbridgo G. Lapham. For month
past Mr.. Conllngs adhercnts and familars
have been saying that the candidacy of
Mr.. Dcpew the only obstacle to
compromise. Mr.. Dcpew, with a deli
cacy and generosity which Mr. Conkling
is as incapable of approaching as of initiating,
has Withdrawn his name. and it remains to be
seen what action will be taken by the factions
followers of the late Primate. They can make
no objection to the names presented by the
caucus. Both gentlemen are well known to
the people of this State. They have both
served it with distinction in Congress. Both
are men of unspotted character, and neither
has been prominently identified with the bitter
conflict which for three months has been
troubling the peace of the party in this State.
Mr. Miller has not been so strongly opposed
to the resgning Senators rs to make him
unacceptable to their friends, and the Garfield
men, in presenting the name of Mr.. Lapham
have been true to their policy of concession, in
selecting a known and avOwed adherent of Mr..
COnkng. If there is any desire for harmony
among the COnkling men, any interest in the
present and future welfare of the party, any
desire to SEQ NewYOrk represented by Repub-
licans in the Senate, any feeling or purpose
whatever, except of blind and servilc devotion
to one man and bitter and vindictive deter
mination to oppose the administration of
Garfield, whether he lives or dies, they
| will accept this fair and honorable offer
of compromise in which they get all they
| could ask, and far more than they have the
| right to demand.
| Wo wish we could say that we hope they
| will accept it. They have seemed hitherto so
careless of public opinion, so blindly the crea-
| lures of one imperlOus and unpatriotic man,
that there seems little reason to TRUST that they
can now break away from his control. But
the case was never before clearly
presented to them. They have never yet
been put hagrantly in the wrong as
they are to-day through the generosity of
the Garfield members and tho magnanimity
of Mr.. Dcpew. BY refusing to vote now fol
q candidate who can be elected they are load
| ing themselves with an unnecessary Odium
and doing good to their leader. For every
vote cast for Mr.. Conkling from this honl
forward will injure him .irretrcvably in the
respect and regard Of the people of this State
He is himself too blind with rage and obsti-
nate self-conccit to appreciate the unhappy
position in which he has placed himself. But
it will be strange if thirty men can be found
40 servilc or so infatuated as to insist upon
following him out Of Il party to which they
ali owe so much, when their detection will
only increase the heavy RESPONSE bility which
now rest upon him.