New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-13
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DF,fOcRATJC PROSPECTS.

DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS,.
1t is gratifying to be assured, as we are by
the recent signs of life and activity in one OF
the Democratic factions in the city that has
been for some time cOmatose that the usual
circus of the party the coming fall will lack
none of the features that serve to make it in
teresting to spectators and exciting to the
actors The charm of New-York Democratic
State Convention lies, as is well known, in the
number and vigOr of the contesting delega-
tons from this city. The Convention that does
not have at least two rival delegations from
the city is for the delegate lfeless and insipid
for the spectator a dull parody; for the bar
keepers of the Convention town a slow, cOrroding
aggravatOn. There is no stir of the stagnant
waters in such Conventions they contribute
no sparkle nor spice to the pages of current
political history biographical lore gets moth
ing from them in the form of the brief and
fervent sketches of life and character which
are usually exchanged by contesting delega-
tons across the aisles or between the floor
and galleries. In the minds of that large
class of citizens who believe that the Demo-
cratic party has no mission but to amuse the
public, and that harmonious Democratic
Convention is a simple paradox, they beget
something like contempt for all politics, and
they engender in the local police habits of
laziness and vague belief in the millennium
that is fatal to anything like vigilance or
discipline. 1t is not the least of our constant
occasions for gratitude people that this
sort of Convention is so rare as to be counted
among the phenomena of politics.
And so we hail with delight the indications
now beginning to abound that the next Demo-
cratic State Convention will be, upon the whole,
"a, i
this city an amount of harmony in the party
which is only paralleed by the scarcity of
offices. OF harmony there is enough to occupy
the time and attention of several distinct or
CARNATIONS, with such tendency to increase
to require frequent new divisions of the
party to engross it. OF Offices there are not
enough for the leading statesmen of any one
organization. The abundance of the harmony
is only equalled by the scarcity of the offices.
SO it happens that whenever the party leaders
become depressed by the thought that the har-
vest is so small and the laborcrs so many, they
say at once that in order to secure what Offices
there are. they must harmonic. ThereupOn they
set up new organization in the interest of
harmony, and add one to the number of con-
testing delegations to go to the State Conven-
| ton. 1t may be said by the critical that such
action promotes division rather than union
And we are free to say that it does seem to
the superficial view to be open to that obiec
ton. All the same however, it has been the
| habit of the New-Yorll City Democracy to re-
sort to this method whenever there seemed to
be an unusual necessity and a corresponding
desire for harmony. And whether the osten-
sible purpose was effected not, this much at
| least must be confessed, that it has enliyened
| current politics and promoted innocent public
|
followed these efforts have been, il not har-
monious certainly very lively and entertaining.
| The present prospect is that instead of two
there will be at least three, and possibly four
or five, delegations from this city to the next
State Convention. This encouraging condition
has been brought about mainly by the efforts
of the noble band of rcorganizers who spon-
| taHc0usly appointed themselves Committee of
| One Hundred to harmonic the party and, af-
! ter several months of hard labor, succeeded in
putting into the field entirely new organi-
cation, styled the "New York City Democ-
racy If that is the name of it. Ii will hap
pen through their enterprise that the next State
| Convention will be attended by delegations
| from that organization, claiming to be regular
from having reorganized the party; from Tam
| many Hall, claiming to be regular from
immemorial usage and last years recognition (:
| from one, and perhaps two, Irving Hall
factions, claiming recognition as lneal descend
ants of the last regular delegation: and from
| nobody knows how many more, claiming regu-
larity under all sorts of pretexts So the
| Democracy reorganzed and harmonized, will
| enjoy ut their next Convention the spectacle
| OF three or four or more delegations Haunting
| credentials and demanding recognition from all
parts of the floor and galleries when New
| York City is reached in the roll call The
number of contesting delegations promises TO
be larger than ever before. Such circus will
go far toward rvallng "The Greatest Show
on Earth" 1t will lend hveliness to what
might otherwise be dull and tame affair.
| and upon that prospective feature we can do
no less than congratulate our Democratic
| friends.
But 1t will be an objectionable OMISSION
and we give them notice now in order that
they may avoid tiff some leading harmo-
nicer does not give the Convention n send off
| and fire the Democratic heart with q speecb
dwelling upon the divisions among Repub-
licans and upon the opportunity they offer to
the harmonious Democracy to march with n
firm front to victory.
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