New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-25

/ offence; and his mild repetition of his former
invitation to harmony may be easily con
strued into menace if it be not accepted. Tam
many is ready to go into business alone for an
J other year, but prefers the limited liability
4 partnership we have been indicating that il
4 proposed to form from the start. 1t will not
y give MP its plans and hopes until the Conven-
4 ton brushes them then it will turn and rend
somebody or something.
y The County Democracy will not accept this
proposition before the Convention meets; il
i may not after the Convention has concluded its
1 deliberations, quarrels and other usual Incl
q dents of that annual gathering But whether
4 or not the Convention pours oil on the troubled
waters, or, to resume the smile, furnishes a
convenient yoke which Lion and Lamb and
4 Jackal can comfortably pull together in, makes
little difference. We do not regard an in
I sincere union of the Democracy of this county
4 as any more dangerous TO their cause in the
4 State than a local division would be. While
1 the factions fight over the local spOis with all
Z the energy of Irishmen of rival counties they
are united as against their common enemy in
/ the State; and, like the fighting husband and
wife, are one and unanimous in swearing next
morning against the ollicious stranger who sep
aratcd them and suspended the shindy." 1t is
remarkable how little u double Democratic
ticket in this city affects the State or general
ticket. Their local dssensions moreover,
weaken the Republicans here and in the State
also. 1t has been so common for the city
leaders of the Republican party to trade with
one or the other of the Democratic factions
that distrust has been engendered in orr own
ranks; and division of their forces invariably
creates Indifference in ours We have never
been strong in this city as when the Demo
Gratis were united. Last year was a capital
illustration of this truth and we hoped then
and hope still to see just such harmony in both
parties as there was last November One or
two more struggles of that manly sort, with
possibly truer conception of the strength that
lies IN such party union, and the Republican
party will find its power cemcnted and in
vlncibe even In this always Democratic
county. Such union is of far more value to the
Republican party of this State and of the Union
(Slnce New Cork must continue long to be a
pivotal State III National contests) than the few
paltry Offices we might hope to get by trading
with Il faction of the Democrats
The one great local prize for which Tammany
Is now striving to patch up n union of Demo-
Gratis, and the one local Office for which both
parties will most sharply contend is that of the
biStI AttoIncySnp IN the UphcaV;l of
1872, when the overthrow of the Tweed De
mocracy was accomplished by popular indigna
ton, this office wrcstcd from Democratic
control for the first time. 1t was an exceptional
occasion; it was simply n revolution which I'M
|expectediy brought about this result The vote
for District Attorney is always greater for the
candidate of the party in possession than for
that of the "Outs'; the candidate of the " in
ldcrs, whoever he may be, always runs ahead
OF ms ticket The excess represents the tribute
which the fears of certain classes pay To the
power that IN II comes almost wholly from
the liquor dealers policy men and the criminal
classes, who have no sentiment of party fcalty.
but have wholesome fear of offending the pros
|ccdung powers. This percentage OF the vote
goes naturally 10 the party in power; it did so
under Hall and Garvin and other Democrats
before Them II did so under Phelps as the Re
publican candidate in possession and There is
no good reason TO believe that it will not come
10 the Republicans this year. And with "A
united Republican vote thus reinforced from
classes largely Democratic by natural instinct.
this important local office can be retained for
another term and possibly for several terms. II
Is aN>ut all that remains locally worth fighting
Tor, and 1t is not worth trading for il the in
evitablc injury To the general ticket is to follow
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