New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-17

] licvcd to be smartng from defeat. Some OF
the followers of Mr.. COnkling, embittered by
the results mt Albany and in the State COnven-
ton, filed the air with prophecies of Democratic
success. The Committee were charged with
inconvenience, incxperience ignorance of poll
ties. Predictions were common that the Demo-
Gratis would carry the State by $4,000, and the
remark was often made that Republicans wOuld
soon see the consequences of taking the man
agemcnt of the party out of the hands of the
men who knew how to carry States as well as
conventions
The Committee quietly pursued their labors,
having to contend against an exceptional pub
lie Indifference, which told against them in
every way connected with the practical work Of
the campaign. What has been the Tcsult' The
State ticket, with one exception was elected by
pluraitics ranging above 1900. That there
was Il failure to elect in one instance was in no
respect the fault of the State Committee. Ii
was due to an outbreak of personal hostility to
Il single candidate on the part Of few thou
sand Republicans, who preferred the grajiiica-
ton of individual luminosity to the undivided
triumph of the party. The logic of the election,
if it had been left to itself, would inevitably
have worked out n Republican Legislature also.
Success, i'm two Senate and three Assembly Dis
trcts which were carried by the Democrats
would have made both houses Republican.
But forces were at work which the wiscst and
best in the party could not control. In some
districts men had been nominated who for two
months at Albany had resisted the public
opinion Of the state. Many of the most
prudent and most un~cliish men in the party
thought that, nevertheless, that controversy
should be considered closed, and that such men
should receive the support of all Republicans.
But the masses of the party could not be con
rolcd. In several instance, there was open
revolt. only one man Of the Old Guard of
Conklingi,m in the Legislature OF 1881 va,
reelected, and he was successful through
"machine" trades in this city On the other
hand men who had been instrumental ia defeat
ing Mr.. Conhling and Mr.. Platt, and men who
had merely -ympathilcd with that course, were
slaughtered at the polls by some Of AIr. Coul-
ling's followers. If it had not been for this I'M
fortunate but perhaps inevitable conflict both
houses of the Legislature would have been
Overwhelmingly Republican, and the victory
of the party would have been complete
The result fully iH~thcS the action of the
majority in the recent State Convention in cN-
crci-ing, generously yet firmly, rs they did, all
their powers Is "a majority. 1t also lindicltcs
the wisdom of the state Committee in placing
Judge Carpenter at the head of the organiIa-
ton. He has acquitted himself admirably. and
has, With the aid Of his colleagues, forever dis
posed OF the tradition that the Republican party
of Ncw-Norl, cannot elect il, own ticket, but
must cry out to little group of machine man
ayers. Come over and save us II Is matter
of no great consequence, perhaps, hut 1t may
have it, uses i'm the future, if the fact he re-
corded now that Ncw-lork can hc carried for
the Ecpublican ticket, without word from NIr.
Couklus To show thlf hc desire, it 70 be Sue
cc.~'ul, and with hi, visible ,ullcnnc-s shared
10 "a number OF his conspicuous friends.