New-York tribune., 1881-10-03
THE YEW-YORK CONVENTION.

Tho Latest returns of the election of dele
patos 70 the Convention which meets in this
citv ON Wednesday show no change in the sit
nation. The number of delegates yet to be
elected is trihing; the number OF delegates
who are not committed for or against nir'
Conklinc,s attempt to resume the leadership
of the party after his betrayal OIL IL anu lis
surrender of the Senate into Democratic hands,
is utterly insignificant III there shouiu
be conceded to Mr.. Conkling the delegates
VIII O are uncommtted, those who are yet un-
chosen, and those elected from contested dis
tricts he would still be in minority OF about
seventy votes. If the cOntestsln the seven us
puted districts should be decided in accord
ance with the facts that are known to every
intelligent Republican in the State, there
will be majority aginst him OF over lZo
votes, even conccding to him all the uncom-
mitted and unchosen delegates; and the IN
dications are that with the gains to be eX-
pccted from those delegates, the majority
against him will exceed that figure.
The friends of the former senior Senator
from this State protest that he is not an issue
before the coming Convention, that false
issue has been raised, and that it is g unmanly
to bring his name into this discussion. They
can hardly expect the Republicans of the State
so soon to forget the circumstances of the call
of the Convcntion-the summons to meet in
New York, where the great city machine could
Use its influence directly upon the delegates;
the election of Mr.. Platt, Mr.. Conkllngs partner
in the designations and in the public condem-
nation which followed them, to be the
presiding officer of the State Com
mittee; Mr.. ConIlings fierce struggle in
his own town to he elected delegate, which
was carried to the extremity OF bolt and
the election Of q delegation having no clam
whatever to seats. All the circumstances OF
the time went to show that Mr.. Conkling was
engaged in a campaign to capture the ConVeh-
ton, which he WAS then TO exhibit to the
country rs his property-as proof that the
Legislature which rejected him mlSrcprcscnted
its constituents, and as a proof that the
Administration which asserted its rights
against him did not have the approval
of the people This was hardly to be
borne at a time when the President lay
upon his bed Of suffering, and not any
more TO be borne when he had passed away
from us. 1t was in this way that Mr. Conk-
ling became, by his own act, an tissue in
this canvass, with a result which, VIC presume,
is rs clear to him now as to others.
There need be no quarrcls in the COnvon-
ton, and we trust there Will he none. But
there is work for it to do, nevertheless.
One of the first and most important OF
ITS duties will be to pass upon the seven
contests These involve something more
than local di,scnsions They seem to have
been inspired by q common purpose to
deprive majoritcs of their rights where
the maioritos were uulrcndly 10 Mr. Couk
ling. He set them The example in his own dis
trict 10y minority bolt. The example was
followed in both Of the remaining districts III
his county, in one of then. eight delegates
boting from a Convention of forty-cight. In
the Ist O,wcgo District the majority were de-
priyed OF their parliamentary right 10 vote
upon the question of the chaiImanship, and
had no recourse but TO withdraw The same
outrage was committed in the lid Albany Dis
trict -Four Conklng delegates in the Xllth
District of Kings will try to convince the
Convention that they were majority
of sixteen, and twcnty-one delegates in Rich
moud County that they were a majority Of
slxty-six. These are un-Ecpuhlican practices
adopted for un-Rcpublcan ends, and one Of the
most important duties of the Convention will
be to show the people of the State that what
ever differences may arise in the Republican
party. it tolcratcs None bat honest methods.