National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-24
Some PARTY Talk.

| Those men can Snever go back to the United
! States Senate by Republican votes If they &c
back at all il viii be with the help of Democratic
votes This will be quite acceptable to US, for they
certainly cannot expect any recognition from the
Administration under such circumstances. l am
glad the fight is to come this way. 1t is now a
| square issue between the administration and
| COnkling. 1 have no doubt as to the result
| William II. Robertson in an Interview.
Those men "-Conkling and Platt-
will be nominated in the Republican
caucus, and will be entitled to the one
hundred and six Republican votes in the
Legislature. In the party caucus the
to express their disapprobation of the
course pursued by the late Senators by
voting against them. After they have
been outvoted in the caucus they will
will have no more right to vote
against the nominees in the Legis-
lature than the Grant men would
have had a right to bolt General
Garfield last summer when they were
outyoted in the National Convention.
The threat that the administrations men
in the Legislature will not go into the
caucus to be bound by it is threat to
bolt from the party, and if advised by the
President and carried out it would place
him in open hostility to the party Or
ganizatiOn.
Suppose the three hundred and six
delegates who adhered to Grant at
Chicago had done just what it is
now proposed the anti-Conkling men
shall do-that is, stay out of the conven-
ton entir ely and run Grant as an indie
pendent candidate. 1t is an infamous
proposition for the minority of party to
attempt to dictate who its candidates
shall be. That is the function of the ma
jority. When the minority will not sub
NIT, that is secession and rebellion. The
cotton State delegates seeded from
the Charleston convention in 1860
because they could not dictate
to the majority, and that broke
up the Democratic party and turned
the Nation over to. the Republi-
cans. The willful, perverse, quarrelsome,
sore-headed minority in New York
stands now just where those seceders
then stood. 1t has an administration at
its back as did they. 1t has all the Fed
eral patronage; so did they. The slave
driving minority were able to ruin the
Democratic party, butthey could not rule
it in 1860. And in 1881 our forgetful
President-who knows no friends except
such as voted to give him Nomination
which no considerable element of the
party then wished him to have-will be
unable to rule, although he may ruin the
Republican party. Robertson, Woodin,
c'vrzto"o = Co Ibaekad by the hoarse
bawling of the half-breed editors, Cannot
transform the Stalwart Republican ma
jOrity of the New York Legislature into
dutiOus, knee-crooking slaves by prom
ises of office. The bull-dosing thus far
attempted has been as conspicuous as it
has been Intellectual. The prostitution of
the appointing power is too visible The
President has unblushingly allowed it to
go out that he considers the peoples
offices his property, with which to pay
for political favors done him in the past
and to secure repetition of them in the
future. "In vain the fowler spreads his
net in the sight of any bird"
The Republican majority in the Legis-
lature can elect without Democratic votes.
If the President tries to beat the party
by securing a bolt of the minority it
would no doubt shock him very much to
see Democrats come forward and refuse
to remain in the company of his boiting
members. What if some Of them, in
spired by love of fair play, should help
elect the Republican caucus nominee in
whose choice they had no say? That
would be just such piece of good luck
for the party as it was in November last
for so many Democrats to vote for Gen
aral Garfield. No orders were issued
that Democrats could not vote the Re-
publican ticket in November last. The |
Democrats generally have candidates |
Of their own; but we wish it distinctly |
understood that after the Republican |
party has once placed its candidates in |
he field votes are received from all legal |
sources. 1t is always the aim of Stalwart |
TO secure votes on election !
lay from all who have the right to vote
Did Robertson accept the votes of Demo
ratio Senators for his confirmation? 1t |
S puerile and childish in the administra-
ion men to run over to the Democratic
ide i'll a senatorial contest, and then
'lubber and cry at their own fear that
ome Democrats, out of pure contempt for
hem, may vote for the Stalwart nomi-
lees of the Republican party.