Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-30
THE REVOLT IN NEW YORK

THE REVOLT IN NEW YORK.
 The political situation in New York does not grow more hopeful for the Republicans. In order to carry out their scheme the bosses have made John F. Smyth chairman of the State committee. Mir. smyth is a disreputa- ble politician whose record in and out of of- flee is not good. His selection for the chair manship has moved the Albany Euening Journal, 8 standard Republican newspaper, to remark: ''The life long Republican lead CTS like ex-Senator Forster, ex Senator Rog- CTS and Assenlblyman Hickman, who cannot sink their prejudice against bribery for the good of the party the lifelong Republican clergyman like Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, who hesitate about endorsing forgery for the good of the party;' the life long Republican readers of journals like the New York zTnaes and Eoening Post, the Brooklyn Z1mes the Utica Herald, the Syracuse Journal, the Rochester Democrat, the Auburn Adyertiser, the Buffalo Express, the Jamestown Journal, and that ilk, who shrink in the first anniver- sary month of Garfield's death from enthu- siastic acceptance of result which Guiteau would have cheered, for the good of tho par ty'-all these, we say, must get out. Mir. Smyth does not need them. He scorns to conciliate them He has no use for Sunday school politics, for reformers, for men who think that the Republican party has any oth- CT aim than the offices.'
 So much for Smyth. General Stewart L. Woodford has felt compelled to express his views concerning the situation. He thinks it impossible to reach any other conclusion but that fraud entered into the nomination of Folger. He says: Fraud and forgery were resorted to in order to influence the action of the State committee and the judgment of the State convention. The wrong doing vitiates all the convention did. I say this with re gret. But what else can I say? As Re- publican have gone with the issue my party stood for before my fellow citizens in cam- paign after campaign. I have denounced the use of tissue ballots in South Carolina and of rifles in Mississippi. Fraud is fraud, whether committed in South Carolina or in New York Voting falsely in the name of others is as much fraud in Saratoga as it is in Charles ton. Honest men cannot submit to it, or tolerate it anywhere. If it triumphs in New York this year, can we secure any guarantee against it in shaping the action of the Repub- ican National convention Right and party safety are on the same side. Tho best place to contend against wrong is on the very spot 1t first makes it's appearance" General Wood ford thinks the short, direct and honorable way out of it is for Secretary Folger to refuse to accept nomination made under the cir cumstances.
 But the old Republicans are not the only ones who are protesting. The ''Young Re- publicans'' of Brooklyn have held meeting, at which the attendance was large, and reso- lutions were adopted denouncing the inter ference of the Federal administration with the free action of the people of New York in the selection of candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor denouncing the pc litical methods and practices by which Messrs. Folger and Carpenter were nominat- ed as disgraceful to the party and to the country; and declaring that nominations ob- tained by such methods are entitled to no re- spect and impose no party obligations upon Republicans to support then.
 At this writing no letter from Secretary Folger declining to take tho nomination so disgracefully bestowed upon him has ap- peared. We hope, however, that there will be one. If he should run it is not probable that even Jay Gould's money could secure his election.