The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-05-28


boxes. The elective system has worked well
in this State. 1t is not likely to be changed.
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Two Sorts OF Leadership TINT have Driven
out Boilers from the Regular Party.
SYRACUSE May 2G.-It is always entertain
ing, and often instructive to learn what out
siders candidly think Of you. APittsburgh. Pa.
contractor, who has been in town some weeks
on business. took Il stroll with me last night.
and drew very interesting parallel between
the politics Of New York and Pennsylvania.
based upon shrewd observation OF the one and
active interest in the other. He described him
self as a kind OF a Samuel ]. Randall Repub-
lican, IL that is Ineligible.
This biz bolt in my State" he said "sug-
gests very striking comparison. Contrast 1t
with your own bolt here in 1870. Then the
Democratic party OF New York-and by that
mean the people OF the party-determined to
renominate Lucius Robinson. They did not
reach this determination because he was a
magnetic orator or a fine political manager. or
a man who would spend money lavishly among
the workers. or an especially amiable and at
tractive man personally. because he is none of
those. But they were intent on putting him up
again because his administration had been
very honest in money matters. and because he
represented in person and mind that gray
headed plainness of tastes simplicity OF ..ie.
and heroic mulishness in right paths. which
Andrew Jackson pcrsonifled. and which has al
ways seemed to me the best thing about De-
mocracy. These Democrats had never seen
Robinson. and never expected to- they had no
favors to ask OF him and no axes to grind.
They simply regarded him and his admins
tration as ornaments to their party. and were
proud of them. because anxious TO be proud Of
their party.
We'll. some machine politicians OF the most
undemocratic sort were indignant that the peo-
pie should admire Robinson. They didn't
admire him sinlge bit. They had found him
Indifferent to their influence. cross-grained
about their plans. and even aggressively hos
tile at times. They could not run him. and
they couldn't prevent the people from liking
him. They egged John Kelly on to threaten
ing bolt If the Governor was renominated.
but that only increased the strength Of his
name before the people. Then came the Con-
vention. and Kelly did bolt. and,these disgrun-
tied politicians helped him defeat Robinson.
Now. in that easel the lowest-toned and
most selfish element in the party revolted be-
cause it was powerless to drag the party down
to its level. The final result Of such detection
ctnlol help UelHS HcuIlHlul 10 inc party. L
shouldn't be surprised If your party was really
stronger in this State to-day than it has ever
been before.
" But the bolt in Pennsy lvania is Numerically
different. There it is the bulk of the party who
are low toned and selfish. and determined to
keep the party down to their level and 1t is the
few who revolt against that kind of manage
mert. Don't be deceived in the talk about this
bolt dividing the party in half. John Stewart.
at the outside. cannot poll one-thrd Of the
party's vote. / don't think should be afraid
to bet that he would get less than 10000 votes.
and there more than six times that
number OF PENNSYLVANIA Republicans. There
is no use denying it. the large ma
| lority Of the people in our party be-
lleve in the Camerons as leaders and will fol-
| low them. Harangues on the evils of bossism
roll off their backs Just as mathematical proofs
| that all the animals could not have been jammed
| into Noah ark do off the backs Of our old Camp
| bellies: they make absolutely no impression
| on them whatever. They mix the Camerons
and Thad Stevens and the tariff and the aboli-
ton of slavery all in tumble. and swear by the
| connection.
This is the contrast. then: The Republican
| party in Pennsylvania is so bad in its aims and
wretched in its leadership that people who
! think and want to respect themselves have to
| march out of it: the Democratic party in New
York is popularzed in its control. and so
sensitive and responsive to the demands Of the
people for honesty and decency in administra-
ton. that politicians with Interior motives have
to take themselves out Of it in self-defence.
And in general way this contrast will apply
| the country over.
" 1t is almost matter Of course that when a
party has been continuously in power for over
! twenty years the conscience public spirit and
keen sense Of propriety should Gravitate to the
| opposition. But this rule has been more than
ever applicable to the last twenty years. be-
cause the dominant party has been ruled by
coarse and venal men. who climbed to prom
inence at n time when people were not able to
scrutnize traits of character or much else be-
sides lists of killed. wounded. or missing. AS
war feelings have receded from US. we have
gradually grown dissatisfied with these men.
and come to long for civilian statesmen at the
top once again. Tilden was an ideal answer to
those aspirations and the people did their part
toward making him President. Randall is an
other such man. and had he been nominated
at Cincinnati he would have carried our State
| and this and been in the White House to-day.
| When men Of that stamp are put up on your
! tickets why then Democracy means something.
and can vote for II and do; and am one Of a
very big class in both States. But when you
nominate men who have no recommendations
other than the fact that they We're Democrats
before the war and have never wavered why.
| then | vote on recollections too: and ! was
| brought up tho other way"
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