New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-10

tession NJ all TINT had previously been suspected OF
the Administration trckery at Saratoga, and wouid
have been O heavy burden to put upon any ucKet'
Mr. Carpenter was pleased to remark In bis grace
full epistle that the phrase. united We staho
divided we fall" was Imnlemoral maxim"
He doubtless would have perceived-if somebody
had suggested 1t to hIn-that the word he was
feeling around after was memorable" Ills ietter
and that of Judge Foger will be memorable In this
State for many years as warning to all candidates
OF how not to do it,
General Butler Is clearly laboring under an inI-
preston that there Is good deal OF independence
in the air his year and that II he exposes himself
cai elessly no may get shock by and by. His Ills
take consists in his failure to that tho current
independence is d very different article from the
kind he is dealing in.
The time appears to DO ripe fol President Arthur,
Mr.. Conkling. Don Cameron and ex-senator Platt
10 hold n conference somewhere on the condition OF
the Administration party. There Is imperative
need of heroic measures Of some kind. In what
Mr.. b. Platt Carpenter would call tho " irnmemo-
rial words of the Hon. Tom Platt the people need
ainocustlngn with something or Other. Perhaps.a
little common sense tho part OF the machine
leaders would do much good rs anything
The latest development of Administration man.
apement in the New-YorK canvass is the publica-
ton of letter from an aspiraDt for the nomination
of Congressman at Large, in which he solemhly
warns everybody not to support him In the ex-
pectation that be is going to contribute money TO
the campaign fund. As he has never been thought
of as n candidate outside the State COMMITTEE
rooms and as his nomination, IL 1T Is made. Will Do
the act of the Committee alone there is no appar-
ent reason for this public display or superior
virtue. The public not supporting him Tor
nomination on any grounds, pecuniary or other
WISE There is no reason for warning them, and II
the COMMITTEES need to be warned there Is every
reason why it should be done in private. There
ought to be end reached pretty soon to the BABY
play which the Administration leaders are pleased
to regard strategy
1t looks as If the appointment by the President
and Secretary FOlger of the Hon. Mike" Dady to
be Superintendent of Public Buildings had not an
initiated all the @dlsinfectants among the Re-
pubcans of Kings County.
1t is genuine pleasure to notice that our genial
friend Colonel MaplesOn returns to US as modest
and reticent usual. He informed our reporter on
Sunday That he was not going TO say anything
about the approaching opera season he had been
found fault with heretofore because his promises"
had not been fulfilled this year he was going to
do his level best p" and say nothing about it. And
then he added almost immediately: A" assure you
that nowhere Oh the Continent of Europe better
perfol m ances of Italian opera given than in the
Academy OF Music in this CITY," That is one Of the
finest examples of noble self-restraint on record
If the Colonel had not forsworn Boosting he might
have been betrayed'into saying something extrava-
CANT about his approaching season.
Mr. Dorsheimer congratulated the Democracy OF
Brooklyn that for the first time all the candidates
upon the Democratic State ticket men who had
no connection with civil life before the war"
Respectfully referred to such Democrats who did
have connection with civil life before the war as
Horatio Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden, Lucus Robin
SOL, Amaea J. Parker ct al. They can be expected
to unite in a note TO Mr.. Dorshemer pensvely in.
auirng if he could not have handsomely exalted
the horn of Cleveland and Hill without kicking
them downstairs.