New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-18
THE OUTLOOK IN DEFEAT.

NEED OF REPUBLICAN REORGANIZATION
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF THE PARTY BY ADMINS
TRArIoN REPUBLICANs-A SHAM STATE con-
VENTIoN-REPUBLICANs EXCLUDED FROM THE
PRIMARIEs-PLANs OF TUE INCOMING DEMO
CRATIC ADMINISTRATION
lFRoA ANoccAsroNAL COR RESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
ALBANY, Nov. lin the opinion of the Repub
licans of the interior radical reconstruction of the
party organization Of the Republicans of this
State Is rendered absolutely necessary by
the result of the election. majority Of 10000
recorded against Secretary FolGer for Governor
leaves no room for doubt that the Republican voters
Of the State were not represented at the Saratoga
Convention. Never in the history OF the State have
assumed representatives of party at State Con-
vention failed 30 completely to represent It. Their
work has been rejected by Republicans unIver-
sally that the chief opponent of Mr. Foger is elected
by majority unexamoled in party records
An examination of the party organization dis
closes clearly its non-representatve character In
New-f0rk CITY only 900 of the 30, 600 Republi-
can voters have right to participate in the pri-
mary elections at which delegates elected to the
State Convention. Ia Brooklyn similar close cor
pOration exists, while in Albany. Troy and Buffalo.
through the control of the primary inspectors.
local boss" virtually appoints the
delegates. The cities mentioned elect 16l
of the 400 delegates to the state
Convention or nearly one-third Of the members Of
the vntion. There a,e similar smaller " ma
chimes" scattered about the State, notably in the
counties about New-YOrk and Brooklyn. in SYRIA
cuse m Rochester and Elmira, and in back counties
controlled by the United States postmasters. The
great aud small machines" combined have
majority of the votes in every convention. But
there is a further slmplifcanon of the " combined
e a
conference of half an hour toge her enables them
as II to do the work OF the SAale Convention.
Il was they who decided that Secretary FoIGer
should be the candidate Of the Republicans of New
York for Governor aud forced him upon the Sara
toga Convention. At the heal OF this machine is
Chester A. Arthur President Of the United states,
but formerly chief only Of the New-York CITY por-
ton of the machine. lis lieutenants allies are
ROsco Conkling, lawyer Of No. 92 Broadway
Thomas {. Plltt president of the Unlted states Ex-
press Company. Of No. - broadway; George Bliss.
lawyer, of No. 100 Broadway; stephen B. French
Police Commissioner of No 300 Muloerry-st.: De
Witt C. Wheeler rerlred Office holder. of the Gll3ey
House: John j. OBrIen. Supervisor Of Elections.
Of No 300 Mulberry-st.--all of New York: General
George II Sharpe, lawyer. of Kingston; John F.
Smyth. broker, Of James-st. and Maidcn-ane. AL
bany; James D. Warren, publisher. of No. 27j
Westinghouse. Buffalo. and Richard Crowley,
lawyer, Of Seneca and Main-sts., Buffalo 1t is a
singular fact that nearly all Of these who thus
dictate the nominations Of a great party have been
refused Office themselves recently by that party.
All remember the defeat Of Messrs. Conklng, Platt
and Crowley when they sought an election 10 the
United States senate n year ago; the rejection
Of John f. Smyth when nominated for superin-
tendent Of the Insurance Department, and the
recent defeat of John j. OBreu when attempting
to secure an election rs County Clerk Of New-York.
The misrepr sen alton of the Republican party by
these men Is also shown strkingly IN another way
A has been stated already these men control the
Repnbhcan organization especially, in tho Counties
of Albany. Chrmung. Erie. Kings, Monroe, New
York. Rensselaer, and Ulster Yet these counties
gave nearly twO-thirds Of the s'upeudOus majority
of l9G, 900 against Foger. The record is as fol-