New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-19
TIE PFpUBLICAN CONTENTION.

TIE REPL BLItAN CUM IN IiON.
The five hundred Republican delegates now
gathering ut Saratoga have before them very
serious piece of business Their task is not
merely TO make up ticket, but to select tue
names on if with such wisdom and f0rbearance
that the party can unite III its support ana eject
it. There is no Disgusting the fact that at pres
ent the Republican party OF New ORR Is lar
from united. We are to have too short cam
raicn TO give much time for fresh lrrltatlons TO
subside before election day. Besides, we are III
danger of being confronted by united Dem
ocratic marty. The seventy seven thousand
votes cast for John Kelly at the last guberna-
torlal election seem now rs likely as not to 90
for the regular Democratic candidate. We
believe the Republicans can still get MAJOR
ity in the State, but it will only be by such
mutual concessions as shall secure ticket
fairly representing or satisfying all wings OF
the party, and 10y hearty union OF all factions
upon it.
We have not therefore taken an active part
in the bitter personal warfare of the past
month. We have thought we might give more
efficient aid in the support OF the ticket, II we
had not spent an equal period OF time, Just
before the campaign, either III denounclhS
candidate or in denOuncing Republicans VINO
opposed him. The same policy must no" be
adopted by Republicans in general II we are TO
have ANYTHING but disaster in November.
This is no time to be riSking Republican as
cendancy in the Empire State on any fractional
consideration, or for any purely personal rea-
sons The taxpayers are reapng the results
of Republican control, and ought not to be
abandoned to the hungry and profgate party
that misrules this city. The State too Is 20
count for much or for nothing in the next Ma
tional contest, as the Republicans now MAINTAIN
themselves or are driven ont. The kepubhcan
Marty is entitled to success. 1t has shaped the
DEVELOPMENT of the country; 1t has the con-
6dence of the great producing classes, the sup
port of the best used Capital, and Of the most
intelligent Labor it comprises majority OF
the orderly and valuable citizens. 10 throw
spch an organization out of power at such a
time purely to keep upa warfare OF factions
would sc a crime.
We look to the delegates at Saratoga there
fore for something more than an effort to help
their favorite candidates. 1t is their duty to
seek ont and put forward men who can he
elected If it is clear that any candidate can
NOT be elected, then, no matter what his quail
iGcations or support, that is an imperative
reason for setting him aside 1t is extremely
easy for Republicans, in the next two days to
throw away the State. They will be sure to
dol if they act from no other motive than
TO push their own factions to the front. The
duty of the hour is to find candidates who will
harmonic the party and command the conf
dence of the people We carried New York
last year on only part of our ticket, and by a
| majority of only thirteen thousand. We carried
it the year before, even when the tide else
where was running so heavily in our favor, by
only twenty-onc thousand, on poll Of over a
lmillion votes. If this year the fight between
IJohn Kelly and Tilden is over, what chance
| have we, unless we too compose our differences