National Republican., 1882-09-06

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foul and false language to him on Mon
day, specify the places vacated and those
filed on Mahone's recommendation.
They can easily obtain list of them.
Tho Republicans and "thc Better
Class"
The Republi can organization in New
York city is based on a system of regis.
tration; that is, the party speaks through
assembly district associations, composed
of all Republicans who deem it worth
their while to have a voice in party af-
fairs. This protects the members of the
party from being overborne by convicts
and wharf rats who would at an open
primary election swear to anything
necessary to enable them to pursue their
avocation as "voters." The district asso-
Citations are open to all bona fde Republic
can residents of the districts, respectively.
A great many of those who vote the Re-
publican ticket do not enter these asso-
Citations, because they do not care enough
about politics 10 interfere in the prelim-
mary work of making nominations.
This is greatly to be regretted, but
there is no way to compel q citizen
to take an interest in such matters.
The Republicans who do enroll them
selves in the districts choose delegates
to the conventions, and these bodies pro-
pose the candidates to be voted for by
the Republican party. After every con-
test few egotists wonder that they have
not been named for official honors
when really they had never been seri-
ously thought of in such connection by
anybody but themselves. With the sorest
kind of heads they then go to work to
persuade the inactive members of the
party that the active members have
made bad nominations. Some of the
baser sort of newspaper men revel in this
sort of business, and never discuss any
other phase ofpolitics than that presented
by disappointed seekers for place. The
lazy or indifferent Republican, who
knows nothing and cares less about what
is going on in his party until called
upon to vote, reads in his Morning
ITmes or EreRing Post an article written,
perhaps, by some cockney hack-writer
recently arrived in the country, i'll which
he is told that the honest and upright Mr..
Smith has been swindled out of nomi-
nation by the low, ignorant, and vulgar
Mr.. Brown. Then follows some stale
slang about "disreputable methods"
"boss rule" Sports SYSTEM" machine
politics." "better class of Republicans"
workers" u" assessments" REFORM" &C.,
all of which he has read before many
times, only to learn finally that it was
only the grunting Of swine and snarling
of dogs for garbage and otfall which they
had been denied. Then the sensible
man says: "My district association,
which l might have joined and did not,
seems to have considered Brown the bet
ter candidate, and the fact that Smith
claims to have been the worthier is only
evidence of his impudence and conceit,"
and he supports Brown. The credulous
and weak minded Republican, who be-
lieves the first story that is told him, re-
CARDS Smith as an injured person, and
joins the cockney he never saw in de-
nouncing Brown, whose only offense is
that he was preferred over Smith
by large majority Of the only Repub-
licans who would vote as between them.
And such is political warfare in the
United States. The uninhuental and the
neglected office-seekers, crammed with
spleen because their neighbors will not
vote for them, are our reformers and some
great newspapers, owned by paltry crea-
lures who vainly strive to buy respect
ability with their money, are their organs.
Year after year the good and the true are
DETAINED by the malicious tongues of the
former, and defiled by the stenches which
emanate from the latter. But often the
right triumphs speedily, and always in
the long run. We are led into this line
of reflection by the reports of the contests
for del egates to the coming New York
State Convention. The inflated cox.
combs in that State who advertise them.
selves as constituting "better class" are
getting out their cosmetics and pomatum
preparatory to their periodical posturing
as the nobility of the land, and will soon
be heard bemoaning the villainons
methods" by which "the people" have
been wronged out Of an opportunity to
hoist them into the places they so much
covet. The State Convention on the Goth
will not please them. They never have
yet been pleased by a State Convention.
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