New-York tribune., 1882-09-27
I'VF .CKTR WISH LINF.n

Mr.. Cleveland, the Democratic candidate Tor
Governor took occasion to remind a crowd OF
enthusiastic friends who were serenadlng him,
a few evenings since, that the November cleo
ton was to he regarded as the skirmlsh line
of the Presidential election OF 1884. Mr..
| Cleveland was right. But a shrewdcr Dem
| Ocrat would have been careful not to refer to
the salient fact to which he directed attention.
For cnce let the masses of the people OF this
State become convinced that to elect Mr..
Cleveland Governor this year is TO render prob
able the choice of Democrat for President
in 1854 and they will take good care that the
Mavor of Buffalo Is not called to the Governor S
chair at Albany.
A Democratic restoration at Washington, in
all that it implies, is a contingency which the
thoughtful conservatives patriotic electors OF
this State cannot contemplate without deal
of apprehension. They have not forgotten
the shameless use the Democracy made OF
the control of Congress which came to them
few years ago. They remember the turn
ing out of Union soldiers from office in order
that their places might be given to those that
had worn the gray. They remember thc
scandal which resulted in the bouncing" OF
Fitzhugi, that most entclprsing OF door
keepcrs. They remember the sham economies
which were pTactiSed, and the deficiency bills
which exposed those economies They re-
member the stOppage OF the last mail, the
dastardlv treatment accorded the army, and the
cripplng of sundry departments of Govern
ment They remember the attempt made to
coerce the President into surrcndcrlng the func-
tions of his Oilce-in other words, they re-
II ember the conspiracy to starvc the Govern
ment TO death. These are some of the things
in the near past which the intelligence of this
State remembers against the Democratic party.
The majority OF our people were opposed to
giving the electoral vote of New York to the
Democratic Presidential candidate in 1850,
and nothing has happened since then to make
it likely that they will change their mind III
1854. 1t is indeed a time when party ties sit
loosely upon the average citizen. Roscoe
Conkling remarked some years ago that he did
not understand what it was to belong to IL
party a Mle But to-day good many level
headed independent men belong to the Re-
publican and the Democratic party Il little. The
poitical organ cations TO which they have long
owed allegiance have lost their old grip upon
them But Mr.. Cleyeands reminder that N0vcm-
ber, ! So, is the skrmish line OF 1854 may well
brace up Republicans who we've on the point of
becoming stragglerS. They can well ask them
selves if the party can afford to lose this cleo
ton upon which so much depends. An cleo
non OF Governor by itself is a matter of grave
importance, since New-Y orl, is an empire. But
looking at that election Mr.. Cleveland
exhibited it to his sercnading friends and it is
clothed with "A significance whose proportions
it would be impossible to exaggerate.
We trust Mr.. Cleveland will lght his
campaign out on this linc-ths okirmsh line.
By all means let HIM repeat the speech to
which we have referred at all the principal
points in the state. He is binding better tnan
he knows. He has composed Il campaign
document for his opponents.