New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-05

| empbasis. 1t is the first casualty OF the klnd
| in New-York that we have been called upon
TO record since the introduction OF the new
and improved light, and it is to be hoped ana
expected that steps will be taken to prevent q
| recurrence of the horror. 1t seems that yes
teYdays victim was expressly forbidden 10 DO
the very thing which sent him to sudden
death. But it ought not to be difficult or I'M
practicable to impart to all such workmen
sufficient knowledge of the nature OF cleo
tricity to induce them to deal with 1t as care
| fully as they would with gunpowder. Some
times the want of little learning is
dangerous thing.
| THE ADMINISTRATORS MEN As MANAGERS.
| 1t is claimed for the leaders of the Admnistra-
ton faction of the Republican party that they
are our most expert political managers. They
themselves make profession of belief III their
own adroitness and skill by expressing the
most boundless contempt for the managing
abilities of their opponents. The public
journals have been accustomed to grant the
truth of the claim by recognizing the
amachincn as the most perfect development
of purely political manipulation ever reached
in this country. 1t has been taken for granted,
| therefore, Dy lne puuuC ecHcidiIs th"p '"S0N
men were especially shrewd managers
and that nothing but the most extraordinary
efforts would be powerful enough to clrcum-
vent their schemes and block the triumphant
progress of their machine. Recent events have
demonstrated that this is far from being the case
| In this State and in Pennsy lvania the Admins
tration managers have made plumbers OF which
the most impractcable politician would scarcely
have been capable. As the Republican stua-
ton in both States named has been brought to
its present unfortunate pass by the unimpeded
sway RJf atbe most expert OF these man
ayers, including the President himself, 1t may
be taken as the highest outcome OF their politl-
cal generalshp.
There are many simiarites in the courses
Dilrsued in the two States. In Pennsylvania
Senator Cameron picked out General Beaver
for Governor months in advance of the meeting
or indeed Of the calling of the State Conven-
ton. AS soon as his choice was known, which
was very soon after it was made, strong pro-
tests were heard against it from Republicans III
| all parts Of the State as an unwarrantable and
! intolerable assumption of arbitrary power which
! denied the party any voice III the selection OF
its candidate. In this State it was XII own as
early as last March that the Administration
had picked out Judge Folger as its candidate
| for Governor and was intending to force his
| nomination without regard to the wishes OF
the party. THE TRIBUNE gave warning at the
! time that the experiment would involve great
risk, since he would run solely as an Administra-
ton candidate and to ask his election would
! be equivalent to asking the people to approve
! all the blunders and worse committed by the
| friends of the Administration, including Mr..
| CopkIing TIE TRIBUNE remarked then that
TO force a candidate of that kind upon the party
would be one of those mistakes which make a
Nation tremble" But the warning was not
needed, either in New York or in Pennsylvania.
! To quell the storm in pennsylvania, Dir.
Cameron had his convention adopt platform
eloquent with reform declarations, and had a
POPULAR Republican and sympathizer with the
Independents nominated for Congressman at
Large In New York equally eloquent plat
form was adopted, and an equally popular and
upright Republican was nominated for Con-
grcssman-at-Large. The outcome i'll both
States was the same. The platform deceived
nobody, and the candidates for congressman
at Large declined for the same reason, that the
Convention did not represent the will of the
patty. The Pennsylvania candidate has re-
| fused since to support the rest of the ticket be-
cause It's nomination was bought in the Con-
vention y like beef III the market" 1t could
not be said of the Saratoga ticket that its nomi-
nation was bought ; but after the forged proxy
revelations would it be untruthful to say that
! il was stolen In Pennsylvania, Mr.. Marshals
retirement deprived the ticket of the only
! name which commanded unanimous Republican
approval The loss Of Mr.. Hepburn is scarcely
less serious to the Saratoga ticket. In Penn
sylvania the Republican Indignation was so
powerful that il found expression in the D0mi
nation of a second ticket Which has 50 many
supporters that the election of the first now
appears almost an impossibility. In NewYork
we all know what the situation is and that
it is lamentabe enough.
In both States the Administration leaders COM
niited their fatal blunders with their eyes open.
| Mr.. Cameron knew that if he nominated
Beaver there would be an Independent ticket
| and if he had been shrewd politician he would
have fOreseen tie popular strength such a
ticket wOnld command. In this State Presi-
dent Arthur had ample warning of just what
has occurred since Judge Folger's nomination.
He was OH the ground when Mr.. Conkling tried
to override the popular will by the force of the
machine, and he knew how disastrous that ex-
perment was. He had no reason to think that
the people had changed their views because
Gaiteau's bullet. had changed Presidents. and
secured fresh patronage for the machue. He
saw, or should have seen, what everybody else
saw, that there was no popular demand for
Judge Folger's nomination. He saw that the
Judges own county refused to favor his candi-
dacy, and that no other county sent Folger
delegates unless they were elected by the full
power of the machine. Absolutely no Repub-
lican journal in the State. save such as were the