National Republican., 1883-03-28
The Road TO Success In 1854.

LNtW iUN JOHtHtcICIub duUcTUSCT.
The Tribune announces that Mr.. A. b. Cor
nell has suggested conference of Republican
leaders in Saratoga in juno for the purpose of
devising plan to harmonic the party. The
Times prints a number of interviews-which
sound like carefully prepared stump speeches
with number of Cornell men, who declare
that Republicans of all kinds are yearning
for reform. There is good deal of sameness
about the views, and the inspiration Of the
Tribune and Times articles is as plain rs the
Albany Journals attack ON Mr.. 'Conkling,
which resulted in casting Mr., A. b. Cornell
into the blind pool, from which he will never
be able to climb into another political office.
1t is certainly suggestive that the scene of
Mr. CornelPs celebrated conferences with Mr.
Blaine should be selected by that gentleman
as the theater for negotiation of the plans
that are to bring the two factions together
and make Mr.. Cornell the standard bearer +"
of the state-for of course that is the little
game" But we regret to see, however that
though the Tribune gives currency to the pro-
gress of these negotiations, the paper itself
does not look on it with II kindly eye. 1t
sneers at and jibes the "stalwarts." 1t invites
them to abase themselves before the traitor
Gus gang that sold out the republican party
last year, and otherwise conducts itself in any
thing but a peacoable manner. But its malevo-
lencc will not have the effect that such bit
terness at time like this would once have
had. The republicans of this state will not
forget that tho Tribune was the only So
called republican paper in Now York
which took money from the demo-
Gratis last year in order to defeat
their party, though the Albany Journal, with
a democratic editor Indignantly spurned the
gifts the democrats would have thrust upon
it. Those who desire harmony and recon-
citation" therefore, will not pay much at
tention to what the Tribune says We observe
that most Of those who arc now in favor of
"closing up the ranks" and letting "bygones
be bygones" are the men and papers that
worked hardest to pull the republican struct-
ure down. 1t is true that one or two papers
that supported Folger have expressed some
what similar views, but on the whole those
who stood by the party have not INDUCED
the hope that peace could be secured while
cTanks and irreconcilable partisans continue
to below. This mornings Tribune proves
this fear we'll founded. Those who pine
for peace and harmony are as earnest for
ga grand and purified party" as they
were last year. Now they say it can be OBJ
tanned by tho factions coming together
which means, of course, that tho men who
supported Folger must acknowledge they
were all wrong, and the democratic allies,
sCratchers, boilers and traitors were right.
We were told last year that IA grand and
purified" party would come with the defeat of
Folgor, but it appears the affairs of the state
have been committed TO an irresponsible mob,
whose cupidty is its most prominent trait
What has been gained? And yet those who
preach about the necessity of peace and har-
mony indicate in the most unmistakable
manner that the faction that nominated
FOlger must go to the wall That is their
idea of harmony. Under the cry Of mo
bOsses' and mo diciation" they give
notice that Mr.. Conkling and those who have
stood by him may give their votes and assist
ance TO candidates chosen by them; but the
Conkling people can have no voice in choos-
ing the party's candidates, for if they should
succeed the cry of the "machineh would
again go up, and the divine right to bolt "
would again be exercised. This is the kind OF
peace and harmony these people talk about
and the quality of the article they propose to
provide for the republican party, That sort
of thing won't do. The hundreds of thou
sands of men who could not be seduced from
their party last year demand that their voices
shall be heard. Taking Garfelds vote in
1850 as the basis We see that two-thirds
of tho republican voters of this state
deliberately voted for Folger last year un-
moved and steadfast in the torrent of abuse
and Misrepresentation that flowed about them
| These are the men to be conciliated "-those
to whom the olive branch should be offered
| But these men love their party--were true tC
| its principles and its candidates when those
less tirm OF purpose, more fanatical, and more
visionary drifted away, They know that with
| out some kind Of an understanding We shall