New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-08
I Dr,f0cPlTTC EXHIBITION.

The'indcpcndcnt voter did good day work
on Tuesday; not all that he might have done,
but enough to give lis great encouragement that
he will do more next year. II Is not apparent
that any Democrat on tho local tickets was in
urcd with the Democratic party by his own bad
character ON the contrary, the rule seems to
have been, the worse the character the more the
votes. To this rule there are exceptions; but
some of the most conspicuOusly bad candidates
were welcomed by the Democracy with I'M
bounded frrvor The soldier who was dls-
missed from the Army in disgrace Is elected TO
the Senate by a vote nearly twice aS great aS
that of his opponent. The man who was eX-
pclIcd from the Board of Education for taking
money from school teachers runs his adversary
hard. and M the moment of Our writing IL SAID
to be elected. The notorious Croker trlumphS
over two other candidates. The so-called In
dependent Democrat who represents the Fourth
District in tho new Board of Aldermen seems
to owe hi. prc-cmincncc OvOr two Democratic
connections, 10 the fact that he keeps not one
Iiouor saloon but several. We find the names
of ten liquor dealers Gncluding two German
Rcpublicans) In the list of the yictors and that
there are not moro Is owing partly to the TACT
that the candidates belonging TO that branch OF
industry were 80 many that they got IN one an
Others way.
As il was in the city, 50 it was elsewhere. In
Brooklyn the Democrats nearly defeated con-
spicuously good Mayor, simply because he was
a good Mayor In Massachusetts, they made
tremendous effort to elect Butler because he
WAS BLACKBOARD, and they were only beaten
by nm extraordinary uprising OF the respectable
citizens. They have elected State Treasurer
in Ncw-Yorl who is accused OF misusing the
public money for his own benefit They nom
mated for Senator in Queens County man
who had bccn removed from the District Attor-
ncvship by Governor Cleveland for malfeas-
oncc The bad record of Mr.. Albeit In New
Jersey did not make him unacceptable to his
marty. I'm "A word the Democracy evidently do
NOT care for a good ticket. Wherever ono OF
their candidates has been injured by his bad
character. the injury has come, not from thelr
resentment, but from the activity which scan
dolous nomination has aroused among the III
dependent and indifferent voters.
If the independents still cherished the idea OF
ACCOMPLISHING any good through the Dem
ocrotic Marty. the disclosures of this campaign
mu,t have mdccciycd them. The Democracy
domination so absolute that its honest voters
are afraid to protest against it. When the Re
publican organization of this State fell into bad
WAYS, the Republican voters went to the polls
with blood in their eye and scored a majority OF
200 900 against their own party. mo De-
mocracy was so delighted that ii Immediately put
in the field for the next campaign the most out
ragcous set of candidates it had vcnturcd 10
nroposr for ten or twelve years, and the whole
party. from Pat Duffy to Governor Iilden, en-
braccd them all with enthusiasm Governor
Cleveland wrote to Mr.. John Kelly that "a
change for the better in the character OF its
representatives would be for the welfare OF
the party; and for telling this bit OF truth ne
has been denounced as IN impairment mischief
maker, accused of causing disaiicction, and
warned that he would sooner or later deeply
regret it, What can be hoped for from such Il
party as this, which does not want to DC good
and is not ashamed to say sol