National Republican., 1883-08-30
EsuItinR over I,epubIlonn Defeats.

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ESulting Over RepubIIcan Defeats.
On Thursday last tho New York 7ribmo
contained a lengthy editorial in which the
defeats of the republican party last fall were
exultingly referred to. 1t said, with the tono
of victor, that "as a result Of that popular
uprising democratic governors dot the coun.
try from Cape Cod TO San Francisco bay"
The Tribune then cheerfully remarked that
"Other proofs of the peoples determination
to rid the republican party of dictators have
been given. Among them the results Of tho
senatorial elections have been significant. In
Michigan, Nebraska, Minnesota, Oregon, aud
Colorado the caucus has received &C.
vero set back, and the maneuvering poll
ticians have been taught lesson they
will not soon forget" All of which is to say
that the election of democratic governors last
fall in Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New York,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kansas, Colorado,
California, and Nevada was thing to rejoice
over, because it proved that the democrats
could roly on enough republican malcontents
Joined with themselves to control the cleo
tions and thus to rid the republican party of
the dictation of a majority vote in its coun-
ellis, and to compel it to submit to the dicta-
tion of minority or go to the wall. 1t was
renewal of the war upon the republican
party which so reduced it that it was
only able to save from defeat states
enough last year to give seventy-nine out of
the 401 electoral votes of the union. 1t was
an exultant cry over the election of Butler
as well as over tho defeat of Folger. It was
rebel yell over the defeat of Window
Ferry, and Mitchell, the nominees of repub-
lican senatorial caucuses in Minnesota, Mich
| igan, and Oregon. Tho Tribune then con-
graduated the party that "the state conven-
tions held this year have been entirely free
from party bossism." The unsuccessful
struggle of the friends Of Mr.. Window to con-
troll the Minnesota convention it character
lied as an 'attempt to reinstate party Bosses"
And yet Mr.. Window was Garfield's secre-
tary of tho treasury, and ought to be exempt
from the attacks of tho paper which hyster-
ically characterizes all criticism of any Gar
field man as :" a howl over the grave of the
dead president"
The Tribunes ill-timed revival of the SUBJ
ject of last years elections forebodes no good
to the party in New York. If the rebellion
against the nomination of Judge Folger was so
exalted virtue that its praises must be sung
on the eve of q republican state convention,
those who stood by the republican candidate
may expect to be prosecuted for their con-
duct If the Tribune editor can construct that
potent portion of the machine" known as
the state central committee. A blind pool is
being formed for the election of national del
egates next year. There will be perfect har-
mony as TO state nominations this year, as
no two candidates will be likely to present
themselves for any place. But the
truly moral and extra pure per-
son who bossed a president in midnight
dispatch, and helped to make a legislature
of easy virtue understand that an admins
tration meant business" may as we'll have his
sleeve examined before the hand is played
which he is now dealing in New York poll
tics. We regret very much to disturb the
nerves of some timid souls who seem to think
that it is the New York Tribune, instead of the
republican party which should be saved, but
when that amiable journal raises q shout of
triumph over republican defeats to which il
boasts of having contributed, and from the
effects of which the party must recover or die
this paper will venture to say word for the
party, even at the risk of displcasing those
republicans who dare not stand by their
colors when hidden by the Tribune to desert
them.