New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-22
THE INDEPENDENT VOTER.

There are thousands of men in this state VINO
are neither consistent Republicans nor consist
cnt Democrats. How they Will vote at any
given election depends. They care little or
nothing about party success for the sake OF
partv. their sole aim in political action being to
promote the common welfare. These were the
electors that gave the state to Cleveland last
fall. What are they going to do this NoyCm-
berY Are they intending to support the ticket
headed by General Carr or that headed BY Mr.
Maynard
There can bc but one logical answer TO these
questions. The same sort Of considerations that
induced the Independent voters to east IN their
lot with the Democrats in 1SS2 viii consIIaln
them to contribute to Republican success m
1883. They are perfectly well aware that The
Richfcld Springs Convention was run By dele
gates representing the people, while the Buffalo
Convention was run by bosses representing
merely their own protruding selves, OF at best Il
selfish clique. They are perfectly well aware
that the nominations of the Eichhcld Springs
Convention were really made by those con>tl-
tuting the Convention, while the Buffalo noni-
nations were ground ont by as thorough and re-
morselcss a machine as ever suppianicd the
popular expression. They are perfectly well
aware that the Richfcd Spring, Convention
adopted a platform which contained direct and
uncquivocal plank concerning the tariff, while
the Buffalo Convention, in face of the fact that
the tariff is the great issue now before the
country-an issue in which the business in
tcrcSts of the country and the right, OF Labor
are both necessarily inyolycd-had the stupidity
and cowardice altogether to ignore it. They
a. J, q lTs.fr
State officers VINO are candidates for reelection
have administered their respective trusts with
perfect fidelity and with marked efficiency,
and that the new name on the Republican
ticket Is borne by a trustworthy and capable
man who, so far from being place seeker, de-
clned even TO attend the Richcld Springs Con
vention. And on the other hand, they are
perfectly well aware that three out Of the five
Democratic nominees for state Offices have been
placed on the defensive and that one OF them
stands charged by responsible newspaper of
his own political household with being party to
a scheme having for its object the diversion
of Il portion OF the interest on the public funds
into his own pocket.
Such are the cogcnt reasons that will induce
the Independent voters to 20 Republican next
month. But they owe it to themselves to do
more than support the Republican ticket at the
polls. The Republican fight this time is en-
phatcally their fight. Let them then, take
an active part in the campaign if they would see
the Democratic machine dise~tablishcd and
Democratic bosses taught wholesome and
much-nccdcd lesson. BY working zcalously
for the election of the RichGcld Springs nomi-
nces they will not only be helping TO pat the
right men in the right places, but they will be
srnsibly promoting the cause of political moral
ity. They showed their power, last year. to
defeat the Republican ticket by an unprccc-
denied majority and by doing 50 they accom-.
plishcd thci, object in forcing the discstab!th-
mcnt Of the machine. They can now show
their power as emphatically, by clccting the
freely and fairly chosen Republican ticket and
thus serving notice that they and not the Demo
Gratis did last years work and could do il again
if the machine should be rc-establiShcd.