New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-19
NEW-YORK TO LEAD AGAIN.

Our advices from Saratoga show that the
New York delegation to the Democratic Ma
tional Convention will practically be Tor CleVe-
land. According to the latest trustworthy hS-
ures. forty-One members of the delegation are
for him. five for Flower, seventeen are anu
Cleveland. while nine are nOn-commlttal OF
unpledged. This gives Cleveland the majority
of the DELEGATES. and since the delegates are IN
structed TO vote as aunt for the choice of the
majority, it results in making him the nominee
Of the NewYorx Democracy for the Presidency.
Nevertheless, the factthat the convention dldnot
instruct for him is a confession OF his Weakness
and the strength of the opposition. MT. Ole'c-
land would be quite acceptable, IL is s"iu'
TO the persons who call themselves ndepeh-
dents. He would also be entirely acceptaoie'
we are able to add, TO the Republicans III
this State and throughout the country VINO
propOse to elect Mr.. Blaine in any case, ou'
could not desire a smoother road than the noml-
tion of Governor Cleveland would open to
them. This statement is made with full under
standing that the Democrats will think
it insincere We trust they may con-
time of that opinion until they have
made Governor Cleveland their candidate
II does not seem timely, however, to discuss
the qualifications of Mr.. Cleveland very extern
sivelv at present. That he was citizen OF no
consideration or influence a short time ago, that
he made a reasonably good record as Mayor OF
Buffalo. was by accident elected Governor with
phenomenal majority, and has done some good
things in that Office all the world knows. If the
Democratic party thinks these sufficient reasons
for nominating him to the Presidency of the
United States. we shall have ample time to dis
cuss the issues thus presented. just now 1t Is
appropriate to remark that he takes prohl-
nent position, not because people know and ap-
prove his opinions, but because people 90 not
know anything about his opinions on questions
of National policy, or whether he has any.
Not long ago Mr.. Morrison and his associates
in the House would have pronounced 1t utterly
impossible that they should favor, or even
patiently tolerate, the selection OF candidate
! because his position on the ta1lft was IN
known. They would have said, at that
tune, and with truth that it would be
more disgraceful to the party to put
up such a candidate than to nominate Mr..
Randall himself. But we have never eX-
pected the pluck of the Carlisle Democrats to
carry them beyond the threshold of National
Convention. When a Free Trader comes to
consider seriously whether he will surrender his
convictions ortry to carry New-YOrk with them,
he is tolerabiy sure to pack away his convlc-
tons in camphor, for possible future use.
Whether the Governors position, on that and
other questions, really is unknown, or only I'M
known to some Democrats, we leave them to
decide. Quite recently a strong Endorsement OF
the Governor by Professor Perry was published,
in which the adherents of British ideas were
assured that Governor Cleveland was "fully
"abreast of Carlisle, Morrison and other reform
"leaders," and one might ask with curiosity,
eff so, how has he kept his light under bush
Gel all this time 2" But the fact stands that, ii
nominated at all, he Will owe his nomination to
careful concealment, not merely of his opln-
ions. but of the fact that he has any, on ques-
tons of National Importance.
The Democratic party put up New'YOrk
candidate, nOminally from New-Jersey, in
1864; New-York candidates in 1868, 1872 and
1876. and a New York candidate nOminally
from Pennsylvania in 1880. They carried
New York in 1865 and 1876 The brilliant
series of defeats, it seems encourages them to
try the game AGAIN.