Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-15
SINGLE COPIES TWO GENTS.
Thursday, May 16, 1884.
SOME GOOD ADVICE.


 The Independent Republ jeans of New York have issued very interesting circular to the delegates to the Chicago convention. This circular sets forth in foreible way some inn portant facts Its signers disclaim any inten- tion to dictate the nomination to be made by l the convention or to influence it's action by threats. They say: ''There are those among us who, having always voted the Republican ticket, would now support any fairly nomi. hated Republican candidate. But they know, also, that in the event of an unwise nomina- tion, a large number of their Republican friends would not be governed by the same idea of party loyalty, and that as the change of only one Republican vote in each school district in this State would wipe out Repub- lican majority equal to that of 1880, and as the large Independent vote would inevitably become hostile, the overwhelming disaster of 1882 would, in such case, be very likely to be repeated" They call attention to the fact that the Republican party in order to succeed must carry the State of New York; that party allegiance as controlling force is no stronger now in New York than it was in 1882; that, on the contrary, there is an inde- pendent spirit abroad which has become a more positive force, from year to year, and that there are tens of thousands of citizens of the State whose votes can be kept on the Republican side only if the Republican can didates are not open to any serious objection; that faction fights within the Republican party have been particularly bitter in the State of New York; that the so-called Repub- ican machine has become obnoxious in an uncommon degree to a very large number If not majority, of the members of the party, and it must therefore be said that any candidate who has been in conspicuous way involved in those faction fights would, how ever commendable his qualities in other re- spects might be, lose thousands of Republi- can and independent votes, thereby putting the State in the utmost jeopardy.
 The circular further points out that any candidate likely to launch the government into fantastic or adventurous policy calcu- lated to bring about disturbance of our peaceable intercourse with foreign countries will inspire distrust, and not only lose great many individual votes, but also deprive the Republican ticket of that moral and ma sOL4dA SupPOCS ~AlCn 1G 060AIIy ESSo1FSA 16On the business community generally. It is al- So set forth that the Republican party can not afford to burden itself with defensive fight, and that it cannot afford to nominate g candidate, however popular, with an un- clean or justly assailsble record as to his i'm tegrity.
 It is highly probable that the delegates will give this utterance the attention it de- serves. If they do not they will not do their duty. And they will not do their duty if they do not heed the warning it contains The Independent vote must be considered in the nomination. As we look at it, not to con- sider it would be 8 fatal mistake The New York Evening Post puts it well when it says: That vote is very like the ''strong calm am gel'' whom Huxley describes as playing the game of life with us from behind 8 curtain and who, though he would rather we should win than lose, always exacts remorselessly the consequences of our mistakes. We esn- not find out how strong it is, but woe to the politician who acts ss if it had no strength at