New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-27
ONE UEEK NOEE.

The campaign which closes one week from
to-day has from the beginning been d~hcart-
cnins TO Democrats. When their chosen can
did3tc for Iicutcnaut- Governor refused TO run,
IL was fclt that the tide WAS against the dcma-
ooouc. the associate Of Tweed and the tool OF
corruptionists who was lifted to the Governor
shin by the same combination Of accident and
r2scalitv which advanced Cleveland To high
station. From that day the exposure 81
Governor Hills personal record the detection
Of his schemes for stealing the state, the revolt
AGAINST him Of decent citizens of all sorts, have
on,v STRENGTHENED the hope tlat Ncw-YorI,
would rcpadigte the man and the party guilty
of nominating him. The latest tncN 0. ms
friends. the publication of pretended inter
view which ex-senator ConhInE is prompt 10
pronounce a forgery, and the simultaneous
appearance OF elaboEgtc "dpprdl' designed To
divide the Republican vote, only served rs "a
warning that all the last cards that political
scoundrcism can devise are 10 be expected
during the last week of the campaign. But the
bogus interview, so boasttully published and 80
quickly rcpudiatcd and branded. Will bc
remembered by voters this week ana next,
whenever some new and startling invention
| appears. The effort Of the Democrats to
/ cVade the main ISSUES, to nurse sdc->ho"S ana
| diversions, does not avail. The State Will vote
with a clear understanding that a party OF
/ di,ovalty and vOtc-stcaiinG, sham lciormcl
! at Washington and a spokesman and tficNster
at Albany, will all receive mcritcd rcbukc
when the ballots make Mr.. Davenport thc Gov
ernoI OF Ncw-York.
The removal of revenue officers, country
postmastcrs and other Federal officials 10y the
! hundred throughout the state, upon which
Democrats have relied greatly for the cncout-
agcmcnt and Strengthening of the party, has
probably made it weaker everywhere. Among
Democratic parlisans this course has created
| the Discussions that are usual when ont oi ten
who hope one is favored For the rest EothIng
else could have 50 Disguised citizens who hoped
| for real reform of the public service. Sham
! reform is not pleasing 10 America. Ire cynical
| frankness and partisan unScIupulpu>nrSN
which Hendricks displays are, after all, accept
! able to more voters than the shallow tricks ana
| hypocritical professions of sham rciormcr
/ who has not the character even TO shake on
Thompsons dictation, and yet is pcrpctually
fishing for the support of lcfOrmers as a man
better than his party. The disposition to con-
denim such an Administration, and ITS crooked
ways thus far and its hostility to American
interests, certainly has turned against Mr.. Hill
many times the small number Of voters that the
Democrats had to spare last fall.
But the stay home voters decide elections
about three wears out of four in this country.
| If every man who cast ballot for Mr.. Blaine
or Mr. Cleveland were to vote one way or the
ether this fall, it is pretty clear that the hcgira
of disgustcd voters who did support Cleveland,
but will not now support him or Hill, would
end the matter. But if Republican voters are
too confident of success, then they are in
danger. Mr.. Hill has all the tricks of
politician at his command, and all the money
that the State and city rings can spend to
retain their power. full Republican vote is
needfu, and to that end it is well that the
| methods by which the Democratic party pre-
vailed last fall ut the South have been freshly
! illustrated in Ohio. The crushing verdict Of
the people in that State ought TO be an omen OF
the result in New York. For the people OF
| Ncw-York have as much reason as the people
! of Ohio to uphold the system which defends
! American industry, to resent the hon0rng OF
disloyalty at Washington, and to rebukc the
suppression of free suffrage at the South.
| Even the infamous rObbcTics of the ballot
boxes in Ohio concern the people OF both States
! alike 1t is time to put down the party which
has elected a President by organized fraud, and
now endeavors to suppress free suffrage In
! Northern States also