New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-30

able and equally pleasing to The eye, what state
of mind the poor fellow would be in
1t behooves the voters, matter what their
politics, TO 10 it that they recO. ded IN
Election Day on the important question of q
convention to amend the State Constitution.
! The dominant feeling, both among Republicans
and Democrats seems to favor the holding of SUI h
a convention This feeling is based co.., mt
reasons which have already been presented in
| The TRIBUNE. There Is dan or how er, that
| the COM ention may MT be ordered for the
Constitution proviaes-and this point cannot be
brought home to the attent OF the pablo too
often-that unless the vote for a cony ention is a
majority Of all the votes cast at the gen raj
election there will be no convention. majority
vote of all the votes cast On tie question wi !
accomplish nothing County Committees through
out the State ought TO give this matter prompt
| attention
| Youth and vigor when combined with rectitude
of purpose, reSolute will and sound judgment
good qualities for a reform Mayor
The Republicans of Manhattan Island and West
chester County ought not TO remain quiet AMI
apathetic unuer the disgrace Of bein unreprsented
in CONGRESS At present there is not one Repub-
hcan in the House Of hep eSentatiyes from any
part OF this great city or of Westchester County.
In every district in which there is any Glance of
cecting a Republican the most vigorous efforts
should be made. Especially is hard work desirable
in the Xth District, where Allen Tho n like Rice
Is running aAalnst the unSayoIy Spinola in the
AIlth where George Hamilton Pei is the Repub-
lican nominee AGAINST the rhetorical and inflated
Bourke Cochran: in the XIIlth. where the Re
Lublicans Ia put Ashbe p Fitch in the field
against General Egbert l.. Viefe and in the XIVth.
which the popular ami energetic can .idate James
Wood has excellent prospects Of carrying against
NJ, Stah.necller.
The South will not make issue of Miss
Winnie Davis so lons the Presidents shootln,
star system Of ap, ontnenis continues TO operate
30 extensively IN Southern skies.
Every Republican should appreciate the impor
lance Of increasing the number OF Republican AS
semDymen at Albany from this city, while self
res Getting Democrats must admit that the char
acteIs and records of many Of their candidacs are
80 bad that it is plain duty for them to desert party
alnlIatlOns IN order 10 promote the pubic ineitst
IL ought not 10 be dl1icult " send Republicans 10
the Assembly from all OF the six districts that were
carried last year, and to aud the lAth ana AAiId
to the roll While there fighting chances in sew
eIal other districts.
George G.. Reynolds has for twenty years pre-
sided the city Court Of BooiAlyn win con
spicuous ability, wisdom and impaI TALLY. So
salIsiact ory has he performed the duties Of this
i'm. orlant office that the members of the bar who
arc at Cnce the best judges the most keen am
unspaling critics OF jualcla officers, almost mani
mously and without distinction Of patty are sup
ortlng him for re-electiLn "a. anst his Dem cratic
opponent illam }. Osbo. nc whose recommen alton
u the seems 10 be that he Is partisan Of the
most pronounced type, anu who is without ex-
perence 10 qualify HIM 10 pIeslde in court which,
within its locality. IL coordinate with the Supreme
Court. anu in which causes of the greatest i'm.
portance constantly tried. OF ele. en- judges
who now hold the Courts OF Record IN Blookl, H.
judge Rey nolds is the on,y Re ublcan HIS high
character for probiy learning fairness and ability