New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-25
THE LAST DAYS or THE cAMPAleN


week from next Tuesday will be Election
Day. 1t is a brief period, but large number
of political battles have been lost or won dur
ing the last few days of q campaign. 1t is not
too late yet to perfect an organization wnicn
will sweep everything before it IN close dis-
trot A week, of which the most is made by
experienced and sagacious men who know what
to d. and how to do it, is long enough to bring
to naught the best laid plans of less adroit and
industrious adyersaries. The politicians OF this
State will find no difficulty in recalling case
in point. few years ago one OF the parties
in the interior delayed making its nomination
for Congress until few days before Election
Day. The Congressional candidate OF the
other party naturally expected to have walk
over. But the eleventh hour nominee, to the
amusement of those who had been figuring on
the result won the election. The fact is, 1t IS
never too late in campaign to make or to
mar the chances of ticket.
The obvious duty of Republicans, therefore,
is not to relax their vigilance in the districts
where they have q sure thing, and to buckle
down to work with a determination to toll
terribly in the close districts. There Is
special need that the Republicans of the
XVIII, XXlVth, XXVlIIth, XXXth, XXXIId
and XXXIIId districts should make strenuous
effort to achieve success. In each one OF these
six districts there are enough Republican votes
to elect Republican congressman. The po-
itical almanacs demonstrate that fact-not a
single one of them can BIO carried by the DEM
ocrats when the Republicans make canvass
which is at once earnest and united and which
calls out the full vote. Nevertheless, for one
reason or another, there is danger that some OF
them may be wreSted from our control on the
4th of November. If they are, the Repnb-
leans who will be responsible for the unneces-
sary disaster need not expect that any expana-
tons which they may offer will relieve them
from the charge of selfishneSs and disloyalty
to party. 1T needs no argument to prove the
overwhelming importance of returning Ne
publican majority to the Lid Congress The
present Congress has performed great and
good work of far-reaching importance. But
much of it will necessarily be incomplete
when the next Congress comes in, 80 that II
party prospects and the public welfare are not
to suffer the Democrats must not be allowed
to return to power at Washington as conse-
ouenoe of the elections of this fall.
There is time for all things. Now is the
time for holding our own in every one of the
districts which at present are Republican. 1t
certainly is not the time for people with griev-
ances, no matter how well the grievances may
be founded, to assert themselves. To our
friends in any of the districts in which the
spirit of dissension has shown itself we earnest
y appeal to lay all vexed questions on the
table until after November 4, and to devote
themselves in the interim to the exigent duty OF
the hour-the duty of preventing the next Con-
gress from falling into the hands of the De-
mocracy. There certainly will be ample OPP
portunity during the off months to discuss mis-
understandings, to consider the conflicting
claims of counties for recognition, and to ar
rive at an understanding which will be salts
factory to all concerned. In the meanwhile
let there be Republican unity and energy all
along the line, and the results will be graf
flying Republican victory.