New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-19
GENERAL JONrNS BOLT.

The Democratic bosses who administered the
cut direct to Lieutenant Governor Jones at the
Saratoga Convention are not laughing at MIN
so much as they were. For they have read his
plain, blunt letter repudiating their ticket, ana
they realize that it is the production OF an OLD
soldier whose veins are full of fighting blood
They hit him hard, but he hits them back hard
er. lie denomces them as enemies of the De-
mocracy-" men whose every sentiment OF patrl-
otism is subjct either to their personal ambition
or their personal greed" He asserts that so
complete is their power and so dictatoral ther
spirit that other members OF the party are
but serfs so far as political action Is concerned
And holding, as he says he does, that the only
way to dslodge the usu1perS'' is to defeat their
candidates, he announces his purpose OF OPP
posing the election of the Saratoga ticket.
This is the attitude of a courageous, candid
man. General Jones does not intend to sulk IN
his tent during the campaign. He Is not that
sort of a soldier. Thus early he has served
notice on Murphy and Croker that he has taken
the field against them and their slate" They
know precisely where he stands, and cannot
but admire his frankness, however much the
Saratoga ticket may suffer by his action. How
much is it likely to suffer? That remains 10
be seen; but this one thing is oertain-if all
the Generals friends and admirers, soldiers,
grangers and others, resent the scaly treatment
which was accorded him by the Saratoga Con-
vention the Democratic ticket will lose thou
sands of votes which otherwise might have been
cast for it. lie and his supporters may well
contend that if he had been convicted rascal
instead of an official who, as all the Democratic
journals concede, has served his party faithfully
and efficiently for six years, he could scarcely
have Jared worse at the hands of the convention
that is to say, the convention bosses. Al
though fundamental principle Of Civil Service
reform obviously suggested his promotion from
the t-Governorship to the Governor
ship, yet the bosses denied him the poor priv
iege of even being mentioned for the CHIEF
place His name was rot heard in the conyen-
ton no delegate was found to do him the quail
fled reverence of casting complimentary vote
for him. Apparently he was as dead in the eyes
of the bosses as Julius Caesar. Nor was this
the extent of the slight which was put upon him.
There was more of it. If Murphy and his asso-
ciates had desired to let him down easily they
would have eulogized him in the platform.
But they showed him no mercy; he was kept
out of the platform as well as off the ticket.
General Jones does not state how he proposes
to make his opposition to the Tammany ticket
effective. 1t is rumored that he may run as
boiling Democratic candidate for Governor, just
as John Kelly did in 1879, when he received
1856 votes. In the circumstances the Dem
ocratic bosses may well take a solemn view of
the political situation. 1t must have occurred
to them by this time that jim refusing the Guber-
material nomination to Jones, who had richly
earned it. and in giving it to Flower who had
not earned it at all, they walked up the wrong
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