New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-02
SELECTIONS FROM THE MAIL.
WHAT REPUBLICANS MUST DO.
GOVERNOR HILL HAS SHOWN THEM THEIR
ERROR IN IGNORING PARTY LINES IN
ELECTING COUNTY SUPERVISORS.

ELEGTlNG COUNTY SUPERVISORS.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The efforts OF the Democratic party TO thwart
the plain will OF the people OF the State Of NewYork
expressed at the last election is not only crime but
1t is the first and greatest of all crimes and would be
called In other countries high treason-that Is, crime
that strikes at the very root OF the Government the
VIII OF the majority. For week after the election
all parties and factions agreed and conceded that Mr.
Flower had been elected Governor, but that both
branches of the Legislature had been carried by the
Republicans by safe maiontes. Then came feeers in
certain Democratic papers Of this city in the shape OF
paragraphs to the effect that the Democrats would
surely have the legislature These were evidently
inspired by high authority at Albany, In order to
whether such high-handed outrages would be quietly
submitted to by patient, law-abidng community.
confess that at FIRST l thought these Democratic
" claims merely TO let gently down Governor
electFlower in sort of ponderous elephantine form
to which the Democracy is sometimes given. l could
not dream for moment that the tactics that obtain
I'm South Carolina, Plaquemines Parish, and in Mexico
would be seriously attempted in the great state of New
York. and by men who have been honorad
time after time with the highest Offices
in the gift OF the peope and who arc
to-day prominent candidates for the Presidency OF the
United states. But the results OF the official canvass in
Dutchess, onondaga Chemung, Steuben and other
counties and the slavsh conduct OF the Democratic
members OF the Boards Of Canvass, evidently dictated
and demanded from Albany, are proof positive that this
State and country yet in peril from those who would
sap its foundations, and that the Democratic party
Ich his been ;he party OF fra;d and corruption from
the very day Of the birth OF the Republic. still tho
party OF Aaron Burr, Calhoun JEFF Davis, Tweed and
Tammany Hall.
The Repub ican party in the interest OF deceney law
and order and good government, can checBmate this
vlllany If it will. In all the counties Of the State
with two exceptions, the Boards Of supervisors
are the official canvassers OF the votes These super
visors to be eecteddurng January, February
March and later. The supervisor is town officer and
hitherto party lines have not always been very strictly
by country friends at their town elections
They have voted for the good fellows" and those who
were supposed 10 have influence enough TO keep their
town taxes as low rs possible ] was countryman
and know what arguments have been brought to
bear 10 elect Democratic supervsors-tlat tie poor
Democrats in a hopeless minority and we ought
not TO carry National politics into our local elections
and all the rest OF it.
Now CaT.Sec where we have landed. There Is no
use beating about the bush. We must preserve the
organization Of the Republican party in Nation, state
county, city, town and village. il is the duty OF the
hour Recent events show that the Democratic party
is no be trusted to-day than it ever was. There
are thousands of men in that party who would never
dream Of stealing mans pocketbOOk, but who would
not hesitate minute TO steal the verdict OF state
the Nation. They have tried it often and they have
succeeded often, as the history Of the country has
shown. The two magnificent Republican counties OF
Duchess and OnOndaga TO say nothing Of many Others
have Democratic majorties in their Boards OF super
visOrsDemocrats that aid not have been elected by
the votes OF Democrats alone but were elected by the
mistaken friendship and gOOdfellowshlp Of their Re
publican neghbors. IL party lines had been drawn. as
they should have been last year. there would have been
no doubt about the Legislature tOday and Tamnaiy
would have dared attempt to steal It: Next
Presidential DO tie Republicans OF Dutchets,
Columbia. OnOndaga Steuben and Of Others need
a they be knocked down with n cub [.
Yours truly, WILLIAM APLlN'
York, Nov. 80 15G1.