The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-01
The Republicans and Now York City.

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A Brooklyn journal, favorable to Repub-
lican interests. deprccates the nomination
OF Republican standard bearer from tho in
terror OF the State, urging, with much force
and reason, that the time has passed when
Republican majorities in rural counties
were sufficient to elect, and that in order
to win this year, the party must have. ut
the head OF the ticket, a candidate able
to make inroads into the Democratic forces
below tho Harlem. The material growth of
population in New York has been most rapid
on Manhattan Island and on Long Island,
and along with it there has been substan-
tial increase in the Democratic majority.
The nomination this year Of popular,
available, and consentng Republican from
the metropolitan end Of the State would.
no doubt. be tho soundest policy; but
how it may we'll be asked can such a
thing be done? For several years. avow-
eddy and notoriously the Republican party
in the State OF New York has been en-
gagged in discriminating against the city Of
New York, and against the purposes and
aims OF which its representatives arc the
champions. Not alone has the legislation
OF the Republican ma jority in Albany been
uniformly hostile to the interests of New
York and Brooklyn, but the list OF grievances
stops not with this To the Republican party
in the State is due the denial for twelve
years OF the apportionment prescribed and
guaranteed by the Constitution; to the
Republicans Is due the refusal OF the
Legislature to call the Convention to
revise the Constitution as demanded
by an overwhelming majority OF the
voters in 1886. the Withholding OF need
full appropriations for public purposes Of a
local character. the loss OF the Worlds Fair.
the interference with the concerns OF the
municipal administl alton, the importation
hither OF Federal functionaries from the in
terror to high posts which could be better
filled by our own citizens. and long string
OF other evils. In consequence the Republic
can vote hereabouts has steadily and per-
ccptibly fallen, so that in the whole city to-
day, of twenty-four Assembly districts there
is not one which can now be claimed as Sc
curely Republican. Nor is the case ma.
terially different in Brooklyn.
TO this point have the prospects OF the
Republican party. at this end OF New York.
been brought by antagonizing the interests
and denying the rights of the people of this
neighborhoOd, and it would be folly to as
sumo that such evils could be cured in a
day by the nomination OF a metropolitan
candidate for Governor, however personally
worthy. whether an old resident Of the town
OF newcomer among us, like the Hon.
THOMAS c. PLATT, SO lately OF Owcgo.
This. then, is the difficulty which con-
fronts tho Republicans. On tho one hand
the nomination OF tho candidate whose sue
cess in the metropolitan distric. has been
made hopeless by the attitude OF his party, or
the nomination OF n candidate taken from
tho interior. and favored by the voters OF
the interior. from which region the sccptre
Of political power has passed.
Either horn Of the dilemma Ia sufficiently
embarrassing for the Republican leaders,
and shat such should DO the case Is chargea-
bic to themselves only and wholly. Mean
While tho Democrats will nominate and
eject q candidate acceptable In every part
of the State. discriminating against the
rights OF none, and representing the In.
tcrests OF all.