New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-29
A NOTABLE ADDRESS.
MR.. SUTHERLAND'S WISE AND INSPIRING
SPEECH AT ALBANY.

COLD TRUTH ABOUT MAYNARD. SHOWS THAT
REPUBLICANS ARE BEATEN ONLY BY
THEIR OWN FAULT AND GIVES
SOME MIGHTY GOOD ADVICE.
At the recent dinner of the Unconditional Re
publican Club of Albany, the occasion of the
last anniversary of Lincoln's Birthday, William A.
Sutherland, the Republican nominee for Attorney
General last fall delivered speech in response to
the toast The Future of the Republican Party, ="
which deserves as wide ascirculation as it can
possibly be given. The Tribune gave extracts
from the speech the morning after il was delivered
which showed its character and force, but ii is
such well-knit argument in favor of that or
ganzation which is the Republican partys great
est need in this State that its appearance in full
to-day will certainly be of great value. The les
sons drawn from the elections that have occurred
during the last twenty-five years are most i'm
pressive. Mr.. Sutherland spoke as follows:
He who seeks 10 look into the future must study
diligently the past Whoever strives TO forecast com
Ing events must have intelligent appreciation of the
happenings Of to-day. And student Of the philosophy
which he thinks his party should steer needs 10 go
below the surface and learn the undeIcuents moving
men 10 or RESTRAINING them tom, political action.
that much of Republican failure in the state of New
discuss tonight some particular man, or set OF men,
have been selected tie scapegoas upon whose heads
SaSe rest h parS Sa ed to aasye
the polls. 1t has been said. even within my Iecol-
lection, that certain socalled leaders q the party
could be deposed nom their self sumed position the
party rising like giant refreshed having shaken on
lis burdensome load, would overcome all opposition
and rush Triumphant to the position OF power But
in my judgment this argument as carried too far.
Whatever OF justice or night there may or may not
have been In tle attempts OF one set Of men "tll
the party to depose from leadership other set OF
men, and whatever OF force there may or may not
have been in the claim that this that the other
and his friends should retire from a position OF
the mere retrtnS Of any man MAJ Or set OF men would
insure triumph TO the party, has proved delusion
and q snare.
NOT THE FAULT OF LEADERS.
The Republican party Of the state of New-fork has
made record in the casting of votes that is very
instructive. That record has but exception, the
year 1866. Leaving out that exception, the record
is this That the vote of the party is only po!lcd
in four years. No matter what the issue has
been. no matter how excellent the ticket, no mater
whether the headers" old, the vote OF the
party has been cotton To the polls In on years.
Many able and astute men have been giving reasons
why Mr.. FaSsett not elected Governor at the
election of 1891, out of them, 50 far as have
observed, have qnalned their reasoning by any refer
to, much less any admission Of this stubborn
and very unwelcome fact namely That the Republican
candidates ON the State TICKET OF leu! received lusl
loyal support nom the party, and just as large
OF the party vote as ANY other state state 4set
with only one single solitary lonesome exception:
votes than were cast for Mr.. Davenport in 1858 !;
10000 votes more than were cast for Governor
Cornell III 1879, ana nearly oO,oOO woes WOlc lIdn
our state ticket received In 1883.
In 1850 the Republican vote Of the State of New
YoG WAS go as a aSoT Sl Wpa voc
here tonight with uncovered heads, and whose life
then elected President well Remember, though but
boy al the time. how earnest were the Republicans
OF the state Of New York in 1862 10 support the hands
and strengthen the administration OF Abraham nncoln
They nominated for Governor general James =
resident Of Western New-York a gentleman whose
noble impulses lad moved MIN 70 sId shlpload Oh
great famine in ireland and whose patriotic soul had
led him TO don the uniform of the defenders OF our
Union. He had been military Governor of the District
Of Columbia. and was close to the administration on
was respected by the state, and famous throughout
the Nation. No stain was upon his character ne
Of Governor by the Republicans Of the state and
Abraham Lincoln was stretching big eInanepatlns
of loyal States, asking the people Of this the greatest
the grandest and most powerful Of the United states
but to the Nation Itself BY electing wadsworth
as her Governor. The Democratic vote that year tor
less than the Democratic vote OF 1850. IN 1850 the
Republicans had carried the state by 5OCUO In ls"t
5000 the Reuhcsn vote was reduce pf mo oVe
and the loyal, the brave the eehelVu7, uc ~ co.
acceptable General "ads~ofh Noei'ca only -0'''''
votes.
REPUBLICANS VOTE ONLY ONCE IN -FOUR YEARS.
There was in this falling of rebuke intended
by outraged Republicans against any Bosses nor against
the Administration Of Abraham Lincoln, nor against
the character Of the Republican candidate. nor the plat
form upon which he stood. TleIe was simply ana Only
that which has occurred in every OH year but one since
that date such depoTabe, ana mght Aniost ss5
such criminal. inattention TO their political d1uc ny
many members the Republican party, that the right
was defeated and the wrong picVaIe1: "a iou4 w
Democratic vote was 30l 9e6. The year lSoo FUR
DISHES the only exception 70 the regular ana persistent
Governor to BIZ elected unless there /. also Piesi
dent to be voted for The Republican vote IN leoo
for Lincoln in 1854 being 366,316 and the democrat c
vote was 352. o2o. III loes the Republican vote foi
anas57. For Governor in 1870 the Democratic vote
fell about 10000 from It's Preside nal vote IN lsGs bat
ncan ticket receiving 3ss 40 and 1S Dotn9ers1 io
nraeo tier candidate Greoey and their vote
the ughtest but one, Of any PIesdontal vote IN t9e
nry yS v Sses ys" Ell 's only sse
aferwa the DeWocrstic yS wsnt up iS Ss
TO- 4 tss aant solder hat sturdy patriot John A.
Dix fell from 44O. 900 i'll 1872 to &c., 074. John A.
Pix WI. d eos 49, but 70 lsa there were
Reuublcans who neglected to cast their votes for MS
reelection.
SOME HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT FIGURES.
Tn 1876 the Republican electoral ticket received
$50 2O7 votes and 52l 949 were cast for Iiden For
Secretary OF State, in 1877 the Republican vote was
only 81 796, being reduction from the previous year
Of 1850 votes. of course the Republicans did not
elect their state ticket. In 1870 there were 1900
votes cast for JOhn nelly Tor lhe once vi NoNc4hU,
for which reason Luclus Robinson received only 3d.
100 and Governor Cornell, the only Republican Gov
ernOr the state Of WORK has had since lo.4, re-
ceived 1s,o67 votes. But CoInelrs vote was lOOoO
less than that cast for Hayes III 1876. In 1850 the
Republican electoral vote was j55154, and the Demo
cratic vote was 534,o11. In 1882 Grover Cleveland
received for Governor 10000 majority, but his vote
was only 6O7 greater than Iancoch's vote III 1850
for Cleveland received in 1oo2 lust s31,31o votes
The Republican vote In 1852 was 342, asa. Inquee
tionably very much of the Republican falling on IN
1882 was Intentional the part Of the stay athome
76,IO3 great that cast for Cornell IN 1879 ds
crepancy BY no means eqInl TO many have noted
Although Cleveland carried the in 16s2 by 1872
OOO and very nearly, If not quite lost 1t in lse3 MS
vote was increased In 1884 over that wllch he re
~ und ihe n1lclal I.cOrd. Show