New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-04
TIME FOR YORK.

There is one thing that ought to be stopped
Some over-ardent Republicans are going up
and down declaring that 1t is all over but the
shouting" that victory is already CERTAIN ana
that nothing can prevent President harrison
re election The one thing which can prevent
it is the prevalence of persons who talk IN thls
fashion. All foolshness of that sort may well
he left TO the rainbow chasing Democracy. ne
nuhlicans have no business TO forget that thcy
had tremendous majorities against them only
two wears ago. when most of them were too
confident. that the majorities in Maine ana
Vermont this year did not exceed cXpec'a.
tions, and that the Democrats have controi oI
the ballot boxes and the counting OF the votes
in New York almost as completely as they nave
in the Southern States, where no honest eiec'loh
has been held for fifteen years.
1t is sheer nonsense to say that the struggle
is call over" when none OF the voters nave
been registered. Unless the voters can DE
aroused to the necessity OF registering ana cast
ing every Republican vote that can be CAST
the result is not by any means certain III may
be said with truth that there is beyond question
a majority in this State for the Republlcan
ticket provided it can be brought out, ana
IFS ballots honestly counted. But the way 10
get the full vote registered and counted IS not
70 declare that there is no need OF fU vote.
That is exactly the way to make every lazy
or busy man feel that he can afford to ne
elect his duties as citizen.
If the Republicans can get their full vote
cast and counted, their majority in this state
will be so large that Democratic frauds Will
not defeat it, But, while partisan Democrats,
picked for their unscrupulous skill in cheat
ing. have greater control of the elections than
at any other time for many years, while
man sits on the bench who was placed there
as a reward for the crimes by which the state
Senate was stolen, while laws are in force
which were cunningly devised to embarrass
and obstruct the casting of full vote in the
rural districts where Republican majorities are
to be found, it would be the height Of folly to
imagine that any honest vote can be spared.
1t will not do to count upon Democratic in
difference or dssension. Have Republicans
of New-YorIs forgotten how badly they were
deceived when Governor Hill succeeded in
capturing the Assembly and enough seats in
the Senate to make an act OF grand larceny
possible? 1t was Republican Over-confidence
tnat brought lis disastrous defeat upon the
party, and the error cannot be repeated this
year with any safety. When the Republicans
of this State know that they have to do their
utmost, they can prevail over all obstacles, even
over the worst devices of an INSCRIPTIONS ad-
ycrsary. But they cannot prevail by going to
sleep, nor by spending their time in shouting
hosannas at each other.
There is ample time yet, if every committee
and every club and every man will do his
duty to get this State walked up so that
Democratic victory shall be impossible But
the work has to be done, and great deal
of it, Not another day can it be safely post
poned. The State census has enabled Demo-
cratic partisans to get more perfect lists OF
names than they ever have had before, and
it is for Republicans to say how far they are
ready, in their several towns and wards. to
meet the adversary on equal terms. The whole
labor of getting the vote registered has to
be DONE and in some localities the necessary
preparation for that work, and for the proven
ton of Democratic frauds will take every
minute of the time that is left. What Is needed
his not shouting, but hard and faithful work.