New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-24
NEW-YORK AND ELSEWHERE.

A great city is liable to be in a queer sense
provincial and narrow. Its people get so much
engrossed In its affairs that they sometimes APP
pear 10 think nothing else matters much. In
action and in habits Of thought they seem to
imagine that the sun rises and sets at the city
limits So when the people Of New-York have
a big local fight on hand, their forgetfulness OF
all else is frequently amusing to outsiders The
city is really big and Of great Importance, but it
casts about oneforty-second part Of the whole
vote in the country, OF. strictly 2as per cent. and
elects Congressman out Of $50 in the House
Neither does the executive government of the
country necessarily depend upon the State of
New-York for in 1868 and 1876 Presidents were
elected without the aid Of this State. and its share
of electors is smaller than II was then. Neither
does the vote Of the State depend upon this city.
which had been Democratic by great maJorltles
for many years, while the State gave its electoral
vote to Harrison in 1883, to Garfield in 1850, and
70 Grant in 1872.
These are the facts which il would probably
be we'll for some Of the German citizens to re-
member who are just now calculating that they
can force National policy upon the Republican
party IL they can show their power to defeat 1t
in this city. They might more wisely remember
that the Republican party has achieved It's vie
tories for many years without the support OF
sundry great cities and Is likely to have rela-
lively more power outside OF them next year
than it has ever had and further. that II can
never consent 10 afront the convictions OF more
than o. per cent If the voters. who are outside
of New-Yorh, if doing so would really please
barely 2ss per cent of the voters. who are in this
city. They may well remember also that the
Governor, and. in all probability the state Legs
lature. will be Republican, whether the people
Of this city have the sense 10 vote for their own
interests or not If some OF them vote against
decent government in order TO hamper or cOerce
tbe marty which controls the State, they cannot
calculate upon making additional friends 10y the
performance.
But there are other reasons for remembering
the fact that New-YOrk City Is not the whole
Nation. The National policy which this city has
for many years favored by large majority Is
precisely that which has brought frlghtful disas
ter upon the country, and upon this same city
AS we'll, within the last three years. When we
were more prosperous than ever before, in the
fall OF 1892 this same city voted for change
and the cost OF that change to the millions OF
people engaged in ganful occupations in the
State. and to the half-milliOn people so engaged
in this very city. has been beyond calculation
That piece Of amazing folly has not prepared the
people of other States. nor Of the State outside
this city, TO regard with profound respect the
voice Of New-York. nor have the exposures Of
infamy and robbery in the city government in
clined men to greater respect for the party which
even to this hour upholds the same plunderng
and criminal organization.
The fact is that NewYork City has been teach
ing the whole country what the Democratic
party is: what the influences which prevail
in the councils where it has power what its
readiness is to perpetuate crime or TO ally itself
with crime and vice for the sake Of partisan
success how many Of its more respectable cit-
zens consent TO cover up the infames of Tam
many Hall for the sake Of its vOte-stealing and
yotc-buying power. and how the party democrat
ICES public opinion and debases even a part OF
those who would be reformers until they are
capable Of helping the basest and worst because
they are not entirely pleased with better local
government New-YOrk City has enlightened the
whole Nation by teaching honest men ana
patriotic citizens what it is necessary TO avoid
If the Democratic party should succeed this year
in upholding Tammany Hall and all its crimes
the effect in coming elections upon the votes or
decent and right-thinking citizens in other States
would not be good for the Democratic party.