New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-30
new vessel but 1t is only fair TO expect that she
will do even better.
HOW WILL THEY Use ITi

how WILL THEY USE IT'
Much greater qualities are called into exercise
IN determining the use TO be made of a victory
than In selecting the instruments and agencies
and setting in order the preliminaries by when
the victory is gained. The gentlemen-or shall
we say gentleman in the singular number!-who
controlled the late Republican State Convention
and seem now TO be in almost undisputed pos
session Of the machinery Of the State Committee
and the organization in this county, have a con-
siderable responsibility. Unless success has COM
petely turned their heads they must be CON
scious of the fact that the masses OF the party
the great body of voters upon whom party sue
cess depends ultimately. are watching them ana
their movements rather narrowly. They ought
to be- and we hope they are, aware that the great
est of their difficulties has not been overcome
when they have gained control of the party ma
chinery With the machinery In their hands, 1t
vet remains for them to demonstrate that they
have the wisdom and discretion, the largeness
Of view, forecast and sagacity to use the ma
chinery for the accomplishment of results when
will be recognized as beneficial to the party ana
promotive of the public welfare To all appear
ances they have now both prestige and power.
They have achieved both, simply as faction
with only narrow personal aims and selfish ems.
The question now is whether they will use their
prestige and power for factonal purposes purely,
or rise above such considerations and take the
broader view, without which party success can
not be attained.
The recent action Of the State Committee, 1t
must be confessed, gives little encouragement for
the hope that in that body anything but factional
counsels will prevail, or that anything but the
policy of subservience to single Boss, with all
1t implies, will be adopted Fortunately, the sue
cess Of the party IA the State Is not dependent
solely on the direction and management of the
State Committee The Saratoga Convention mad
the strength and courage to break away from
the timid counscls of the Boss and his adherents
and put the party squarely upon an issue which
appeals to the law-abiding and order-loving vot-
crs of the State. as well as to the mass OF labor
Ing men who believe they are entitled to one
DAYS rest in seven. On that the State Will be
carried But in this county there are indica-
lions that the faction in control Of the organiza-
ton cOntemplatcs the adoption OF policy that
will certainly dcmoralizc the party, and not i'm
probably bring to 1t disaster and defeat. For
one thing is certain: that if tie Republican party
Of this county, under lead Of Mr. Edward Lauter-
bach puts itself in an attitude Of hostility, even
though it be only indirect and circuitous, to the
postion taken by the Saratoga Convention IN
favor of the maintenance Of Sunday-closng laws
in the interests of labor and morality it will rcpel
not only many thousand voters who conscien-
tiouslv favor Sunday-closing, but many thousand
honest voters besides who will be Disguised at
the shutting Inconsistency and patent dishonesty
of such a course Of action.
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Louterbach. aggressive and offensive as he is in
his factionalism. will be so crazy to undertake
to put the party in this county in anagonism
10 the municipal administration elected by the
Reform alliance of last year But even this has
been suggested as among the possibilities of the
situation, and it is believed by many Re2ubli-
cans who have observed the eagerncss with when
Mr.. Lauterbach has pursued the purposes OF his
faction. in violation of every consideration OF
fairness or decency that nothing but the positive
mandate Of his employer can prevent his making
the attempt In that event it is hardly neces-
sorv 70 saw that the party will be hopelessly
beaten. The Republican party Of this county can
only achieve success in the coming campaign by
deserving It, and it can only deserve it by keep
ing in close touch and entire harmony win the
party in the State as represented by the Sara
istration here, which 1t was the chief factor in
electing last year. and which it has no sufficient
reason to dlsown or repudiate. 1t is notorious
that Mr.. Lauterbach and his faction are hostile
TO the present municipal administration solely
because they have been disappointed In their eX-
pectations Of patronage, and that they were OPP
posed to the measures Of reform passed by the
last Legislature. But they will do well to think
at least twice before using the machinery OF
which they have gained control to put the party
in any such relation.
There is no good reason why the same union
of the antTammany organizations which car
rled the county last year should not be continued
this fall The ultimate success Of municipal re-
form depends upon it. and the great majority OF
honest voters hope for and expect 1t. The Re
publican County Convention meets this week
1t can take steps toward such union or 1t can
spurn all offers in that direction and throw away
its chances It all depends on whether the FAC
ton that has gained the late victories knows how
TO use them.