New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-24
"TRLCKERY MAKES TROUBLE"

The world does move. At the meeting on
Monday night Of the Murray Hill Club. an as
ISOLATION Of PlattQuigg Republicans. Mr.. John
Sabine Smith who was recognized by President
OuIgg as the representative Of the XXVIlth
Assembly District in the Qulgg County Com
mittee dlscoursed in a large hearty and candid
way upon the local political situation. Il am
prepared" said he in burst OF generous reel
ing ITO treat the present situation Of affairs as
II there had been no election at all recently.
II was true he said, that large number or
Republicans in the NEVIIth Assembly District
voted for Low. but he was willing to overlook
It and let them come in to the primaries next
month just as though there had been no cleo
ton. Considering that Seth Low received 3.lSi
votes in that district, while Mr.. Smiths candl
date General Tracy received but 1878 or only
little more than one-third the Low vote, the
offer of amnesty and restoration to equal rights
In the primaries Is what might be called doing
the handsome thing. The Platt-Quigg organ
ization Is really making progress When LBS
of them say they are willing TO forget that there
has been an election, and offer to forgive the
3,1S3 traitors who broke faith with them. there
is reason to hope that the time vii! presently
arrive when Mr. Plat himself will forgive al!
who have broken faith with him heretofore and
let them act with him and supper. his cand
dates hereafter.
Mr.. John Sabin: Smith also said, with Quigg
like confidence: 81 do not believe that there
"are 10000 enrolled Republicans in this city
who voted for Low" Having thus estab
nshed the proportion Of Low voters. he hurled
at his hearers this cllncher Of a conundrum
"Shall this ten thousand control the sixty thou
sand regular Republicans" Obviously not But
he says: LET them come In and demonstrate
their strength at the primaries next month"
Yum-yum! Just So II thirteen hundred can
forgive the treachery Of thirty-one hundred why
shouldn't ten thousand surrender to sixty thou
sand? "'Will you walk into my parlorT said
the spider to the fly" But why does Mr.. John
Sabine Smith concede so many as ten thousand
Republicans who voted for Low? He could
have made 1t one thousand or one hundred just
as we'll. The fewer they are the easier 1t would
be to take them in, and the less danger Of
their making mischief Also the more ridicu-
lous the Low movement and the more mag
unanimous the proposition to forgive them.
1t is in the conclusion Of Mr.. Smiths appeal
for harmony however, that we detect the most
encouraging sign Of progress on the part OF the
Platt-Quigg people. AS an inducement TO the
Low Republicans 10 walk into the Platt-Quigg
parlor Mr.. Smith says: 81 want honest pri-
| "maries. for the chickens always come home
Ito roost, and trlckery at primaries always
makes trouble" Important discovery and in
genuous confession. So the chickens have come
home! They have found out finally and ut con-
siderable cost that trlckery at primaries does
not pay, that It makes trouble. Well that's so
much to the good But neither the implied con-
fession that the Platt-Quigg people have been
guilty Of trickery at primaries heretofore nor
any promise on the part Of Mr. John Sabine
Smith that they will not do so hereafter will be
sufficient TO inveige honest Republicans into
the old trap Of the machine however cunning
ly set and temptingly baIted The PlattQuigg
people are at liberty to manage their primaries
to suit themselves, either with trickery or with
out. Honest Republicans will not interfere
with or 90 near them but leave them 10 their
own devices.