New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-03
Up THE STATE.

Ever since election Mr.. Platt mas Deen tr!lnS
TO pose as the victim Of local discomfort. BUT
for few dsrurt.onists. dsgruntled ofiice-seek-
ers, vAngOr!ous cyclists. traitors. liars ana
members Of the better element" In this city
he would have led the party TO glorious victory
instead Of guiding 1t to disastrous defeat AS
soon as he could pull himself together AFTER the
shock and get Quigg's hand steady enough TO
write he issued a column statement. In when
he said: The Republican defeat in New-l ork
City was local defeat II had It's cause Id
local controversies. In the State above the
Harlem River the Republican maJorities were
"all that could be desired" Our Albany corre-
spondent has been hunting for those ma1oritles
that were all that could be desired. and the re-
suits of his search throw an instructive light
upon Mr. Platts leadership and his candor.
Hero are a few results of Plat management
above the Harlem River where the mnJortcs
were all that Mr. Plat desired:
The Democrats elected Mayors IN Albany.
Troy, Syracuse Rochester and Buffalo.
The straight Republican vote IN the Assembly
was reduced from 102 TO 70. a loss Of % votes.
Three Assemblymen were lost in Wcstchesirr.
one in Clinton and one in Cortland through the
action Of Mr. Plat in overriding popular senti'
men. and organizing boiling movements which
were declared regular"
| Pluralitles Of Republican Asscmblymcn
elected were reduced from thos' Of 1896 n sey-
eral counties as follows: IL .k.ner. from l.9t2
to IS: sullivan from 713 10 81; Y tes, from o3I
TO 0S; Hid Queens, from l.229 TO lOi; Orleans,
from lao 70 1870: Isl lister, from sos TO 2ls;
Allcgany, from 1927 to 2SS.
In every section Of the State the returns tell
the same story The disgust " "a boss rule cut
| down the party vote, and in districts where the
| machine had used its power to declare ''Irregu-
| lar" nominations not pleasing TO Platt the Re-
publican revolt reached proportions which re-
| suited IN tho election OF Democrats. The Ear-
| row pluralties in several other districts show
| that It was just luck and not at all good man
agement that secured even narrow Republican
majority In the Assembly.
Were the Republicans IN three districts OF
Westminster who refused TO elect the candidates
whose names Plat forced upon the ballot under
the party emblem disruptionists! Were the
| voters who cut down Speaker OGradys plural
ity from 2el2 to 1877 disgruntled ofice-seekers.
and were those who sent Democrat 10 Albany
in place Of Republican in another Monroe dis
trict vainglorOus cyclists? Were the people
who turned down the Plat candidates for
| Mayor in widely separated cities all liars! And
was falling off Of 101 G31 votes In the Interior
counties from the vote for Governor Black and
Of &c 563 from that Of the moderate Republican
victory Of 1895 due TO traitors! 1t IS astonlsh-
| Ing how every body is a liar or traitor but Patt.
Yet with all the treason. he finds Republican
majorites all that could be desired. Appar-
emily his Idea OF success is to lose 100000 votes
I'D the State and white down the Republican
majority In the Assembly to almost nothing.
That is what he achieved above the Harlem,
and he says It was all that could be desired.
Perhaps-by him. But the Republican voters
prefer Republican victories. and the party in
the Nation wishes leader here who can carry
| New York, instead Of one who can turn 100000
loyal up-country voters into traitors in year.
, History has not yet hailed George III as n
"sapient leader and organizer Of victories be-
cause he made traitors Of the whole American
people, though no doubt the sycophants Of his
court told him that Washington was an egotst
and Adams a stuck-up Puritan, and Franklin a
disgruntled oftice-seeker.