New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-29
A FAILURE AS A COURT.
THE REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEES
IIGu-HANDED ACTIONS.


BALLOT AS REGULAR" NoMINEEs-'OD'A
MARTINS prC1sIoN-How HAcKETT
CANE TO POWER WITHOUT
rup rARrY's SANCTION.
Albany. Dec % tSpeciaD.-lt Is no" oo.'ou'
49,, ,hs LEGISLATURE will have submitted 10 IT,
ms the result Of the approachihs
60 ,n New-York upon the subject OF pr''
-, a thorough legislative enactment
90 n,r,,v political primaries and insure ''a'
,hor =, a nol;tical party shall be able 10
- .o,.s. ., the primaries OF his own party anu
ST. ~. u,, regarding nominations. More
=, l., -, ,,rnrol y be that some action may
=, ..,.r IN restrict the pi esent authority Oh Po.
,,.,o, oornm,,,ees TO dictate whose names snai'
80 ,nor tho marty column OF any poilt,oai pai''
- o.. blanket ballot as the regular ca"uiua'
=, tho, marty This power has been shaiheiu"S
,ad in the last two years, men having oee"
n,acoa in a party column OF the biahhe' n""O
~, some political boss In contioi Oh Po
oo,,u,t,ee who were IN the minority ~ ~
ltical convention x,, 40
The b,vbest of these party courts "h'ch ue
eide whose name shall go upon piah"e' oa
10 the State Committee. There are iou' -
committees, representing. respec'VeD' Wv
.,.,,..n tho democratic the Prohibition anu
thu Socialist Labor parties. hegaru"s
mower II may be stated that the Nou''
,. L., N. Fairchild case distinctly said that
.orrt. were bound under the ELECTION Ia" " io'
Low the decisions Of the regularly cohs'i'u'eN
marty authorities on tne regularity Oh coh'o
,,ons" and concerning 1.-The nomination. Vi
didates."
J11DGp MARTINS DECISION
x r.,o-e r Martin in his opinion on the
rairchtld case decisively SAID;
That the State Committee and state No ,.,tad
zion OF a party ara its regularly ~ ts mich
authorities there can be no douot' ~ -. 90 tho
..ora nroner that questions when reIa' ". 20
n.o, NJ conventions to the nonliha'io -.
Candidates and the constitution or c0ini, n,,s,;
should be determined by the regularly l, .V nmes-
tuteu p, pa 70 n caucus. convention or nonl-
nstion determined by the courts anu , NV;
erect compel them 10 make party ilo,'it In
and regulate the details OF p a,aS bv Marty au-
.hn-t,es we think the officer called upon 70 80? uv
termine such questions should loliow .iie Sc tba
of the regularly constituted tbn oninion that
~ action OF the State Committee anu o'"''
Convention should be regarded as con''o''"e
Substantially the Court OF Appeals thus saio
o. tho lower courts that X they were 10 DC
Guided by the Election law they must not CON
cider the merits OF any case submitted " '"e
90 70 the right OF this person or that peison "
have his name placed upon the pahke' o"'o,
hut must make decision IN such cases oa'eO
unon a prior decision In the same matter give"
nv a political committee or political conVeh-
ton. .,
tn. state Committee having had conferred
rnon them BY the Election law such Juoiciai
rowers. the public VIII naturally desire 70 Kno"
tho character Of the new courts thus estaoIs"eu'
the number Of the judges and their previous
occunation. and whether c. not any legal rec
ord OF their proceedings will be issued py 'he
Stat. under some such alluring title as supple
mental Reports by Plat. j.. 1t Is painlui 10 re-
member. in view Of the creation or these ne"
courts. that a majority in the Republican o'A'e
Con,n,.,ee q. 1882 was obtained by the use OF
a forged proxy. and thereby contro' game" 0.
a Stat. convention and candidate nominated
for Governor: but possibly no such Grammar act
can be perpetrated nowadays. Yet people 40
forget such circumstances quickly for otherwise
IN. election OF 1897 Of one Of the men most
deeply concerned in the capture OF tho Republi-
can state Committee as United Stases Senator
from this State would have been impossible.
THE COURT THAT RULES REPUBLICANS
Republicans will be most concerned with the
nature Of tho court which will rule over their
can State Committee? First. in answer TO that
ouest,on II may be stated that It has thirty-four
members and that not only have large
number of It's members been elected by
fraud. but that tho committee itself is
so constituted that a minority Of the Re-
publican voters Of the State possess
majority in 1t. Charles W. Hackett. It's chair
man, was not elected member OF the commit
tee by the voters of Oneida and Herkimer coun-
ties: he was thrust upon the committee by the
votes Of men from other counties IN tho State
Ten of the members representing New-York
City are the choice OF primaries tainted with
fraud and run largely by the chieftains Of Tam
many Hall. The Republican voters OF New
York City did not elect these men. Under their
own constitution. also since the recent election,
they have no political organization back Of them
They also are members Of minority OF the
Republican party which controls the Republican
State Committee. Eighteen members OF that
committee represent Congress districts which at
the recent election cast the following vote for
William ]. Wallace:
Eew-York II 2s8
kings o9"o
Queens lhW
'''''''''
Richmond 399s
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1a5 asa
The Republican party cast 493 7o1 votes In
the State Deducting the 1856 votes cast In
tho counties named above from the total num-
Der cast in the State (493, 70D the fact becomes
evident that in the remaining sixteen Congress
districts there were 2SS.235 votes cast. In other
words. 2SS. 235 Republican votes were cast In
sixteen Congress districts. and only 1860