Year: 1875

rag pAfcy If the road is clear Another thing nnd'
which some Of the democrats imagine will give the Con-
vention trouble, even though majority Of the
delegates elected up the present have declared in IA
Vor OF Iilden's canal reform, is the probable


or THE CANAL RING,


for there certainly will be few of the Od Guard left
ready to get up a howl if ordered on Thursday But
the indications point quite different system Of tao
tics on the part OF the Canal Ring leaders than such
foolish one as would be attempt the part OF any
Of their friends either to defend them oropenly inn
pugn the Governors motives in the Convention II is
true that Jarvis Lord who knows he is to be thrown
overheard and Judge Comsock put in his place the
Central Committee and several other Of the prominent
canal TO be here Wednesday, but | under
stand they are to counsel their "baker's dozen" Of
friends of the Convention to keep quiet rather than
get up a rumpus which would only plunge them
deeper in the mre in which they are now
1oundering The fact Of the matter is, they
have been convinced from the shape things have
taken ever since the Broome County Convention
elected its delegates month ago and pledged
them support only those nominees who would be the
Governors choice that to attempt to fight the Gov
ernor in the Convention would be an act Of supreme
folly. That they intend to 'get even" with him,
however, somehow, is established fact was shown
letter to-day, written by gentleman who IS an out
spoken enemy of the Governor simply because Of the
stand he has taken against the Ring, whchafter stat
ing that the primaries in the country districts for
the selection Of electors for the district conventions to
elect delegates the State Convention the Governors
opponents to the party offered determined opposi-
tion to the election Of his friends-makcs use OF the
following


SIGNIFICANT EXPRESSION


SIT is one thing to nominate ticket, but quite
another thing to elect it,"


That tells the whole story. Whatever power the
Canal Ring may be able to WELD will be forthcoming not
in the Convention but at the polls next November
But will this policy amount to anythng2 1t may be that
this much talked Of Canal Ring will turn in tho end
to be pretty much like the Tweed Ring which every
voter in New York City upon time looked upon
invincibe, but all know how, when the oppor-
tunity of stealing the public money taken away
from them discovered that they had power of
themselves at all The Canal Ring is after all close
corporation OF but dozen men or so, and now that
their chance OF further stealing is at end it is moro
than probable that their boasted power to control
enough votes next November in any district to
defeat the democratic nominees in order to humiiato
Tilden whose nominees they will virtually be, may by
that time be found to be of very little damage to any
body At any II is certain that it in this
way the Ring will try strike back in return for the
blow from which they reeng One of them
apty puts it when he says that the men who are OPP
posed to the Governor In his party cannot afford
him have control of the Legislature 1t is under
stood that the


OF THE REPUBLICANS


will be to go into the campaign in the Senatorial and
Assembly districts with tho cry that the Governor in
the next Legislature should receive hearty support in
his cana reform measures but that they prefer that
republican members of the Legislature should give
that support rather than democratic members This
the canal men say will prevent republicans voting
for democratic Senator'S and Assembymen pledged to
the Governors support and this makes their work
against his chosen candidates the State ticket well
districts all the certain of final success
They claim result Of this plan Of battle, that
publican Senators will succeed Jarvis Lord in the Mon
roe Johnson in the Seneca Parmenter in the Rensse
aer Ray in the Duchess and Columbia and Dayton in
the Albany district In addition to this the republ
cans contend that if Lanng (democrat is not renom
mated in the Erie district republican will be
elected, and that if he is renominated the
result will be the same, while Bradley stands
strong chance, when he again, he will, OF
being elected to stay at home.


The canal leaders and the republicans in the in
terror seem, strangely enough, to be of opinion
their districts if by their policy of exhorting
! republican voters not to vote for Tilden's
democratic supporters, they manage to hold all the
other Senate districts they hold with the possible
exception OF the Orange and Sullivan (Aladden's) and
the and Ulster Connoly's) districts the Canal
Ring will gain something of victory the Gov
ernor if by efecting ito vulgarism-they
cut off their nose to spite their face