Year: 1871

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Oveshsard.


Tho Rochester Convention finished up rs


labors yesterday, and did its work well. The


ticket put In nomination is composed Of the


present State officers with the exception of


Secretary Of State, for which position Deid-


rich Willers. Of Seneca, . German adopted


citizen and man Of sterling character, takes


the place Of Homer A. Nelson. The renomi-


nation Of the remaining officers was due to


their faithful and economical administration of


the State government in their several depart


ments; and the fact that they are all known


to be strongly opposed to the Tammany


"Ring. and favorable to the reorganization of


our city government will increase their


popularity among the people of the State.


In order to render the rebuke of


Tammany the more marked and un-
mistakabie, the contestng delegates


from New York were allowed to appear
and address the Convention, and letter from


Mr.. Charles O'Conor was received aud read.


But the browning work in this direction was
the adoption of . resolution providing that
hereafter no delegate shall be received from
this city as member Of Democratic State


Convention unless he shall have been elected
by an Assembly District Convention, not
called by Tammany, but originating with the
democratic voters thereof, and that in
all future State conventions the vote of
each delegate from New York and
Kings shall be taken separately, as


In other Assembly districts, SO that the whole
votes of those counties shall no longer be cast
as q unit to override the voice of minority.
This is the finishing blow to the old Wigwam.
1t destroys the long boasted regularity of
Tammany, and leaves each Assembly
district at liberty to elect its own
representatives to q State Convention.
The effect of this action is most damaging
to Tammany at this time. It lays the axe
at the root of her power, as the legislative
nominations made in the same way will
have the stamp of regularity. It rules the
Tammany delegates out of the next State
Convention, which body will select representa-
tives to the National Democratic Convention,
and thus it destroys the influence of Tammany
with the national administration, in case Of
the election of q democratic President.
Hitherto, it will be remembered, Tammany
has undertaken to control the federal patron
age in New York, and has generally sue
ceeded but with the destruction of her regu-
larity her power departs, and she will have no
more pretence to dictate at Washington than
she would have to rule in Constantlnople.


The platform adopted by the Convention is
unusually compact and pointed. The arraign-
ment of General Grants administration as false
to its pledges and faithless to its constitutional
obligations, contains, of course, great deal
of the customary partisan claptrap, yet there
is enough truth In the charges of corruption
in federal Offices to give pungency to the accu-
sations. The resolution accepting the emanci-
patton Of the slaves of the South and their
enfranchisement and perfect equality before
the law as the inevitable sequence Of the civil
war and the overthrow OF the rebellion
is distinct and unequivocal, and is
proper atonement for the sins and errors
of the past. There is GOODNESS and effrontery
about the resolution on the purity of the ballot
which is really refreshing. When democratic
convention in the State of New York denounces
a fraudulent repetition Of votes and dishonest
canvass of the ballots as crimes which are
treason to representative government, we are
strongly reminded Of the conversion Of Johnny
Allen. Of Water street renown, and may look
next for sermon on the rights of property
and the beauties of benevolence from Reddy
the Blacksmith. But as the resolution winds
up with declaration approving of the con-
stitutional amendment now pending, making
bribery a ground of challenge and denying
the suffrage both to the briber and the bribed,
we may conclude that among the other won
ders of the day the democracy have grown
enamored Of pure ballot-box. Ont the subject
of the tariff the democrats are more out
spoken than their opponents. They denounce
the present tariff in strong language; declare
that the tax on imports should be levied
strictly for revenue purposes alone, and ex-
press the belief that ample revenue for all
purposes of government can be obtained with
out levying any tax whatever upon necessary
articles, such as iron, coal, clothing, medicines
and all materials used in the mechanic arts.
A plank is introduced renewing the pledge Of
democratic fidelity to the doctrine of equal
and exact justice to all men, Of whatever
creed or nationality, and especial favors to
none-a renewal deemed desirable in view of
the evident tendency on the part of repub-
licanism toward revival of the old Know
Nothing war of race and reIiriOn These
principles, with an endorsement Of the
present State government, a special
laudation of Governor Hoffman as the
worthy successor Of the great democratic
leaders, Clinton, Tompkins, Wright, Marcy
and Seymour, and the powerful denunciation