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Show THE NEW YOKK i LUNATIONS. Both parties in New York have made very superior nominations for Governor, and to whom shall belong the victory no one can tell. New York is the most independent State in the Union in the matter of elections, and she has long since learned that the grandest and most comprehensive com-prehensive political principles when put into party platforms do not amount to much if the men nominated to carry them into effect are not of sterling worth and honest conviction in j their devotion to those principles. New Yord contains a very large population popula-tion upon which neither party can rely in any election, as that population believes there is something higher than mere fidelity to party. The primary cause ot Cleveland's success when he ran for Governor Gov-ernor was Iiis record as Mayor of Buffalo, but the reason for his unprecedented majority ma-jority over Judge Folger was the fact that fudge Folger was the Administration candidate, and President Arthur and others of his immediate circle interested themselves personally in behalf of Folger. Fol-ger. The people of New York very properly prop-erly looked upon 6uch a proceeding as-an as-an unwarranted and impudent interference inter-ference by the General Government in their domestic affairs, and while thero was no objection to Judge Folger personally, they showed their disapprobation and disapproval dis-approval of such a course by rejecting J udge Folger and electing Mr. Cleveland Governor by a majority of 192,854 votes. That majority was a solemn protest against Federal interference in State affairs, and a distinct announcement to President Arthur that Mr. Arthur as a citizen of New York had a perfect right to participate in State affairs, but that when Mr. Arthur as President of the United States assumed to control and dictate in New York politics he was meddling with things that did not concern him. - The lesson was well taught and was well learned, and it will be a long time before it is forgotten. President Cleveland has let New York take care of itself since he ceased to be her Governor, and by his strict attention to his duties as President he has won far more favorable opinion in New York than he could possibly have done by "taking a hand" in her local politics. From all accounts, it Reems that the Republican nomineo for Governor is a very superior man, and such an one as the Independents or Mugwumps will be liable to endorse. He does not seem to be a machine politician, the politician who has brought his party into-well-merited deteat. The machino politician is a man who perfects a method for the sake of the method, and after the aim or object of a party is long, since accomplished. ac-complished. The machine is a shell, the kernal having gone long ago. Mr. Davenport appears to bo the very opposite of this and he is verv liable to run well. His nomination is an acknowledgment, acknowl-edgment, by his party that its theory of last year about a compact Spartan band does not work so well in politics, where everything rests upon the number of votes cast for the band's nominees, as on the field of battle. They have been forced to this acknowledgment by the Gubernatorial election of two. years ago and the Presidential election of last year. It is always a matter of congratulation to the whole count-y when a step in the right direction by one party forces the other to put forward its best men, and to put them forward on honest methods. The Democrats have forced the Republicans Republi-cans to do this, and it is a good and worthy work. The Democrats could scarcely have put forward as nominee for Governor a better ! man or one more fitted for the place than j Governor Hill. As Lieutenant-Governor j he ran on the same ticket "with President I Cleveland, and ran ahead of Cleveland by j four thousand votes. In his capacity of I Lieutenant-Governor he was an able and ! efficient aid to Governor Cleveland and in ! full" sympathy with him. Upon Cleve- 1 land's resignation of the Governorship of i New York, Lieutenant-Governor Hill took his place and began the discharge of the j duties of an office which had been excep- ! tloually well filled, but he has proven iiim- i -self a most worthy tuccessor to his chief, ' and the Democrats are to be congratu- j ated upon their wise and judicious ! nomination. It is to be hoped ! that New York will give him that j pndorsement to which he is so justly en-! titled. The probabilities are that Tammany Tam-many will receive the nomination but coolly, as Governor Hill is not of the Tammany specie; but he will have the hearty support of all those Democrats who honestly believe that party is only a means to an end, the end being good government on correct principles. The great majority of Democrats are of this kind, and it is they who have made Democracy an honored name. If a man is a Democrat for spoils, he is no better than a man who is a Republican for spoils, and this important fact is too much overlooked. Of the New York nominations it may be said that they are superior and a credit to either party. |
