EDITORIAL 
421 
jority of the practitioners in and around New York and Brook¬ 
lyn, has been th Qjyomme de discorde. The question lies between 
giving it recognition or ignoring its existence. 
Had it been recognized, and its constitution and by-laws dis¬ 
cussed and re-adjusted by the members of the convention, the 
whole difficulty would, in our opinion, have been avoided, and a 
large and respectable State institution could have been construc¬ 
ted from the materials already in existence. Ill-feelings and jeal¬ 
ousies now prevailing might have been annihilated, and New 
York might once again prove herself worthy of her name and 
position. The tactics resorted to at the ballot box, the packing 
of the house with persons who could not afterwards have con¬ 
tinued their membership and who were called upon to vote and 
to sign the minutes of the meeting, are practices commonly used, 
it is too true, in the political wrangles of the primary meeting, 
but it is greatly to be regretted that they should find place in the 
present instance. To those who know themselves the guilty ones 
is due what by many is considered the failure of the convention, 
and of the organization of the so called State Veterinary Medi¬ 
cal Association. 
“THE QUACKS MUST GO.” 
These are the last words of an article printed in the United 
States Veterinary Journal at the end of some remarks headed 
“ New York Association,” embodying a request from the manag¬ 
ers of that publication to the various State Associations to send 
delegates to a national convention to be held in Chicago, on 
December 12th, 1883, having in view the object of forming a 
United States Veterinary Medical Association. (See U. S. V. J., 
December number, pages 228-232). 
When the so-named convention in the State of New 
York was called at the suggestion of said journal, signed by 
a number of graduates of New York and Brooklyn, a certain 
number of gentlemen, who for some time back had been meeting 
under the privileges of their act of incorporation as members of 
the New York State Veterinary Society, presented themselves 
