New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-12-11
POLITICAL NOTES.

Grover and Cr0nln tried to do too much
and did it.
If John MorrisSey had believed that the
Oregon would elect Tden. would he have declared
oil bets OFT
Mr.. Hewitt and his brethren have just found
ont that President Grant can neither be coaxed nor
hllied Everybody else discovered IL long ago. Mr.
Grant is q very obstinate man."
The great TarbOx is preparing speech He
thinks the liberties Of the people in danger and he
proposes to sound alarm The people showed their
ability to take care Of themselves when they voted IN
November to leave Mr. TarbOx at home He should
mediate on that rebuke and be less demonstratiye
The most melancholy spectacle at present Is
the attempt OF the Democratic journals to make the
public believe they think the Oregon business elects
Tlden They burst out in a spasmodc sort Of way with
flags and roosers hut there is air of hopeessness
about them which shows they have really given up the
fight
Congressman Dunnell of Minnesota, a states
man who gaiued good deal OF nOtOriety during the
saarygrab agitation is said to have Senatorial aspra
tons Senator Window is thought to be sure OF securing
denomination from the Republican caucus, but Mr.
Dunnel hopes TO defeat him through combination OF
nisaected Republicans the Democrats. AT present
bis chances OF success look very SLIM
The Democratic press has been disgracefully
backward in recognizing the value of Gov. Growers
services The editors have chucked over his trick but
have ignored him almost entirely. The first adequate
tuition In this suggestion: "The Governor Of Oregon
ought to have place in Tdens Cabinet" Grover with
budozer or two would tone up TO about the gh ieVe
al administration secured by THEFT
At last we are told what ails the Democrats.
They don't want GORE they don't want noise, they only
want chance to talk for The Courier Journal says: "No
body wants a fight, and nobody wants any clustering
but 1t Just as well to have sQuareout talk over the
matter to understand each other aud not leave any one
under the impression that the men who cast
their votes for Tden disposed 70 quietly yield to fraud
he HOrtd who is trying 80 hard TO push MI beh
Hill into fight
There was one pretty badly wOrsted Demo-
erat in Washington the other day. He was clustering
about declaring that the House would not allow Hayes
10 be elected Tden we're not would prefer to nave
the President Of the Senate fill the Office An Illinois
Republican Congressman quietly remarked that the
Illinois Legislature win be in session at that tme ana II
necessary will elect u S. Grant 10 succeed senator
Senate might make hun President pro TEN. The pare
possibility Of such event made the Democrat shuddcr
Mr. Samuel G.. Reid, the st. LOUIS gentleman
who received the remarkable letter from Mr. Charles
0COnor declaring that the Republic persisted the DAY
that Mcdowell moved on TO Richmond has written
card acknowledging the genuineness OF the document
and saying that its publication breach OF conf
dence He adds AS the letter was strictly private ana
intended public the betrayal OF confluence
rejecting of far greater injury than the pubnc
ton Of the expression of opinion winch has been Ell
bty for which, II there be any, must 1ali today on
majority of 30O,O 900 Of the American people"
There seems to have been something IN the
nature Of "budozing" going on in Virginia during inc
campaign. wellknown former resident OF CLEVELAND
Ohle writes to his fathernlaw in that city the follow
ing account OF a lively personal experience: " was
nearly killed the night Of Oct 80 ia Portsmouth
spoken Hall with Col Segur, the candidate
for Congress In this district others The meeting
HI .rea and Uhpn Wa cd
sidewalk attacked by a crowd OF roughs belonging
70 the Democratic party and beaten with clubs until
was nearly dead besides being shot at several times,
none OF the balls hitting My head cut open, my
bruised and-thanks to good constitution and kind
Providence getting better Dut gam strength very
slowly have been out OF the mousse pu' Once since
Mr.. Ben. Hill and the other eminent South
en Congressman who smoothing out the corrugated
brows OF Mr. Fernando Wood and other nery and IN
tanned Northern Democrats to keep them from rushing
into bloody war; are doing noble WORK, but one that u
entirely superfuOus. There Is only one way IN Whel
these windy warriors could DO made 10 fight and that
the expedent Mr. Thackeray records in his famous his
tory Of the Next French Revolution" regiment o.
hOue guards had been drawn up for charge on th'
enemy they could not be started. regiment OF tn
line drawn up Just a musket's length behind Ilem
WIN Instructions to place their hxeg pay Se vas mar
yeious When the command 10 charge was gwen, Sn'
.1e regiment started, ana secDhu latcI Wy IL
guard bounded forward toward the enemy WIN uls
Seneal yell and irresistible swiitness. No.snoiA
Democrat wOuld fight under no other circumstances
Mr. Horace White has written second let
ten to The Chicago Tribune the subject of "Iniimida
lion IN Politics" it he says There is something al
most grotesdue the cheers that are sent up since TN
aest decision Of Mr.. Wells and his Returning Board
Albeit they hollow sound one cannot help asknI
What they signify aud what meaning they carry to thu
breasts Of intelligent citizens unbiased by the thought OF
expectation Of official preferment The questions sucl
zens ere asking themselves everywhere are these;
ns American plan Of representative government eomnl
!" IN endi Has universal suffrage proved faurei Il
aeereed In the book Of fate that tho Centennial OF
nation shall inaugurate its dissolution and decayf Wa
we Union In great danger when Lee marching
sssVsourg ~ Ii Is todayi II Iwere an enemy 10 tht