New-York tribune., 1878-10-26
PO[ITIC1L NOTES.

Tilden didn't even know be was going to be mar.
ried! Well, well!
Another week has gone and no coparcener has
sued The TRIBUNE for libel yet.
Hampton has kept his promise. The &" color line
is entirely wiped Odt " IN South Carolina
Come. Moses, throw some more " doubtful gibber-
ish at "a, If yOu can't do anything else.
Nephew Pclton is the vsest coparcener. He
knows what it is to testify under oath. He has been
there.
Isn't Mr.. Belmont calm enough by this time to
tell IA who antead the Copenhagen for the copar-
ccners 1t would be a kindness 10 Illden.
Thurman's factotum, Thompson, says tho Scna-
tor Is still Presidential candidate, and he supposes
TiIden is one also. Why not combine them and call
them the Graveyard ticket
The fur win fly when Butler resumes operations
on the Potter Committee after his defeat Both
Democrats and Republicans will come in for share,
for both have COmblned TO destroy nun. suppose
he should call Moses What iarks!
1t is perfectly natural for Mr.. Watterson to be
angry about those ciphers, but al the time he
ought to see the Inconsistency of printing Alr. Have
meyer. card and a charge that the dispatches are
all lies n tue same number OF his newspaper. II
they ar, lies how could Mr.. liaYemeyer have re-
cclYed them
There are symptoms that Senator George IT. PEN
dletou has not yet stihed entirely his Presidential
aspirations. He said in recent letter that the con-
,ervatism Of the Democratic party had enabled it to
seize the practical and the good,' and to reject the
"unpfactlcal and the error" thus giving gulTan-
tee of its " mod ration and Justice No man hat 2
Presidential a>pTaHr could lJok the " ONO Idea
squaIely in the face and say tiiat.
Ex-Goyernor Palmer, Of Illinois who a Dem
ocmtIc visiting statesman to Louisiana, says tle
cipher revelation have not hurt Iildcn, for he was
hurt hop.lrs,iy long ago. lie complains that Tiiden
had an AIR of mystery about him which even his
friends could not penetrate. They expected TO see
him take some position during the electoral dispute
but they could find ont nothing. The inference
from the ciphtr, there ore the Governor says 10
correspondent Of Ibc CjpcgH0tj EHlUU, ass. hc Nas
not dong that, what was he dong all tire time! lie
said nothing and did nothing. W hen man illeId'
dnI'f know what he H. loiag and are LETT in doubt
az to what be intends % DO hey th!uk L'i ulhl 20
he q leader hi, looks rs II Nr. Palmer doubted
the plea OF absolute Innocence.
News comes from Virginia that Senator Thurman
is the one Presidential candidate who Is popular
among the Democrats Of that rcgion, who Ike him
better chan ever since his conversion to rrcdeem-
able finance and quick rcpudiauon. II the whole
solid south will now take tho same position, Mr..
Thurman can go into the National convention with
a following and n platform which viii win
nomination ,or him and National funeral tor his
party. lie had bcttrr be quick about II though;
for HcndUt.S IS aDo1l 10 start on MS ahtUal
Southern pitHiu1gt and he may hold ont a more
allurmg bait and bas the game for himself
The bulldozng in South Carolina is growing so
outrageous thar even local Democratic organ IS
moved to protest that " freedom OF speech ought
not to be interlered with. The very protest is
ridiculous. because it intmates that only on recent
occasions has there been any interference of tins
kind. when the fact is that the whole spirit and
purpose Of the Hampton plan is to make sgch free
dom impossible. The Democrats must 90 70 Re
Z .,.,t. IL limo fifYt.f
the command at the outset of the campaign and it
has been obryed TO the letter. Every Republican
meeting has been invaded by thousands Of Demo
Gratis IN red shirts and with arms. There can be no
freedom Of speech in such mtctmg; and II Is
absurd to pretend there can be. The Whole State
Of South CaToHa is under the influence of an
elaborate system of tcTOrizing and the result
will bc that "A sweeping Democratic victory
viii be chronIcled on election day.