New-York tribune., 1878-10-10
POLITICAL NOTES.


Mr.. Keaney had better go West.
Thurman is sorry he did and Bayard is glad he
didn't.
Fiat of the October elections Let there be honest
money
Ex-Presdent1al candidates: Tilden, Thurman
and Hendricks.
Poor Thurman! He crowded Hendricks off the
track and then tumbled after him.
Did you hear the news from Ohio, General But
Ter I And eau you tell what sort of a fiat it is
The Republican party has always won when it
stood brsvey for honest money, and it always will
win.
The Greenback wave is going back with pictur
esque collection of damaged statesmen in its watery
embrace.
The Ohio idea " has gone under once more,
pulling with it as usual few new victims Its
power for evil is about spent.
Governor Mcclellan ponders over tho melancholy
fate of Tilden and Thurman, and softly murmurs,
One by one the roses fade"
No matter which way Indiana goes. Hendricks is
no longer Presidential possibility. The next Pres
idency will not turn on the soft-mOney issue.
month of hard, enthusiastic work ought to snatch
the next Congress from the grasp of strikers and
tramps, and put it in the hands of the Republican
party. HeaYe all
Tllden vanisbes under deluge of cipher dis
patches; Thurman and Hendricks disappear under
the retrca.ing Greenback wave, and Bayard and
Hancock loOm. This is the Democratic National
outlook to-day.
Sayler, which he was n chronic candidate for
Speaker, absorbed the Ohio idea" completely for
the first time in this campaign aud Sayler is
among the slain. Thus is "A dreadfully fatal year
for weak-backed statesmen.
Oh, Mr. Samuel Cox. don't you wish yOu could
reverse yourself and resume your judgment now
The days of the soft-money demagogue are num-
bered and the road 10 the Speakers chair is not
over greenbacks aud through National dishOnor.
You have not to put too tine point on II, slipped
up again.
1t is going to be the jollest kind of fun to
whoop her up for the Republican party during
the next four weeks. Ciphers ad hbitum and damn
ing enough to Kill. half dozen better parties than
the Democratic 10 pelt he enemy with, and party
10 support that is solid and enthusiastic on the right
side OF the money question. Sound the loud hew-
gag-beat the drum The air is joyful with coming
victory.
II Mr.. Tilden was entirely ignorant of what the
coparceners were up to- who responsible for the
delay which always made the attempts TO buy the
Presidency few hours too atei Perhaps the guile
less old gentleman whose fayOrite observation is,
- will seo you later" and who telegrapbed so often
TO Mr.. Hewitt at Washington. to procrastinate,'
yened at critical moment, but 1t looks as II some
" procrastinatoT or other was
In order to cOmPr hend the full significance of the
Ohio victory it must be remembered that the Ohio
idea - Is the sum and substance of Greenbackism.
II means repeal of the Resumption Act. substitution
OF Greenbacks for National Bank notes, and the ab-
clifton Of the National banks. That the direct is
sue Of the Ohio campaign. ITS disastrous defeat has
only one meaning that the "OhI0 idea il Tepudi-
i "a h,r aud uhara kaaf
stood.
The Democratic statesman will have hard time
of il during tho rest of the campaign He has far
committed himself to tho Greenbackm movement that
he can't retreat, yet he must that by going
ahead he goes straight to political ruin. lie can't
dodge the currency issue and yell "Fraud," because
somebody will say "Ciphers" to hun and throw |
him into hopeless confusion. The only thing left
for him TO do is TO pitch into The TRIBUNE for Its
awfqlly immoral conduct OF PGl9ding pfiva'e olS
ment in defence of Reform by fraud"
The Republican prospects in Illinois, which were |
bright before the October elections, will unques-
tionaLly be greatly improved by the Greenback re-
buff because the campaign has been conducted on |
an uncompromIsing defence Of honest money. |
There are only "A few Republicans who have been
beguiled into the National movement. while the
Democrats are bopelessly demorallSed by it. The
situation in Minnesota and Wisconsin IS precisely
the same The Republican ranks are solid for hon
eat money and the Nationals exist only as an agent
TO demOralize and split the Democratic party.
IL becomes moro and more evident that the Maine
dsastcr was blessing disguise for the Republi-
can party Ii walked up honest men everywhere to
the dangers threatened by the Greenback-Demo-
cratic coparceny for repudation, and showed them
that the Republican party was the only possible
agency by which the National honor and prosperity
,ould be preserved. 1t also aroused the Republi-
cans 10 sense of their responsibility, aud whom
that party has felt the pressure OF great duty
h has marched TO victory with irresistible force.
That is just what it is going TO do again in Novem-
Der.