New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-27
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLfIICAL NOTES.
Butler has lot off the fraud dggers' only "start-
ling development prematurely.
Thurman must be able TO see that his straddle is
the best understood act of his life.
viii Butler take his Massachusetts, party off for
an occasional airing in his YACHT Two trips would
take them all.
Does anybody suppose that Mr.. Marble would
keep silent if there were nothing crooked hidden
beneath that suspicious cipher
Watterson hasn't even heard Of those Marble tele-
grams yet 1t will be dreadful blow to him to
learn that there are other bad men than Mr.. Hewitt
in the - Reform party. =.
Mr.. Potter ought to have known better than to
trust his chief secret to such leaky old vessel as
the Widow" Butler. There is no old woman in the
country who carries more devastating tongue.
The risk of depending for Republican gains in the
next Congress upon independent OF National move
ments in the South and West is made clearer every
day. Hard work in the North will make the gains,
and that is about the only way in which they can be
made.
The South Carolina Democrats who are telling the
negroes that when the Democracy comes INTO power
the South will be reimbursed for the loss OF its
slaves. are merely giving utterance to their own
private hopes. There are thousands Of Southerners
who believe they will be paid for this loss in time.
The only falsehoOd in the statement is the assur-
ance that they mean to give the negro any OF the
money
Mr.. Watterson denies that he sat in the Wormley
conference as q representative of South Carolina,
and thus frees himself from the suspicion of having
been o carpet-bagger. He says he understood HIM
self to be present as a witness referee of some
Sort though he doesn't know to this day precisely
what he was there for. The conference of no
account, he adds, being merely "gabble between.
things: That the electoral count should proceed
according 10 the bond, and that the troops should
be withdrawn from the South. "Gabble" is the
right word for the whole performance, and IL APP
plies equally well to most of the inteTmnable stun
that has been talked about it since.
An address of the most exalted sentiment,
couched in the tropical rhetoric peculiar to the
State, has been issued by the Democratic State
Committee Of South Carolina. In it occurs this pas
age: The reign of ignorance and vice in South
Carolina is past and gone. Virtue, intelligence
and elevated craftsmanship shall, as during
the last two years, control the pub
lie affairs of South Carolina" " Virtue is repre-
scented by the assurances TO the negroes that they
are liable to have their heads shot OIL they vote
the Republican ticket, and are to receive half
their former value slaves If they vote the Demo
cratic ticket. Intelligence is represented by the
sending of General NJ. e. Butler, the hero of the
Hamburg massacre, to the United States Senate,
and elevated craftsmanship" is represented by
immunity TO the Dulld0Zer, pardon TO the hukluX,
and amnesty for the mOOnshner."
Alexander II. Stephens will go back to Congress
with heartier support than ever. HIS constituents
persist in praising his course in Congress in way
that must harrow the souls of the Bourbons who
tried to crowd him out of the party because Of the
independence he exhibited The official notification
of his denomination assures HIM that the cOnven-
ton offered hlm another term as a triumphant vim
dicaiion of the Tectitude of his motives.
and o fitting tribute to the inyincIble
heroism of q spirit which, supported by its
own innate energies, shrinks from no conflict, and
knows no fear when duty calls That IS little
bgh-iOwn but is just and true, nevertheless. MIR.
Stephens was the only Democrat in a Democratic
Congress who had the manliness TO oppose the die
tum of ms party when IL had set about deliberately
to rcyOlutiOnize the Government and he opposed It
so fearlcSsy that the party was forced to abandon
its purpose.
The fate Of the Wisconsin Democrats ought to be
q lesson to their brethren everywhere, concerning
the danger Of STOPPING to conquer the Nationals.
They began year ago TO put Grcenback principles
into their platforms and TO form combinations with
the Nationals Tor the defeat of the Republicans To-
day they are practically without an organization,
and exist only as a demoralized ally of the Ma
tional party The great strength of their own
party. its 10000 Irish votes, has departed in a
body to the National camp. What remains is
a feeble body of men, part Of whom
are IN favor of National principles, while the rest
are Disguised with those principles ana know not
where TO 90 to. The Republican party, in the
meantime, Is stronger than ever. IL has some
Greenbackers In its ranks, but they remain there
rather than JOIN the Nationals who are made up so
largely of old Democrats. The happy result Is that
and have surer hold of the state than before
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