New-York tribune., 1878-10-24
POLITICAL NOTES.

scapegoat.
Barricade the Ark, Moses. The Democratic party
is after your scalp
Smith Weed says he has lost his cipher key. Tm
TRIBUNE found it some time ago.
Come, Nephew Pelton, give statement of yom
wckedness The public is prepared for the worst.
Mr. Tilden is right in getting wife. 1t is high
time for somebody to know what is going on in that
house of bis
There Is a growing Democratic demand for the
Potter committee to call the coparceners. 1t is Mr.
POtters last chance for startling development"
When Hendricks becomes President will he send
Tilden as Minister to Russia, PeltOn to Denmark
and make Moses Consul-General at Jerusalemf
Mr. watterson has at last discovered the ciphers
and cries out IN his wrath that they all lies 1t
is queer that neither Tilden. Marble nor Weed
thought of this Weed says he had key to them,
too
Respectable Northern Democrats will be more
scarce than ever in the next House. The South will
send up more ex-Confederates than ever and viii
have au easier time than ever in controlling the
party. 1t Is important to reflect sOemnly upon what
this control Is sure to cost the country.
Men, from an indignant country correspondent:
:" Have you seen the judicial suggestion OF
The Nation about the cipher dispatches: that
they are bad, but those which implieate
been destroyed. That Is like the boy who swore be
saw tine eclipse-because he looked out and saw
nOthin'"
The Democratic editor who persists in calling th,
cipher kilograms bogus should calm himself long
enough to tell us what those telegrams were which
Mr.. Hayemeyer says were delivered at his house.
but which he could not read. Were those bogusi
What dad Smith Weed have a key for II there Were
no ciphers to fit it intO3 Calm yourself, brother
and give us o little hgnt.
All the comment the Northern Democratic jour-
nails make upon the bulldOzing canvass IN South
Carolina is the sneering one that the Republicans
have started the old outrage mill again. All the
Republicans have done Is to charge systematic
plan of negro terrOriZing upon Hampton ana ms
party, and this charge is admitted TO De true g Ine
as usual, to tOady to his Southern master.
1t should be distinctly understood that no ReDub-
Tcan is impatient to have the Democrats throw Dir.
Tldcn coparceners aud cipher operators overheard
On the contrary, every Republican who loves his
party will rejoice in the inmost cookies OF his heart
TO see the Democracy shoulder the whole Reform
combination and start ahead IN ITS progress to the
bow-wows BY all means let Mr.. Tilden be sym
dicated." lie VIII DC IL the party ules the eAPeIi-
meut.
There is chance for the loss Of one Democratic
Congressman in Louisiana. In General GibSon's dis
trict the Republicans and Greenbackers have
united on a candidate who is developing good
deal of strength. The yellow fever has driyenaway
so many white people that the Democratic vote Il
expected 10 fall short at least 5000. General Glib
son is one of the best Congressman the south mas
bat he is for the Solid South and for all that II de,
sires If he is to be defeated 1t Is TO be regretted
that some sounder man than a GTeeDbacker Is mol
to take his place.
The Republicans of New Hampshire declare that
their prospects for success have been greatly III
creased by the events of the past few weeks. The
October elections helped them greatly, and the
cipher revelations still more. They think the
Greenback strength is waning, and that the Demo
Gratis are detected by the failure OF their efforts 10
form coalition Every days discussion Of fhe
financial question opens the eyes of voters who nave
heen misleG by the Greenback heTeses, and u
the work is pushed with unceasing vlgor up 10 Ihg
very day OF election, the State may De Ssyyea
after ali. That would be victory worth lighting
for.
The sprightly Springer is jumping about IN ILL
nois irving to convince his constituents that ne
ought to make them ridiculous again by beng sent
back to Congress. His critics notice that since the
c1pher revelations the fraud of his mouth has
been closed for repairs and that he throws al MS
strenRth into an effort to capture the GreenoacA
vote There is a Greenback candidate r9iIntl r9nhns
against him. and also a Republean n esnhS he de-,
which give at least q chance that be may Ve ~ cco
feated as his majority was only little over 49,
two wears ago. He gbt to be defeated tor 9 tn9
Capital District of Illinois deserves to De
by somebody besides political mounteoshh'
The man who is not an ex-Confederate stands
moor chance for political hOnOrs in the South to-day
Naarlv all the candidates for office are ex-Oenera
or -Colonels, or OK something else, and the pref
e,ence for this class is carried even into the cam
paign speaklng An orator was speaking IN
Southern town recently and was giving a sketchd
tbe irresistible march Of the Democratic party 10
attempt 10 check it, he said. was like the Indian
irving TO stop locomotive by throwing =
laSso over its smoke-stack- k-admiraOie putsJH.
but bad judgment. voice in the q, srcwd q, so%c soS
"Where were you during the war y " Az nol%o onr
raising corn for the soldiers" was the m mo.
oujek came the retort " We admire your lu"o
ment, but d-n your pluck!
The usnal performance of nominating HendrieA'
for the Presidency is in full operation 10 lnoiaI''
The Democratic journals have revived the Ola eu,D-
eies, which have been on duty every four year, ~
a quarter of century, aud are printing tne~
fresh and original matter. We are told once NV
that Mr. Hendricks ALWAYS "deliberates peio'eS ~
acts, which is uncommonly true, for ne dehoeisN
80 long that he never reaches the point OF ae'He,
There is much more of the same Sort but u y rfs S
familiar that its reproduction Is unnecessary M,
cnrions thing about il is that Hendricks aIa aI.,;no
trends never realize the fatal mistake OF si snomi.
him INTO the field too early. lie Is always Ian. a
tion HSssn meets se he is always two years behind.
The Georgia editor. whose opinion OF Moses a'l"-
| ton Match Marble was quoted in yesterdays lHiS
uNr knows what he is talking about, for ne ~A' :.
Florida during the critical days Of the Autumn =
1875. He speaks by authority, therefore when :.
saws that Moses was +" conceited, intolerant "HD.
sicaI. and with q well defined vein of intrigue ~
colating his system for he was there and 4.
him. Moses ought TO explain why it was tnA' -.
sueaked into Cowgilps house, with doubIinui fbIs
berisb, talking dim yillany TO that worthy narahs
| looks like anofher case OF "agne-smltteh PM.,es
sIrailar 20 that Of Mel.n Tell as ABOUT H. "''