New-York tribune., 1878-11-20


unfortunately rclegated to private life by the
late elections. lie had not secured the
affections of the party at large, was not
appreciated by his immediate cOnstit-
Ucnts. and the "deestrick " went back
on him. We need not say we shall
miss him; miss his activity and earucstncSs,
and the enthusiastic but bundcring confidence
with which nc fred the raw tomato at his
foe and hit invariably his nearest friend IN
the ear Let us be thankful, however, that
he is not to be jerked out of public
life and away from public sight sud
denly, as if the hook of some fisher
man as eager and excitable "a himself had
caught in his trousers. He has three months
to get away in, and retires to low, soft
music by the band. Let Us make the
most Of these three months He is now
untrammeled Through the short session
he can, il he be so disposed, make
things uncommony lively. The Democ-
racy having virtually repudiated him,
he can say, with Catiline, he held some
"slack allegiance till " the November
election, "but now his swords his own :"
or with Lord Angus, that the Glovers
"hand's his own ~ with-well, there
are lots Of such things that he can say.
and say well, if he ouly has mind
TO look them up. But we don't want him TO
do that. We would not for the world incite
mutiny in his breast or say n word to turn
him against the grand old party which he
so affectionately paved the clothes all
off from during the last session. What
we do want Of him is to pursue the
same methods he has followed heretofore,
tIo ntrio ip ia
pose Republican rascalities aud catch Rcpub-
ican rogues. We would not have him change
his opinion or his purpose, his direction or
his tactics. There are, Of course, stray
odds and ends Of the Investigations
of the last session that he will pick
ND and put in shape for history and there
may be some tagging Deficiencies in the pay
of experts detectives. stenOgraphcrs, secrc-
taries and the like that he will expect to re-
commend appropriations for; but these duties
will not occupy his time entirely. His
active mind and agile disposition will hardly
be content with routine work of this sort. We
know he longs for new and fresh fields of in
yestIgatiOn. We have one for him.
Ii appears that when the ballOt-bOxes were
urned in South Carolina at the late election,
large numbers of tickets printed on thin tissue
paper, that had not been circulated or seen
in public during the progress of the
voting, rolled ont. The number of
these in some precincts, it is said, cx-
ceeded the number of voters enrolled.
This fact excited comment outside the State,
and as the tickets bore the names of the
Democratic candidates it was charged by the
Radicals that they were evidences of Demo
Il.
theOry-werc it not for the fact. 50 conclu-
sively demonstrated by the present Congress-
that there's no such thing, and can be no
such thing, as q Democratic fraud. Ii was
mysterious, to be sure. but there could be no
fraud about it; that was plain. Speaker
Randall's Committees have established the
fact that Democrats cannot commit fraud
More than that, whoever should intimate that
a South Carolina Democrat, of all Democrats
in the world, could stuff ballOt-bOx
would be at once rebukcd by having the top
of his head blown off. And yet there was
disposition, incredible as it, NAV seem on the
mart of the more obstinate and unreasonable
Radicals. to insist that this discrepancy be-
tween the enrolment and the returns
should be explained. Thanks to the ingenuity
and devotion of the Democratic press, il has
been explained, though not, perhaps, to
the satisfaction of the Radical fends
who dared impute dishonorable practices
TO South Carolina Demo, ats. 1t seems
that there is Radical party in
South Carolina. Proof of its existence and
of its brazcn audacIty is offered in the scratch
ing of the hOnOred name of Wade Hampton
on one of the votes deposited in the interior
of the State This party, as is well
known, maintains its hold upon the col
Ored voters by violence and intimida
ton, so that an absolute reign of terror
exists among them. The colored people, with
out exception, are anxious to vote the Demo-