New-York tribune., 1878-12-23
POLITICAL NOTES.

Spend the holidays with your Uncle, Neyy. Let
JOY be uncODtned.
No card from Mr. Tilden yet. Slight irregularty
in the mails, perhaps
Coyle will make an entertaining witness il he
gets mad enough to tell all he knows.
How would rousing batch of fresh ciphers taste
as dressing for your Christmas turkey, Moses
If Mr.. Tildon doesn't wish to call for a cipher
hunt he might urint mild fraud YELL Give us a
card on something.
The Senate Committee will give Mr.. Campbell, Of
Charleston. chance to talk, which will he clean
" beat on the unenterprising Democratic press.
Perhaps when the able Democratic Congressman
reaches the bosom of his constituency he will hear
n whisper or two about the necessity of a cipher
hunt. There are such whispers IN motion.
The soft money editor is making heroic efforts to
be cheerful IN the actual presence of resumption,
by saying " Just wait and see If it lasts How
sad he will be when he waits for failure IN vain
When Congress meets again the Resumption Act
will be the law of tho land. and permanent plug
will thereby have been inserted in the mouth OF
windy voorhees,. This will 0c reckoned as among
the grea est BILE sings OF resumption.
Mr.. Edward Mcpherson authorizes an unqualified
denial of the report that he authorized the state
ment that Blaine and Conkling have agreed to pool
their issues in favor of Grant for 1880. He has
said nothing of the kind. The story Is pure nc
tion.
A relative OF Mr.. Campbell writes that the name
of that unusually honest Democrat is not James L.,
but James B. The correction is important to that
large body of Democratic editors who are clamor-
ons in their demands upon Mr.. Campbell for his
statement of election methods IN South Carolina. Ii
wunld be sad to have them waste valuable breath In
calling upon the wrong man.
II the Potter Committee should by chance come
into the possession of lot of ciDher kilograms
which would bea burden TO them, won't they be
kind .ough to turn them over to The TRIBUNEf
There might be few among them which THE
TRIBUNE has not seen. 1t is useless for the COM
mttee to b. muddlIng their heads over them, Tor
they could never read them. Whereas The TRiB-
UNE reads them much more readily than the aver
age CongressmaD's speeches.
Several Democratic editors outside of Pennsylva-
mia are amusing themselves by inyenting bogus
Republican schemes for the defeat of Senator Cam
eron for reelection. Nobody gin Pennsylvania
knows thing about them, and even the schemers.
whose names are announced are in blssful igno-
rance Of what they are positively declared to be
dong. Ii Is the same sOr5 OF journalistic enter
prise as that which Dloomed out Ia this State few
weeks ago, when the Democratic enItors ran eX-
Governor Morgan furiously for the Senate, till the
ex-CiovernOr had 1t announced that he was Conk-
ling man.
Assemblyman Skinner, of Watertown, says he has
been over the State good deal lately and he judges
from his observations the question of the Speak
ship that Mr.. Sloan is way ahead He tells
reporter of The OsWego Times that Alvord and Hustled
are both probably hard at work, and that it will be
difficult to beat their combined influences but tue
Sloan men are gong to try it, aud confident of
success. He thInkb AlyOrd would prefer Sloan TO
Hustled, il lie couldn'S he elected himself, but
Hustled wishes 10 beat Sloan anyway.
In addition TO ballots and buldozng, thereis
another aud less peculiarly Southern plan for destroy
ing Republican maOrities. The state redisricted
put all the strong counties together and
then when the campaign opens tho Democrats hire
one or more negroes to run as Independent candi-
dates, thus dividing the Republican vote. This was
done IN many districts at the last election. and was
pretty generally successful II failed in the lid
North Carolina District, where the regular Repub-
lican candidate was elected by several hundred
votes. The Board of Canvassers threw out the vote
o several precincts mere tochnlcality, and thus
secured majority of over 900 for the Democratic
candidate, To whom they awarded the certificate.
The seat will he contested, but, of course, the next
House will not go behind the action OF the Board
of CanyasSgIS.