New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-17
POLITICAL VOTES.

What are you giving us, Mosesf Tafyf
Moses Match has the " check" to yell fraud again!
Well. WE'LL
Mr.. Marbles card is worse testimony against him
than his dispatches.
That brand IF Fraud-whosc brow is it on nowt
Referred TO Charles Frigid Adams.
Tendery bot frankly. Mr.. Mobile, your high
shOuldeTcd dodge won't Work now
The only thing fnnnier than MOSes's card is Tic
VDrlFs ublc-baCk-actlOn comment on H.
There are signs Of suppressed emotion III the local
Democratic camp. There Will be music presently.
Even Assistant-Cop Ottendorfer thinks
Moses will have to try again Carry the wofuI news
to the Ark.
On the whole, Mr. Weed, would it not have been
about AZ well had you translated your ciphers your
self
The Herald Is as forbcanng as it Is enterprsing
II printed the news of It's discovery of the occupant
of the Ark without a word Of comment.
A Roformer who was willing to pay $4,000 IN
South Carolina $50, 900 in Florida. and $4,000 IN
Oregon for Presidential elector, must have been
terribly IN earnest.
Mr. Marble is q discriminating reader. few
minutes perusal of q two months file OF lHs
TRIBUNE enabled him to pick out for denial the
ONLY entirely innocent dispatch IN thirty OF loiy
broadsdes.'
Governor Hampton will be pleased 10 see how
willing the coparceners to let him slide IN tho
interests of Reform" if necessary. The reveia-
ton will make him more than ever III favor OF y
candidate with a backbone Tor 1851
Once more the question arises. Who was the pro-
crastinator who defeated the bribery scheme IN
South Carolina as we'll as in Florida and Oregonf
Il must have been somebody afflicted with Tildnn's
chronic complaint Of III see you later Who
could II have been Can you guess, genial Mr.
DelmOntf
II Tilden and Reform is not more able-bodied IN
denial than Moses Marble. the other coparceners
had better advise him TO say nothing at all. Mrs.
Partincfon must have had "Moses" in mind
when she SAID. Every time he opens ms mouth no
puts hs foot IN IL
The South Carolina cryptcgrams make fresh de-
n,ud upon Mr. Tilden for that broad and compre-
hopsiye disclaimer" But it must be good deal
broader and must comprehend good deal moro
than tho shutting evasion OF his poysyllaOlc oopar-
crucr.
The same critics who we're sure the Florida story
in no way compromised Mr.. TIlden. hasten to eh-
claim of the South Carolina dispatches that none Oh
them arc addressed to No. 10 Gramercy Park ~
the absence of tins address is evidence OF inno-
Ceuco what ~ it, presence an evidence OF VI hel-
ton, increased WIckedneSs
The General johnson Hagood who is conspicuous
uS leader OF tue DullUoIVlS III INV PAVC'"' N'"'"
Carolina campaign, served his first enlistment in
that character IN tho Fun at the Fair proceedings
IN November. 1876. Among the dispatches sent out
than to assemble the rifle clubs for the fOrclble
inauguration of Hampton. appears this one; " 10
Colonel G. Il. Smont0n, chester: General Hamp-
ION saws come mp tonight with All the snews you
can command. JOHNSON iAGOOD
II lnohcd 70 the veteran lobbyist. Mr. Smith
Wood. "aS f the thing would work for $4,000
,h.r IltIti nLs %
"a if no would gladly give about that sum.
slightly incremable il necessary Ia get out OF
9Th, thing" altogether. As for Illdon ana REFORM
the amount which No. i Gramercy FaTk "ouio
give to have "the thing buried forever cannot Do
computed. But, like Banquos ghost IL VIII NOV
dow n ut the bidding OF thu guilty.
Senator Mcdonald has arrived in Washington
from Indiana with his prediction that Hendricks
- c,rtain To bc tho Democratic candidate for rho
Presidency i'm 1850 His faith has grown so rapidly
-, tb, way that he has been able 10 eject MN
~ well as nominate him, since nc Is st'""s
!, all portions Of the country. In the nouth
me is popular. and no Westeri man can command a
LITTER support IN the East ito ahead on tlat sup
n,.ltion Mr. Mcdonald, and II you Fan lulhl your
nronlrcies far enough to nominate the Great Amerl
can Straddlrr. the Republicans VIII chceriuly and
enthusiastically to II that he Is handsomely de-
fcatcd.
The wrath Of Ben Hill still continues warm, and
he Is so OuSy Nelihs lauh ne HAS no 'ilhc I" iV''
the cIphor revelations lie has addressed letter
to the voters OF tho IXth Georgia District devoted
mainly to the hcinous offence of boiling the Demo-
cratic ticket in winch he speaks of using the
patronage of tho Government 10 reward tue guilty
authors of Presidential larceny II Mr. Hill Viii
read the thullng cphcr correspondence between tho
copaTcrncrs Potion and Weed he viii see that thb
pat ronage of the Government was offered as par
tai iutucrmcnt for Presidential bribery, hut was
not 4 ven because the prOcraSunap ing Wochtlties
Of some mysterious member Of ML iilrs party failed
10 make up his mind IN time.
One Of the DIstyIct Judges whom the CIR onhack-
rr4 have Just elected III Iowa IS likely To be bril-
liant ornament TO the bench. He is said 10 have be-
gun "a Fourth Of July speech few years ago III tlis
way: Feller citizens. 1875 years ago,
when orr forcfathorS Landed OF Pyn0nIh
Rock" Here somebody pulled his coat tai! aud