New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-11
POLITICAL NOTES.
dying Oodies

The Uncle of his Nephew still condones it i'll
silence.
The South is not so solid that cannot be disci-
plined.
The silver agitator has merely demonstrated that
bis mlatuatiou Is incurable.
Tho quarantine established around Fernando
Woods mouth seems to be an unusually strong one.
Has the Potter Committee heard whisper from
Moses that it is useless to hope for relief with
keyR
That bulldozrd Massachusetts negro should be ex-
hIbited side By side with Moses and the Ark How
they would draw!
The Potter Committee has evidently taken the
advice of Moses and decided to let the ciphers pass
on III echoes more or less noisy"
The Democrats NAV waste their energies in erect
ing an architectural excuse for lodging a cipher
inquiry, and when they are through the public will
write across It: Afraid TO touch them"
The two-sidcd Democratic investigation may be
sand TO have been begun, completed and summed up
in the report OF the Democratic logcian who says
ifno Republican cipher dispatches can be found
that will be ample proof that they have been de-
stroyed. Now watch and see how eagerly The Nd
ton Will gODble up that argument.
The Potter Committee should lie exceedingly
careful how it NEEDLES with the Louisiana
There were some dispatches down there too. In
fact WColley himself was there. There is no telling
what this reckless committee may uncover Its
only safe course to recall red headed Anderson
from Nevada, and let hun tire OIL his fresh batch vi
lies. There Il no danger IN him.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, hastens to say
that no has not declared that he knew of tissue
ballots being used in his State lie merely re-
marked that If tissue-baIlots were used it was a
wicked and unnecessary proceeding. This is a very
neat bacldOwn, and may be taken as a notification
that his proposed speech OF dcnuuciaton VIII mover
be made. The Senator is 200 loyal a buidOzer him
self To tread ON the toes Of his brethren.
Perhaps Senator Gordon furnishes as good speci-
mcu as any Of the current Democratic Impotence.
He had the audacity to stand in the of the
stuffed South Carolina ballot-boxes and prato about
"godliko sympathy" between the sections, and he
is now following tins performance up with the re-
mark that the South must be the conservative
portion of the political family for the next twenty
years. Their experience has made this necessary.
We not only desire quiet in section. but IN the
Moth Also That is precisely what the bul.dozcr
wants" quiet from the negro who Is kept from
the baOt-DoX 10y his club, and quiet from the
Northern sectional agltatOr" WHO protests against
the clubbing.
There ere signs Of trouble for Voorhees, in Indiana
Eleven Democratic members of the Legislature are
said to have refused to pledge their votes for his
election "a Senator prefeTing to cast them for
hard-m0ney Democrat. This is not likely to defeat
him, since there are thirteen Greenback members
who viii vote for him rather than a hard-mOney
Democrat elected. If the eleven hold ont, which is
extremely improbable they will destroy the Demo-
cratic ma UriJy and give tho Greenbackers chance
TO dictate their own terms. The revolt will give
Mr. Hendricks chance To crack his whip over the
party and snow his force dsCpnaran. lie
promised Voorhees, reelection, and he must deliver
the goods.
General Charles GrosveuOr, of Ohio, has returned
home from a VISIT to the White House, flied with
admiration for the unbOunded serenity of the Adj
mmstraton. "Oh." said he TO IA Cincinnati Enquirer
reporter, the President Is IN good humor with
everybody. l think he is disappointed little about
the way the Southern people have treated his policy
but Hayes is too big n man to 90 around whining
about It," The General saw evidences that the
party and the President are more harmonious than
they wegc Last Spring he noticed that only one or
two Cougro or Senator'S came a day to see
the President; whereas the other day, when he sat
talking with the accomplished Mr.. Rodgers for an
hour or TWO, he counted more than twenty who
pa sspd H. and among them were some who were
formerly most bitter against HIM. This is NIL news
except about the serenity" From tie outset that
has been SO colossal that Increase was an mpOssi-
bIlity.