New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-15
POLITICAL NOTES.

The bulldOzer, like the cipherer, has overdone it.
of bis life
Hereafter let Still as death" give place to "shll
as a coparcener"
Moses thought Tilden knew what was gong on
in Florida, and he was TIlden's NEAR friend"
If Cowgirl doesn't tell the truth, why doesn't
Moses sue him for libel There would be Copen.
hagen IN it.
There seems to be good deal of Apollinaris water
in the Administrators Southern policy as well as
IN its dinners.
The Democracy begins to think that the Solid
South isn't such a nice thing when it assumes the
position OF q milestone about the pafty's neck.
Moses is a trihe backward about denying Dr. Cow.
gls statements but The Nation hasteDs to deny fol-
him with the ncautious zeal to be expected of an
amateur coparcener.
Senator Gordon will probably be reelected by the
Georgia Legislature without opposition. This is de.
sirable because it will increase the necessity fol
him to explain on the floor of the Senate his relations
with the IIlden cipherers in South Carolina. His
silence is one Of the worst things against hm now
Springer says the Democrats must give up New.
York, New-Jersey and Connecticut for 1880 and
nominate candidate who can carry Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois. He does not admit that this plan is
confession of defeat in advance, but that is what il
amounts to. Ohio and Illinois no easier to be
carried by the Democrats than the three Middle
States he mentions.
What will the Democrats have for an issue in the
next campaign if they don't take Teenbackst
They can't try the Administrative Reform
dodge again without setting the whole country
into guffaw they can't cry Fraud because OF
a similar result and they have no otheris They
might follow The U0TifS advice and champion
woman suffrage, but there are no votes in that,
and the chances are rbat when they got well I'M
der way The HorM would come out against them.
1t is dubious outlook, anyway.
The Democratic authorities who are counting
Oregon so surely on their side in 1880 seem to have
forQotten how the State went in 1873. Have they
forgotten Cronin and his college, and Hoadley's
exhaustive opinion so sooni 1t is all well
enough to talk about letting the Middle States go
and getting along with Ohio, indiana and Illinois,
with tho Pacific States, but there isn't Pacific
State that is any more certain for them than ONO
and Illinois are. All they are sure OF Is Solid
South and that Is tirst-class surety OF defeat
Louisiana is so solid that its only Republican
journal has given up the ghost. The AeU-Ortedns
Republican, after ten years struggle has ceased TO
be published. The recent election the final
blow. The editors declare the party dead, and re-
commend that its leaders in the State together
and announce ITS formal disarmament. There are no
Republican journals Of any prominence left IN the
South now, outside of Baltimore and Louisville IL
can be said with uncommon truth OF the pluckV
men who have tried to maintain them: Mans
vapOr full OF woes starts paper, up ne goes
Sometimes he has gone up on the limb of tree;
always his pocketb0ok has gone up in the unequal
fight The South is sofia for the Democratic party,
and solid against anything or anybody who OPP
poses It.
Washington correspondent of The Philadelphia
Press telegraphs that Blaine is looming rapidly as
the Republican candidate in 1880. He says many
Republicans who opposed the Senator's nomination
at Cincinnati confess their mistake aud declare
their purpose to work for HIM in 1880. Old friends
and supporters of Grant declare that the conditions
which at one time seemed to make third term i'm
perative exist no longer and they now feel that
the party is strong enough TO elect any OF its dis.
tingushed leaders without the aid of Grants name.
Blaine is admitted by all the prominent managers
of the party. the correspondent says, to represent
in an eminent degree. the aggressive aud pro-
gressive element In American politics. and his selec.
tiol would mean the perpetuatlon OF the kepubli'
can party since he possesses the peculiar skill, ex
perience and ability 10 exercise the civil authority
OF the Government, safely, firmly and effectively.
IL is also thought that under Blaines strong leader
ship the Republican element IN the South cOuld be
SO encouraged and strengthened as to return lVe
Southern States to the Republican column
There is abundant evidence that the indictment
of Ex-Governor Chamberlain in South Carolina Is
an entirely partisan affair. The same evidence
which forms tile excuse for the indictment eAlsted
in 1872 and was regarded as merely the outcome OF
the rage of tho rogues whom Chamberlain bad
baflled. No longer ago than May II, 1873, ~"
Cka,lestoa Ne,ro aud Courier, which Is now chuck
ling over the Indictment, said Of Mr. Chamberlain
"In the light of his acts since he has been Gov
e,uor we say now that however much appearances
were against him. 1t is morally impossible that ne
should have been Acknowledgement either faclie
or corrupt such man as he Is can never nave 9eel
the man we did believe him 10 be. IL is our liked
belief that Mr.. Chamberlain has never, m great
things or little, consented TO or aided Iii any fraud
nnnn this people. We are confident that Whenever
afI the facts are known. tue record of Attorney
General Chamberlain will be found to be eyerv
wnt az clean az the record of Governor Chamber
Iain.D Under the perniciOus influence of the bull'
dozer this once tair-ninded journal has eaten us
wo.d IDS. and is now talking as unjnstly as II once
talked generously. -