New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-13
PDLITICIL MOTIFS.

Now listen while 1ilden yeils for cipher hunt.
Tissuc-ballots make lovely waddng for Republic
can bullets.
Mr. Lamar will reposc in drydock awhile before
colldIug again with Sr Edmu dS.
Awfully good Joke. isn'ti it, Moses to postpone the
investigation till you ask To have IL Startedf
There wasn't any bloody shirt in Blaincs speech,
but there were ugly facts enough to keep the Dem
ocrats prancIng for sometime
The Democrats who are 80 sure this session is too
short for Investigations will scover presently that
II is plenty long enough 10 furnish every requl-
site" tor a hrSt-class funeral III 1850.
1t seems 10 be a favorable moment for few feel
ing remarks from those Democratic editors who
soIemnly declared few days ago that n refusal to
investigate the cIphcrs would ruin the party
Congressman Ellis, OF Louisiana, can't abear any
mention Of sectional politics. He is " sick OF the
terms North and SOUTH" and wants ITO broadly
Amcricaulzc politics with a o1.OOO,UOO appTO-
priation Tor the Mississippi cvees
1t may not mean anything, but the eminent anti
Tilden Democrats vino think the surest way of rid
ding the party of him il TO dodge a cipher inquiry,
should mediate upon the fact that the Iiden or
Vans Of tins state are declaring with great unan-
unity and vigOr that success IN 1850 without New
York D, impossible, and are not ciamoHng lOr
cipher hunt
IN corner by askingf for his authority Tor his state
ments about the southern elections, has subsidized,
as everybody knew 1t would. The very Democratic
Journals which started the story are now declaring
that nothing of the kind was ever intended. az
u wasn't. Mr.. Campbell, of Charleston, pre-
seuts TOO ugly an obstacle TO any such performance.
The programme of the Thurman movement seems
to be to run HIM for Governor of Ohio next year. in
the hope of giving him a start tor 1850. Judge
Ilt no az MS
prevail Tie admits that il Is risky to run Thurman
for Governor because if defeated, his chances for
Presidential nomination Will be injured but, adds
tie crUdIte lload ey IT he wants to be PresiGcnt
ne must take some risks That Is about AL he viii
take If he runs tOr Governor
Senator Lamar is very confident of Democratic
victory in 1880 All the party has to do iSsto " or
game wisely and tolerantly and then work vig
orously aud harmoniuusly.' These adjectiyes seem
10 be well chosen and their especial fitness appears
when they are shifted about little. nus 1t
wouldnt do to favor organizing vigorously for
that would rule out straddhng on all public ques-
tlons, aud it wouldn't answer 20 favor working
"tOlcrautly," for that would stop bulldozng and
ballot-bOX stuiing aud thus defeat Democratic re-
form.
What boon Potion was to the telegraph cOmpa-
MES and how his uncle must have maryclled at the
size of the bills 1t was bad enough TO have to pay
for the hghshondcred sentences ofSoscs, but think
of paying 1874 simply TO present the backwOodsmen
of Florida with m able editorial article which they
could not possibly understand 1t must occur to
Mr. Tlden, he hears for the first time OF all these
performances from Inc TRIBUNE, that II Is high
time for HIM TO have new nephew.
Que of the things which the latest cipher transla-
tons show most clearly is the elaborate character
of the scheme for buying a Presidency which the
coparcencrs undertook. Florida was completely
covered with secret agents, each armed with a diff
fcrcnt cipher. and each bent securing a Demo-
cratic majority at any cost. Moses was the grand
hcad-ccntrc of the scheme. 1t is doubtful II there
was ever another conspiracy, organized with such
minutcncss and with such disregard of either eX-
pensc or morality, which produced such utterly
trivial results. The genius of Moses was limited
entirely to the invention OF new Clphers and to
spending with a reckless hand the Copenhagen of
Mr.. 1Ilden. When II came 10 accomplishing any
thing he was dead failure.
A curious rumor floats from the centre Of the
Democratic camp in Washington to the uttcrmost
parts of the Solid South. 1t declares that "pHb!i-
cation VIII shortly be made, giving the inside his
tory of the Tilden campaign" This sounds like an
advertisement of The TRBUNEs Cipher Extra. but
the next sentence shows that It is not intended.
1t will probably narrate the circumstances Dre-
ceiling the nomination, and also make some curious
statements in regard to the cipher dIspatchcs, The
pamphlet will Is said, C1Onerate Governor llide'
while II will bear down heavily Oh Manton Marble
tMososD, Mayor Cooper, WuOlley and Smith Weed"
WHY is the Nephew of his Uncle To be sparedf is
the hand of the Uncle holly engaged ~ prepar-
ing the work which is thus first announced 10 the
friendly SOuthf Or Is this the hlgh-s0undlng pre-
lude TO the work of Johnny COylei