New-York tribune., 1878-12-21
POLITICAL NOTES.

Here's wishing you'll enjoy the holidays, Moses.
Congress adjourns, sweet c0parceners, put ihI
TRIBUNE never does.
Don't unravel that dispatch unless you feel Ike
1t, Neyy. new key can be fitted.
Mr.. Cox will devote the holiday recess to BRAIN
racking effort TO construct new joke.
No more Congress for sixteen days! What lovely
opening for har-liftinG demand for cipher hunt,
Mr.. Tildeni
Fernando Wood should advertise for victims Of
buldozng in New-York City. He'd get an answer
from Uncle Dick Schell.
IL Blaine were not already promising Presiden-
tial candidate. the unanimous ana persistent abuse
OF the Democratic press would make MIN ohe'
The Tilden organs in Central New-Yolk are try
ing to start the fraud cry again as the issue for
1880. That is THE TRIBUNE's ambition, and 1t Will
boost 1t from time to time with more clphers.
General Toombs thinks Blame has marked out
the only course by which the Republican party can
regain its lost power. That is what makes the
whole Democratic party so tearing mad at Blaine
The Potter Committee Is said to have exceeded its
appropriation 5000 already. and to have no funds
with which 90 send the subcommittee TO New
Or cans Mr. Potter is so anxious to get away from
the clphers hat he Will doubtless be glad 10 tOot
the bills hmSef.
Another week has gone and Mr.. James b. Camp
bell, Of Charleston, has not been asked oy Demo
cratic editor to give his testimony about the late
election in South Carolina. Yet every editor III the
party s yelplng daily that all charges of fraud In
that election are Radical hes" started for the I'M
holy purpose of keeping alive sectional animos-
tiles"
Senator Thurman is said to have greatly ncensed
the unwashed Democracy by his statement that
property, intelligence and education VIII as 'ert
their supremacy everywhere N the face OF the
globe;' and no wonder. If 1t wero true, the Demo
cratic party would have q slim hold on existence.
The party feels suited at the declaration thai
money and brains nave more weight In politics than
w.iskey and buldOZe s clubs, and well 1t may.
Mr.. Hewitt is credited with saying that the
Democrats are bothered about touching the cphers.
because the New-York members are reluctant to
move III the matter on account OF their personal
relations to Tiden while the Democrats from other
sections declare that the subject properly belongs
TO New-York and should be meddled with by
members outside of that State. That IS curious
condition of affairs, but the Democrats from all
sections fai To give the real reason Tor theiT shy
ness which is - lively apprehension that half the
truth about the cipher cOparceny has not been
told.
A devoted disciple of Mr. Tilden remarks. with
what is intended to be impressive manner, that
the Republicans are trying to shove aside the
" "conspiracyr OF 1876, and are determined not TO
have 1T made conspicuous in the next campaign
"The issue of Fraud" he adds, with a large +,
"may determine the next Presidential election"
With no pretensions 10 a gift of prophecy, The
TKIBt'NE ventures to remark that the issue of
Fraud has already determined the next Pres-
GENITAL election lhIs country IS fairy aching Tor
an opportunity TO vote on the Fraud winch was
not triumphant III it's efforts TO buy a Presidency
and Oh tho otner Fraud which was triumphant
through tisSue-balos and clu.'s III South Carolina
A Washington dispatch to The indianapolis Jour
nal enumerates some of the excuses which the
Democrats arc making for their wriggling over the
cIphers and adds that the - Republicans are per-
fectly satisfied with the the cipher dispatches
have made out against lilden. and will not re-
leye the Democrats from their dilemma by de-
manding an investigation" OF course not; they
would be very stupid to do that. The dispatches
have been translated. and the country has red
dered its verdict. Even tho Democratic press
has declared tnat the party VIII confess that tue
transatons correct II it declines to show that
they are incorrect. The case as t stands, Is dam
aging enough TO tho Democrats to suit the Repub-
hcaus for present purposes Ii. after short season
of further wnggling, tho Democrats decline aDso-
utey to touch the dispatches, then 1t VIII be time
for the Republicans 10 decide what they Will do
The only question now Is Will the Democrats IN
vestigale their corruption. or will they confess
that they dare not for fear oil making IL worseI
II the movement 10 run Thurman for Governor Of
Ohio was really started TO Kill HIM off Presi-
dental candidate, it undoubtedly originated with
tho soft-money wing of the Democracy in that
State Disciples of Ewing and Cary have never
liked Thurman, and have never had any faith in
the sincerity of his sudden conversion to their
faith They believed he came over to their side to
gain their support for 1880, and they did not like
the idea of having him head off in this way the
claims Of their own tried and true champions.
Ewing made no secret of his OPINION IN the last
.gn that Thurman was much of hard
money man rs ever heart, and III that opinion ne
was undoubtedly sound. Thurman Is too able a
man not to SEE the utter folly of system of ire
deemabe money. His elaborate argument of last
Summer against the impractlcablhty OF the Re
sumption Act must be dismal reading to him now as
he surveys the actual presence Of resumption. He
has crowned his puDlio career with colossal blum
der and the fruits of il beginning t0 come in.