New-York tribune., 1878-05-25
POLITICAL NOTES.

1t looks if the Democrats were once more to get
the worst of it in a tussle with the army.
| Possible scene in the Mexican programme:
"Reenter CrOnin and Gobble. yelling fraud"
That Vermont Republican platform will give the
| Democrats hint of what they have done for the
| President and his party
! If the Democratic Congressman is uneasy now
! what Will be his condition when he comes within
| short range OF bis irate cOnstltuentsf
! Mr.. Potter's roorback factory was going to hum
yesterday but it didn't And what's more, il looks
as if the humming might be indefinitely postponed
Sergeant-at-Ams Thompson says the Democrats
mean revolution and expect to show frauds enough
to justify themselves with The people. This creates
! a painful conflict OF yeracity between Inc World
| and Mr.. Thompson.
| Mr. Alfred Morton has started for Florida again
to stimulate a fresh batch of quckened cOnsciences.
Before leaving Washington he said he believed
there was evidence enough TO show that the Presi
dent was implicated IN the frauds, and he Thought
the Potter committee would be able to prove it.
One cause for the delay IN getting the fraud hunt
underway is said to have been the immense labor
required to focus the whole of David Dudley Fields
intellect upon plan OF procedure. MI tleld IS e1-
pccted to draw large salary an invisible expert
and to ruin his client, according to his Well
known custom.
1t is the hardest work in the world for Demo-
cratic statesman to admit that the course Of his
party will unsettle the business interests of the
country. Nearly every Democratic Governor heard
from is quite sure it will not. Let him continue
thinking until the votes begin TO come Ia thls
Fall. He can get some inklng of what he Will lind
out then by gong about among business men now
and making a few inquiries.
Considering its purity of motive, the Democracy
has dreadfully hard time of it trying TO be under
stood. 1t has no intention Of allowing Southern
claims; bless you, no! Yet 1t can't say so in pub
lie manner try it never hard Ii doesn't mean revO-
luton, yet it has had two hrst-cIass opportunities
for saying So and has been unable TO improve then
Ii "Tastles" daily with its evil genius and gets
thrown every time.
The Pennsylvania Democrats have started on
their campaign with a limping candidate and O
platform which cuts them off from all sympathy
with the National party. They will be on the de-
fensiye from the start and they will receive no
subsidies from the Tilden barrel. These drawbacks,
together with the National -Greenback ticket draw
ing away their strength, will give the Republicans
an excellent chance for success. A rafting cam
paign by the Republican leaders will not only give
them the State Government but gain of several
congressman also.
Mr. Dill the man whom the Pennsylvania Demo
Gratis have nominated for Governor in spite of SAM
uel j. TIlden and Samuel J. Randall, refreshed the
convention which nominated him with a speech, in
which he made the remark that the Republican
party when it came into power twenty years ago,
found this country with wealth generally dfused,
with few mionaires, and no squald poverty. As
the result of its policy we now see at one end of
society the nabob, at the other the tramp
Mr.. Dill did not specify which end represented
him, but that was not necessary. What he sIghs
for is the old times restored. With few mlOnaiTes,
but several millions of slaves; with no nabOb or
tramp but society with a STAKEHOLDER at one end
and a slave at the other. and Northern Democratic
party dancing about between the two grateful and
happy with an occasional crumb from the nabObs
table.
1t pleascs the overburdened Democratic editor to
ande to the Republican party as band of robbers.
and to try to give color of excuse to his reyolu-
tiOnary party scheme by saying that when man
has horse stolen and tries TO get him back again,
that is what the Republicans call revolution. This
is a false statement of the Rightly put il
would be- The Democrats were trying to steal q
horse. They had the back door all open and were
loosing the horse when the Republicans caught
them and claimed the horse as theirs a wordy
wTangle ensued, the Democrats threatening war
aud blood unless the horse was given to them. Ar
btratiOn was proposed, and instantly agreed TO by
the Democrats though objected TO by Republicans
Finally both sides pledged themselves to accept it,
and TO abide py the decision. The horse was
awarded TO the Republicans. Whereat the Demo-
crats set up howl of fraud, and have continued 1t
till the present time. They are now engaged IN a
scheme for breaking INTO the stable and taking the
horse by force.