New-York tribune., 1878-12-03

ycrtising. gentlemen if you will shoulder the con-
fcssion that you dare not touch the ciphers'
IL Mr.. Randall will subscribe for q few Southern
newspapers he will discover that the movement IN
favor of solid Southern Speaker is gaining ground
rapidly. HIS only hope is to show extraordinary
devotion TO solid Southern interests during this ses-
Congressman Singleton, of Mississippi. is credited
with the perspicacious observation that the Demo
Gratis have certainly got hold of the hot end OF the
poker in this cipher business" They have. they
have and the worst of it is they can't let go, sqr
they never so hard.
Senator Booth thinks California Republicans
would prefer Grant in 1880. and after him. Blaine
The latter is very popular in the State, Mr. Booth
says, having been there several times and being
well known to all the leading men. Any one the
Republicans may nominate, he adds Will carry the
state i'm 1880 1bs makes the Solid North side OF
the column surer than ever.
No sooner do the correspondents get back to
Washington than the familiar dispatch begins TO
appear again informing an anxious country that
the greatest harmony still exists between the Presi-
dent and his Cabinet and that nothing but death
or voluntary resignation will induce him to part
with any of his adylsers II is all well enough. but
what the Use of saying it Everybody compre-
heuds by this time that perpetual love-1cast Is
spread ID the White House, and that exhaustion is
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impossible.
Paragraphs have been floating around to the effect
that Mr. Blaine thinks Mr.. COnkling the best candi-
date for $780, And now comes rumor from the
East that Mr.. Conkling thinks Mr.. Blaine the most
available. 1t will be an edifying spectacle at the
next Republican National Convention to see the
friends of Conkling and Blaine each maintaining
that the other should he nominated. Damon ana
Pythias would represent positive hatred compared 10
love aud sacrifice like unto this. Blame ana Conh-
Ling are the only two living men capable OIL such
abnegation OF self.
The Hon. Galusha A. Grow Is not third term
man. if the correspondents of The Cincinnati Enquirer,
who has been talking with him, reports him cor
rectly. He says he is opposed to Grants renomina-
ton on the ground that the Republican party wants
craftsmanship in Its head. He believes the party
has had no sufficient President since Lincoln. HE
expects to see the currency debate last two years
longer TO the South demand State banks In place
of the National banks and that issue he is
cry Northern State can be counted the side of the
National banks Concerning Democratic Preslden,
tIa candida es, Nr; Grow thinks 1llden ana
straddler, and the party wants a fellow who can
straddIe both sides of the financial aud sectional
questions Hendricks is their man, then.
There is a good deal of uproar on both sides
concerning the change of Wardens IN Auburn
Prison. but several things seem TO be clearly estab-
lished. One is that Warden Wees was asked to
resign and refused another Is that Superintendent
Pilsbury acted against his own VIII in making the
change, and third is that Mr.. Pilsbury has as
sured Mr. Weles that there was no charge against
him, but that lie was forced to remove him to pre-
serve harmony with 1Iden, Robinson and COM
pany The long and short of the whole matter Is
that Welles Is not ]ilden worker and Moses
name redOlent of coparceny-is. and so W eIles Is
pitched out and Moses put in. Ii Ia the old per-
formance of Tden reform over again. Perhaps
it means that Ilden is trying to get control OF the
State for 1880. Ii lie does, IL viii not behOove the
Republicans 10 make such row about 1T as VIII
deleat 80 desirable a capture.
There will be no end of fun when the cOparceners
mount the stand and take their solemn oaths to
tell the frozen truth about their cipher experience
that is. of course if the Democrats finally decide
that they will be "drawn into" so partisan con-
troversy. Then win the guileless Mr. Wooley un-
fold to us a narrowing tale Of his struggles with
cipher dictionary. which sometimes would tit and
sometimes wouldn't. Perhaps he will coufde to the
investigators what he has already impaired to his
friends, that The TRIBUNE translated several DIS
patches which he never could get out. Other CO.
parceners have confessed 70 similar troubles, ana
the unhappy persons who held intercourse with the
accompished but eccentric Moses must have bad
seasons of wrestling with his experiments in Ian
guage which will both delight and edify the pnDilc
OF course all this will have tendency to advertise
TIE TRIBUNE but then ii will afford public anluse-
ment and instruction at the same time, which Is
precisely what The TRIBUNE habitually aims to do.
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