New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-02
POLITICAL NOTES.

The ingenious humbug of Reform by fraud' is
rightly understood at last.
Tilden didn't W sh to rattle for the Presidency but
his friends were willing to shake" Tor IT.
Mr.. Marbles weapons were Iethal,D that's fact,
but they We're constructed on the boomerang prin-
ciple.
Tlldeus back wasn't the only weak one in the
great reform combination, was it, MeSsrs. Kan
|. dali, Lamar WattcrsOn and OttendOrter
Butler is dreadfully opposed to "machine" poll
ties and yet when Massachusetts was suffering most
from Butlerisn" he was engineering pretty &C
tive machpe himself.
A Groenbacker in Maine has been caught reading
one Of William ID. KelIeys most sOnOrOus and ire
spOnsible soft money speeches. and assuring the au
dience that it was made by the late Thaddeus Ste
vens. He must have harbored an awful grudge
against the helpless dead man.
4 card from Mr.. Watterson is in order. He advised
surrender long before Mr.. Hewitt thought of such
a thing, and long before the danger of strife, if
Ti!dcn persisted, had begun to threaten He has
been belabOrug Hewitt for Obstructing the erection
of Mr. Tilden's backbone, aud all the time he had
been ahead of him IN advising SUBMISSION
There Is an unfetteted son of the Democracy run
ming for Congress in Ohio who is said to spell Eu-
rope after an original method Of his own, "Trip
or course no believes in an American system of
finance, and has only applied the principle to or
biography One thing is just as reasonable as the
other. RcckleSsness IN spelling Is good deal less
harmful than reckessness IN financial principles.
Congressman Foster says the Republicans Of Ohio
are manifcstng unusual interest in the campaign
that the party is thoroughly organized that the
Democrats are already beginning to feel uneasy
The Republicans are certainly putting unusual vigor
into their canvass. They have the advantage OF
UncommOuly able spcak crs among their Congress
men, and all these are hard at work, and, what Is
ht4ff are II
Isn't il about time for Senator Thurman TO be
heard from aganl He must have been Aattered by
theextraordnary attention which his opening
excited and no ought to follow it up with others
while he has the public ear There is great interest
in him now, for scarcely anybody believes he will
be able to maintain the scientifically accurate strad-
die which he has assumed. There are passages in
his old speeches which absolutely refuse TO dove
tail with his later statements unless he pares off
the corners and there is great curiosity TO how
he Will manage TO do that He should strike while
the IRON is hot and strike on the principle tnat all
Things are pOssbo to him who would be Pres dent
lie might get out of his trouble by charging that
The Congressional record had been subsidized by
bondhOdeTs TO peryert his sentiments. That would
be "A bold stroke aud there are people III ONO and
elsewhere who would believe II.
A gentleman in Willesbarre writes to THE TRIB-
uNE that an injustice has been done tO'the noble
tribe of Pennsylvania demagogues by an assertion
m this column that Frank Hughes comes nearest TO
the perfect demagOgue of all the inhabitants of the
State. lie says there are more demagOgues to the
square inch IN the Wyoming Valley than can be
found elsewhere IN the habitable globe, and asks
with much anxiety if THE TRIBUNE is going back
on that old and original demagogue Hendrick b.
Wright Perish tine thought He adds, rs encour-
agemcnt for continued faith in Hendrick b., that he
saw him lift his hat TO a mine mule the other day
and express regret that mules cOuld not vote That
is enough. The Colonel is restored to the head of
the class The correspondent continues that If
more proof is wanted he will send the name of a
local Judge who eats nothing but onions TO keep
on "A level with the humblest labOrer, and reads
law book but quack doctors almanac, so that his
learning may not cOntound his followers. IL seems
10 be "A clear case OF MP anu tuck between wright
aud the onion-tater
There is discord among the South Carolina Demo-
Gratis, and the United States SenatOrship is the
cause As everybody knows, Governor Hampton's
ambition is to go to the Senate and the chief
anxiety about carrying the Legislature comes from
desire Oh the part of his friends to send him. His
plan for carrying the Legislature is to concate the
negroes 80 far as IS possible, in order to win their
cooperation with tho Democrats This plan has
lately been opposed by ono Of the most fiery BOur-
bons in the State, General Gary. Ho believes in
success by budOzing entirely, and SCOTS at all at
tempts to unite with the negroes. l suppose" he
says I'VE will next hear Of dining or dancing with
the colored brothers sisters the natural result
of Hampton Democracy Gary is tho man who
nominated Hancock and Hampton as the next
Democratic Presidential ticket few weeks ago. and
il now appears that he did 1t TO get the GOYer-
nor oil the Senatorial track. But the Governors
newspaper organs at announced that the Senate
was the place for him, and since then the fight
has been growing warmer, and has taken tho form
of n dispute concerning the conduct OF the cam
palgn.