New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-02
POLITICAL NOTES.

Trouble will begin promptly at noon to-day.
The Democracy breads this Congress as it never
dreaded one before.
Oh Moses, don't you wish you had skipped the
country month ago
If Nephew Pelton no longer livcsat No. 10 Cipher
alley, who pays his remit
The Democrats are haunted with awful forebOd-
ings about a cipher investigation, all of which VIII
be realized
Perhaps Nephew PetOn will be able to demon
srate that his unces innocence is the most colossal
thing of this century.
1t is only kindness to the coparcencrs to tell them
that Justice is corrallng them corner, and has
her hand uplItted TO strike Repentance Is III order
The country should begin to prepare itself for an
awful revelation. Nephew Pelton is scrapIng to-
gcthcr all his wIckcdness III order to show how he
came 1t over his uncle"
The sympathies of every true-hearted person viii
flow out toward the Democratic editor who is
weary of the talk about cphers. The poor fellow
has only heard he overture. The solid music will
now begin.
II must be with n grim sort of pleasure that Mr..
Clarkson NJ Potter hears the Democratic buster
about thorough cipher investigation bringing out
proof of Republican crOOkednesS. He has con-
Quoted one hunt on a similar notion, and has moth
ing but a cargo OF red-headcd lies 10 snow Tor It,
CONGRESSMAN Manning. of Arkansas. is hard
hearted enough to leave Hendricks out of the field
entirely for 1850, because we can carry Indiana
anyhow" THIS Is dreadful If Hendricks has no
claims as a wager of the tail-plece tor the Solid
South. upon wuat can he base his hopes Mr.. Man
ming thinks Thurman and Hancock the ticket TO
win with.
That will be a great spectacle when Moses walks
before an investigating committee with a cipher
dictionary under each arm, and copy of the shechi
nah letter in his coat-tail pocket. The whole world
viii listen when he explains what he meant by
ringing fire bell in the night. and when he points
out the " traces Of money payment darkly Wis
Ible."
The usual ceremony of nominating Senator Bay
ard for the Presidency is in progress in the Demo-
cratic journals OF Delaware. In addition TO the
usual euogies of his character, which are all de-
served elaborate efforts are made to overcome the
Objection which Is urged against him by every body,
namely. that he hallS from so small state. New
cTtnciess the objection is still staldng and is likely
SO 10 remain.
1t must be q great comfort TO The Nation TO per-
ceiye that Its judicial attitude Oh the cipher
revelations gave the cOparceners and their defend
their chief sOlacc Sd its remarks about BULLDOG
ing aud tissucballot redemption hailed in South
Carolina the best answer to Radical ISLANDERS.
No one of the Democratic journals of the North
which do not pretend to be judicial, can touch the
inncImost cookies Ut the Democratic heart with SO
delicious u touch rs lie Nation haDitually admins
tens.
In tue temporary absence of Governor Hampton
from the GubernatOrial chair of South Carolina
Licutenant-Governor Simpson has emitted a mes
sage to the Legislature of that State in which he
has inserted this luminous passage: I" la conclu-
sion, gentlemen, permit mo To congratulate the
General Assembly and the whole State upon the
peace and good order which have marked tho con-
duet Of our people during the past year, and es-
peclally during the exciting circumstances of the
political campaign through which We have Just
passed" Even bulluoZer must see the fine humor
bis red-shlrt orgies as peace and good order"
Mr.. simpson Is evidently mau who must have his
little joke.
There are symptoms that another Democratic
statesman in Indiana has been infected with the
Presidential mama. Senator Mcdonald haI been
talking with great freedom and with unusual
breadth of view To the casual reporter recently and
has managed to keep himself before the public most
of the time since the November elections. Now the
secret of this conduct leaps from the Senator him.
SELF One of the last OF tho many interviewers led
the conversation easily up to the outlook in 1880,
and then asked him wnat he thought of the PROPOSE
ton TO make tine Democratic ticket Bayard and
Mcdonald. The Senator fairly sprang from his
seat and remarked with great show Oi perturbation
that he never heard Of such thing. When the ln
teryiewer observed that he uuSt know he mad been
mentioned ior he first place, he WAS more disturbed
IMAM before and turned tho SUBJECT by saying:
a. We VIII not talk about that" This supeTabun-
dance of surprise and delcacy shows how badly the
Senator 10 snltteu.