New-York tribune., 1878-10-12
POLITICAL NOTES.

Oh temDora Oh Mosesl
1t isn't so much Of still hunt " as it was.
The country stands aghast at the dimensions Of
Tiden's simplicity.
Wall from the Ark: Oh sigh for no cipher, but
oh sigh for me"
II Mr. Marble doesn't read THE TRIBUNE what
makes him so shy
The sill mt agony of the Democratic editor is the
most moving spectacle of this stormy epoch.
Mr. Tllden is sick with a cold, and vet TIE
TRIBUNE has made 1t as warm for him as possible.
There are symptoms that somebody has whispered
"cipher" into the ear OF the abstTacted HOrh.
The fraud" platform Is growing enormously
but the trouble is that Tilden is under rather than
on top of it.
The TRIBUNE DELAYS its further revelations out
of pure kindness to the coparceners. 1t does not
wish to be brutal.
1t is natural enough for the detected fraud"
yelpers TO cry out "YOu're another but why don't
| they trot out just shadow Of prOofi
The convention which renominated Mr. Potter re-
solved that fraud" must not be condoned but eK-
posed That is just what the poor man has been
trying IN vain TO do.
Private and confidential to the eoparceners aud
their friends: The cipher revelations which have
been published compared with those which are to
come, are as q penDy-whistle TO tOg-horn.
Mr.. Thurman can but be pleased at the unanimity
with which everybody declares that the Ohio elec-
ton has ended his career a Presidential eandi'
date II puts him ont of his agony anyway. There
are peoplo who think that as Thurman goes down,
Garfield goes uD.
Mr.. Saltonstall, of Boston, who was Democratic
visiting statesman to Florida. thinks Mr. Marble
couId not have sent those cipher dispatches, beeaus
he had a room adjoining his aud he heard nothipa
,In tLar DppS la think Moses tie sort Oi
man to shout his clpheTs for the edlhcatlon OF lls
neighbOrsf
Another victim of the OHIO rebuff is likely to bt
John G.. Thompson. His enemies in his own party
in Ohio, who have always been numerous. are clam.
Oring for his retirement from political management
because he has already received great deal more
patronage than his services entltle hlm 70. Ihs u
natural consequence for Thompson tied his pohtl'
cal fortunes to Thurman, and the two must disap-
pear together.
Voorhees, reelection from Indiana seems TO be
assured This is a disgraceful fact, but 1t cannot
be called surprising for Indiana has lately shown
strange fondness for the worst tyre of demagogue'
State which can elect Williams Governor oyer
such man as General Harrison is capable of al
most anything. Williams was nothing but an
animated pair of blue jean pantaloons before his
election, and he has been nothing else since DE has
used the Office as he would use his own private
property to benefit himself. voorhees, Is an aDlet
man than Wilams but he has even less principle
HIS record is as bad as has worst enemy could wish
il to be- vet with spread out before them the peO
pie of the State have reelocted him.
II is solemn fact, which Mr.. Tilden will Go we'll
TO ponder that the sentiment OF the country IS
clearly enough overwhelmingly against the suppU-
sitfon that he was innocent of all knowledge Of the
skullduggery that was going on in his own house in
the Fall and Winter of 1876 1t will require good
deal of card TO overcome this impression and the
longer he delays the harder will the job become.
1t is doubtful If he will gain much even II he Is
able TO prove his entire innocence, for the people
will laugh at the notion of placing man who can
not keep track of the wickedness in his own house
in any public position where he will be exposed 10
the dark and devious wiles of politicians.