New-York tribune., 1878-11-26
POLITiCAL NOTES.
The North is getting mad rs well as solid.
A tissuo-ballot is as lethal a weapon as ciph'
Wade HamptOn's leg is healing, but his reDut;

mas IcIdD5tu
Onion-skIn ballots seem 80 be the paramount tis-
sue IN South Carolina politics.
A red shirt with a lssue-balot pinned to the tail
Is a high old =" reform y COnialOn.
II seems to be almost universally admitted
that General Grant makes asucceS5ful exPresident.
The Democratic editor begins to wonder il this
shower of disasters is not about over. He yearns
for rest.
There are 10 signs that the buzzard dollar agitator
has the people with him. and there several that
he has them against hun.
4 Western Democratic editor speaks in o wither-
ing maunerof the "allcgcd cipher dispatches:
What moylcrJ that sounds like to the coparccners
Secretary ShcTmau's friends arc rcmarking that
fhis resumption plans are successful he will haye
'cha1ccs" as "a Republican candidate In 1880. I'm
doubicdIy he VIII.
There Is rnmor that the Hon. ClaiksOn Potter
Will consent to run for Congress now in his old
district, 10 fiji the vacancy caused by the death on
election day the successful Republican candidate.
The President Will probably find SPACE in his
message for fresh explanation Of Civil Service
Order No. /. The country has not been treated to
any Official and authoritative commentary Oh that
tcAt tur several mouths.
II President Hayes experiences any poverty Of
subject matter for Ia, message next week. he might
iryit, Eaton, the great North American educator,
10 interprlate another recommendation Of that
National University job.
Indiana Repnb!icans are contemplating a ticket
Of Grant and Harrison for 1850, and are asking If
il would not be a good one to bring ont the vote Of
q solid North. Indana's position as talpiece Of
the Solid South Is the mann thIngGgainst the ticket
The Democrats complain that Republicans are
raising the " bloody-shirt issue. Now Republic
cans not responsible for the Red Shirts in South
Carolina; but they can't he kept from talking
about them.
General Ewing looks upon Hendricks and Thur
man rs the most probable Democratic candidates
in 1850. lie thinks Thurman has the better chance
because he is bold in defining his views. while
Hendricks L. "Obscur..' And vet tho General has
been known 10 intimate that Thurman was not sin
cero IN his devotion TO the "Ohio Idea.'
Senator Mcdonald who is a mild sort of hard
money man, is inclined to think that the Democrats
will abandon the question Of iiredeemabIe and il
limitablc paper money, and will unite in an attack
upon the National banks He expects to see them
become harmonious on this is ne, and also draw re-
cruits from the Republicans. The idea Is TO shout
down with the National banks" whenever the Re-
pubicans say "clphers' or tissue ballots" 1t Is
a harmless scheme, but it wont work.
Postmaster-Gencra Key has reached the unas-
sailable conclusion that the Solid South is rrs own
pnblicaus from keeping control Of the Government
for half generation come if the sectional line is
drawn, and a Solid North is arrayed against q Sold
South lie is satisfied by admissions from South
Carolina Democrats that baIiot-box stufling was
general in that State election day and he favors
n thorough Investigation OF the whole business.
This SOFT of talk from The judge is Likely to endear
him moro than even to the section Tor whose recon-
citation he was placed III the Cabinet.
IL, T..
more. He admits that the New-York bankers were
merely protecting their dcpoIitors when they de-
clarod that deposits should be payable IN the same
coin with which they were made, but objects to
their making proclamation of their intent, their
thrusting upon the country their superficial. self
ish and supercious opinions about the lawful use
of money" WhYg Behold the reason: Tho
people Of the United States have again the silver
opiop i'm tho payment of debts, and never will give
il up-ncyerw This brings the buZzard dollar issue
on to its old ground again namely, that the debtor
shall have IA chance TO make his creditor take 90
cents for llareyery time.
Justice Samuel Miller, of the United States SUI
preme Court has been talking in free and easy
way with CATH" of The Cincinnati EnQdircr, about
politics and politicians. His own State, Iowa. is
for Blaine in 1880, yet he doubts if Blaine is as
strong as he was in 1876, while COnklmg is little
stronger than ut that time. Grant is the leading
man, but the JUSTICE, Nnlc Nc 1cBdIuS uIu as u
brave man, thinks he governed TOO much ON the
principle of saying to Congress: Let me do few
things and yOu can do everything else rs YOU
please" He is sure Grant will want a denomination
ii he thinks he can be elected, otherwise not.
frequent remark of Southern editors is some
thing like this If the South is to continue solid,
il will be the work of continued sectional alarms
and war cries. continued sectional threats and
exaspcrations" That does not go back to the first
cause. The threats" war-cres and " "exaspcra-
tionsr will continue just long as the bulldozers
redshir flaps in the breeze just as long as" TISSUE
balots cram Southern ballot-boxes To the bursting
Doint: inst rs long the Southern son OF chlYalfy
prancos about with pistol III one hand ahd clnD
in the othor making life IA terror tO every man who
does not vote tho Democratic ticket Until the
Solid SOuth ceases TO furnish the demand for the
threats" and "cXaspCraIons" the Solid North Will
coutinno the supply.
Mr.. Hezekiah B. Smith, Congressman-elect from
the Id New-Jerscy District. being duly interviewed
deposes and says that he is not biga'
mist; that no never was married TO We
roma Eveiine English that the story in 1h,
Spyiagfed Repabljcda is a slander prompted by poll
ticiaus. He admits an mprudenee of forty year,
auo:D that he may be the father of some
of Mrs Englis's children but he was (he reasscrts
| "neyer fool enough to marry her." lie did buy hel
n house aud lot IN Woodstock, but he did this ou
Of the sheer kindness OF his heart aud b,
rather than else intimatcs that he is in the
habit OF buying houses and lots for thoss
who stand III need of them. His privacy
has been broken INTO by gang. OF housing poll
ticians" He is "going to Washington IN spite
of trumped-up charges that must fall to pieces IN
| day Or two" reiOinder from the correspondent