New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-07
POLITICAL NOTES.

Saws Mr.. Tildeu to Messrs. Thurman and Hem
bricks: 81 am one length ahead of YOU again, dear
brethren"
If seems TO have been case of nip and tuck be-
tween Procrastinatep and "GObble," though
"Gobblo won.
Poor. venerable old Faneul Hall II ought to
have been spared the isgracefu and polluting pres
ence of Kearney. 1t was sheer dissertation.
Mr. Marble seems to have labored full as hard to
lacerate the noble English tongue to defend Mr..
Tilden The rural DEMOCRATIC editor is hopelessly
wrestling with his polysyilables.
There wasn't much that was definite enough to be
commented upon in Hendrckss sDeech but perhaps
the most unnecessary piece of fooshness in it was
the using of Voorheess exploded assertion that the
XVIII Amendment Is n complete bar to the payment
of Southern claims.
Kearney seems TO be a good deal moro anxious to
Endorse Butler than Butler is to have him do it.
IL would have been worth good deal of money to
have seen Buffers face when he read Kearney's de-
scription of him as the chivalrous and white
pumed Navarro of the Tostrum-gallant, gifted glO-
rious Butlerw 1t is safe to bet that the General dId
not echo the cry OF the orowd;" say it againW No
bald-headed man likes to be called whIte-plumed."
The Democratic Congressman In Ohio who was
nominated on the 1,255th ballot, and who made
such feeling speech of acceptance, Is said to
look like Abraham Lincoln. 1t is also said Of him
that he is a smooth fluent and able talker,D and
that he is at once admired, feared and respected"
which makes him out decidedly remarkable per
sOnage. His first speech was certainly " fluent"
and If he always talks in that way t is easy TO
understand why an assemblage would fear " him
were they IN danger OF speech.
Blackburn of Kentucky, has made discovery
which will create panic among Western and
Southern Democrats They have claimed persist
emily that there is necessity for the existence
n National party, since the aims which the Nation
ais seek are all Democratic Blackburn upsets all
this, aud thus declares: "Why adopt the Green
back organization. or why adopt the Labor League,
or why enter into the doctrines of the red-mOuth
Communist, or the still more warning elements of
the National party For one and all, they are but
subtelfuge and fraud 10 is nothing more, il is
nothing less. than Che defeated, crushed and diving
elements of Radicalism seeking to deceive you un-
der the alluring mask Of specous falsehOOd." That
is not the kind of talk which viii help on the bus
ness of uniting the National and Democratic strength
upon combination tickets.
IL is clear enough that there is no love lost
between Hendricks and Voorhees, There have
been hints of a Democratic conspiracy in Indlanap-
oils for the defeat of Voorhees, and friends of Hen
dncks were said to be involved. How true these
reports were cannot be asceTtained, but the bear
ing of the two men seems to show that something
inharmonious has occurred Voorhees, was charged
with saying that he considered Thurman the most
prominent Democratic candidate for the Pres-
dency aud when he denied the charge he was care
full TO say nothing in favor of Hendricks claims
Now Hendricks mounts the stump to open a cam
pagn whose chief object Is the reelection Of Yoor-
hees, and he Is scrupulously careful not TO say a
direct word In favor OF HIM, He merely says VOor-
hees Is a candidate, and he leaves It to the Demo-
Gratis TO see whether he will represent their opinions
better than his rival, General Harrison What he