New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-11
POLITICAL NOTES.

Maine has gone "hell-bent" this time without
doubt.
The Democratic party will now throw itself head.
long into the Greenbackers embrace.
A lively row between Tammany and anti-Tam-
many is first-class way in which to open the New
York campaign.
If Mr. Tilden fairly exerts himself to get control
of his party in this State it is doubtful if cphes
dispatches can stop him.
The result in Maine shows that every vote against
the Republican party is q vote against honest
money and the National credit.
The vote in Maine proves that the Republican
party is the only organized political force which
opposes the rising tide of Socialism.
If General Hancock looms as a Presidential candi-
date what becomes of the chances Of those other
Pennsylvania aspirants, Randall and Wallacef
The returns from Maine prove that vote for the
Democratic party is a vote of sympathy for infa-
ton, reputation, Communism and Kearneyism.
1t is high time for ali honest men to combine
against the acknowledgements coalition when
it sends to Congress from Vermont self-confessed
straw-bidder,D and from Maine an ignorant leader
of strikes.
Butler will be convinced that the result in Maine
assures his success IN Massachusetts,. On the
trary it is likely to fix the certainty of his defeat by
waking Massachusetts up to realization Of the
size OF the hgnt now on It's nandS.
Mr. Tilden's touch may be clammy aud unsympa-
tbetic but then he can shuttle and skate along
until he charges himself with enough electricity to
give Tammany a bouncing shock whenever he takes
hold Of the wires and never once catch his pedome-
ter on the centre OF throw it out Of gear.
It would be lamentable if Nation which bad just
proved its readiness to fight and suffer for prinei-
pie should fail at last for lack of common honesty;
fail to keep its word in a simple business matter;
make shpwreck of its honor in the hope, and the
baseless hope at that of gaining or saving certain
dollars in forced bargain with Its creditors.
Speaker Randall is sure that the Democrats will
have at least thirty majority the next House, and
that the chances good for even more than that.
He also believes they will carry Pennsylvania they
have the best opportunity in the world for doing it,
He says nothing about the Nationals PROBABLY
counting them as Democrats, as Is only Just and
proper.
II anyone will take the trouble to look over some
newspaper file for July, 1877, and read the ha-
rangues of the mob-eaders who were then MEETING
rioters to plage arson and murder he will discover
that they sound precisely like extracts from the
milder passages of the campaign speeches which
Mr.. Kearney and other refOrmers of the National
Greenback order are now delivering
The Democratic Congressional Committee is said
to be out of funds and unable to continue its work
of disseminating misinformatlOn in the form of
campaign literature A solemn consultation has
been held and decision reached to assess every
Democratic Congressman for voluntary cOntrIbu-
lions. If the response is not liberal, an attempt
will be made to extract some money nom the lnden
crowd IN New-YOrk. This looks like forlorn hope
Mr. Illden has use for all his funds IN TINS state
at present, and request for contribution from him
would fall on stony ground.
1t is said by the Republicans of Ohio and Indiana
that the National movement IN their States will in
jure them less than it will the Democrats That is
undoubtedly so, but the point is that the Republic
cans cannot afford to be injured at all. The Maine
Republicans have found this out to their cost, and
are now regretting that they did not work more
systematically TO counterfeit the teachings of the
National canyassers. The Democratic party is
everywhere in league with the Nationals, and the
victory of one is the victory of the other The only
Republican plan OF battle IS 10 hight both factions
with equal energy, and fight them anywhere and
everywhere
Whatever else the Maine election means there is
no doubt about its verdict concerning the Demo-
cratic party There isn't enough of it left there to
fasten a name to. 1t has been swallowed bodily by
the National organization of the discontinued and
the disreputable. The same thing will happen IN
nearly or quite all the other States. Massachusetts
is headed the same way Pennsylvania has already
started, aud even New-1ork is getting ready. In
the West there is no difference between a National
and Democrat. This leaves the Republican party
as the sole defender of honest finance and the only
security against Ignorant ana reckless legislation OF
all kinds.
The most striking thing about the National move
ment is its fondness for damaged demagogues. Here
is the irrepressble Ignatus Donnely nominated fol
Congress by the Nationals in the IIId Minnesota
District, and actually accepted by the Democrats.
Ii seems almost incredible. DOnnelly has been
hanging on the edge of every party which he could
get his nose into for years. and has been kicked and
cuffed so persstently that nobody believed he had
any political life left. 1t no wonder the leading
journal of Minnesota, The Pioneer Press of St. Paul,
rubs its eyes in bewiderment and asks if the nomi-
nation is meant for burlesque 1t calls Donnelly
"played-Out and discarded demagogue, a bankrupt
political adventurer and dead-beat, whose nOmina-
ton is an insult to the Democratic party Of the dis
trictn placing il in the position Of a donkey hired
to carry harlequin through mock performance in
political circus" aud says it will be greatly mis-
taken if three-quartcrs of the Democrats are not
thoroughly disguised and ashamed. Perhaps they
will be- but the Republicans of the district will DO
wise TO proceed on the superstition that every Demo-
erat IN the district will vote for Donnely on cleo
ton day. No well-regulated Democrat allows his
disgust TO interfere with his vote.