New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-20
POLITICAL NOTES.
on him.

Mr.. Tilden has foreclosed that mort gage, but the
estate is rotten.
The Democratic party will now attempt the inn
possible task Of getting its foot out again.
The new rebellion will end like the old in disaster
to the rebels and In vast expense to the country
Montgomery Blair is clearly jealous of Mr.. Potter
and well he may be. His whole lifetime of bunders
is eclipsed by POtters one.
The new investigators will use the patent Potter
hook which will let go the instant it fastens itself
to Democratic trousers. The catch" will not DO
large, therefore.
There is no Bourbon so rabid as back-slidden
Republican. Witness the noble One-sidedness Of
Charles Francis Adams as compared with the reck-
less twO-sidcdness of Alexander ii. Stephens.
II Fernando Wood resumes operations now with
his Tariff BILL the Republican duty of killing it on
the spot is plain. There is no need Of speeches
against it. What is wanted is votes. The country
viii be kept unsettled enough By the fraud iDyest-
CATION without this menace TO its industries hanging
III suspense over ii till December.
The Solid South has cut itself of from all claim
TO magnanimous treatment for long time to come.
B its own confession Hayes has done more TO pacfy
and rebuild it than Tilden could have done had he
been President; and yet at the first oppor-
tunity it turns about and attempts TO suppl LIANT
Hayes by Tilden, at the risk Of throwing the whole
country INTO revolution Aside from the reckless
men of ingrattudc this generation has seem
II will be well now to watch closely the conduct
of Congress on the Southern claims question. II the
acouescence of the South in the Potter scheme has
been obtained by promises TO grant these claims at
the next Congress, signs Of such an agreement
will soon appear. One of them will be continual
ton of the practice of pOstpOnng all action On the
subject till the next Congress. contrary sign, and
the only one possible VIII be thc unanimous aGto
Of the party against the payment OF all CLAIMS
either now or hereafter. Ii vii be entirely safe TO
bet heavily that no amount of watching VIII detect
the latter sign.
The latest estimate of tine effect of the Democratic
redistricting scheme in Ohio puts down six dis
trcfs ms certainly Republican: seven as certainly
Democratic and seven as doubtful. OF the latter.
two were Republican in 1876, aud five were Demo-
cratic. Each of the doubtful districts gave less
than thousand majority to the party which carried
il in 1876 This shows that hard work by the Re
pubcans will possibly defeat the worst results OF
the Democratic gerTYmaudenn1 after all. lnefo
ought to he the hardest work ever done by tho
Republicans i'll the State, for the controi OF INC
next Congress may be decided by the result.
Mr.. Stephens has no better opinion of the origin
atOrs Of the Potter movement than he has OF It's
political wisdom. He declares that "it was set on
foot by the dead-beats aud disappointed hangers-on
who infest Washington rats infest the sewers OF
Paris" that it was planned to give them employ
ment as scores of them will be appointed as experts
and stenographers and the investigation in all its
qualifications will cost not less than million of dol
lars That is Democratic testimony TO clear case
of Democratic economy, and 1t presents another
view of the movement for the people 20 reflect upon
before voting this Fall. Why should the country
De assessed 81 coo, 900 to furnish the Democracy
with campaign ammunition