New-York tribune., 1879-04-22
POLITICAL NOTES.

httOTu DE lNl>lS IS Il bopIiIiIS otOtfH5'
What has become of the anti-Chnese movement
Just at present Slr Tllden is mildly interested in
politics.
Tammany continues to heap up billed crow against
the day OF Diod crow.
Governor Robinson Is a rifle late in realizing his
position as a Tllden agent.
Every time Thurman blunders Sammy puts on
another and more eNcrucauug twist
II should be remarked that the Republicans are
not blt anxious Tor the Democrats to back down.
Ewing gazes pityiugly at De La Matyr and So
hlOqmzes: Now even am not SO crazy rs that"
The rolLcan shows August Belmont and Peter
Dwyer absent and unaccounJed for.' Why IS
this thus
Mayor Coopers temerity in disregarding AIr. Til
dei's protests against AIacLeau's appointment is
absolutely startling.
Tammany's prospects For making ant-Tilden
demonstration in the next National Democratic
Convention are not relugent.
Ex-Prcacher De La Matyr is horrible example
OF che condition OF mental chaos TO which COM
pcte possession Of the Greenbaca mania may bring
"a man.
A trustworthy statistican reports that during
the first moath Of the extra session Democratic
orators flung down the gage OF battle " nifty
seven times.
candid Editor Of The Ok0ioAG lS.ssJ States to
q cIerkship where he might possibly let his victuas
stop hls mouth
Senator David Davis tGlobular Independent, H.
is once more balancing himself in unstable cquilI5-
rium and there seems 10 be some doubt as to which
way be VIII next roll
Mcclellan would make strong canvass in the
Solid South. The Confcdcrates prayed for his
election, although tbey could not vo,o when be
went through ths motions of running in %.
Thurman has suffered many discouriesies of late
from his party friends, but it has been left for
Democratic newspaper IN Vermont to oif5r the
crownug insult Of placing him second on the ticket
aud after Mcclellan 81 that
Postmast ar-Genera Key says the Democrats arc
doing their best TO secure General Grants nomina-
ton. This is true. Even Mr. WatJerSon has given
a powerful boost by starting story aboat tho
Generals feebieueSs.
Smith Weed is the most patient and uncomplain-
ing agent any Reformer ever had bat il does seem
as ii he were not called upon TO boar. without pro-
test, n public kicking from Governor Robinson.
J.dcn furnishes an adequate allowance oil that sort
OF thing.
An admring Democratic correspondent remarks
that Senator Thurman attracts good deal oi 81
teuti II ~ presiding officer Of the Senate. He at
tracts "a good deal moro rs the willing tool of tho
hungry RetOrHel5 who hays seized upon tle Wee
Presidents absence oppOl tunlty 10 thrust their
noses iuto the pubic CRIB.
The South Carolina bulldozing editors arc gush.
ing over the in the United States Senate when
Hampton. brave knight and true' was sworn in.
Tho United States Court III South Carolina is con
victing the ssuebaot suffers and their assistants
who sent the brave lni ght and true" 10 Washing
There is something painfully dlscOrdant about
these two bits OF news.
A Confederate Major-Gonoral will get q vacant
MesSengershp under tho Thurman regime, and q
couple OF brigadiors will be mustered in "a deputy
doorkoepcrs. Itmay be that some colonel5 will get
on the payroll as aborers but no officer IN the rebel
army of q lower grade Will have his claim consd-
cred. There arc too many applicants who OuTank
him.
The trouble with tho Confederate forces in wash
ingtOn seems 30 DO that they consist too exclusively
of musicians The number OF windy warriors who
trip gayly to the front and blow the defiant horn IS
altogether out OF proportion 20 their more scf-con
tanned comrades who quietly determine to stand in
line and abide the shock when it comes. This dis
crepancy is aggravated by the demonstrated fact
that these ready trumpeters are by no means a
sternly purposed band. Tho musicians who were
most forward in blowing challenges ars now the
most prompt to sound retreat
There is no doubt about II, Mr. 1ilden must set
that barrel 10 rolling through the South as once or
thercll be trouble. Tho opposition to him IN the
Southern journals becomes moro outspoken each
day They go so far as to say that it would be
great boon 10 the party to have him out of the field
since hi. nomination will take all the energy aud
spirit out OF the campaign SO far as the Southern
Democrats arc concerned. Why not start Smith
Weed South at oncei He knows the ground, and
how to irugato It.
There is an impression among Indiana Democrats
that Hendricks blundered badly in his recent in
tervew. They say there is no doubt that his In
tenton was to place himself in the field as q can
didate for the irst place, and that the only result