New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-13
POLITICAL NOTES.

veto would take the wind out OF notification.
Rear it in mind that the President has his back
elevated.
Cox has backed down, yelling fraud. The country
has escaped peril.
Blackburn is as meek as Beck. If he keeps as
quiet his party will be in luck.
Knott's address will be badly shattered il the
President shoots another veto into the centre OF it,
II Hill will stop explaining long enough to vote
right for few times the country may get better
opinion of him.
Wade Hampton wishes the South to be judged by
its actions rather than by its words. Tlssuebalos
and rie-eiubs, for instance.
The Iowa Republican Convention cheered wildly
at the mention of Blaines name, utterly oblivious
to the fact that the Deputy Democratic editors
killed him off last Fall.
The "Okolona idiots fellow editor delivered the
address before the Mississippi Press Association the
other day. That doesn't look as if the idiots paper
misrepresented the state.
Democratic authorities differ in opinion as to
whether the party has really backed down or nor.
The question will be decided beyond appeal If the
President decides that they have not and yetoes the
notification Judicial bill.
letter has been received in Washington from
General Grant, written at Siam, in which he speaks
Of seeing in American papers references TO politca
demonstrations in his honor on his arrival at San
Francisco and says any formal display would not
be agreeable to him.
Proctor Knott argues somniferously against the
presence of troops at the polls, the face OF the
fact that there has been no claim put IN for the
chrome which The TRIBUNE offered month ago TO
the Northern Democrat who would swear ne had
been forced To cast his vote AMID Dristnhg Dayo-
nets"
1t is cool piece of impudence for Wade Hampton
To claim credit for the South in preventing war III
1870 There was no threat of war from any quar-
ter save from the South and we are asked to give
the South credit for holding itself back ! Waiter
sons advance of 100. 900 Bourbons Oh the, Capital
was the only hint at war, and there Wasn't ire
mendOus effort required TO check that
Congressman Hurd, of Ohio, has received letter
signed by 500 hard-money Democrats OF Lucas
County, asking for his advice about voting IN the
coming election Hurd is hard-money man HIM
self. and he will advise the troubled brethren 10
swallow their convictions and vote Tor EWING
That ia the true Democratic course.-make prinei-
ME and parlotlsm subordinate to party every time
The country has had its NIL OF statesmen Oh TINS sor
When Jefferson Davis says he has never seen a
Southern woman reconstructed, he reveals one oi
the chief causes for the continued bitterness OIL the
soutb toward the Union ~ it Is These are the
came Southern women who spat upon the Union
soldiers during the war. They are the same women
who wore red-shrts in South Carolina duripa inc
last campaign. and it = they who are tranipg sP
the rising generation Of the South TO hate the Noth
as their fathers have done.
There Is something pathetic in the way the
assistant Democratic editor elings 90 David DAVIS
he persists in stating every day or two that DAVIS
is still Presidential candidate, though there ID not
n sign anywhere that he could got vote from any
State. Nobody of any influence speaks OF him OF
takes him into account at all in calculating the
chances for next year. Like the assistant editor
aforesaid Davis has stayed out in the cold too long
The time for third party foolery has gone oy int
country has gone beyond IL with a rush, ana u
Convinced as never before that 1t must have PACK
bone in its politics in order to have any force In w
Government.
Poker playing Is said to have been unusuai,
prevalent in Washin gton during the past lev
weeks, and many ovsrworked Congressman are re
ported to have refreshed themselves aud hghtenst
| their pockst-books by almost continuous devotion