New-York tribune., 1879-02-04
POLI7ICAL NOTES.

II looks more and more ike whitewash, Mr.
Tliden.
If there were dynamite in that cipher barrel it
could not be more dreaded.
Tur TRIBuvE Is almost alone in its consuming
desire 20 see Mr.. Illden YIHdicatcd.
Moses will be encouraged sufficiently presently
to pop his head out Of the ark and shout: " Who's
afraid
No man can help admiring the forttude with
which Mr.. 1ildcu bears the dilatOry progIc>, Of rhe
cipher hunt.
Mr.. Potter ought to have learned by this time
never 10 leave mis- committee unprotected. Ii is
sure to see bogles and get scared.
Perhaps Mr. Mcmahon is afraid to take charge Of
the cipher expedition lest he yindicate IIdcn and
thus destroy Inurinaus Fresidentdi chauceS.
There are sad but unmiS,akabc evidence, that
the country Will refuse to accept Nephew PcltDn a.
an adequate scapcgoat. even ii NOses ID fastened
20 the tIIl of the procession
Uncle Dick Bishop has returned to Ohio from
Washington with the profound conviction that the
oniy hope tor Democratic success IN his State this
Fail Is 10 run himself again tor Governor HE
party Is slowly making up lis mInd m the same way.
Moses viii probably let down his shoulders
couple of holes before he takes the stand. The at
titudc of outraged innocence would be found too
constrained for comfort under the strrSs 0I cross
examination.
One of Sitting Bulls medicine men has st Mob
bles Shechnah letter to aboriginal music, aud re-
ports that he ha, administered 1t with h.s Gus
tomary success as an incarnation to his
smallpox patients. He further reports that
he has eAperim,ntcd with the charm. chanting IT
bo.. backward and forward, and that sick Indians
appear to cIuigratc 20 the Happy limiting Ground,
AZ about the same rate under either torm Ot treat
mcrt. Here Is q clew worth following up, Perhaps
every body has begun to read the letter az the wrong
end.
Mr.. Potter explains 10 a reporter of The '2"mo'-
rai tha, ii is difficult 10 Obtain chairman for his
subcommittee because members are 50 busy during
the closing weeks Of th, session thai they do not
like to leave Washington. Then why not conduct
tL. inquiry in Washington lhat'> the place for
Il. Mr. Tldcn aud the coparccncro are not too busy
20 20 there.
Mr. f. T. Jon s, the new Senator from Louisiana
told the legislators who elected him, that the " cX
alted position OF Uhitod States senator had been
the dream OF hi- ho,hood and the hope Of bis ma
turrr years, and hc was enormously grateful To
them for giving the office to him. He was deter
mined TO be true 10 the glorious and gallant Demo
cratic party, and 10 do his best to WIPE ont the
last Vestlgc of military rule and de.potl,h III tis
country lie was also ardent in bs drsirr for
lcyce appropriation. All of which shows that Jonas
is Simon-pure SOLE southern statesman.
The TIlden Bureau is clearly enough loodiug the
buttons do not appear in the more prominent
Journals Of the South but Ia the more obscure and
rural ones. In those the tune about Iildcn being
the only man who can carry New-lork State il
ground out with great ptr~isteucy. IL is varied
with remarks about tho folly ot nominating West
ern mtlationiot Gud thus losing all the Eastern aud
Middle STATES. lildrn's denomination bv accama-
ticn is already predicted, aud IL the South makes
up Its mud to have hIm again, OF course the party
will have To- bow IN acquleScehce.
The Southern bulllozors make haste to confess
that the investigation by the Teller Committee has
established the truth of the charges against them.
The leading bulldo2ing organ or South Carolina
iabors through three columns 10 show that the
Democrats have not such a bad case after all aud
then In q fcrVid peroratOn upsets all its work by
turning bully and thus virtually confesslng iudg-
meut IL declares that with the negro. or with
out him, IA "A class, the Democracy white and
colorcd will retain possession of the statc;'
that for peace for security, and for the
tion OF their political rights, the white people of
south Carolina have fought before and they will
not abandon the fight now that The ballot Is mono
effective than the bullet"
Oh no. the South doesn't favor claims. Whoever
saws it does IL Radical liar and sIanderer" This
must he 80. for the whole Democratic press OF the