New-York tribune., 1879-04-10
POLITICAL NOTES.
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| fOLIJiC5L hNiEc.
Tillen stock goes up but Democratic stock goe,
| down.
Tia, ia. Mr. Thurman, you have made n noble mess
! of IL.
Tilden will get his nomination, but what will it
! be worth
The Republican party is solid and mad That's
| what's the matter with the elections.
Ciphers coparceners and stuffed ballot-boxes are
not regarded by the people as the symbols of true
reform
| Ohio and New-York being both pivotal State,
now more than ever, the combination of Tlden aud
| Thurman looms again.
An extra session and Solid South united make
Republican votes a. fast as South Carolina bull.
doZer can stuff in tlssue-baliots.
| The Governor remarks unto the three,
| - care not how this difference arose;
Your IncapacIty is PLAIN 30 me,
| For every street convinces every nose y
| The Democrats admit now that ONO is a doubt
| full State. After the people heard from in the
Fall elections the whole North will be doubtful
| also.
Tiden declares that the fraud question "ought
TO be dvested of every personal aspect and then
he takes fresh twist the party aud remarks
Give me that denomination or III smash the
whole concern
Tammany makes n great mistake when it declares
that Tllden is able and willing to spend a million
dollars in the next campaign. That is precisely the
sort OF a candidate his party is looking for. Take
the plug out of the barrel at once
1t is understood that the following was attached
TO Mayor Coopcrs letter TO the Governor his
moving the three Commissioners: 'P. S.-Stultiiica-
tion is vexation; decision Is as bad; the rule OF
Three doth puzzle me, and factions make me
mad"
Hendricks remarks that he thinks the convictions
of the people on the fraud question were at least
quite as strong before the cipher committee began
its work as they are now. Perhaps so; but the
committee showed them that the fraud had been
located IN the wrong party.
Thurman was very tree on Monday with the re-
mark that the elections on that day the first
gun tor the campaign in 1850. He was not heard
TO repeat the remark on Tuesday. but he doubtless
observed confdentIally TO himself that he had no
idea the " dam thing would kick So" lie was en-
troly right about It being the iTst gun, tho' gn.
Ex-senator Ramsey does not seem to share the
prevalent Minnesota idea that Grant is the only
Republican possibility for 1880. He thinks Blaine
stands as high in the public estimation he did III
1876 that what no has lost OK popularity In ono
direction he has gained in another. Still, Mr.
Ramsey doesn't that Grant may not be the
choice of the party whether he is or not Will de
pend upon developments during the next twelve
months. Under certain conditions ne ~ sure tho
third term objection would have no weight with
the people.
Somewhere in the course of its four columns
devoted to the praise of Hendricks. The U0rd
remarked yesterday that among the Indiana states
mans many other claims to greatness he is tho
nephew of a Senator who was powerful in the days
of the Democratic past This makes fine dis
tinction between Tilden aud Hendricks. Tho
former is merely the uncle of his nephew, while the
latter is the nephew Of his uncle. But lllden5
nephew was certainly more powerful than Hen
kS', uucle
past.
Stanley Matthews says the Republicans Of Ohio
were never III better condition for contest than
they are at present. This is evident from the re-
turns of Mondays election. The Democrats ac-
count for the result bv saying the Republicans all
turned out OF course they did, and they will do it
again till this second attempt to capture the Govern
ment is safely frustrated. That Is peculiauty of
the Republican party it always turLs out IN force
when question comes along which is large enough
20 aTouse its energies. Every Republican in the
North can be counted on TO 20 10 the polls for the
next few elections, and he IS likely 70 he accom-
panied by the Nar-DomOcrats, some Of whom were
found voting with him in OIlO on Monday.
The Significance of the Republican victory in
Michigan appears when 1t Is remembered that the
combined votes of the Democrats and Nationals
last Fall was p, J36 larger than the total Repubi-
can vote a change whicn wipes ont $4,000 op-
position majority and puts 10000 Republican
majority in its place in the short period Of fyo
months, is great enongh to make even Democrat
think. The causes for il are plain enough. In tho
first PLACE there are the cipher revelations and the
confessions Of the cOparceners tho second, there
il the extra session and the Solid South, with the
demand for a stuffed ballot-hoX penalty of rey0-
utlon. the Republican parry is Itself again. It
sees 4 great duty before il, aud il has energy %
waste on side issues and no members who are fool
ish enough to igAt against resumption after 1t has
been secured.
There is 10 doubt about the meaning Of the Re-
publican triumph in Cincinnati. The Democrats
thrust the National issues into the by adopt
ing platform which approved the revolutionary
stand taken by their party in Congress. The Re-
publIcans accepted the challenge and made the
fight on that question Now that they have been
defe stod the Democrats grOwl because the Repub-
cans we're partisan to charge that the election
of Democratic Mayor would be Confederate
triumph. OF course by thus complaining they adj
nit that the result was an snti-C ederate victory
aud has therefore, national siguIiicancs. Ii was
distinctly fight against repeal OF the present
election laws. light against forcing an extra
SION for the sole purpose of securing that repeal
under threats OF starving the Government, and tho
outcome has doubtful meaning.
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