New-York tribune., 1879-06-04

for the French Government, which in this in
stance made firm stand in favor oi
Conservatism. The dcscrtiOn of Blanqn
by his Radical friends is due. no doubt,
to the conviction being forced on them
that it would be neither polite nor
patriotic TO embarrass the Government at this
critical moment.
The offer which SantO Domingo makes to
enter into a commercial union with this coun-
try merits careful consideration. inasmuch as
ii NAV lead to like proposals from other
Spanish-American countries. SantO Domingo
takes this step in order to find market for
her tobacco. which she fears the new tariff
will exclude from Germany but there are
many other considerations why both Santo
Domingo and Mexico might buy and sell III
this country with more advantage than III
Europe
The new Democratic policy at Washington
is perfected, after many committee confer
ences and a long and stormy caucus. 1t has
been agreed that three new Appropria-
ton bills shall be passed; an Execu-
tive and Legislative bill, which shall not
contain any political or restrictive clauses;
Judicial bill, which will contain provision
that none of the money appropriated shall be
expended to pay the salary of election
officers, and which will also repeal the test
oath, and make the familiar charges respect
ing the selection of jurors and an Army bill
which will provide after making the custo-
mary appropriations that none of the funds
shall be used to transport or main
for fhn a
of peace at the polls. This is mere
chld's play, for 1T is merely reGnactng the
old legislation, which the President has made
odiOus in slightly different form. 1t would
have been more straightforward and plucky
to follow Mr.. BlackbuTn's lead, and stand out
for revolution, pure and simple. If the party
hopes, by making the bulk of the apprOprla-
lions without restrictions, to escape the odium
that persistency in It's original course would
have entailed, and, at the same time, to seem
to be standing by It's sO-calIed principles, 1t
is likely to be disappointed. This issue has
been made so clear that the Democracy can
not make q stand on single improper re-
striction without being Judged by the country
quite as severely as If there were
hundred. There will be another
series of foolish votes, another series OF
vetoes, straight from the shoulder, and then
the patty will finally take the advice which
Mr. Bayard is said TO have offered it yester-
day. 1t will pass the appropriation bills in
the form in which they should have been
passed originally, and then viii crawl home,
having thrown away in a few months more
chances than some parties ever possessed.
L, - 10
ton Of Ohio, to be held to-day, will be merely
a repetition of former conventions; it is only
III the minor details that there will be vari-
alton. 1t is matter of very little conse-
quence whether Governor Bishop, or General
Rice, or General Ewing captures the nOmina-
ton for Governor; the essential fact is that
the Democracy will make the same appeal to
the dishonest and ignorant elements of the
people that it has made in the past, that it
will support every wicked idea in finance
which it has supported before, will counsel,
either directly or indirectly, initiation and par
tial repudatiOn, lending itself, in the hope OF
success, to almost every scheme to bring dis
honor upon the country. 1t often happens
that with a rivalry among candidates there Is
a contention of opinions, but this Is not the
case at Columbus. The contest is merely
scramble among politicians who are utterly
Indifferent to principle, to see which
shall succeed in climbing upon plat
form which is morally certain TO consist
chiefly of bare negations of all sound princi
pies in finance and many sound principles in
government. Whether the grocer Governor,
or the General whose sole capital is pen
sion bill whose passage be did not achieve, or
the General who represents the widest intla-
tion wing of the party, succeed to-day, does
not matter much. The issue is drawn before
hand. 1t may even be said, that union with
the Nationals, important as that might be as
a political manehvre, would not change III
the slightest degree the nature of the contest.
The opinions of the Democracy are the opinions
of the Nationals-Only more SO; and one party
Is as little to be trusted as the other. Who
will be chosen to lead the Democratic wing
of the infatiOnists is yet uncertain, but our
special dispatches give some interesting gossip
on the situation. The latest advices show
that the National wing will preserve its own
organization. There VIII be two tickets, but
the same opinions
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