New-York tribune., 1879-11-26
Hewitt has sawed an ugly gap in Tilden's boat.

Hewitt has sawed an ugly gap in Iilden's boat
The amount of talk which is devoted to the ques-
ton of removing George c. GOrham from the Ma
toual Republican Committee Is absurdly out OF
proportion with the Importance of the subject. The
only thing TO do with him is to drop him suddenly
and drop him hard. He is more OF "A Democrat than
n Republican. and more of a humDug than either
one.
1t is entirely safe to assert that the NincompOop
Burean will not circulate Mr. HewItts reminis-
cences of the electoral controversy as Tilden
paign document. They Will not serve as prop
for that debIltated backbone.
Governor Robinson Is stll unable to read THE
TRIBUNE with any pleasure.
Congressman Manning. of Mississippi, speaks
rather contemptuously of the alleged Southern
Democratic Grant boom. Concerning the assertion
that Grant would be able to carry several Southern
States. ne says to reporter of The Washington
Post Nobody but politicians who have some end
to gam by 1t would make such crazy assertions,
and no sane man ought TO pay any attention 10
talk of that kind"
The anonymous political wiseacre is multiplying
with startling rapidity. Washington is fairly run
| ming over with all varieties If tho species. He Is
| an mexcusably slow newspaper correspondent who
cannot send out the opinions OF haf-dozen, at
least of these veiled oracles each day. One Of the
Il
| has for years been confidential and intimate
friend of General Grant" THIS parsonage appears
every day with "a different story. On Monday he
| had confidential information that the General
bent upon third term. and nothing could prevent
! him from getting Il. On tuesday he was equally
| positive thar Grant had never told ANYBODY what
| he thought about third term, yet he knew that
| Grant would speak out within three months, unless
he decided IN the meantime that he wished TO run
| again. To-day he can be depended upon 10 an
fhaf fha lxyIIl he
of the Nlcaraguan Canal Company, and tomorrow
| he wlll take It back Tins will go on I'LL Congress
/ meets when the public will be treated to daily
of more substantial, but certainly not so harm
! less food.
II Hendricks could only manage to get asirido Of
Of LIE Dues sorghum boom. 1t might save him yer.
An absurd letter has been published in Washing
ton, pretending to have been written at O., Miss
ssippi. November l6. 1879. in which lts writer de-
clares himself IN favor OF Grant as President for
life. and Of his son Fred after us DEATH Because
Senator Lamar lives at Oxford, Miss. and because
be was there the date of the letter. the
what sw lft inference Is drawn that he s the un-
doubted author of the letter. strangely enough,
the ingenious authors OF lhis roorDack have ne
elected ciTcn late the nee ssaIy companion rum0r
that Mr.. Lanar'5 friends have put hlm IN a lungtic
asylum.
ltls annolncel as news that Louisiana will be
solid at The coming election. There las never
If Air. Iiden was 80 tender OF the Sonth as to
submit his southern Claims letter 20 leading South
ern statesmen before Publishing At, he could be
depended on 10 equally tender OF her after
becoming President. BY asking PERMISSION TO pnb-
sh that letter he virtually surrendered himself To
Southern dlcfatiOn.
Secretary sherman has doubt whatever Of the
pormancncy OF resumption. He says there is more
gold and silver in the Treasury now than there was
when resumption began. The only difficulty is to
keep down the accumulation to "a reasonable ignre.
When the correspondent Of The Cincinnati CONNER
ciql. to whom he had made these assertions asked
HIM about the prospect for the continuance of the
present prosperity of the country, he replied
see no why il should not continue. In look
ing over the country at our immense resources. aud
considering the energetic. hardy character of our
people. no Reason to believe but what
the United States are The eve of series of years
of uuexamped prosperity. We have had a long
and severe of depression, ~ length and Sc
verify almost, II not quite, nneXampled IN our his
tory. There IL lrw of compensation running
through all things Taking everything into consid-
Grafton. II really seems 10 me that to have "a
long oi solid prosperity"