New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-16

That lost Blyard boom may turn up in the Dead
Letter Office collection.
Tiden's health il officially declared 10 be remark
ably robust. This with the known corpulcncy OF
the barrel onght 10 show the ti-IIldenites the
blind folly Of accommodating any more crow.
Tie last chapter of the Yazoo tragedy cannot be
written yet. The news comes from Mississippi
that the refusal Of the Grand jury TO ndct Barks-
dale has had the effect 10 make him a formidable
candidate for the United States Senatorship. This
is not al al unlikely South Carolina sent the hero
of the atrocious Hamburg massacre to tho Senate
and why shouldn't Mississippi reward IN the Same
way the noble and chivslrOus son" who DESTROYED
n whole Independent party 10y shooting It's leader
in the bacKi II murder IL not TO be punished IN
Yazoo, let il be rewarded, of course.
Perhaps the statesman of the period will he less
flabby after he is braccd up with few good holiday
dinners.
By the way. where is the eruptivc Mulletf few
minutes Of old fashioned sputteIng from him would
furnish q welcome peppers flavor 10 the some
what Hat holiday politics.
The Debt Ordinance in Louisiana has not been de-
feated after all and the blight Of repndiaton set
ties down upon that State also. The Republicans
fought manfuy, the small maj ority In its IA
vor shows. The full vote for Governor gives
Democratic majority of 30,75f. while the major
ity for the repudiating Debt Ordinance is only
1896. The new Constitution has a majority OF
59,072. The organs OF the repudiators make I'M
awaiting efforts to prove that the ordinance does
not authorize reputation, by saying that the State
merely declares to Its creditors: This much we
can and will pay we pay no more because we can
mott III this were true it would be no excuse but
il is not true. The State able To pay It's debts,
only it lacks the disposition.
1t cannot DO said any longer that no one has ever
been bold enough 10 ask General Grant il he Is
candidate for n third term. number of newspaper
correspondents gathered around him in a railway
car last week. and among other questions put to
him was this General Grant, will you be the
next Presidentf - Before be could answer some one
said I" Ii will he so If the newspapers have the
deciding of it, Most of them have said so already"
Tie General pulled quietly at ms cigar and SAD;
very pleasant trip. and as this is pleasure trip,
those questions don't enter into It,"
Thurman is clearly the best behaved corpse in
his party. He doesn't even wiggle toe.
A recent visitor TO Cipher Alley called the Sages
attention to one of Hendricks thousand declnra-
tions that he would not consent 10 accept q nominal
ton for vice-President. The comment came quick,
and IN a shrill, high voice: don't anything
about that. He said before he would not take the
second place. but he did " Precisely; Hendricks
always begins TO run Tor an Office by decnnlnglt
yoclierously in advance.
Alexander stephens mas small opinion or bay
ards scheme for stealing the Republican hard
money thunder. lie says Bayard is trying to hatch
the Republicans eggs, but he can't do it because
they are added and can't be Matched by any body
The man who is most likely to carry of the Demo-
cratic nomination is Tiden, Mr.. Stephens thinks
All the inside men are for ilden, and when the
time comes be Will be found on top. 81 lie is play
ing 'possum now but he Is rot dead, by any means
He is work ing for purpose, and knows how to
complsh it~ good many other Democrats arc
beginning to discover the same deep game OF "pos-
sum-" and 10 reach the same conclusion which Mr.
stephens has arrived at As for those faI-seeIng
prophets who discovered that the November cleo
lion killed TIlden, they are at present deeply all
sorbed ia a burst OF silence.
Oregon says it has room for quarter of million
of colored men. Shade of Cronin's Electoral Col
ege OF Ono, why doesn't somebody yell g Fraud n