New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-28
That split in the Solid South has been postponed

That split in the Solid South has been postponed
again
1t is evident already that Mr.. Hewitt has hit Mr.
Tilden the hardest blow be has received for a long
time. The only excuse for the alleged weak-backed
conduct of Tilden after the election which his
friends have made has been completely demolished.
Whenever the Southern and Western Democrats
have complained that Iilden afraid 70 stand up
for his rights his friends have answered thar he
was poweress in the hands of his party, since the
leaders In Congress put the Electoral Tribunal bill
through without his advice or consent. Every VS.
ior Cipher Alley within the PAST three years has
come away with the impression that Iilden OPP
posed to that bill from The irsf, and that Il be cond
have bad his way IT would never have passed. HOW
they absorbed such notion Is, OF course my
but absorb it they did. Perhaps Pelton Whispered
il 10 them II 81. this isn't the first time Ar. Hewitt
has interfered with his industrial pursuits.
What the Democratic party needs is a liyer-pad,
large size, worn over ITS mouth
Mr.. Hewitt says of the Democratic leaders Of
1876: "Oh, yes, everybody had a cipher" As the
same leaders look about TO lind prospect for sue
cess next year they exclaim: " Alas! we all have
a cipher still"
No wonder Tilden Wells fraud and refuses to con-
done it. That propensity Is hereditary IN the Ill
den family. and he can't any more help obeying 10
than he can help whispering. Away back IN 100
there was a Iilden engaged in the same business.
I n
Poems on Divers Occasions. chiefly TO animate and
arouse the Soldiers" aud priated in 1856. contains
a ballad Which, with the siagle change OF the an-
thors reference 70 himself Old sixty-six" TO
" Old seventy-six," fits APPLY Into the political
situation to-day That u sounds hse iresu rauu
BULLETIN from Cipher Alley. The first sanzs runs;
Their sknlking scalping, numbering tricks
Have 50 enraged old seventy-six,
With legs and arms like wthered sticks,
Aud youthful VIgOr gone;
That II he lives another year,
Complete in Arnor he'll appear.
And laugh at death. and scott at fear,
10 right his country's wrong
For young boom, Mr.. Randolphs seems to be
uucommony debllitated
Congressman Mills, of Iexas, says he is in Wash
ington for all Winter and all next summer Ii his
party keeps Congress session that length of time,
! it will find itself out OF power in Washington for
the rest OF this century and part OF the next
Alexander stephens rises to deny that lie ever
professed sympathy with Congressman Fetons In
dependent sentiments. or ever said that he was in
favor of Grant AS dictator in preference to sher-
man as President. This doesn't leave enough Of tho
southern Democratic Grant boom TO make fools
cap for It's inventor.
voorhees, declares that he has not modified his
financial beliefs. OF course he hasn't. They passed
thattpoint long ago. Burial is the only remedy.
Senator Booth brings the intelligence to Wash.
ington that California is decidedly in favor Of
Blaine. 81 am personally in favor of him." he
saws, not that love Grant less. but Blaine more.
| don't know that ought TO tell the cause Of his
popularity but the truth is, IL was the stand be
took the Chinese question. He Is IN full sym
patty with on that question, and We would Like
to see blm in the Presidential chair
Ii took Bayard just forty eight hours To ELK him.
self out of the Presidential race
More than one hundred Jacksonian Democrats, of
Otsego County New-York, who say that they are all
advanced in years" have joined in petition to the
Democracy Of this State to nominate Hendrick b.
Wright for the Presidency. They think be is the
coming man. He may be, but he has started 30
far back Mat he Is likely 70 be long. long tune
on the way" / he JacksOnians will be with their
idol a good many years before he heaves In sight
Blackburn thinks the Southern DemScratic Grant
boom was the insane inspiration of few jack
asses !" thereby showing that he is skirmishing IN
the immediate neighborhood OF great truth.
1t seems once more TO be the unanimous conolu-
sion Of the Democratic party that Blaine carries
the state of Maine IN his pocket. AS the inventors
of an unsuccessful effort to snatch II. the party
ought TO know where II is located.