New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-18
POLITICAL NOTES.

Dlind man car see tDat llluen Is naru at work.
That Agnes jerks lie ought to stay dead now for
at least fortnight.
The melancholy of the whole Democratic party
has become chronic.
TIlden has completed an elaborate "twist in
favor OF Governor Robinson.
Tammany's crow banquet is all cooked and the
hrst course is about to BIO served.
The potent influences in the Pennsylvania Demo-
cratic Convention seem to have been Barr and bar
rel.
Fraud by ciphers and State Rights will furnish
lively music for the grand Democratic funeral pro-
cession III 1850.
Mr.. 1ilden seems to be recovering bis health.
That Pennsylvania Democratic Convention was a
very favorable symptom.
After Tllden gets Governor RobinsOn's renomina-
ton fixed he will rise up and command the renomi-
nation of tine other State officers.
The financial plank of the Pennsylvania Demo-
cratic platform doesn't harmonlze with that of the
Ohio platform, but defeat awaits both it does not
matter.
Mr.. Thurman says Ohio is Democratic on free
ballot. OF course New-York is Democratic on the
same kind of a free ballot. So would every State in
the Union be- On a fair ballot, the result is quite
otherwise.
The Anti-Tllden organs in this State are proving
that Ex-Governor Hoffman the only original canal
and prison reformer in the party, since he recon-
mended that sort of thing in 1872. Is Tammany
gong 10 revive Hoffman as a candidate for Gov
ernorf Let us hope 50.
Candidate Foster called on the President the
other day. and the sagacious Democratic editors at
discovered that he went to offer money for the
salaries of Deputy Marshals in Cincinnati in order
that they might help the Republicans to carry Ham
lton County. As there Is no election of Congress
men this year the MaTshals have nothing TO do and
the silly story was an entirely gratuitous fasehoOd.
Complaint is made by the Democrats that they
are misrepresented when they are charged with re-
vIving the question of State sovereignty. If they
haven't revived it what does Alexander Stephens
mean by saying the war settled n0tbingH What
does Senator Butler mean by saying the party has
gone back 10 the principles OF twenty years ago
What do the Southern journals mean by saying the
country IL getting back TO the questions which ag-
tated IL before the war;
four-cOlumn Robinson boom burst upon this
pubic in The WOrld newspaper yesterday That
enterprising journal sent out circulars. some time
ago. asking Democrats to send in their opinion of
the administration OF Governor Robinson. In some
remarkable way every one of the circulars reached
devoted disciple of the Governor, and the result
was four columns OF responses all exceedingly COM
plmeutary 10 the aforesaid administration. The
outcome could not have been happier if 50 discreet
a man Smith Weed, for example, had handed
round the circulars in person.
The Democratic Campaign Committee at WASH
ington IS having good deal of trouble in diStrbut-
ing its material. Great care has to be exercised to
keep Southern pabuium out of the North, and North
ern pabulum out of the South. The war-whoops of
Beck, Blackburn and Chalmers sent South only
and the mIder utterances of Bayard and Thurman
are TO be scattered over the North. In the Repubh-
can Committee there is no such agony. The same
speeches are sent both North and South as the party
has he same principles in both sections. No Repub
can made speech at the last session that his party
is afraid to see in print anywhere.
Iowa has a Greenback Congressman who has
prophesied financial ruin perslstently that he is
universally known in the State Calamity"
Weller His latest reported uterance is wish for
the destruction of every grain of wheat in Iowa.,
since the greater the crop failures the better the,
prospect for the of his party 1t seems in
credible that any man could be capable of express
ing a wish like that, however deeply he might hold
il. The abundant crops and revlvIng business are
the destroying angels of the Grecnback party, and.
in "a measure. of the Democratic party too, tor its
criminal alliances with the enemies of financial sta
bllIty and general prosperity. In times of large
crops and active business the vote of the party in
power is always increased. That is what worries
the I" calamity statesmen of all parties now.