New-York tribune., 1879-02-01
POLITIC4L NOTES.

Come, Mr Potter. slip that subpoena INTO the Ark.
If Tildgn ycarus for a vndicatiou he must shout
for it.
The cipher explorers have consumed another
week IN getting ready 10 start.
Coparocncr- ard solid Southern statesmen have
an equally hard time of it III beng heard.
WHY not ask Pelton if there are any Lousiona
dispatches in that barrel He has not forgotten.
The TRIBUNE feels authorized TO state that
Moses Is not N towering rage at the slowncss Vi
the CIPHER hnnt.
The UorW labors through column and half 10
prove that Pelton Is a very wicked man. Vel,
isn't he ready to confess 1t all
The Democratic editors are again out of meat,
and it behoOves Messrs. Springer and hlcMahon to
start another rOorback a. soon as possible.
The Reform " demands for testimony from the
tyo awful Chambers are not 30 loud as they wcre
The first dose seems to have had quoting elect
The trainers who are fitting Nephew Pelton for
hi. great scapegoar feat should be cautions about
crehtinQ him with too much capacity for wicked
Eess. lie may uc rejected rs an inadequate sdcii-
fee.
The Southern chorus for Tlllcn in 1850 j. gain
ing strength in spite OF ciphrrS. II ls not very for
mdabl, yet but If is persistent, and If he can OBJ
tain any sort of a vindicatjon it viii become loud
enough to show all his rivals what Is IN the wind
IOT $50.
Nh Hewitt Is an able man. but he has not lhe
strength to be a successful Ag-hodcr on the erup-
tive mouth, Of the solid southern statesmen. He
has succeeded m choking OF one explosion, but if
he Is wise he will rest content with that triumph
and transfer the gag to some stronger man.
The shower of epith.ts upon General Bragg is
sill lively IN the Southern Journals. 4 handsome
collection Is supplied by lie Nemphis 5pp,at alone,
for in one article 1t calls him " crackbrlncd SLAM
dcier," "Wc,tcrn popiujay,' RETAILER of stale
Radical fll~cho0d~,' al 'ratc and slanderoua DEM
orIat Oi Wisconsin,, aud Il pr0Wlgatoi 0l pure
and uumt.gatcd flsehOod.' Here the able editor
paused iog breath.
Poor Mr. Tiiden. He has no enemies so lethal to
him.clfas h- friends. Here Is The HOrd reproducing
biography of Nephow Peiton. which is black enough
tn make the reputation of pirate, and then AT the
end of il showing that l1lden, with a full kn0wl-
cdgc of his ncphcw- wickedness. appointed him 10
a personal supervision OF his canvass, by putting
him IA command UI his family bureau! IHC only
Inference IN impartial reader can diaw from the
artic, b, tDat I.ldrn sc,ccted a very dirty agent
because he had very dirty work for him to do.
Every body knows how unjust IN, inference VIII nc
to 80 innocent person rs Mr.. lIden.
The more the average Democratic editor CON
Templates the cipher problem, the more crooked
does his moral vision become. He is shre that it
WAS much grcatcr crime to translate the ciphcIs
than # WAS 10 send them, and that THE fRlBUNE
and not Mr.. 1ilden should be pur,ued, and, II
un,,ibr. punished. Thus the AcT-OtttdRS ItcdytRe
ha, an rior who Is able to say that the only points
10 bc examined are, who stole the dispatches, and
how much did rHE TRIBUNE pay he thieves.
Whether or not Mr. liitcn Is z coparcVAer, or VI.
Marble, ol Nr. PcltOn, ~ really ot uO interest 10
anyone IN the world. TINS - only q .tile worse
man tur TAX which the Northern Democratic
Inurpais are lndulglng IN every day. ihc Southern
eel tor taiks with an extra iankhe>s. aS becomes
chivalrouS bEilduzrr, nat what he says amounts 10
the same thing.
That Pitt,lurg example Of cstabli 'hin2 IlIdcn
club thu, cary in the campaign OF 1850 Nhonid bc
followed up. TIE rmHCNE agrees to help II along
as nucn a. possible and generously oilers 10 supply
copies of it, cipher pamphlet at greatly reduced
rates To all clubs winch will apply for It. Perhaps
application, had better be- delayed few weeks I'LL
Chairman Potter issucs has promised report on tue
fraud he ha, been unablc To discover, Tor that VIII
make IN excellent preface to the pamphlet, and the
two hound up togeths would make such campaign
document rs no Reform party ever circulated
Some fresh and striking notices for 1t might easily
be obtained from MOscS's Shechinah letter-that
ineX eXhauStibe well OF impure and dched English
and attractive establishment could be supplied by
adding photographs of 'ndcn and the coparceners
How IL would circulate!