New-York tribune., 1879-06-05

This is true; there are but few things snch as lib.
ery securty and the on force nent Of the laws that
| the Northern people want more.
| That vacancy in the Cabinet has set the tongues
OF the political vossps to wagqng at afnrions pace.
| The President has ALREADY been supplied with q
long list of names TO help him in gding successor.
Among them are Galnshs A. Grow, cx-Uo'ernor
Mccormick aud ex-senator Ramsey
II is to bo inferred. from n Southern lcttcr in
The Boston Herald that the planters are really in
favor of the ballot for black men, and that they
mean to permit them to vote, and even insist u,on
their voting as they are sufficiently well ed
ucsted to know which side to vote on
Stanley Matthews seems TO have swung himself
out in favor Of the nomination Of President Hayes
for a second term. TIe has declared on several
casions lately that, while the President is pledged
not TO run again, he Natthewsl is of the opinion
that stronger candidate cannot be found, and
that his denomination Is possibility.
General Shields, who just died. Is the whom
General Butler last Winter nominated for Door
keeper of the House. "to cmbsrrass the Democrats
and who did embarrass tbom seriously when, In
dress-rcview before the whole country, they delib-
eratey set aside this veteran of three wars and APP
pointed Confederate soldier to the place.
IL Is useless for tho Democrats to talk any more
about making this or that question an Tissue" for
1880 What they want is not an issue but free
field to stuff ballot-boxes in this city. This last
caucus plan shows this purpose more clearly than
ever before. They cannot elect a President with
fair election IN NewYork, and they are fighting
solely to make such an election impossible.
Alexander McGregor, an officer of the Confederate
army, writes to The Cincinnati Commercial that
neither negroes nor white Republicans secure the
shadow of Justice in Mississippi. and that he was
driven from the State by series of prosecutions
under law of 1873 fOrbidding any white man TO
purchase cotton or farm produce from negro.
This law, he ayers, compelled the negroes TO eIn'-
CRATE to live.
Like to the love of Damon for his friend
Is that which Bourbon newspapers display
When in their Decoration songs they blend
little Blue with good deal OF Gray
In battle no assistance did they send,
Nor mInge in the fratricdal fray.
The fellows were too tmid to defend
The flag for which they family dared to pray,
But drawer now. they tears and roses lend
Ito the 50 Lost Cause on Decoration Day.
There is likely to be irst-class political orr
tory heard from the Republican stump in Ohio this
Fall. The home talent will supply such speakers as
General Garfield, Judge Taft, Charles Foster and
Ex-Governor Dennison. and from outside are ex-
pected Senator's Blaine and Conkllng and host OF
Others II will be n tremendous chorus Of stalwart
ReDubOan music, and there IS no possibility 0t Jar
or dlsc0rd The Democratic array IS much less I'M
presslve. Thurman. Ewing. Pendleton, Springer
Chalmers. Voorhees,, and. who knows, but Judge
Davis. There is an abundance OI dlScord IN that
combination but in every other way IL is weak
feeble effort is being made by Senator Bayard's
friends to accumulate some credit for him by say
ing that he has been opposed to the revolutionary
programme of his party from the beginning, and
has on several occasions raised his voice against It
in caucus Yet whenever the voting began he has
been found with all the other Southern statesmen,
solid on the side of revolution. The trouble with
this excuse is that il lacks substance IL has been
made for all the Southerners but IN spite OF 1t the
fact rcmains that these men have majority IN the
caucus and have always voted IN favor oi the meas
ures which they profess to oppose.