New-York tribune., 1879-06-04

| about the only healthy principle they have left
Uncle Dick VIII be run on hs accomplishments as a
| mixer" as Uncle Jimmy Williams WAS run IN In
| diana on lIs blue-ican bieecBes.
| The correspondent Of Democratic paper writing
from Jackson, Miss, says AS your readers are
we'll aware. there il really no Rcpu bcan party Or
ganiz4tIon IN Mississippi at the p eSent tiHc." And
vet in that stare in 1872, the Republicans polled
| ~, 49, and ia 1889 they p0llei 76lS6. beating
! the Democratic candidate more than two 10 One
Can there be any dOubt why there Is no Hcpubhcan
organization n0wy
surprising change has come over The southern
journals durng the past few days. After advising
a backdown steadily for weeks. several Of them
have turned squarely about and are calling for
revolution rather than submission. II would he
interesting 10 know what pressure secured this
change Perhaps, though, it Is only part Of the
fOreordained mission of the party to be sohd fOf
every tirst-claSs Dunder
The latest offort of the Ohio Democrats TO get M
a row among tse Republicans. is report that Fcs-
ter was nominated over Taft by a trick. IL is a very
feeble dodge, and will die Of it's own weakness. In
the meantime the Democratic camp is full of BIZ
terness and charges are freely made that Thurman
is trying to Kill of both Ewing and Bishop tor Tear
Of their Presidential aspirations II they VIII only
wait TIL election day the whole party VIII receive
all the killing off any of ITS members can wish
for now.
Now everybody knows when there will he a gcnu.
inc and lasting Union The s. Louis Republican says
that t is assumed if not directly asserted by the
Republican press. that slavery was peculiarly
Southern institution, for which the South
wholly responsible and for which she has been APP
propriatey punished and that when the North
is willing TO admit what il undeniably true. that
slavery as much Northern as a southern pro-
ductoD, then aud not before Will there he "a genu-
ine and lasting UnIOn.D But why does the South
insist sharing the praises due to the uphOldcTs Of
a great and good institution
Ii Is announced by authority in the Raleigh news.
papers that Senator Thurman will not go to North
Carolina this week to deliver the address at the
State University, as his duties in Washington have
forced him to cancel the engagement. This assumes
the dimensions of National misfortune. Just at
this time II wOuld have been a boon TO have bad
few speeches from Thurman on the nature and con-
dItion of the great party backdOwn. He has been
chief mOnrDer at all tine secret conferences on the
remains Of the party, and has IN his possession much
hear.
The solemn notice is served upon the President by
the Democrats that they propose to give him "one
more chance They have given him two chances,
and he has scOrnfully rejectedthem; now they are
going to try him just once more. What an amusing
lot they are Here they have been declaring tLat
they have succeeded by adrot management IN get
ting the President and his party INTO the very cor
ner they were most anxious to have them occupy,
yet no sooner 30 they get them in than they agree
to give them zone more chance To get out. Iinr-
rah,p they were shouting only last week, y" we've
committed the President to the use Of troops at he
polls, and now we can beat the RepubllCdnsW Yet
they turn about aud give the Prcsdent a chance 10
deprive them of their pet issue. The Texas brother
is right,-braIns and not backbone Is what they
need.