New-York tribune., 1879-09-16
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Republican party Is solid and saucy.
Bntlcr has bagscd ono convention aud has net
around another.
Tiiden proposes to wipe ont Kelly. That's a
very large contract
Ewing and Thurman are likely TO succeed only in
sfranglIng each other.
The Solid South never repuliatcs It's mistakes
bur goes on repeating inem forever
John Kelly seems to be the only leader in his
party vino has no reverence for brimmiug barrel
The Democratic party has hung cut danger
signal and united in general cursing Of Idcn and
Tammany.
Thurman declines to make any public utteranco
ON uolitics outside Of his speeches. They can be
depended Oh to finish him ali alone.
The whole Democratic press Is united in an ont
pouring of abuse upon john Kelly That Is capi-
tai way to keep him in the field lie is most dis
couragIng man 10 bully
Themo, remarkable living curiosity is tho able
editor who thinks he can elect Robinson and ruin
Tildcn at the same time. Iildcn is to Robinson
what the barrel IS to TIlden-his all In all.
Guilecss Reformers are those who find encourage
ment III the belief that Robinsons victory at Syra-
cuse was "A defeat for the machine The pcdome-
ter is not the only engine which Dr. llldeu runs.
Itis mistake to credit the gloomy Democratic
outlook TO the quarrels of the Ncw-lork brethren
To do 80 is to commit gross injustice toward the
late extra session. That was the green apple which
started the present devastating Democratic collie.
Senator Mcdonald is impressed with the conyic-
ton tnat the bolt of Tammany will do the Demo
cratic party good" That ia precisely the Repub-
lIoan belief There is nothing which viii do the
Democratic party II uch good az Il sound thrash
ing this Fall and next and this is what the Tam
many bolt Is destined 10 bring II. Alr. Mcdonald l.
an uncOmmOny shIcNd Democrat To be able TO per-
ccVe tins.
The attempt of the National Democratic Commit
tee To buillOZc the Democracy of New-YOrk would
seem to be pretty ilagrant repudiatlon of the doe
trine of State Rights Here the Federal author
tiles, in partisan matters, usurplng the powers
which belong exclusively to local conventions and
comulttoes. Why don't some OF the orthodox
brethren begin to jump up and down and howl Cen
trtiization and " DespOism"f
tits n waste Of energy for the chvalry OF Mlssis-
sppi to send word North that murders of the Yazoo
variety are fully approved by the newspapers of the
State. That is old news. The North understands
If thoroughly aud the reiteraton of the fact
no purpose save to cmbarrass the Northern Demo
cratic editor who has been calling similar assert IONS
''bloody shirt les FOX months. Tbs poor man has
burdens enough already without being LarasSed
with confessions like that.
A conference on the negro exodus, with view to
systematic collection of trustworthy information
about the movement will be OF great value There
are few people now who are not convinced that
bad treatment is the main cause of the change, yet
the Democratic party in the North will not confess
II, but persists in declaring that Republican med
ding is at the bottom of it. "Pd like to bet II was
started in Massachusetts" exclaimed Northern
Democrat when the question was under discussion
by "a group of men on "a Summer hotel piazza, fow
weeks ago. lilo made the otior with precisely the
same air ia his brethren formerly used when they