New-York tribune., 1879-05-19
a hcentious Republican press, but that worli =
make its defeat much heayjen
POLITIcALIAOTEY.


Democracy is tbe same old sixpeace ;ha:.b wa,
before tho war;
voorheess impudcnce in rushing 10 he once Of
New-YoTA ~ colossal.
Isit the Democratic scalp that is almlel Z, a,
" the deadlock III Washington =
Perhaps one more sound thrashing win cure the
Democrats of tho State Rights nfatna:sOn.
The country steadily refuses TO work ITSELF into
pane about the peril OF bayonets at the polls.
The Southern States appear willing TO run tho
Government il tho Northern States will pay Line.
tenths of the taxes.
A howl from Tammany Hall in favor Of pure cec.
tions is joke which the late Mr.. Tweed would
have enjoyed hugely.
II is announced as by authority that General Bat
Ter will run for Governor of Massachusetts, this
Fall. The Democratic party should put itself in q
safe deposit vault at once.
An excIted Bourbon contemporary asks in af-
fected dismay, VIII Mr.. Hayes Squarciy Plant his
Foot on the Constitution n Certainly he will
that's just where he stands.
The party of stalwarts in Congress has never,
Made progress as fast as this Spring II has done;
And Conkling and Blaine can stop talking forever,
liz Thurman and Eaton and Beck will Keep
The pranciug of the average Democratic states
man whenever John l. Davenporfs name is men.
toned shows that the chief aim Of this attack On
the election laws is free fraud in New-lork City.
Has there been. since the parable of the husband
man and the serpent was written. such complete
realization of il. in the OF the maguanimous
American Congress TeseatlDg the eX-rebels ana the
sequences
An alarmed Western Bourbon reports that even
Kentucky " is shverinG the brink Of Repu5-
canlsm." What better can be expected Of a COM
munitV whose statesmen abstain for three Gays
from the principal staple Of their native andf
There WIS a wild Bourbon named Glover,
Dismissed from Congressional clover;
And they printed pile
OF his rubbish. in stYle.
And the paper-mIil then grOundit over.
Uncle Dick will run again for Governor Of Olip,
and will be defeated This much has been deter
mined upon by Senator Humans Democratic one-
mics in that State OF course il will end his
as Presidential candidate-that is, II there Is any
OF it LETT by that time.
Bourbon contemporary shows that The Rcpnb-
licans are in minority in New-York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Illinois. by adding the Prohibition vote to
the Democratic vote in those Statesl Doe, This m
ply that the Democratic party Is not gong 20 make
It's next campaign with ardent spirit as usual or
why Is tins thus
They are a funny lot. these Democrats. They
keep on walking around the Presidents veto,
trying 10 find way 70 demOlish H. and after every
unsuccessful attempt they sit down in despair aad
observe in a loud voice: Hes very weak man,
the President is, very weak indeed! Stul days 20
By and they are demUrdllzcd by the - weak
mansD words that they dare not call caucus, and
dare not continue the hgnt.
It's remarked every few days by one or another
Southern newspaper, and Immediately echoed by
the Northern Deputy Democratic cdit)rs tnat eena-
tor Bayard the man 10 defeat the Repuhhcans Wlth
in 1880 1t is a curious notion. Ibeldea oi any
Southern man being elected, with the issues which
are sure to be ut the front next year, is simply abb
surd Bayard was and IS an exceptionally pure
Democrat, but he Is as sHbsefylent as any OiAti man
in his party TO the caucus whip. The country not
going TO elect man PrcsdenJ VINO can DC coz
troIed by the Confederate caucus.
Mr.. Watterson has seen light. He is no longer
in favor of revolutions but tadyises the party to back
down. In his most impressive manner he says;
The Republicans are perfectly right in saying
that refusal TO vote the appropriations is reyolu-
tionary. 1t is more. Itis revolution. It IS more
1t Is ruinD Precisely; that is what the Repu0h-
cans discovered Mt the opening of the hght.
He then proceeds TO sit down without ceremony
upon Kentuoky's gifted son, Beck, by declaring
that words spoken in the heat Of debate are
"tlihes,0 which cOmmlf nobody 10 p0ilcSi anu
tells the party its business is TO pass ali tie Dills
and then appeal to the country. Ihe appeal is 20 &c
made on the fact that the Democratic party has
planted itself upon the Constitution 20 IL nag WIN
both feet, and II Will get grand bounce pcs
entlv which will teach lt to keep Is feet OH tLat
sacred document in future.
The Southern correspondents are letting out
good many family secrets in their letters from
Washington One of them writes to The Charleston
Mars and COaiir this confession about the unpopu-
larity of the newly revived doctrine Of State soy-
ereignty: "ThIrty-two millions out of forty millions
of people in this country swear that these United
States is nation, and that they are hel-bant on
making the facts conform to their fancy. lhis IS
their evident intention, and l really 10 not
see how we of the South are to
prevent them or save ourselves and tEcm
from tlc consequences of their determined fanat-
cisp, He is aso careless enough 10 say that by ls
veto Hayes has saved his party from defeat az ne
next electUn.' These gHnpses at sentiment lhsho
the Democratic camp show that the parry Iea!lAS
fully the size of the bundeF it has made. feihaps
also they furnish an excuse for tho contmnatoho OF.
the blundcring for it may be that seeing hat az! az,
feat i inevitable the leaders wish TO make IL Dlg
one.