New-York tribune., 1879-01-04
POLITICAL NOTES.

The holidays are gone but the cIphers still llnger.
This is n severe Winter for everybody, and es-
pecIally for " RcfOrmcrs."
Tidon wnks az Thurman as who should say :
These be bilious times, partner"
Which excitcs you the most, Mr. Potter, cipher
barrel, an untaned. cayorting jerks
1t should be said of the gentle coparcener that he
Is not open to the charge of being loud and garIn-
lOus person.
The able fnancier. who was sure resumption was
impossible without dollar for dollar of gold for
greenblcks. has the iioor
Senator Teller has probably convinced MT. Patter-
son that Refomer who stea seat IN Congress
ought not to trail his cOat-tail5 with unnecessary
Ostcntatlon.
There is a general disposition manifested by
ribald press to treat Mr. 1Lurman's letter as con-
tribution to comic literature II is proper to state
that 1t was one of the most serious and painful ei-
forts OF his life.
The organ of the South Carolina bulldozers an
nOunces as n piece of news that ''whcn the sun set
on November . it was known that the Democrats
had elected their candidates" OF course; they
knew that when they stuffed IN the tissuc-DailOts'
hours before the sun went down.
The Democrats in the lower House of the Maine
Legislature defeated the Senate resolution de-
claring that resumption must be sustained, be-
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offend the Grcenbackers and thus lose their share
of the pap" 1t was cons sistent conduct though,
for they sold out to the same faction IN the last
/ campaign.
1t is a clear of nip and tuck between Glover
and Finley as to which shall discover the most
fraud" Neither has found any yet, save in bis
own party hut both have had end of fun in yell
ing about what they We're going TO find They do
no harm To auy one, and the only question Is WheteI
the country gets enough fun out OI them To pay LOT
the appropriations they spend.
That was solemn occasion in Boston. on Thurs
day. when Wendell Phillips pronounced what may
b. considered the funeral Grafton over the late nm
lamented Grecnback party. There were no less
than eighty disciples of soft money present, repre-
sentng all parts of Ncw-Engand, and they must
have listened with great interest to Mr.. Pmllips's
efforts to prove that the corpse was still alive All
that was necessary to convince people OF IT, he Sall
was to show that the Grccnback party was the
winning side Nobody Offered to take tue con
tract to do the "shOwing" The or tor was sure
that # the negro had received his forty acres ana
a mule General Butler would now be ifealu'ht, anu
everything wOuld be lovely. Which seems To lh-
dicate that the country has missed llo nllile""''
Senator Thurman has consented to be present ar
a grand Democratic jamboree, at Columbus, Oho'
on Wednesday next and to respond to the toast,
e." The Jacksoman Democracy 1t viii be momen-
tons event for he is expected to define his financial
attitude and thus sound his Presidential keynote.
He can't repeat hls speech of last year, showing
the "impracticabe nature of the Resumption Act,
and he will hardly be stupid as orcpeat his de-
mand for irrcdeemable paper money in the very
face of accomplished resumption. There Is nothing
left for hlm 10 do but tOdttaCk the National BANKS
aud lct us hone he viii do thar. lie Will thus KICK
over thc siy scheme of the Eastern Democracy Tor
uniting the party Oh hard money platform under
Bavard and will start as lively c0mmotlon III the
Marty as IL has felt tOT some time. Inc Eastern
democrat knows well enough what Will happen 10
his party if 1T attempts to smash the Natlohal
banks.
Iii there, Mr. Thurman, here is lovely case OF
Northern budozng for you. Fernando Wood Will
be able to discover nothing that can begin with It,
| The Post of Hartford, animated by laudable de-
sire to help an enemy OUT of a pit any day IN the
week declares that 1t will yOuch for the accuracy OF
the moving story. A creditor, sojourning IN that
city, asked his debtor for the 81 due him. on the day
before the Massachusetts election, in order that lie
/ might repair to his home in Springfield and vote Tor
Butlcr - Ii that what You want II Tor, salu tHt
debtor Won can't have II ll the day after tr-hor
,rov y ana no entreates would move hlm To relent'
The consequence was that Butler lost vote through
| intimidation. THIS evidence IL clear ana cohNlho-
! iny Mr. Thurman has eagle eye Tor newspaper
testimony and he may ne depended upon TO capture