New-York tribune., 1879-12-20
NEW. YORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY DECEMBER 20 1879

read Cipher Reform tissue-ballots; bulidozinP; |;
shoot your opponent In the back; seat-snatchIng;
and general sneak-thievery IN ofder 20 gam ,ns
offices and spoils which the people decline TO iVe'
1t looks as If the Maine job bad been put up by
shrewd enemies of Uncle Sammy. Al oil events u
has sti1ed the fraud yell. which was the motive
power OF his boom.
Voorhees, has started q fresh and destructive
boomerang in hls resolution to investigate the ne
gro exodus. The Democratic Senator'S, oi more
foresight than he Possesses. suspected as much ana
consequently voted against it, There never has
been any doubt about the chief of the migra-
tion. The Southern journals which represent the
more sensible portion of tho Democratic party
have admitted frankly that bad treatment was atthe
bottom of it, They ha We said repeatedly that if the
negroes were guaranteed equal Justice with white
mea the exodus would stop instantly. Mr.. Voor-
hees's investigators will stumble upon this fact at
the very outset of their uquiries and thereby DO
the Democratic party most unwelcoine service.
No Congress for three weeks. and nothing in
reach for the Democracy to steal. This looks like
genuine merry Christmas.
Hill has got his mouth open, and the danger Is
that he may keep it agoing now that he has
found out how good il feels. Still the vacation
comes just IN time to enable the party to get the
gag again and make II fast before he can get an-
other opportunity
Mr. Seymour seems TO he affected by the some
what contagious inability of the Presidential aspl-
rants to say squarely whether they will.accept
nomination or not. He says he doesn't consider
himself n strong candidate that In the face or
what he has said ii absurd to suppose he will be
nominated that he has no idea that he Will be
named by any convention that If he is nominated
what he has already said would of itself be good
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the improbable event of his nomination he would
do his friends a very great wrong If ne should go
upon the ticket with the knowledge that he was
not the right man for The position. All Of which Is
peculiarly labored way OF getting out OF Tue din
Guilty. supposing he really has no wish Tor, nor in-
tentOn To accept a nomination. IL womb nave
been much easier to have said: " do not wish Ine
nomination., and Will not consent to accept II under
any circumstances" If he disikes the annoyance
If having his name perpeualy y used IN connection
with the Office declaration like this would relieve
liiin instantly.
Several able Democratic editors are unable to ex-
press their views of the Maine crime. Silence Is a
pretty able opinion. though.
Chalmers gives away the whole Democratic case
on the question of fair elections IN the South. In
conversation with Il Washington correspondent OF
1he Boston T,arclIer he says the South has been
Illuminated by Northern charges that fraud and vo-
lencc have been universal there at election. his
he SAYS, Is not true there have been fraud and
violence only in certain localities which is only
another way of saying that the Democrats have not
bulldozed where budOzing not necessary TO
secure Democratic majority He adds that the
SOnth revOts at the idea of being ruled by solid
negro vote aided by few unscrupul lOus whites, ana
then says: 4" THIS is all very natural and do not
deny that when fraud and violence have been neces-
sary to prevent the of this dreaded cOmbna
ton at the South they have been used, aud the best
people always have and viii wink at II in such
cases. The best people of the North do the same"
can has ever charged more than this. If Mr.. YOOr-
hecs wants ray of Ii ght on the exodus her il is