New-York tribune., 1879-03-26
POLITICAL NOTES.

| Law is no barrier to Democrat who smells pan.
Bayard always fails when he tries 20 be qenui,o
! Democrat.
Randalps grip upon the tail of the party is likely
| to slip at any moment
Tammany calls Tilden "insatiate," which makos
his amended title " Insatiate Innocent
The Bourbons cry not only for an untrammelled
ballot-box to stuff, but also for tissue-balots to
| stuff it with.
Atkins consents magnanlmOusly TO allow business
TO revive without Democratic interference. Tho
country will be grateful to Atkins.
| The Democratic party ought to feel reasonably
easy. Mr.. Tilden hasn't afflicted them with any
novelties IN the way of J." twists" in three or four
! days.
If the Democrats fear they will not get ruin
encngh by attacking fair elections they Will surely
get their fill by revivng the belated onslaught
upon the National banks.
Mr.. Hayes has an opportunity TO prove what q
| safeguard a Republican President can be to tic
country in an emergency. and how essential to our
credit ana peace il will be 10 elect another one in
1880
There are unmisakable signs that the indepen-
dent voters are all returning to tho Republican
ranks, and in many instances they are accompanied
bv Democrats who have been sickened by cphers
and the solid South.
The eminent Constitutional egists of the Senate,
who compose the Democratic majority of the Com
mittee OF Privileges and Elections, have voted that
Mr.. Bell. of New-HampshTc is not entitled TO
seat IN that body, because the vacancy which he
was nominated to fill occurred, but didn't happen
A rural Democratic editor in Ohio has become
so disgruntled with Your Uncle Dick that he has
turned that functionary's portrait which hangs in
the editorial sanctum. bottom upward and marked
it: "A dead dnck.' This is unbrOtherly, but it
has flavor OF the truth of history about it,
Blackburn is convinced that what the people
want is plenty of legislation. lie doesn't believe
in The Republican cry that short will afford
the greatest relief. The revenue laws need amend
ment, he thinks. which seems to show that he
wishes to succeed Fernando Wood as tariff tinker.
If he tries that he will soon find out where the
people stand.
General Burnside is not the man TO leave his
country grOyeling in ignorance, if this is special
session. I'e steps promptly to the front and
presents his little old bill to educate the people"
with tho Federal funds, with the serene assurance
of statesman who doesn't know enough to know
that this paternal measure isconceyed in eccentric
defiance of all constitutional law precedent, ira
ditIOn, experience and common sense.
The s)ft-moncy Democrats are evidently deter
mined to make one more desperate effort to defeat
resumption, and, if the session is a long one the
calmer heads in the party will have heavy task on
hand to hold them back. The Southern members
are pretty generally inclined to follow Mr. Stephens
in his views about large Issue OF money, because
that viii be first step toward securing large ap-
preparations.
The placid surface of Rhode Island politics has
been broken by feeble ripple this year hungry
Democrat, who PERFORMED for several years the
lonesome and hopeless duty Of q candidate on the
party ticket broke suddenly from his mOorings and
arno,red in tha RpoubItpau COnVention This mado
aperceptlble hole in .the Democratic organization.
but the solemn business of holding q convention
was gone through with usual. and platform
was adopted which promised more reform 10 tine
square inch than any platform ever promised before.
The poor f. llUWs seem to enjoy tins performance
much, and they have such lonesome time Of 1t all
the OF the year that 1t Is almost cruel 10 sni
at them