New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-07
POLITICAL VOTES.

Ewing is still straddliug the resumption question
Uncle Sammy splits on his hands and takes an
other twist on Iammlny.
TIE country Democracy Is getting ready to sit
down hard on Tammany.
joel Parker, uf New-Jersey, is willing to bet 10
t, tnat he can name the man who wants TO be
next President
Mr. Frank W. Bird is the latest Democrat who
has examined the Illdcn mortgage and found 1t
without flaw.
Mr. Thurman is painfully silent Of late. Has he,
too come to thr conclusion that Mr. IIlden's mort
cage ~ binding
There isa big dish of " billed crow simmering
Tor John Kelly and when the ID .mOcratic State
Convention comes Oft he " II eat u Ike man.
There are several eminent Democrats in this city
who wouid be willing TO give Two dollars and
hair to know what Mr.. Tilden Is going 10 do next.
There Is a General in the field out in Ohio who is
greatly worrying both General Ewing and General
PIatt. His name Is General Prosperity. lie has
come 70 STAY.
The wires from Gramercy Park to the Governors
o.,ice and the Mayors office are evidently IN excel
lent working order When Mr.. nIden JERKS, the
puppets jump
Foster accepts the challenge of Patt, the Nation
aps candidate. Tor "a i1int discussion. but Ewing de-
cIlncs Ewing doesn't want to be catech.zed in the
present aspect OF uto hutlltitl NltHn'
The Democratic papers have not yet found ont
that an important ponJIca event occurred in Yazoo
Citv. Miss nearly Il fortnight ago. There is a
markaole Gackwardness apout celebrating the great
Democratic victory won M tuat town.
Here's hero. figure for the canvas of history
His rebelhous eX- Excel eucy jefferson Davis kicking
down stairs for % ian, ell insut the cTi pied d
negro servant OF the silly widow VINO was to be
Whpgdled out % BeduEOi.
The Democratic organs hereabout curse Ewing
for fool vs. non ne alludes in his speeches to the
financial issue, and tuey curse Republican speakers
in Maine for conducting 4 campaign of hate
when they alude 10 anything else.
Three facts develop d 10y tie Kentucky election,
OF which politicians IN Maine and OHIO Will make
a note: l. heavy falling off in the Democratic
vote 2. handsome increase IN the Republican
vote. 3. An Almost total disappearance Of the
UIcenback vote.
Dr. Glenn, the candidate for Governor of the
California Democrats aud II lnorable Bilks, owns
55GOO-lcre rancho and works 1t with Chinese
labor. A. the Democrats Of the Pacific coast have
WED with tHe kearneyItes IN shouting " The Chi
ueSe must 90, TINS act Is naturally making SEN
sation among Dr. Gltuu's followers
A number of prominent Pennsylvania politicians,
including the two CainerOns. summering at the
White Sulphur springs. The gossip among them
about the English NJ sslon is reported to be that
WAYNE NacYeagh has not been offered it, and
would not accept 1t If offered, because he can't
afford to spend the money, and that Gaiusha A.
Grow ought not 10 take 1t, because II W uid keep
nm abroad at the very time when nc should be
working mp ms chances for tine Senate at home.
The Democratic journals in thi, State are trying
hard 10 manufacture some local issue winch Will
serve to divert attention from the National questions
on which the campaign Is being fought IN other
States. Their labor Will be IN VAR. he Repubii-
cans OF New-Y)rk propose 10 devote this year and
next to settling tur question of which side in the
late war tine rgh, slide, and To stamping out the
Alr Foster talked TO the point the other day when
he reminded the colored men of Delaware ONO.
that In Republican party had gwen them, By the
three grea amendments to the Constitution lib
erty citizenship and suffrage. spite of the per-
sistent opposition Of the Democracy, and when he
told them that If their brethren in the SOuth had
been allowed free ballot las year there woud be
twenty-five or thirty Southern Re. ubllCan mem
beers f the House of Repres .utatveS, making that
body Republican instead OF Democratic.
A few newspapers which, by hard work with
balancng-pole manage to keep on the fence be-
tween thc two parties, beginning to deliver ler-
lure, to the independent voter on his dutyIn the
present condition of affairs. They would do well to
remember tne Old COOKBOOK recipe for roasting a
hare. winch begins with the practical advice
" First eaten your hare Let them make sure they
have GOT The independent voter by the ear before
they proceed any further Men who imagine they
are independent b. cause they have not made up
their minds how TO vote and do not know which oil
the wO great parties Is IN the right, scarce and
getting scarcer every day.