New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-02
POLLIICAL NOTES.

Congress has gone, but what n smell fingers!
A milliou-dolar blunder is enc slouch" anyway.
It riU be a glorious Fourth with Congress out Of
the way.
Vest put his head up for final punch and got a
handsome one.
The President reminded the Democrats Of their
duty and they felt lnsuIted Sol
No uarty ever before devoted itself for three and
half months exclusively to blundrrmg.
The small voice of Mr.. Tilden win he heard pres
entity, saying: brethren, shall Fraud be con-
donedl"
The President and Senator Chandler managed to
send the Bourbons home with pair of active
lcas in their ears.
The Extra Session cost the country million dol
lars, and tho Democratic party about two million
votes Not bad trade, after all.
When the Bourbon Biunderers come together
again in December they will have been enlightened
by series OF Republican victories at the polls.
The sympathics of all persons whose hearts are in
the right place will 90 out to the bowildered Demo-
cratic editors who must review the work of the ses-
sion and pronounce II good.
The testimony of Spodord's variegated liars cost
the country over s. 900, and all there is to show
for it is n bundle Of worthless papers The mar ket
value of the Louisiana red-headed lie has ceased TO
exist.
Blackburn wasn't going to stop till 1--WE have
wiped the last yestige of war legislation from the
statute books" Give an inventory Of the
amount of "wiping" completed to date, Blackburn
Does IT consist Of anything more than Wlping OH
your own chinf
Ulysses S. Grant, jr, tolls Pittsburg correspond
ent of The Cincinnati Enquirer that his father has
not said much about being candidate for the
Presidency in 1850, but he thinks that " if his
friends urge him ne Will most Hbely let matters
take their natural course"
Senator Thurman is said to have remarked re-
Gently that one Of the "pleasantest things that
shall recollcct in after life, occurring IN my pub
lie service will be the fact of this extra session"
l. II POSSIBLE What dismal life the poor man
must have led Il the Congress which registered his
political ruin Is the pleasantest thing he has to re-
member
O. Turner emeryes once more from the chaos OF q
dssOlvng Congress TO assert that he was not drunk
Perhaps the most satisfactory excuse which the
Democratic leaders could offer to their constituents
for their transceudent stupidity would be to take
n wide departure from .. Turner's tack, ana
swear that they have been booty during the entire
session.
Senator Butler steps forth to reform the almanac.
Twelve months pay for six OF eight months work
is not enough to satate the Confederate coonels
who have displaced the crippled union soldiers
from their posts as messengers anu uoOThctptIs Ill
the Senate and the House. Mr.. Butler therefore
moves 10 interpolate new Democratic month
somew here between sessions, so that Tue polllica
wear will furnish thirteen paydays Tor the needy
Southern gentlemen who have at last found re-
muneative job
About the only Democratic thing which comes
ont of the extra session intact is the Solid South.
That is as mistaken as ever. There is DO danger
that the work of "redeeming" the South by rife
clubs and tissue. ballots will be nterfered with
The next election will show the same Democratic
maiorlties as the last one and the same mysterious
disappearance of the negro vote. But the soldlty
will be in vain, for the North Is not only Just ~
solid but is in possession of larger number of cleo
tora votes The South will, usual, be solid SIM
ply to its own detrlment
Senator Mcdonald reached his homo in Indiana
several DAYS ago. and Immediately astOuished the
natives with a combination of figures which nOmi-
mated and elected Hendricks to the Presidency.
He told a reporter OF The indianapolis Journal that
Hendricks is the strongest Candidate and has the
best chance of receiving the nominations; that he
will get the votes of Kentucky, Missouri Illinois,
Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia. Virginia
Florida and very likely Vermont and Rhode Is
land aud that while Tllden is making great efforts
70 secure the nomination, we won't be able to got
the requiste number OF votes from tho South. OF
course Mr. Mcdonald doesn't believe his own alb
surd calculations but why Is he so impotlc as to
give the public such an overdose of tatly thlsf