New-York tribune., 1879-12-18
DENOcRArlC HfADSIGHL

The Democracy is never 40 good as when IN
odyersity. II is never so amiable as after
sound thra, hing. II never 80 thoroughly ap-
prccatcs the beauties ot honest money anu
sound finance. ~ when its favorlte Gierhpach
candidate has been beaten II never warns ~
heartily toward the negro aud counselS sucn
n conciliaiory attitude on the part OF his wlii'e
brother as II does inst after some election Il
which the inadvisability of shooting ana hang-
ing the said negro has been ehectuaily
demonstrated 1t is n popularity OF Demo
Gratis as class that the scales always fall
from their eyes just mt the wrong moment.
AS long as there Is n chance of avoiding the
ditch they keep IN the way of 1t, ana on'y
begin 10 think of getting back to the high
road after they are waist-deep III the m're'
There never before were such keen fellows lor
locking and dOublc-lOcking the door OF the
stable after it. tenant has been quietly sad
died. bridled and led forth by Others. They
are the Z" staircase wits " of politics, who al
ways remember just what to say and dc-aftor
the time for saying and doing has passed.
The same is true of their internal manage
mcnt. They quarrel with each other at the
wrong time, and make peace when peace is
of no avail. They raise their voices in behalf
of unity and concord on the heels of bolt,
and readily discern how the bolt might have
been avoided after 1t has eliminated in de-
feat If they have q candidate whose record
is filled uncomfortable full of loophoes and
tattcr., they are oblvious of the fact, and it
is only after he has turned up at the bottom
of the poll that they awake to his half-clad
and scandalous condition.
The present mild, proper and judiclous III
tcranccs of the Baylrds, Hills aud Ilendrickscs
would lead one 10 suppose that they had never
in all their political lives gone wrong, so well
do they know, now that they are wrong. how
to get right. Race violence, reputation,
State rights and pretended reform having
been everywhere rejected by the people,
they very properly denounce them as un-
worthy of confidence and calculated to bring
defeat and discrcdit on their party. Ihey
keenly realize the necessity of restrain
ing The eXubcrance of the Nhite Lcagn'rs
and rihe-cabs since the Now-York election.
They dis;rIlst all financial makeshitts, now
that Ewing and rag money have been buried
in OHIO. They have preached and prayed Tor
harmony and single ticket ever since Mir.
Kelly iook away 10000 votes from Robinson.
True the dangers in all these cases were open
and palpable beforehand. Even the leaders.
by stlaning their vision, might have detected
them earlier. Perhaps they did ; if so, they
never gave the party Mt large any real
benefit from their discovery. Now that
it is too bate to coquet with hnan-
cial visionaries now that they can
no longer ignore mob violence at
the South now that party success has been
rretrievably imDcrilled by internal strife and
dscord. MIR. Hill, Mr. Bayald and NJ. Hon
dricls oracularly announce that these evils
from which they suffer ar very great eyilsn-
deed, and should be avoided in future They
ask to be intrustcd with power and public con-
fdence because they have actually discovered
the snares IN which they have entangled them
selves, and the pitfalls into which their own
wantonness and folly have plunged them