New-York tribune., 1879-04-26
POLITICAL NOTES.


Tilden and Davis would make picturesque
ticket.
Next comes the vcto and then the Democratic
backdOwn
The attention of the country should be concen-
trated upon the repOse of Beck's chm.
Governor Robinson is evidently fractions, hence
this hitch IN the forthcoming Tildcn E" twist" on
| Tammany.
The most noticeable presidential development at
| present Is the steady advance of Secretary Sher-
mans stock.
After coddling Bayard for months as a candidate
for the first place, Tammany fops around ana puts
him second to Davis. This Is brutal.
II is said in Washington that adjournment Is
likely to be reached about the middle of June. 1t
ought not to take the Democrats 50 long as that to
back down.
Hendricks has done discreet thing in putting
himself upon the shelf thus saving his party the
disaereeable dlty Of thrusting him there in pub
| he manner.
Thurmans prospects for the wce-presdcntial
nomination are irst-ratc ow. and if he Is wise he
will give up fishing for the first place from this
time forward It's tail or nothing Tor him.
Senator Coukline's designation of Judge Davis
as next to Ms. Winslow the most coplouS and M
exhausiblc source of soothing syrup" viii be likely
10 stick The Judges dose seems to be acceptable TO
Tildou is evidently making no efforts to control
the course of affairs in Congress. aud that Is where
he is shrewd If the soit-moncy Democrats have
their own way and get soundly beaten IN the clec-
tons This Fall, 1Ilen Will have reason to rejoice
and be exceeding glad.
The patriotic Democratic Senators have unani-
rnously refused to agree that no Union soldier in
the service of the Senate shall be removed to make
way FOR Confederate soldier. This seems 20 show
tuat the cause which mas been called the losJ "
one is still close to The hearts of the Democracy
1t is a delusion for other aspiring Democratic
statesmen in Indiana to imagine that their chances
for squeezing into the second place on the ticket IN
| 1850 have been improved by the withdrawal Of
Hendricks. Indiana is so surely Democratic that
! il VIII not be- considered necessary to try 10
| strengthen the party there by putting 1d'oriG
! son on the ticket Pcnusylyaya and ONO VIII
haze 10 Do stimulated BY compliment OF that sort.
Mr. Blaine seems to take a most reprehensIble de-
! hrht in stirring uD the Democratic animals in the
Senate. In fact he enjoys it more than his victims
do That boat with VOORHEES,, on Thursday. reminds
one of the story told by wcll-knoWn professor lie
was taking his morning walk over the hills when he
came upOn farmer who was teazing with noe
handle a wooachuci that had been caught by one leg
in a steel-trap Tho farmec wonid punch the wood
chuck with the STICK and then grin with del ght at
! its frantic bites. A. the professor came up, the
| farmer rcdoub!ed hs eXertions, SAYING WIN eaGh
| thrust: "SgC mater, see mater! lcs,' salu tHc
! urotcs,or "at which end? There was p good deal
of it at both ends in the Senate on Thursday.
Ohio Democrats are likely to take the lead as the
most original and cnterpnsng Rcformers IN their
party. In the late disastrous defeat which they
suffered in Cincinnati, they rescued only one cLclal,
a police Justice. Not content with this verdict OF
the people against them, they have had a Bill intro
duced in the Legislature aboIisEing the Board Of
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