New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-03
POLITICIL NOTES.

The agony Of the Democracy is sweet to look
upon.
I,'- n backdown now and kuockdown on cleo
ton dag.
Slow music and low lights while Thurman gives
the word to kuUckle under
Uncle Dick B hop favors the starvation policy.
He hopes .0r @ corner IN groceries, ana!
Not word from Beck in this absorbing crisis.
What q noble chin is here unAIueed
Ballot-boz s;uGinq will not be free IN this city.
That is @ resouudilg thwac6 ut IIden and Reform.
NJ. Seymour officially declines the Belmont taiiy
on anv conditions Yet nobody hasteHs TO offer 70
70 either Church or DOrsheimcr.
tisoIduews everywhere except in Washington
that public sentiment is overwhelmingly on the
side o.. tine Republicans IN tins scrlmmage.
The iIraprsssible yearning OF the Democracy TO
have at least one frst-class blunder on hand all
the time is what prompts this rush toward lethal
silver !. gi-ialon.
A Southern outrage is at last being investigated,
and a White man IS being uged for it in Atlanta,
Ga However the man be killed was O white man,
toe. which explains and perhaps excuses the per-
seculon io which he Is subjected Dy tAe courts.
What troubles the Democrats most in the Presi-
dents message is its "insOlcut tone" There isn't
anything of the kind ID it. but if there were what
bushes. have q lot of rowdie- who have been call
ing the President q fraud 10 complain OF 10
Il is wmor.d that Edison is invendug new
faug.ed caucus capable OF moving forward reck-
lessly Do any desired direction, gged with back
down movement, enabling the party operating it
% get ri scrape gracefully. IL would De worth
millions % the Democrats just now.
If the Democrats knew that by concilatIng the
negroes iu the south and defending their right 10
vote. they would stand some chance of carrying
New-York OHIO and Peunsy lvania next year, they
might be able 10 do a good deal OF damage lgnor-
once Is iis own protection.
Chief-Justice ChurcLfs modesty was never better
shown than when he declined 10 sign the Belmont
request to Mr. Seymour to be- a candidate for
Governor All the other ambassadors signed IT,,
but the Judge refrained. lie knew it would be
easier 30 turn the document around and nre II at
himself if his name were not there
Ii looks as if the new constitution for California
which the people of that state are to decide upon
next Wednesday. would be rejected by a handsome
majority Every days discussion of 10 has increased
the number OF opponents. for its faults appear TO
be nexAausrble. It's rejec ION Will be apt TO rid
the state of Kearneyism, and bring back greater
degree OF stability than has been exhibited since
the rlse of that noisy asltatOr.
General j. = Robinson, the wide-awake chairman
of the ONO Republican State Committee, declares
that al the OHIO Republicans are now stalwarts
He assures q reporter Of The Clerc'qnd Herald that
tina Presidents vsto has brought back all the stray
3
whoever h4 may DO, viii command the united vote
Oh tine party. As for the Democrats, be considers
them Ia condition 10 do nothing except 10 esiA gov
eruOr Bishop % the sacrifice. II lCOkS very MucA
a. n this we're the case % . dot.
Alexander Stephens observes that the veto power
is one of the pillars Of the constitutional tonple
and he Is eminentY right. Mr.. Stephens's party Is
just now bowling with rage because the President
has declined 10 DO Duld0zed INTO allowing II 20 pull
down that pillar. under threat Of starving the Gov
eminent # he dida't. The importance OF the pillar
to the preservation Of the Government IS demon
sirated by the powerful influence which the Presl-
dents ac5 has cxerted. lie has thrown the Demo
osatlc party INTO = pane, from which lt viii quiet
down u q brief season Of decent behavior. and he
has thoroughly consolidated the Republican party.
It is rimored that tho COMMITTEES sent 20 see
whether H0raiio Seymour would run for Governor
have reported to their superior officer 40 follows
MANHATTAN CLUB, y. Y. May e.
TOJK:
Our work is done he declines 70 run,
and insists upon keeping Sui;
W lth a saddened ar ho is forced 10 docIlrs
That he cannot the Office MI
But each OF U.s. without any fuss,
Can md you a man that Will. A. B.,
4. X. c.,
w.D.
mat lllden agent who has started South incog-
nito' hasn't gone moment too The work Of
STIMULATING love for pure Reform in that section