New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-22
POLITICAL NOTES.

THAT'S lcaltuy case Vi pOlitlCal iONAJ"N "'''N'
Senator Lamar has.
1t looks as though Mr.. Tilden had Withdrawn too
many moral forces from the South and sent them to
Name.
The campaign of harmony begins to liven up In
Mississippi. Two victims Of the shotgun were re-
ported yesterday.
Mr.. Tilden will never cOndOne your belief that he
knew anything about the cipher dispatches. Mr..
Eield--neyer, never, neyerI
Moses is junketng In Europe, and there is nobody
Mt home to ring fire belliD night" at the rebeil0us
spirit cropping out In the South.
The demoralIzed condition Of Mr.. Tilden's canvass
in the Southern States calls pretty loudly for the
services of Nephew Pelton and Smith Weed.
Ten to one the Democratic editors will be so abb
sorbed with the last Louisiana boomerang that
they will know nothing about the Dixon assasslna-
ton.
When the Wallace Committee heard Of the muir
der of Captain Dixon, they thought it was about
time to end the farce of hunting for bulldozing in
NeW-Lugland.
John G.. Thompson is drawing it mild in his news
paper talks this year. Matters must look gloomy
indeed for his party when he can't claim every thing
with confidence.
Ex-Governor ThrocknOrtOn Is another Southern
statesman in need of moral forces. He thinks that
nominate for the presidency. Somebody must get
right out OF bed and display those danger signals.
To the three vigorous. wholesome speeches deIv-
cred In Ohio, yesterdayby Secretaries Sherman and
Schurz and Judge Taft, the Democrats have to op-
pose-what7 Only the assassination of a man in
broad day for having the courage to stand up ior
his political opinions.
A suspicion begins to dawn upon the public
mind that the Greenbackers have usurped the place
once held by the Solid South III the confidence Of
the Gramercy Park statesman The amount OF CO.
penhagen flaming out to that party IN Maine and
Ohio indicates that Mr. Illden proposes to rely
upon 1t I'm future IN furtherng the cause OF " the
largest and hottest interests Of humanity"
A correspondent Of The Cincinnati Enquirer has
obtained from Mr.. Tilden an admission that his
widely published statement to AIr. Springer that he
Mr. Tilden) was earnestly in favor Of the election
of General Ewing was authentic. Afterward he
branched off into a rambling dissertation upon the
oisseuliOns in the Democratic party, winding up
with declaration that the fraul issue JIanscehuS
all others, and must not be sacrificed to INFERIOR anu
transient questions. That ends all doubt is 10 the
truthfulne5s OF the interview
The Democracy never had q more uphill fight
than they are making this year. The drift is against
them. The success of Resumption, the return OF
prosperity and the failure of the extra session Of
Congress, are all unanswerabe arguments. Even
the Indians are fighting against them, or rather re-
fusing to fight for them, by not beginning the an
nua Indian war. The Texas border raiders are also
so quiet that even Democratic Senator MaXey mas u
admit the success of q Republican Administration
IN dealing with this yeXatIous question: Altogether
II looks like bad year Tor the DeUOcrdJs'
Senator Thurman's statement that the hard
money Democrats would support Ewing Is not be-
lieyed in Ohio. The Cire'oad Lcadr has a dispatch
from Columbus charging that several prominent
.. .tr..l fauy lygtU IL
fate and try and save the Senatorship for Thurman.
Many things taken together give color to this state
meut II has been discovered that the Democrats
are paving "A great deal of attention 10 the close
legislative districts. They hope TO conceal their
proceedings under the general confidence feit by
the Republicans. Should the Republicans elect
Foster aud lose the Legislature il viii be only half
a victory. EOreWarued Is tOrearmed'
Governor-to-be Foster stopped long enough in
Cleveland TO give his views OF the canvass to The
Hcraid Of that city. He believes the contest for
Governors virtually settled, but has no disposition
TO stop work and rest quietly in confidence. The
chief fight now. he thinks is for the Legislature
and for that the Democrats Will make hard battle.
He has already visited thirty counties in the State
and all his observations go to show that the ote
will be large, that there is no enthusiasm for
Ewing that no Republicans are going over to the
Democrats but that many hard-money Democrats
will either vote the Republican ticket or not vote a
all ana that the National party is rapidly dissoly-
ing Mr. Foster is looking well, and appears 10 bear
the fatIguing work OF the canvass with perfect
ease.
Mr.. Watterson, from his quiet retreat on Block
Island Is writing some characteristic letters to The
CoRyiT-Journai. In his second effort he gives a
sketch of SIR. Tilden, his domestic life,
political prospects and his course during
the Electoral Commission controversy. which
is decidedly WattersOniau. In attempting to
explain why Mr. Tllden did not act with
more vigOr and decision in that memorable
crisis and place himself at the head Of hundred
thousand people ready to assert his rights, Mr.. Wat
terson asks "What sort Of figure would Mr.. Til
den have cutp You must have put both hands in
your pockets, leaned back in your chair and had II
good hearty laugh after you put that question: Mr..
W.tterson He further says that Mr. TIlden is no
.'snorter no stawar" and doesn't buster; !" is
not given to sacrificing large things 60 little ones,
but IDEALS i'm organized ideas and relies upon moral
forcesn Copenhagen, for instance. Mr.. Hendricks
and John Kelly are given some humping knocks;
and i'm view of the injury their Is inilIclng
upon the Democratic party, Mr. Watterson eXcanls
i'm despair: Z" Is IL not enough to MAKE cat howlT
Yes yes, Mr.. WattcrsOn; IL Is, II is!