New-York tribune., 1879-01-01
POLITICAL NOTES.

Resumption alone is enough OF boon TO make a
Happy New Year.
secretary Sherman is the happiest man in the
country to-day. and he deserves 10 be.
Not coparccncr has had the gratitude to wish
his constant friend, THE TRIBUNE, Happy New
Year.
Bet yon douhlc-lontcd. hump-backed peanut
that TIlden won't appear in Washington with that
claInpr
Nobody will be surprised to hear that the founder
of Cronns Electoral College Of One has Il crooked
record as GoNc!h0r.
II is announced that senator Thurman will de-
pend largely upon General Butler's Boston news
papcr for his evidence of Northern hulldozing.
Both men detcst the newspapers dreadfulIy, too.
Here's sadness. Washington writer labors
through four columns of The Cincinnati Commercial
to rrovc that ''iIangman" Fuote Is not and he, ar
was IN Old Line Wing, but has been fcr0cIous
Democrat from hIs birth to the present moment.
Randall is said to be working to consolidate
Pennsylvania for Tiiden in 1850, spurrcd on by a
! promise that when Tildeu is President. Randall
shall be Postmastcr-General. 1t shows ,anguine
tempcramcut when Il man puts lOrth energy on such
slim encouragement aS tliat.
If Fernando Wood and Senator Thurman are in
earnest IN their dcsrc To hunt up election Irregu-
laritirs i'm the Nortl, they Will find an edifymg
! s,r,le in Hartford The Post Of that cItv charges
| that the Democrats have used little Joker ballots
for the sufng of boxes there ut every election for
| several years past
Senator sharon is y thoroughgOng Grant man.
He has little doubt that Grant will be the Rrpub-
| lcan candidate III 1880. lie thinks highly Of his
integrity. intellect. will, patriotism and thorough
| upsrlishnc,,." The possible candidates in case
Grant is not taken. he thinks are Sherman and
! Blaine The Republicans will elect theircandidate
| h will r1 nf hnt
Houses of Congress. As for SectIOnaISm the inter
| ests OF the North ana the Great West will soon
| override everything Of that kIud. Mr.. Sharon Is
! about to occupy his iong-vacant chair i'll the SEN
| ate.
| The solemn silence which has fallen upon the
| I. .mocratic press since the Teller Committee has
been supplied with funds is amusing and cdIfying.
These were 50 iubIlant w&en they thought that the
lack of AN appropriate ion would stop the hands of the
committee and thus keep the sunlight Of publicity
from falling upon the playful operations of the
bulldozer that they could hardly say enough about
| the Republican failure to find any outragcs. Now
| the iubllation has all disappeared, and the old re-
marks about the crime of sectional politics being
| trottcd ont again. There Is no more talk about
| getting Blaine INTO corner, for they see corner
| rapidly narrowing in upon their own party. They
| know wcll enough what an array of evidence ther,
l. o be- made aud all their elortS III future VIII h,
directed toward DELAYING the Investigation as Il
prevent an official report before Congress adJourns
This is fitting day 20 recall some of the shinlns
| bursts oi Democratic wisdom concerning the Repub
lcan policy Of resumption. First there Is the Ma
| tional Democratic Conventions demand for the re
| peal of the Resumption Act "a "hindrance to re
| SUMPTION" and tS accompanying denuncation u
the financial Imhecity and immortality Of tn
Republican party for making "no advance towar
resumption Then Gomez Mr. Tdcn's eleven-stor
monty styled his letter of acceptance Then ther
il tho venerable William Aliens observation /
sn3 'her. " ~ hia nromising N.nh,w ibn,man'. :,
III arkablo speech of last year setting forth llimr