New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-30
POLITICAL NOTES.


nate Branch.
Viewed as a bunder. the second rebellion is abso-
lutely without flaw
A Republican Executive is handy thing to have
in the National Capital.
II anybody doubts the existence of Presidential
backbone, let him ask Democrat.
Probably the first effort to get with the Pres
Ident will be the revival Of the fraud yell
The fuglemen of the Grant movement are in con-
staht need of being warned of the peril OF overdo-
ing IL.
If the responsibility for this extra session could
be saddled on Tilden or any other candidate, 1t
would rum him.
1t Will doubtless occur to the pugnacious Demo
cratic Editor that he made mistake in rejecting so
scorniully excellent Republican advice about this
extra session.
Judge Davis thinks it is mighty mean piece OF
business for Democrats. right in the face of his
flop to talk of General Palmer Of Illinois, pos
Sible Presidential candidate.
great deal OF comfort has been extracted by the
Democrats from Judge DaviSs useless speculations
about what President Lincoln would do were he
alive to-day. Yet they never got much comfort out
OF Mr.. Lincoln while no lived.
1t begins to be apparent to the Democrats that If
they adjourn without appropriating money which
Is lying idle in the Treasury, they will not be In
favorable condition to defend themselves as friends
of the people They are actually cutting OH the
peoples supply OF money.
The man with an awful sense of restitution be-
cause somebody else obtained the Post Office VIII
be likely to join the mammoth excursion across the
continent to welcome General Grant. This will be
the largest caravan of offce-hunters yet organized
1t can't hurt anybody's chances. and who knowsf
So they'll all try 1t, Tor luck.
Congressman Hil of Ohio, is one of the few
really belgerent Democrats left in Washington.
He is in favor of fighting 1t ont if it takes all Sum-
mer. The party, he says, has made the issue on
principle and "every abandonment of principle
will be taken by the country as an indication OF
cowardice, and the people are not fond OF cowaTds
Nor OF bTaggarts either, Mr.. Hill.
If Thurman could only prove that Tilden had ad-
vised the extra session; and that he himself had OPP
posed it, he would almost make himself Presi-
Dental candidate again. lie snot likely to be able
to make the showing, however. Randall opposed
the bunder with all mis- power and he is generally
believed to DO a Tilden man. The soft-mOney Demo-
Gratis favored 1t, and they are thurman men.
There's the rub.
Mr.. Blackburn will probably think better of it
now. and adjourn. His awful threat TO hang
around Washington until the Sd of March, 1881,
didn't alarm the President as seriously as he
thought it would When Mr. Blackburn retres to
Kentucky he will have leisure to reflect on the dis
advantages under which an aspiring statesman
labOTs when he is cOnstltutionally liable to dis
charge himself prematurely
The Louisiana Convention seems TO be oppressed
with a nervous dread that their State may again be
seduccd into defaultlg, and it therefore proposes
that the State shall adopt the popular modern plan
of protecting its honor by razeeinS its debt and
whiting down the rate of interest on what is left
of the principal. 'mIttee has been appointed
to consider what arc of scaling down" holders
If fho Gtata ne In.
The Tammany idea of making the next ticket
Davis and Bayard does not spread with the speed
and fury of prairie fire. Indeed it does not spread
ut ALL Nobody seconds the motion. Mr.. BayaTd's
friends look upon it with silent contempt and as for
Daviss friends it is not made manifest that he has
any. TammanY IL not success as a tlcket-Dullder.
Its chief function in National politics is the accu
mutation of crow for home consumption when Til
den Is renOmlnated.
If the ire-spitting editor of The Okolono State is
known In Mississippi traitor hired by Yankee
gold to betray the COnfederates and ruin the Con-
federate cause, how does it happen that the Mssis-
sippi people do not throw him into a cell and shoot
him to death with shot guns as they shot Judge
Chisolm and Judge Chisolm's daughter and
Judge Chisolm's little boy9 This is the season.
able cOnundrum which The Clereldnd Herald aims
at the Southern gentlemen who are trying TO deny
that the Mississippi editor is sample Mississippi
Democrats
Congressman Hazeton, Of Wisconsin, gave the
Greenbackers lesson in the rudments Of political
economy on Thursday. Quoting a profound dis
covery by soft-mOney member, that the country
was going TO ruin because two hefers had been sold
I'm Iowa FOR so, he remarked: THAT only shows
that what is wanted is not an issue of moro green->
backs but of less hefers." The trouble with the
Greenback agitatOrs is too cOplos an issue Of words
before the absorption of any sound information.
They know enOuQh but the trouble is that most of
1t ISN'T So
A month ago the Democrats were felictatIng
themselves upon their success in discovering "a
square ISSUE" but just now none of their leaders
seem eager to claim any title to patent on the
invention. On the contrary, each one IS industri-
ously endeavOring to swear the issue" upon some
other man. The Brigadiers assert that it was man
ufactured by their Northern allies with the ayari-
cious intent of boarding up political capital while
the Northern Democrats accuse the COn1ederates of
an unhallowed ambition to make q display of their
supremacy in the party councils. The caucus which
must now be summoned TO consider ways and
means of backing out is not likely to DO a love
feast.
sThere is report from Washington that the DEM
ocrats are beginning to realize the work they are
doing for their opponents and resolved bring
about an adjournment as soon possible Their
more discreet leaders declare that they will do all
they can to head off reckless financial legislation
to pass the appropriation bills, and to adjourn, that
the manufacture of damaging record may be
stopped. This Is wise, but it is rather late. Tho
only way to adjourn is TO back down precipitatey
and thus confess that the extra session was most
egregiOus piece of stupidity. 1t is even chance
whether this won't damage the party as badly
rs a continuance in the present course of blunder
lug.
1t has been plain all along that the Okolona fire.
eating editor differs from other Southerners only in
the reckless freedom of his utterances. The senti-
ments he utters those or the Solid South but his
brethren are most of them discreet enough to keep
from expressing them in public. The speeches on
Saturday last, at the Confederate memorial exer-
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