New-York tribune., 1879-03-19
POLITICAL NOTES.
Cox swore he wouldn't, but he did.
Wonder if Tilden knows what's GOING ON

Wonder if Tilden knows what's going on now
Randall is convinced anew that Tilden has plenty
Of yIgOr.
on that back seat again.
Blackburn would be even more destructive as
leader Of the House than as Speaker.
Thurman is an agile trimmer, but he must go to
CIPHER Alley to learn how to yank wire.
They held the balance of power. those Green
hackers. But what did they DO with IL 7
The country is plentImlly spriukled with photo
graphs of Iilden winch SAID to be surprisingly
robust.
COxs great run for the Speakcrship ended in a
magnificent total of four vOtes-not enough to give
him IA share of the gate-mOney.
Latest Reform edict: "In the County Clerks
Office fraud shall never be cOndOned-nO, never; i'll
the REGISTERS oiice-weli, hardly ever"
Only 73 per cent Of the Democrats in the House
are cX-Confederates, but 90 per cent of the re-
mainder will vote as the Confederates bid them.
The election of Speaker Randall seems to prove
that a pretty clean record is now ana then Of con-
siderable advantage even to a Democratic states
man.
1t is not yet too late to make grateful note Of
the fact that the elevated railroads keep running
on st. Patrcks Day just if there were no process
sion in the streets.
Tlden backed Randall against a whole Senate
full of rival Presidential candidates. against Solid
South, and a solid Grcenback party and he won
Pity hes so feeble!
Mr. Tilden winks his other eye and wonders
if Senator Wallace will be liable to hold the Penn
sylvania delegation against him in the Convention
of 1880.
Poor Blackburn! That speech of his was clearly
enough composed as an impromptu for the accept
ancp of the Speakcrshp. Ii bore turning around
pretty well, but it squeaked audlbly in the process
Mr. TilJen has been footing it to good purpose of
late and his pedometer tally Is highly encoura ging
to his hackers. But Mr. Tilden is a shady states
man, and he'll never tell how many points he is
ahead In the gO-aS-vOu-pleaSo dash for the Demo-
cratic nomination III 1851.
The strike of the Grecnbackers was miserable
fzzle. They were able to get only fourteen votes
together, and bestowed all but one of these upon
Hendrlck Is. Wright. The House has been organ
lZcd without them, and hencetOrth they will be of
no Importance to anybody.
Nearly one-half of the Democratic Senators who
meet with the new Congress are ex-COnfederates
They number nine cen. while of the Republicans
there are only four who served in the war. This
would seem TO show that the South cings to the
past and its sectional issues full tcIaclouSy as
the North does.
1t was premature, all that gush over the remark
able display of fairness by Clerk Adams Mr.. Bis
bee, as everybody knows was elected to represent
Florida and it was imputed to Adams for Righteous
ness that he had put Mr.. Bsbee's name where il be-
longed. But he didn't do it. He put in Hull, who
has no shadow of right to the seat and ten to one
the Democrats Will keep him there.
Perhaps the ludicrous result Of his dark horse ("
experiment in the SpepkcrshIp race has cooled fiery
Mr. Cox off IA bit, but few days ago he was eager
for an attack on the Administration. When asked
about the length of the extra session he said - We
will sIt all Summer; ana we are gong 10 have lets OF
fun, t0O.' Maybe he thinks now tnat he has had
all the fun Inc wants at present lie has furnished
lots" OF it 10 the country.
Mr.. Dorsheimor continues to give evidence that
his love tor rlden has cooled forever In a recent
conversation with +" Gath" of The Cincinnati En-
quirer he said that PeltOn always very close to
hi, uncle and that the latter SAID him that
tho only man who never made mistake was Pei
ton" Tlden added that Pclton kept every secret.
There is no douDt about the latter statement. Pei
ton has a memory which absOrbs secrets without
number and never gives them forth agaln. As for
mistakes, would not an inch0ate offence" be con-
sdered mistake by his uncle now
II the Southern bulldozing Congressman can do
as they please, Congress will be likely to sit all
Summer. A correspondent of The Cincinnati Com
mercdl obtained the opinion OF several OF them on
the length OF the SESSION. ana tue uIahInous voice
WAS for a long fight with the President General
Hooker, of Mississippi thinks Congress may sit till
March 4, 1881, unless the Radicals adopt diff
ferent programme from the one that they have
marked out" General Manning, also Of Mississippi,
expects to stay all Summer Carlisle. OF Kentucky,
saws adjournment won't come for long time.
General Gibson, Of Louisiana, has the calm as
snronce to say the session will be long one 4" un-
less HAYES should behave himself. which is not
probable Casey Young, of Tennessee, is prepared
to "sit till carry our points If 1t takes all Sum
mrrp Eppa Hunton, of Virginia, expects "an
eighteen months fight" The ferociOus Chalmers
is going to sit for the rest of time. for he will
sit till he'll freezes over If the Republicans per-