New-York tribune., 1879-12-19

As a blunder. the Maine business iS. without
| flaw.
With very few honorable exceptions, the Dem
ocratic press of the country sustaius the Maine
crime This was to be expected. and 1t Is not sub
ice, for Republican regret. so far as its partisan
effect is concerned This practical unanimity OF
approval sets the party down as the defender and
promoter Of theft rs "A surer means Of obtaining
power than the ballot-box The party has always
been suspected of desire to steal everylhing wtml
It's reach, and it now proclams openly that such
VIII be It's policy IN the futufe
The Washington Dunderheads seem to be awed
into deeper silence by the brillancy Of the Maine
| Dunderheads.
| Hcndricll b. Wright has revived his famous
twenty million dollar scheme for the aid Of the i'm
pecunious and hard-up. There is no DANCER oil u
becoming law for even the present Congress
doesn't contain enough idiots to make that DOS
sible
| Congress adjourns to-day for three weeks, and II
the Democratic members spend only a small portion
of that time among their constituents they VIII
discover several things which will send them
| back 10 Washington even more solemn than they
are now They will discover that the Maine out
race has deprived the Democratic party OF tne sup,
port of the few decent men VINO remneu 20 u, u, dsfa
| has gwen them fraud" Issue enough 10 oeledl
them handsomely in 1880
| Talk has already started concerning the proper
place for the Democrats to hold their National Con-
vention. Leading statesmen of the party say they
must select city where majority OF the voters
and majority Of the newspapers are Denoc.auc'
Yazoo fills the bull entirely; ~hy not try that'
II Tilden sets the precedent for paying back
money to the railroads he helped to wreck, what
will become of the barrelf There won't be enough
left IN II at the end OF year to pay feltOHs poaiu
bills.
In spite of The indignant protest which The whole
country is making against the theft in Maine. the
Democratic press including the Iiden organs III
this state are clamoring for the oustng OF senator
Kellogg Perhaps the theory is that the party may
az well be hung for a sheep a lamb ana tbat
while they ar about 1t they may rs well steal All
they eau before the people step IN ana stop tue
game.
The new registration law IN South Carolina ought
to be an eye-opener for those well-meaning North
ern Republicans who persist in believing mat tue
south will not be solidly Democratic IN 1850. ihcre
is not the shadow of a hope for split. Inc wmte
rulers are bound to keep the negro vote down IN one
way or another. The Ku-Klux experiment was the
first IN a SERIES II was succeeded by the less n'lr-
dcrous system of bulld0zng. and its Wholesale IN
tmdatou. Tins in turn was succeeded by the Mis-
sisspp plan and It's counterfeit. the Hampton plan
which were simply 10 scare the negroes from lno
polls hy " SHOW Of force" Perhaps these planS
having been exposed, Will be abandoned now as
their prcdpces. were. aud the law requiring
voters 10 be- able 70 write their names will take their
place Nhateyer course ~ followed, the South VIII
he kept solid TIL 1880 demonstrates that tue solid
ity is positive harm to the South itselI.
Five months of solid fret and worry before lie can
know his fate-who yclrns 10 be Presidential as
pirant with that prospect ln storey