New-York tribune., 1879-05-13
ho could not use the latteTs visit as u club WIFI
which TO kill of Uncle Dick.
POLITYCAL NOTES.

What will the Democracy do next. Run away,
The lit'lc end OF the hora is the only ap t;re of
Cgrcss open.
Fit is nota baekdown that is before you, sweet
Democrats, what - 1t
Perhaps M. Cox would take il easier II he couId
have 10 alluded 10 ~ so-called backdown.
donbie-barrellcd veto is en0uyh 10 make tho
most stoical Bourbon weep. lns,IItca arcLel ietcJ
The Democrats viii probably Eud o feeble s)lace
in pitching into senator EdnunGs ior bis persuasive
speech.
Mr.. Samuel S. Cox was not a soldier in the war
for the Union, but he seems to have lost his head
IN - the sO-called Rebellion
Even the fraud shriekers ought TO be convinced
by this time that the rgIdity OF the Presidential
backbone Is above the average.
About the only course open for the Democrats il
they object to backing down, is To declare the war
failure, ana ask the President 10 agree with them.
That candid infant at Okolona, Mississippi way.
Democrats seem just ready 10 make a holy
sacrifice oi him as II they were Second Adyentsts.
In this solemn aud perplexng crisis the Demo.
cratic caucus cannot do wiser thing than to put
itself under the motherly care Of Soothing Syrup
DAVIS. There Is nothing like 1T Tor wind-cOiic.
There was an ex-rebel named HILL
VINO said q" Hayes will veto the bnl,
And so Tor the sake
OF our cause VIII make
face at Zach Chandler, WlILp
Ben Hill gave the chronic Southern excuse for all
blundeIs and crimes when he declared that a large
number OF Southerners stood out against secession
till they were forced 10 submit. That IS the SOuths
present excuse Tor trying TO c0erce the President.
said Hill. Shedding blood have always alb
h0rred;
In the war OF the States refused to draw sword%
" Just sO,' replied Chandler, ." We do not forget
That you sought and found refuge III Fort La
tayette" 70!
Forty thousand dollars is about the amount which
the country every day In the matter OF inter-
est alone as a result of the funding operations 80
trIumphautty carried through by Secretary Sher-
man.
The howl about " troops at the pols" " won't de-
ceiye anybody and the less wind the ferOcious Re-
form editors waste in making It the less Will they
exhaust themselves The whole North understands
this question thoroughly, ana lt Is The North which
viii vote to put a permanent muzzle on the Con-
federate Democrats this FaIl
Governor Cullom, of Illinois, has sent an enthu-
sastic letter to the President, com&endlng his veto
of the Army bill, and assuring him that the people
of Illinois, and of the whole West, applaud his
fusal to abdicate the powers conferred upon HIM by
the Constitution, and believe they can rely upon
him to still resist the threatened encroachments
upon his pTeTOgatye5, anu upon the liberties OF the
people as represented ana embodied IN tho EXccu-
tive. The Governor speaks iOr the whole " est, bat
he might have SAID the same thing OF the Whole
North without danger OF errng.
1t Is claimed by Secretary Shcrman5 many friends
in Washington that he is now stronger than any
other Republican Presidential candidate except
Grant. They are wisely shy about being too pre-
mature and are disCOumging anything like q
clamOr for him at present. They claim to have IN
formation from NewYorl that justilies them IN say
ing he could to-day carry this state against any
Democrat who could be nominated. From all other
parts of the North come indications OF the SecGe-
taTy'S growing strength, which warrant MS tIleAds
in taking hopeful view OF the future. His popu-
larity a mOs5 gratifying demonstration tldt inc
people are heartily graictul Tor the accomplishing
Of resumption and thoroughly IN earnest I'D aeA&uu
ing unceasing efforts to make 10 permanent.
The "Ok0lona idiot" read the poem before the
annual meeting of the Mississippi Press Association
in June of last year. and be has reprinted Ii now as
a sort OF vIndcation of his popularity IN the South
1t Is called Southland" and Is full OF red-hot de-
yotion to our cause all grand and glorious, cause
that yet will be victorious" 1t is really prophetic
in stirring appeal TO the Democracy to rise and
strike for State Rightsl This thy mission !; and
it sings with a true bulldozing fervor, Let tbs
blessings of the ballot by Caucaslans beconttoled
In short il is filled with the same sort ot blood ana
thunder with which tine IdIOt has alarmed ms party
by beichng forth in prose lately As evidence mat
the Association liked the tone OK the poem ls
author prints a column of Southern newspaper eA-
tracts commencing II as patriotic" and " luI OK
genuine feeling aud sentiment"