New-York tribune., 1879-01-03
IOLIILEAL MOTIFS.

What ha, scared Mr. Pot,crl The jerks or moro
2ipLcIs!
Resumption viii now proceed to he hindrance to
the Democratic part.
The Teller Committee is likely 70 have better luck
in Ncw-O Orleans than Mr.. Potter had
The Interior Department viii Gpd the Information
its bumpious clerk has been in search Of in GeneIal
Shordans letter.
Doesn't Mr. Thurman read The Wordl If he does,
why didn't he file a. bulldozng literature tnosc re-
markable letters from Massachusetts,
Ii Charles Frigtd Adams would now emit some
opporune observations in regard to Fraud. they
would move over the surface Of politics like polar
wave.
Nobody believed that Mr. Thurman could con-
struct anything weaker than his attempted answer
to Blaine but his letter to the Teller Committee
shows thdt he could.
Chairman Potter viii get back TO Washington
just in time to receive Mr. Tilden when he appears
there with his clamOr. Ii will give him chance
to follow one cew which has something ~ tho
end OF Il.
The Democrat, pretend to think that the Rcpub-
Leans are afraid OF crpher investigation. If they
really thought how quickly they would set
hunt IN motion Nobody knows better than they
tAJt the Republicans cannot be damaged III lufO
way.
One Of tho reasons which Mr.. Thurman's friends
rive for lis c.lin,n.; to run for Governor OF Chic
is that he Will have to fight "Sam T,lden as well
a., the Money Power Of the East" for both Vii be
anxious to defeat him IN order - KIN ms PfeSdeil-
t,at chances. thus go Reform brethren love "ich
Otncr.
Chairman Devices lets the whole policy OF the "p-
ponents Of specie payment cut into the bright sun.
light of pubhclty when he says they viii continue
70 oppose resumption whether 1t succeeds or fails,
"a :
ONLY real reason for the existence OF he Soitmoncy
Darty 1Ecv want iulialon and instability rather
than honest money and genuine prosperity II ia
delight fui thing know that they cannot possibly
have " hat they want.
Secretary sherman saws he entered the Cabinet
hoping TO star there till the end of the Presidential
term. and the country certainly hopes he will be
permitted to stay. OF the talk about running for
Governor Of Ohio next year, lie says that he has
such warm feelings of gratitude for the Republicans
of that state that they could not ask him TO dO any
tniur which he would not 30 or Try 10 40 ne "o'S
not xprct they will ask INN to ran iof Governor IL
they do, he Will try TO answer them IN way te
nlrasp his friends il not himself there Is plenty OF
material for good ticket, and he Is sure either OaT-
field OF Foster would make spsehuld run
II is noticeable that Senator Thurman neglectS
to mention two somewhat notorious instances OF
buld0zug and fraud in As lctterto the Teller COM
mittee. He failed 70 say anything about General
Butlers sutterngs III Massachusetts. aud he iaiieo
~ r.,..al the op.raticns of Mr. Ephram Holland
IN behalf of General Bounding Banning in Ham
ilto, County Ono He has gone back 10 the sep
t,nhrr election IN Vermont. and there Is no reason
why he should not have gone back 10 manning eS
election i'm ONO. TO ne sure he was careful 80 10
frame his amendment that the ONO operations
cOuld be left out yet 1t Would nave SHOWN IN LII
partial spirit TO have mentioned them'
Mr.. Perry II. Smith has reached his home IN Chit
.,o and has reiterated his New-YOrk belief in the
existence of Mr. rilden as Presidential candidate
VI, thinks the Great Dcirauded will be
nominated again if the East has the candidate
proyiued his health permits PERI Is lit
tIe afraid of Tiden's health; not that the ciphers
have shaken it any-perish the thought-Dut De-
canse of his advancing years. IL IIlden isn't
cbosen Bayard will be the man; and II Bayard
isn't the man. either Thurman OF Hendricks viii
he unless some entirely new man Is chosen rem Is
rnidv to 90 on the stand at any moment ana eA-
Main his connection with the CIPHER dispatches
That Will be interesting, Tor the whOe c11u1iIS
viii listen to "A man who spent T6O,OOO tor llldeh'
rn. yyiltinp to spend so 900 more, ana Is ANXIOUS
tn baye hun renOninated that he may put OUT more
yet.
I, must he dull season for investigation i'll New
Orleans when there are not thIee OF Tour ConSfcs-
s;onal Committees down there at once stimulating
tbe creative faculties of the Louisiana witness
And since the jerks suddenly frightened MI
Porter and his men out Of business thl' committee
might have turned to aud helped 10
nav the expenses of their trap by ai"-
INC, some of tine other searchers after truth IN that
mucb-investIgated city. Probably Mr.. Teller would
mot have entertained with grateful hospitality any
o,sr. Of assistance from Mr. Potter. But tho
%ymotic Committee are just settling down
a. business. and they might have been
gracious enough to employ any iramPIg
Gnmprrssmcn in search Of job. Mr.. Potter and his
mrL7e.s followers have been roofing around after
f,and So long and to litle purpose that II would
ht " Testful change TO start out Oh some other
,.st-.yrn If the object OF their search promised 10
~, as bathing and elusive the germs OF yellow
fever.
PERSONAL.