New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-18

Inc latest ruinof ABOUT llluen Is nishiN
tanning 1t credits him with purpose Of handing
over his Presidential claims TO Charles Francis
Adams. Keeper Of the Fraud Brand. lie thinks Mr..
Adams is the only man who can unite the party.
His idea probably is that the surest way to pre-
serve the corpse Is To freeze H.
Presdent-mazing. like stock-speculatng, is
mighty onsartn business"
Alexander Stephens sees nothing in Congressman
Felton's letter inconsistent with the language Of
the true patriot" and finds in It indication that
its author intends to read himself out of the Demo-
cratic party. Neither does anybody else. None or
these Southern independents eyer take that step.
A large number of Southern Democrats" are
quoted as favoring General Grants candidacy for a
third term, but nearly all of them request to have
their names withheld. Those who allow their names
to be given undoubtedly most estImable persons
IN their respective localities but the American pub
lie has the pleasure of resting Its eye upon
their names Tor the hrst time
There Is a disposition among the assembling Dem
ocratic statesmen at Washington to make Senator
Thurman the scapegoat for the disasters Of the year
They are inclined to make it extremely unpleasant
for him during the rest Of his term. This will not
work. The Senator bad leader, but he was a
helpless one. If he had tried 10 head the party in a
more sensible direction they would have pushed him
aside and rushed to destruction without him. In
short, the party foreordained, by an inscIuabe
Providence, to put its foot into IT,
The South always talks split aud votes solid e. O.,
the recent election IN Mississippi.
That Tiden Club in Pittsburg like Montgomery
Blair, dominates Tilden regularly every week. At
every repetition both remark with increased EN-
phasis, &" tell you it's fraud" The country takes
your word for it, brethren.
Senator Mitchell. Of Oregon. has arrived in Wash
tt,for q
all the Pacific States will be sodly Republican in
$780, With New-York headed surely in tue same
direction. Indiana remains as the only candidate for
the position o. tail-piece TO the Solid South There
are symptoms that even Indiana may decline 10
assume that mental position.
General Willard Warner, of Alabama. speaks of
the South as one having authority, because he has
long been living there and studying 1t with the in
telIigent interest of AN educated Northerner. He
says. to a reporter of The Cincinnati Commercial
that he thinks the South viii be solid for the DEM
ocrats in 1850, but if a Republican President Is
elected them breaking up of the Democratic party
will follow in nearly every Southern State. This
corresponds with the most intelligent Northern
yew-tnat the way to split the solid South is To
show the utter hopcessness of its sOidity. General
Warner SAYS Grant, Blame and sherman all have
earnest friends among Southern Republicans and
adds that his personal choice. and that of the most
thoughtful Republicans IN Alabama, is Mr. Sher-
man.
Congress will reasonable week from next
Monday. when the country will be entertained by
tho spectacle of the great Democratic party trying
in vain to control its own mouth.
Poor Thurman! Tn addition to his other aifc-
tions Kearney has nominated him as the working
mans candidate for President This is too much.
The profuse Democratic promises of good behavior
strLa tha r,uhlic a Oood deal Indian nrouisac 10
the same effect. 1t was long ago decided that the
only really good Indian a dead Indian, and il
il pretty generally believed that the only good
Democratic party possible n dead one.