New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-07

with its ultimaium and compelled the National
Convention 10 accede to il and recognize the
organization as the centre of Influence
and power in City, State and Nation! Tammany,
which for forty years has clutched everything its
Shiny tentacles could reach always CEN
tralizing its booty in itself, and never
loosing It's grip on power or plumber till angry
people smote it off Tammany opposing
Capitalization of power Perhaps it does. but IT'S
the Capitalization of power anywhere else than In
itself. Do such men as Henry L. Clinton aud
John Kelly wink at each other when they say
these thingsi II they don't they beat the Roman
augurs.
Senator Eaton, Of Connecticut, seems to have set
| tied the Presidential election already. At
| Democratic meeting at New-Haven last week
he said that New-York. New-Jersey and
| Connecticut were considered doubtful States
| two months ago, but the nomination of
Hancock has changed oil that. New-York, he says,
will give 5000 and probably 100000 majority for
Hancock, New-Jersey 10000, and Connecticut
5000 Indiana he counts sure for Han
cock as Kentucky; California las certain
for him rs gold is to be taken from
her soil y" Pennsylvania more likely to go
for Hancock than for Garfield; New-Hampshire
and Maine doubtful, and so on. It happens, now
ever that this is not the Senator's first appearance
az prophet. There hasn't been an election In
twenty years that he hasn't been equally positive
about. His MARK the prediction !" is Connecticut
proverb They've marked it till they are tired
1t is O singular circumstance that the more conf
dent he Is Of success the certain Is Democratic
defeat. When his party has any show, he Is con-
sentative and careful, and doesn't rush into
prophecy. That's the kind Of prophet he is. II he
processes to be sanguine the Republicans are en-
t,,t ha n
sign his party is hard at work at their old game of
the still hunt.
Southern Democrats are already getting more
than enough of the superb soldier talk of their
Northern allies, and their newspapers are making
haste to explain that they do not accept General
Hancock because of his record, but because of his
refusal to protect Unonists of Texas and Louisi-
ana from rebel persecution In 1867 That means
that the bulk of the Democratic party will vote for
him. not because he fought well in the war against
secession but in spite of that fact and because he
was willing to carry out the "pOcy" Of the rene
eade johnson because he believed that rebels who
had murdered Union men should be tried by courts
and iuries. provided they were rebel courts and
juries because he believed that the civil authority
should be supreme, when the only civil authority
was exercised by State Governments which Con-
gress had pronounced illegal in the Reconstruction
acts aud because, in fragrant violation Of express
act of Congress- he released criminals arrested by
the military authorities on the writ of rebel Judge
who had no right under the Reconstruction acts TO
a sect on the bench. 1t will hardly answer to run
candidate in the North because he fought for the
Union and in the South because he did his best to
nullify the efforts of Congress to establish the log
ical results of the Union victories. The record is
too contradictory and promisc1ous to endure
scrutiny.
Among the letters read at the Tammany celebra-
ton on Monday was one from Mr.. Spence Spencer
of Ithaca who seems to have been exharated to the
verge of idocy by the Cincinnati nominations. He
writes: II feel like celebrating. am celebrating
/ am hapOy. / am tickled TO death. At
last the delegates to Democratic Ma
tional Convention have shown some
mon sense, and we have candidate we can all sup
port with pride and pleasure. Hurrah! hurrah
hurrah for Hancock. l huTTahed in the street, l
hurrahed at home, an hurrahy now" Precisely
why Mr. Spence Spencer should DO " tickled TO
DEATH because the party which suppose
he has been voting for for some time has
" Mt last" shown common sense" we do not
clearly make out. If it hasn't shown common sense
before what has he shown in voting for its candi-
dates And why does he write in this way to a lot
otpeope who beleve-Or pretend to-that the party
the country has been going TO the dogs for not be-
ing governed by i'll The Tammany Democracy
believe the party has all the common sense in
the country, and here this Spence Spencer writes
10 them that he's tlckled to death because it has
" at LAST shown common sense What's the mat
ter with Spence Spencer Seems TO have been
drinking.
Some idea of the measureless lying with which
Republican candidates are attacked in the present
campaign may be gathered from the outbreak on
Governor Jewell since that gentleman was
appointed chairman of the Republican National
Committee Before that appointment was made
he passed among his neigh bors who know him well.
and his friends of whom no has thousands IN all
parts of the country, for very genial gentleman,
who had the respect of his opponents well the
devoted loyalty Of his friends; man whose frank
ness is prOyerbial, his generosity unstinted his
word never doubted, and his character above re-
proach. He is now charged with having cheated
Door woman in Detroit, with using his diplomatic
privileges "a Minister to Russia for corrupt
purposes with treachery to Grant when Postmaster
General with being false to Brstow while pretending
to act with him in the Cabinet, with winklng ut
iobbery In the Post Office Department. and in gene
raj with being hypocrite, liar, cheat. skinfnt.
coward and sneak. SO much within week after
his appointment. If there's any power in filthy
blackguardism Hancocks already elected.
1t is perhaps too much to expect that the average
Democratic stump orator will confine himself
strictly to the truth, but here is the report of a
Democratic meeting at New Haven, Mt which Mr. |
Troup. tho editor OF a Greenback organ |
which has lately thrown of the mask and come ont
for the Democratic ticket s represented saying
that THE TRIBUNE, which has heretofore denounced
the Greenbackers, /" is out-HeTodng HerOd |
in the advocacy of Greenback principles
We do not know whether this kind of
lying is of deliberate purpose, whether |
it flows without generalization into the |,
unconsidered torrent of the orators discourse |
If the former. 1t reflection upon the intelig ence