New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-22

Three four more ex-Presidents might be added TO
the Senate before any of the three named should
pass away"
"Is it likely that there will ever be so many ex-
Presidents at one time T. was asked.
We can only infer the future from the past"
replied the Senator. when the war broke out in
1851 there were five ex Presidents living. Not one
of them had voted for Mr. Lincoln, and not one of
them was in harmony with the determination to pre-
serve the Union by force of arms. Pennsylvania
would not at that time have relshed the sight of
Mr. Buchanan in the Senate, and New. Hampshire
would have felt outraged if Franklin Pierce had
been there. and certainly the loyalty of New-York
woud not have found just expression in the
of Mr.. Fillmore and Mr.. Van Buren,. 1 think the
whole scheme Admiralty fitted to produce extraor-
dinary and abnormal results"
THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS IN GERMANY.
COMMENTS OF MINISTERIAL AND OPPOSITION JOUR
NAILS.
prominent American citizen now in Berlin
writes from that city in the following terms
hasten to bear testimony to the qualification
felt here the result of the Presidential election.
The success of the Republican candidates it is
deemed, alike subserves the welfare and prosperity
and the best interests generally of the country and
trumphantly vindicates the wise statesmanship.
tTatiOn.
Prince Bismarck newspaper organ in Berlin COM
ments on the election of General Garfield follows:
''Ihe voters this time seem TO have been Influenced
in their action not much by old accustomed
party dOgmas by n conviction OF the necessity of
substituting sound principles for mere hackneyed
political phrases. The occurrences at the last
Presidential election had served as an impressive
lesson to the Republicans. and led them TO pursue
course Of action bv which the Democrats pre-
vented from making further progress. When
President HAYES, at Fremont in OHIO. declared the
object of the Republicans to be national unity,
supremacy of the General Government, pros
perty of the country, protection of Ameri-
can industry and sound financial policy,
and thereby placed himself on n platform of wise
tesmau ship, he knew himself IN accord with pub
lie sentiment as manifested by that part of the
Nation ripest political INTEL gence. and which in
cludes especially the conservative elements o. the
populatlOn-n the EuTOpean sense OF the term con-
seTvatlve-a factor TO be by no means made Ignt or
The cause of the defeat of the Democrats must he
sought Tor in their antINa tlOnal policy Of public
economy. While the Republicans, striking
contrast with German Liberals and ProgTesslst7
III all financial ana tariff questions of the country
have American and rot International Interests in
view. the Democrats by their proposed tarH Tor
revenue only, would impose upon the Union direct
taxes of hundreds OF millions of marks and open
wide field Tor Eug'lSh competition IN the United
States. Placed before such IN alternative the MAJOR
itv of voters found no difficulty ii making their
choice"
Again. one of the journals in opposition TO the
Government remarks as follows he sound
sense IF the American people has fully recognized
and endorsed the merits OF the Republican admlnls-
traton under President Hayes, and has rel used 10
take sides with those who sought 10 make the III
dustrlal prosperous North subservent 10 the needy
rebels OF the SOUTH