New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-20

A very appropriate Christmas present for tho
Democratic majority in Congress would be a supply
OF spinal column.
If Congress will add an amendment to that Edu-
caIonal bill devotng the first proceeds of the sale
of the public lands to buymg history of the last
twenty years for Senator Vest the whole country
will say amen. It is doubtful If any colored man
In the South needs posting up IN recent history as
much as he does
A suspicion is growing that Chairman Barnum is
Mt the head of those Oklahoma raiders. He doubt
less wants 10 get into the Indian Territory to
grow up to a level with the red mans civilization.
John KelIys injunction to " trust no man who
parts his hair in the middle " starts the cOnundrum
whether II. l.. Morey parted his hair on that line.
One Democratic editor having concentrated his
mind the subject concludes that Secretary Sher-
man is not wanted in the Senate, the country
needs financial peace. that is a brilliant objection
to bring AGAINST man who has labored for fifteen
years to give the people sound money basis and is
generally conceded to have reached ii successfully.
They are beginning already to canvass the merits
of the different candidates for Governor in Iowa.
although The election il more than nine months off
That majority of $4,000 for Garfield didn't quite
satisfy them, and they are anxious to try again.
All that Mr.. Bayard now needs is a tombstone
in the graveyard of Democratic statesmen.
The immaculate Coffroth, who was heard all over
the chamber of the House of Representatives. shout
ing No to the proposal to take arecess when Gen
era Grant visited the Capitol, is the thrifty eglsa
tor whom his own nelghbOrs charge with selling
West Point cadetships. Grant must have felt
sighted.
Bicknell aud his party friends who have been
saving the in the effort to convince themselves
that they would never back down the Electoral
Count bill, and then did back down, might as well
make up their minds to stay at home hereafter. A
Western Bourbon organ notifies them that if they
have surrendered. each individual intrusted by
his constituents with tue labor OF preserving those
principles which have kept the watch-tires of rhe
Democratic party burning in a twenty years war
fare against the gradual encroachment of the Re-
publican party. should prepare to be set aside Tor
better and stronger men equal to the emergencies
of the hour" Springer would like to learn what
emergency he is not equal to.
The more closely Ohio Is canvassed the more evil
dent it becomes that Secretary Sherman is the
choice of the great majority of the Republicans for
the Senatorship. Out of 9j6 representative men,
bcrs of the party living In seventy different counties
of the State, 10 have declared themselves in his
favor. That does not look like declining popular
ltY.
Senator Vest, who made wild grab for fame the
other day by slandering the memory of Ola John
Brown, is the same statesman who has been advIs-
ing he farmers of Missouri not to buy wagons made
by The Studebakers, of Indiana. because they were
active IN carrying that State for the Republicans
last October
1t seems that Myers, who introduced the resou-
ton TO discover how much money the Government
had paid General Grant and BIcknell who is trying
to get the electoral count bill through the House
are both from Indiana. Congressional dOnkeys,
like holiday books, very often 20 III sets.
The Indignation of the Chicken at Mr. Toots's re-
fusal to allow HIM 20 pitch INTO" his masters
nval is nothing TO the anger Of the Democrats at
the persistence OF the Republicans IN showing up
southern frauds and baliot-box stufinR They
think q" It's mean. That's where 1t is rs mean"
Don't let anybody joggle Myers's elbow while he
Is figuring out how much less he has received from
the Government than General Grant has