New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-29
II is plain that Mr.. Hayes means to be President
as long as the Constitution allows.

II is Dlain that Mr.. hayes means u 10 ioSiuOHu
as long as the CONSTR utlOn allows.
Senator Beck stopped off at Cincinnati on his way
home from Washington long enough to inform the
newspaper men that Blame is to be President Gar
fields Secretary of State and Foster his Postmaster
General. Beck seems to have a knack at Cabinet
making. Now he has his hand in he had better go
ahead and fix up the whole concern. There is only
one objection to MS wOrk-It may not quite suit
certaln farmer out in Mentor who has got TO use
the Cabinet, and may want to DICK OUT tne tlnloer
himself for Its construction
Applicants for Offices TO become vacant before
March should go to Washington and not to Men
tor.
The New-Oreans papers nave ascertained to their
entire satisfaction that Lanier the Tax Collector was
not driven away from Lake Providence, but not one
of them has taken the trouble to let its readers
know how it happened that Laniers partner the
Repubic9n editor WAS murdered 10y a mob on the
evening of the election. The mystery which sur
rounds that crime Is as dark ~ ever
II Turns out that Judge Woods was not born in
Ohio but IN Kentucky. The Southern newspapers
will think better OF him after this discovery.
The Administration of General Garfield is likely TO
be signalzed by the admission of two or three new
States to the Union. Dakota has already sufficient
population to advance from the condition of Terri
torial tutelag bat may be kept back year or two
bv the desire of the people along the line of the
Northern Pacific Railroad for a separate government
They are about as far from Yaukton in point of time
as Iowa is from New-York City, The completion of
the railroad lines to Montana will undoubtedly give
that Territory inhabitants enough to form State
WITHIN two or three years. New-MeXlco might have
demanded admission long ago, but her slow going
people indifferent to the privileges of self
government and preferred to save the expense of
State machinery. The new American element going
into the Territory will soon change all that.
There is n prevalent opinion that when General
Grant fires off magazine article little viii be left
of Monsieur Thompson and the American end of the
French canal enterprise.
The Democratic newspapers were sure that Mr.
Blaine's defeat at Chicago was his political death
vet they are now engaged in lively discussion of
hls chances for tho first Cabinet position under
President Garfield For man who died last June
Mr. Blaine displays astonishing vgor. He may yet
attend the funeral of the Democratic party.
The Washington correspondent of The Ne,c- Orleans
Times who IS usually we'll informed about Southern
political intrgues. telegraphs that Senator Malone
is preparing to organize a party in the South which
shall be independent during the next four years.
but support Garteld's Administration in National
affairs. lie thinks address will be issued
from Richmond embodying and Calculating a liberal
position of political rights of negroes in pnbhc
schools tho ballot and other questions of State and
National interest. In another forthcoming docu-
ment prepared by General Malone, "causes which
have kept the South solid will be fully discussed
and elaborated, and remedies whereby these causes
can be removed by Southern policy OF the in
coming Administration will be suggested
''No dsfranchsers for reorganizers." says John
Keliy's Star numerous two-line talic paragraphs
The average Tammapyite will mistake this senti-
ment for Latin couplet. The Star should eontiue
itself to plain AngloSaxon If it had said "A fair
stand-in for all the boys" its readers would have
known just what 1t meant.
There is vigorous and enterprisng Republican
paper called The Tribune published at Danville in
the Blue Grass Region of Kentucky. which flies this
seutentious square-toed motto: "Unswervng 10y
atty = Undoubted Currency Unshaekled Sow
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