New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-05
The Republican party is about to take oft its coat

The Republican party il about to take oft its coat
That sixty thousand free-couDt majority in
Alabama is joyfuly hailed by the Democrats as
the first gum As response to HancocKS call
for fair elections, 1t is gun with tremendous
kick" it.
Ii would SEEM by the way they flock about Car
field as If the people knew the next resident when
they saw him.
Asusual. the Democratic lightning calculators in
Alabama have overdoue it, They have made the
majority too large That is ALWAYS the difficulty in
free-counting tournaments like this. Each counter
is so eager to show his skill that he makes the re-
cancellation aority unnecessarily large. majority
Of coo in the state would have done just rs well
rs 60 600. and II would have been a good deal
easier for the overburdened Northern Democratic
editor TO account tor. The large numbers nave a
tendency 10 make him desperate. mus me
im9gipa i've Editor OF The UOrid makes The uufOr-
tuuate remark that the q" first gun from lie south
Is double-shOtted" which, bciu interpreted means
thar the hal0t-bOxes IN Alabama were evidently
stuffed twice, when once was ali that was necessary.
If English is really anx'ous to help his party in
IT'S preliminary sklrmish in Indiana" he should
hasten 10 take himself of The ticket.
Hendricks is feeling very sore because IN the fraud
resolution OF the Cincinnati platform his name was
not coupled with Tlden's. lie thinks some of the
"svmplthy. respect and gratitude" should have
been bestowed upon him. In order to make him
happy, Wauers0u offers him che Secretary snip OF
the Interior when Hancock Is elected. but there
seem to be doubts about NHtersoRs ability to de-
liver the goods.
The Alabama victory for free balot-stuliing is not
likely to start Democratic tidal waYe
Montgomery BlaiPs jaw Is still out of gear evil
IDENTIFY, for It swings not at all
Scion Chase, the father of the GreenbaCk party in
Maine declines to accept the position OF eiectOr on
the Fusion ticket. lie says there can be no union
between The Democrats and GreenDackers if the
former believe their hard-money professions in
their National platform. That's a qneer idea of a
Democratic piatlOrm-that II means anything.
scion should stop worrying over the platform end
read HaucocRs letter He won't lind any profess
sloDs TO trouble q GreeuOdcker IN shat
There is no longer any excuse for doubling that the
South Will be solid for Hancock. The votes will
have nothing to do with 1t, for the count VIII de
eide. There will be little bulldoziug, and less
shooting than ever before, Tor what Is the use OF
shooting "niggers" when their votes can be thrown
! ont without trouble The Democrats have all the
machinery of election and they will control 1t to
make sucu majOutIes they desire. Indeed, under
these circumstances. II seems an entire waste OF
time to hold any elections whatever III the south.
The election officers mlghC rs well meet III advance
and decide upon a convenient majority for each
State TO cast. When they hand In Their figures. the
superb soldier" can swell himself up and roll OH
that pattude, " full VOTE fTeo ballot and talr
conutU adding: The bayOnet Is not lit mstru-
the ex- bulldozer instead" 'Rah for reconciliation
and change