New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-21

knowledge that u Republican Governor VIII
do the counting. The Republican party as
Mr.. Blaine suggests. has the moral courage u
count itself out OF office.
| Among the shabbiest of all rascais Is 'ne
| protested temperance man who uses Ills e"''
mo for nurposes of backmaii. and thus does
secret discredit and open injury to good
cause. The trial of Oliver Cotter, In brook'sh'
| is not concluded, but it was curious that When
| MIR. Cotter was shown a list IN his own nan"
| of liquor-dealcrs and amounts out OF whicn
| he il charged with Matchmaking thom-the
| charges being sustained by the testimony OF
two witncsses-he should not have been able
| TO give any explanation of the juxtaposltion
| of the names and the dollars. "A weeks ad-
joulnment was given him to enable him TO re-
| fresh his memory upon that point.
Ex-senator Willard Warner, of Alabama,
whose record as a Union soldier and steadias'
Republican is a household word IN the North,
addresses a few words elsewhere TO MS Oh"
comrades. Mr.. Warner knows what Southern
| sentiment is from actual contact with II, ana
he declares that the only possible means Oh
breaking up the Solid South by dividing the
! Democratic party is to elect Garfield and
Arthur. This is the testimony of all who have
experience. A victory for the Democratic
party will consolidate it in the hope OF pro-
lonced National power. A defeat is likely to
be accepted, by the leaders of the South at
least, as a proof that National supremacy Tor
the Democratic party as now constituted is
hopeless, and the feuds that are already
smoulderiDg in three of the Southern States
will break out into war which may divide the
party forever.
| NEWCOMERS will learn with much regret
that Manhattan Market will not be rebuilt.
1t was the only structure of the kind III this
city worthy of civilized people. Indeed
| there is no market left which a New Orker
could show to stranger without something
like feeling of shame. The propretors OF
the Manhattan Market have made their de-
cisie;;. as is natural, in accordance with their
own interests. They we're subjected to heavy
loss by what there is every reason to believe
was an incendIary fire, and they cannot engage
in rebuilding the structure without greater
sacrifice than they are prepared to make. 1t
can ONLY be hoped that the success which this
market was just beginning to achieve Will
stimulate the erection of another, perhaps III
a more accessible situation. 1t would certainly
seem that the time had arrived when the
METROPOLIS might have clean and decent mar
kets.
Chairman Barnum's impudent rant about
| fraud in Maine Is well answered by MIR.
| Blaine's sensible and dignified telegram. Mr..
Blaine makes Mr.. Barnum thoroughly ridicu-
lous by showing that he has been screaming
fraud" in behalf of the Democrats and
| Greenbackers when none of those gentry, usu-
ally quick enough to demand their rights,
have been able to discover that anything has
gone wrong Mr. Blaine says there has not
been dispute over tho accuracy OF election
| returns from single town In Name and he
adds that there is not Greenbacker or DEM
ocrat who has the least fear of being counted
out if Plaisted should finally have majority.
Leaving Mr. Baine's character entirely out Of
| the question, it is not likely that he would
| make these statements If proof to the con-
trary could be shown. This is the gist of the
whole matter. The figures have not once been
challenged at home. But this does not pre-
vent Mr.. Barnum from solemnly charging
vast frauds on the ground that it took several
DAYS for the remote counties to be heard
from. whereas Chicago, as Mr.. Blaine shows,
| is practically nearer Augusta than some of the
Maine towns are. When the Maine Fusionists
| make this charge, and give specific details, the
public will no doubt listen to their statement;
| but until that time comes, windy bulletins
| about fraud in State where the word fraud
has not been uttered, will only make Mr. Bar
| mum and his committee a laughing stock.
The letters of q South Carolina correspond
| ent, which are printed on another page, give
| an interesting and somewhat saddening pic
| ture of the political and social life of that
State When so dlstin guished Democratic
leader as MIR. Bayard takes his tone from his
audience, and, believing himself out of the
| reach of the newspapers, puts the blame OF
| Virginia's reputation upon the Republican
party, and when Senator Butler can find no
better way to commend Northern Democrats
to the affections of their Southern brethren
than to say that the men of the South had
only to meet the North in battle, while the
noble Copperhead had foes in front and rear,
it is plain enough that the political condition
of such a people is sufficiently benighted to
cause any thoughtful man grave anxiety for
the future, without regard to present political
considerations. Perhaps the most discouraging
| feature of the Southern problem is the in
| difference of the people to their own interests.
| They do not seem to care whether their sec
| ton is prosperous or not, if they can rule it.
| The sense of self-interest aud the moral sense
seem alike dead in the presence of this ques-
ton. No fraud or outrage is immoral if
it helps to insure political supremacy, and
they care as little Sor the effect such acts
surely have upon the capitalists of other
States and countries as for their effect upon
valuable class of white population, whom
they drive out of their communities for the
crime of being Republicans. To think that
tbe Southerner, after making bis country