New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-30

sion Play. says that he read it to A party OF ac
tors ana actresses" and at the conclusion tuey
got up and went out as though they had attehueu
q funeral" Which nobody viii deny. That is very
likely what an audience would have done II II hau
been produced and what Mr.. MorSe's contemplated
gu SITS at his public reading likely to do II cour
tesy or a guard doesn't stop them.
General Garfield seems disposed to make his own
Cabinet and to take his own time for 1t. NcI'
why not
The bundcI BY which Garfield lost an electoral
vote in Indiana is not to be charged to the EepuDH
can Committee The ballots were printed all ught'
and were cast all right, but in making up Inc
official transcript for the district ma shall the
county clerks omitted TO erase from the prihted
blanks the name Of the clector VINO haa ntch
removed and to rut the name OF his 81 SlltQie III
IFS uacr II i, said 10 be- the parlally-iormed puf-
nose OF the Democratic officials to allow the error 10
lie corrected and to have the ful electoral No'c I'll
the State cast for Garfield, to whom II helonSS'
There NAV have been funnicr things in politics
tnan the current Democratic discussion OF clVI
service reform but memory does not Grasp them NJ
this moment.
The first Democratic members OF Congress 10
arrive in Washington are said to be meek IN aspect
like men who have mad the conceit removed from
them. This is natural. They went away from
Washington last spring, boasting that the people
were behind them and that they WouIu ne NIhu !
catfd The people icDJe behind them. bbt Tor WIN
the spirit or for the purpose " hich the Cohldihg
Democracy had supposed. They are sober ana
wiser now
1t is creditable to large number Of the Northern
Democratic journals that they ace backward
about defending the frauds in Chalmer9s AisSS-
sippi District The Uorh and Il few minor Deu o.
cratic papers are the only ones which have had
the shamele,sncss to defend Chalmers openly ANA
unequiyocally. In this they outstiip some OF Tie
most extreme of the southern journals. There are
few newspapers in the South more Thoroughly
Bourbon than The N'wyhd jpDcM. YET that news
nopl r. ,pS to be cOuy Inced by the same eNpala-
ton by Chalmers which convinced me n0LH' IN
ipBolI saws II fails TO see that the "tashrS thaJ
printer, use Unfortunately ~ Jobs OF All xmas can
invalidate a vote and Justify IN" diSiranchsemeht
of 5}5S voters in one tongre-sional District ANA
every honest man IN the country VIII say Ihe SAINT
IT., all mp with the Solid south if the Southern
conscience has begun to shake OF Its lethargy.
There is an animated Democratic discussion in
proqres, on the question Is the Democratic party
dead or alive? The weight OF argument and
smell arc in iavor of the Affirmative. but the ques-
ton will probably be decided the other way.
General GarGclds decision not to make mp his
Cabinet till February will be a disappointment to
many promising Senatorial candidates who were
hopne ne would take other Senatorial candidates
ont 0i their Waj.
It would be an uncommon good thing 10 make
the silver dollar 50 valuable that it would circu-
late.
The Northern Democrats always did encourage
the South to do Itself harm and always viii.
Hasn't the South found this ont yet
II Wade Hamptons chm had always preserved
that .tatuc>qur calm which now distinguishes it,
the Democratic party would have loss to mourn
for to-day.
II is not ut All unlikely that 3lrnum knew abont
the Moley letter long before 1t was male public.
70 he surc he ~,sys ne did not. but what of that
Is - nam who vas lying by telegraph in wholesale
fashion incapable OF telling a single lie? His
wholesale business did not forbid him to retail did
it}
General Garfells ability to hold his tongue is
not the least admirable OF his many qualifications
for the Presidency.
As the Democrats have organized many secret
organizations which have come TO naught, they
might try their hand at organizing a new order not
necessarily secret. to be called the "Sons Of
Ananias" Barnum would ma Ike n first class Grand
Head Centre. and the well known Democratic quail
ihcatIons would render the order an undOuhtcd
success. An appropriate ladge would be Tyre
struck by lightning.
The opera bouGc and variety show management
of political campaign. with sde-Shows of forgery
and fraul. no longer cOmmends itself t. the Demo
cratic National Committee.