New-York tribune., 1880-10-08

that the merchant and manufacturer are taking ap
active interest in this contest and are already en-
gagng effectively IN the preliminary skirnshes.
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The symbol 800 means simply Solid South un.
der the rebel flag.
The more Tanlmany Frances and shakes its fist at
Davenport the more this city will be convinced that
Davenport is interfering successfully with schemes
for ballot-box stnfing.
Think of this: In November. 1870, proposition
was made to General Hancock that lie accept
nomination for the Presidency a Greenback
ticket with an ex-Confederate. Did he treat the
proposition with contemptnous silence, or did he re-
ject it with indignations Neither one. Apparently
unmindful that he had been grossly lnsuted, he
wrote a very polite answer, saying he soldier
and could not express any opinions, and adding:
" If were nominated by party | would be gov
erned by its platform or / would not accept its nomi-
natonu What did that meanf Blanton Duncan.
who received it, interpreted II to mean willing
ness 10 accept, for he mt once circulated IL as con
ilential document among his fellow Greenbackers.
and from that time to the present, when lie Is on
the stump for Hancock in Indiana, has been zeal
Gus disciple of Hancock. The Democratic papers
seem to interpret 1t in the same way, for they are
very careful not to print the correspondence.
General Butler is said 10 aspire to n Cabinet po-
sition. He would make a rattling change Secre-
tary of the Treasury.
An exhausting investigation of the Hancock Re-
publican Soldiers and Sailors Association III Phil
adelphIa has been made by a Necs reporter. The
Democrats have claimed a membership Of 1000,
composed entirely of men who have hitherto voted
only the Republican ticket. The reporter found
president and a treasurer, who said they had en-
rolled 1G7 name. The list couii not DE seen. but
the president and treasurer alter violent mental
wreuching, were able to mention two OF the names,
Lynch and West. They could do no more, neither
find first names for these worthless, nor tell IN wnat
regiments they had served. This removes the wind
from another Hancock boom.
1t is only few weeks since the Democrats were
claiming that Grant a Hancock Veteran. They
not doing SO any more.
It's estimated that at least half million of dol
lar, has been sent to Indiana by Democrats for the
purchase of votes. The voter who is III the market
viii be very stupid If he casts his vote before he
ceiyes his reward.
Circular No. 329' as given in yesterdays TRIB-
UNE, is appearing on the fences and bill-boards of
rural Pennsylvania in great profusion 1t is the
laudabe purpose of the Republicans to give the
rnud-slngcrs their til OF those mystic symbols of
Solid south
John Kelly shoud ref .ct that the climate of New
York not sutabe for the purely Sou thcrn recrea-
tOn of Oulld0Zng
Hancock doubts if Grant said it all. Nobody else
does.
II seems that the Southern chivalry is not above
stealing We used to be told that nobody but carpet
Daggers stole ny'hing in tho South. An ex-
sheriff of Now-OreAns has been discovered 10 be
defaulter in the sum of b2J0,OO0. of which amount
the city will lose nc least 100000. AMI the State
of Louisiana the rest. The Democratic journals
charge that bis crime was known to the city and
l.
leading Democratic jonnal of Ncw-Orpans. The
Democrat says of thc case: " AS all the facts in
the dcialcation OF the late civil Sheriff come to
light the pubic mind is puzzled to deter
nIne which Is the more criminal, the man who has,
with the hodncss Of a hiC.iwayman and the impu-
dence ef Boss Tweed, pocketed the peoples money,
or the pubc officials whose duty 1t was 10 guard
the peoples interests and protect them from rob
berry"
The Indiana voter who agrees to vote for Ian
ders Oh promise of pay after election will sell his
honor and whistle III VAIN for his reward.
An esteemed correspondent, of unqucstioned
veracity, sends tho following conversation, which
he calls request for change princpeD:
First gentleman, n Republican: well, my friend
how are You going to vote ~ Second gentleman
Hebrew: " | votes for Hancock on principle" First
gentleman: How does the principle come in
You are rich your business is prosperous. the c0un-
try is prosperous. Why changer Second gentlr-
man: "Ycll. you see Vanderbilt has forty millions
Government bonds. worth 100. If we elect Han
cock, they will fall to 80 and buys emp Qnery ::
could the second gentleman have been our genial
friend Belmont'
Why does The World, in quoting Haucock's obser-
walton about "nigger domination" spell it negro
domnatonp This is trIilIng with the truth of his
tory and one of the most sacred rights of the Demo
cratic party.
That terrible revolntionist, Little johnny Day
enport," is now TO be bulldozcd by the Tammany
soctIon of the Solid South. Do they fear that he
means to "coerceD the Democratic StateD of New
York into going Republican by Il bigger majority
than it did last yeari