New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-07

fine workincmen are worse than silent Oh the SUD
ject. The antipathy 20 military rulers which the
former class brought from their own country easily
accounts for their aversion to Hancock. They ieft
Germany to escape the tyranny OF military RUE.
The workingnen find nothing to attractthem In the
record Of either candidate on the ticket Hanooch,
they are already told by their organs, IS " titled
aristocratU who was educated ct the government
EXPENSE and who has been In the Government pay
for nearly forty years. OF English the saIpe au.
thorities say he has made 1000 without
adding one cent TO the actual wealth OF the coun-
tryb and has lent out his money 70 his poor or
neiehbOrs at per cent month" This may De
severe criticism but that is not the point to De mo-
tced The fact that 1t is made is the important onc
The Democratic argument for a change amounts
TO this ! The Republican party has brought the
country to the greatest prosperity 1t has ever yer
known therefore, 1T is wise to turn that parry ouO
and let US come In to enrich ourselves.
viii some Democratic statesman now rise ana
point to sin gle act Of the representatives OF his
party since they obtained full control of Congress
to anything which they said or did. or refrained
from saving or doing. either ip extra or regular
session. which gives any proof OF their capacity 10
administer the Government with credit TO them
selves or safety to the country
The numerous friends of the Hon. Frederic a.
Potts have been hoping that he would consent to
run for Governor of New-Jersey this Fall, but 1t 10
understood that Mr.. Potts considers his business
engagements 50 peremptory in their demands upon
his time that he will be unable to make thorough
and satisfactory canvass. There is an abundance
of good material left in the State but the Republic
cans can hardly name O more accepfaOle candidate.
Among the gentlemen spoSen q Ior ESS ppDCon
gresham Peddie, Mayor Yates OF Newark froies-
sor Anterior, Of New Brunswick, and ex-senator
Stone, or Union,
There can never be harmony aud union In the
New-York Democratic household till John Kelly
calls on Tilden. and extending his hand, remarks:
"See here you old fraud, forgive you for all
ever said against you. Come, now, tap that barrel
and help run me III as Boss" That would settle
things.
The Democrats are not pokng much fun at the
Greenbackers just The situation has no hu-
mOrOuS aspect for them.
General Hancock evidently tried to give Mr.. Til
den the sweetest kind of tafy when he told him
that he wanted to run his canvass on the plan pat
ented by Mr.. Tilden in 1876. General Hancock for
got that Mr.. Tilden had fled specifications for
brand new plan, under the style and title OF the
Fraud issue. and it must have been gall and worm
wood to the old man to be reminded Py MS success
ful rival that his party had snubbed him and repu-
dated his issue. II General Hancock wants 10 I'M
bung that baTl he must use more tact and swear he
won't c0ndOne IL.
The Solid Southern yell at present is; So Rab for
reconciliation and big appropriations Down with
the niggersW
In their efforts to defend Hancock from the charge
that he is mere soldier the Democrats are putting
themselves into the queer position of defending
General Grants administrations. They say Han
cock is as much of a statesman as Grant was. That
may be so. If they wish to follow out the argu-
ment nobody will object. Before they get very
far with it, however, they Will run across the
fact that General Grant suspended HancocRs IA
nous Order No. 40 the day after IL was issued, and
subsequently recalled Hancock because no was
making himself more powerful than the laws cf the
United States. and treating the South as II 1t had
won rather than lost the var.
There is freedom and breadth about Western
journalism which is sometimes refreshing and some
times Just a bit startling Congressman Belford
must have thought so when he reached Colorado,
last week, and read of his arrival IN q Denver news
paper the next morning under the graceful head
line " The Red-headed Rooster returns TO his Con-
stituency"