New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-20
He doubtless will not experience. much diff
Guilty in doing So

Guilty III uOluR SO'
President Diaz has made bold effort TO
satisfy the three American companies which
are seeking Mexican railroad grants,
by rendering important privileges 10
each. Should his offers be ratified py
the Mexican Congress and turned 10
account by the grantees there will be, WITHIN
few years, railroad from the Mexican
capital to the Pacific Coast, and trunk INES 10
Texas and Arizona. where each will connect
with the American system. Such facilities for
traffic would add largely to our trade with
Mexico, while they would increase the wealth
and promote the tranquility OF that country.
The natural contempt which the Greenback
candidate for the Presidency entertains Tor
the Democratic party has not been removed
by the results of the Fusion in Maine. In q
telegram to General Plasted, he holds the
Democracy up TO scorn and rdicule, and de-
clares that it amuses" him to see its lead
ers masquerading behind the Greenback party,
land calling our victory Democratic DOOM
He congratulates the Greenback patty on the
fact that "the Democrats of Maine showed
"their good sense" by voting the Greenback
ticket. This state of mind would seem TO in
dictate that General Weaver is of the same
opinion respecting the propriety OF fusion
with the Democratic party as before the cleo
ton.
Every voter should read the statement made
on another page by the Third Assistant-Post-
master General, of the comparative efficiency
aud economy of the postal service under Dem
ocratic and Republican Administrations. The
showing is remarkable. The saving of money
has been vast upon the rates of expend-
ture which existed under Democratic rule,
and the increase in working facilities has
been beyond calculation. There is no branch
of the Government service which comes so
close to the daily life of the citizen as this.
and voters may well ponder the question
whether they want Tammany letter-carrieis,
and postal ofici of the grade of the men
who have made the civil service of Congress
the laughing stock Of the country.
The Hon. John Jay. being appealed to by a
friend of Senator Wade Hampton, to do that
gentleman Justice docs it, adopting the
method recently pursued by TIE TRIBUNE
will, the same dis tinguished individual. IL
other words Mr.. Jay proves by Genera
IIampton's own utterances that no injustice
was done to linn. The South Carolina Senator
| lately declared with reference TO the Stauntor
speech that the views he was charged will
| expressing were utterly at variance with a.
. he had entertained and expressed since thu
"war" Mr.. jay, for reply, submits extracts
from an address made by General Hamp-
ton in 1873, eight years after the
close of the war, which breathes the same
sentiments as those announced at Staunton
| only speaking them in holder words. The
Southern Historical Society, before which this
| address was delivered, was formed for the pur'
pose of perpetuating and preserving Con
federate history, or, in General Hampton's
| own words to urge the surviving children OF
| the South to vindicate the great principles
!" for which she fought "a phrase not
utterly at variance with the StauntOn ap-
peal to Virginia Democrats to vote for the
principles for which Lee and Jackson fought
for four years. The substance of the address
| can be told in few words 1t was simply
| that the children of the South should be
| trained up in the memories and aims of the
| Rebellion from their cradles, that mothers and
| teachers should vie with each other in instill-
| ing this bitter poison into their young blood
until the right should be made manifest
1t was diaboical plan and the author j:
| entitled to all the credit Of it,