New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-24


The Fusioni-ts will sneak away presently without
paying their rent.
"Govcrnorn Smith is n valiant warrior. He an
nounccs that If he in position where be could
not be injured ne would declare war and blood
would fow. The magnanimous man should be re-
tired on pension for his forbearnce. If hat Is not
considered practicable he might be retired on rail-
There are symptoms of uneasness in The Uorld
Office because Beck has " attacked the City of New
York" Yet the city seems to be calm, and to look
upon the performance with as much indifference as
a Brooklyn Bridge pier would manifest in the case
OF a furious bonbardmout by pea-shooter.
That Blaine boom in PENNSYLVANIA is running as
fine lot Of political prophecies as this generation
ever saw.
The National Republican Committee is preparing
for a campaign Of unprecedented ylgor. The head
quarters at Washington will be opened the first of
February, and work will begin at once. This is
nearly three months ahead Of the usual time, but il
is not too soon. The Pennsylvania Republicans will
hold their convention on February 4. and their ~
ton il awaited by all parties with unusual interest
as the opening gun OF the campaign, III looks now
rs if it would be very different kind OF salute from
what was expected wheu the call was issued on De-
ceinber 30.
The Hon Benjamin Harrison. of Indiana. says
very little is heard in his State about the Grant
BOOM So far as he can judge. the sentiment of the
Republicans there is that it would not be good
policy TO nominate Grant. Blaine is the popular
candidate. lie has not visited the State and they
have seen very little of him. but you would be sur
priscd 10 find how popular he Is with the masses OF
the Republican party" As the Indiana Republicans
will hold 10 State Convention till after the Ma
tlOnal Convention, their delegates Will be chosen
by congressional Districts, and cannot be instructed
in a body for any candidate
;o,, Ioe,elators of Maine rc LOOKING ahouf
anxlously for place TO meet where their going
in and their coming ont Will not be through q
fusilade of insulting observations. They will have
TO move out OF the country To lind 1t.
Not n single county delegation to the Pennsyl-
wanna Republican Convention has been instructed
for any Presidential candidate except Blaine. Six
delegations have been formally instructed for him,
and he has majority in a large number of Others
who are instructed for no one.
Weaver seems to have inherited in q lump the
aggregated lunacy of the late Greenback party. He
has Il whole head full
There are moving appeals In those Democratic
Journals of this State which habtually oppose
Mr. 1ilden for harmony in the party. The Kelly
conference at Albany furnishes the text. 1t is
urged that crisis has arrived. and that the only
way TO pass il in safety is to thrust aside any per-
sonality which may stand in the way of harmony.
This is the same old story If Tilden is not taken
out of the way Wen smash the party. Come. let's
have harmonyp One Of the thermometers remarks
that the solution of the difficulty is In the hands of
the regular Democratic State Committee, which is
to hold meeting at Albany next Tuesday. This is
rden's committee and II is evident that the Ants
rxpect that their threat of duplicate delegation to
tho National Convention W III bring ont response
of some sort, either submission or an offer to
negotiate.
The Hon. r. y. Washburne has permitted his
friends to announce him a candidate for tho
Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois.
The immediate consequence of this unexpected
declaration IL panic among the other candidates.
Chicf-Justice Church sits the edge of the
bench all ready to rise up and become Mt once the
savior and the harnOnizer Of the New-York Democ-
racy but nobody gives him the word.