New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-29

Il does not take a clever man long to grow mp with
the country if he settles in Of the new States Of
the West. Only ten years ago General Charlie ii.
YIN Wyck wa4 sitting in Congress as the Reprrsen-
tatIve OF the Orange Comfy District in this St3t
Now he Is the CuIled states ScnatOrelect from NC
baa'kI.
II is lucky that General Garfield has a robust con-
stItutlon. II ne were feeble man he mig Int be
ADVISED to death before the fourth OF March
Governor Plalsted is ambitious to figure as a
second Daniel Webster. He has adopted from one
Of the great orators speeches an u't'rance about
tie mcompa'IbllIty Of large landed estates with
universal suffrage. The point of the idea. as Web
ser cAprc sscd IT, WAS its Application. He regarded
free Government a safe in NeTEnglInd because, rs
he said. the people possess tue property more EN-
rl,Ioally than II could hr sand of tine people Of any
ot.cr cnurtry.' Pla~ted pTr'rnis To b'lieye that
free, government j. III anc"', ana assumes tha me
land Is terminating iu few haud,-a stat"Ot AFFAIRS
tI,1+ ,l,rS not txI~t Ilai>tt,'~ taieSInahnhip,
winch - much vauntrd by tile Der"rratic press
down E9Si, appears 10 cOISISt III II ItIV NHc"P "lu
ml-IppCd pa~lrtlsDi
What macraninous fellows these Democratic
Conerps iacn are. They are going 10 leave NIL the
,y,~. d. i p1ar measures for thc Hepu1llc1ns to
adopt the next Congress aud get the credIt Ior'
Matters are unusually quict at Mentor There has
not been an advisory committee on the Presidential
rlrn with largest axes 10 gTiL continue to suc
coed each other, however. at Intervals 0i about
twenty minutes.
\ note from the Csn>u, Oice ~ayS thar the popu-
atiou last June OF te three proposed divisions rs
shown ON the recent TElBCNE map of the Territory
oi inotl was as follows: STAT, " Dtlota Sl,671;
Territory OF PclA5inl, $1,000; rcrutlry of Lincoln,
$4,000. 4 good SUGGESTION co'n.- from the same
quarter. that the line between Dakota and Lincoln
should be- drawn 10 throw he whole of the Mis-
.ourI bottom lands into DIhoa ~
rlu-ivrly agricultural, thus making Lincoln almost
ppTiy a ui I'M Territory. TIE bliI u EiYe Ret TO
H. plan i'r dividing Dakota has beer suppressed in
tn II I,c Committee tor The sole reason that The
.opo-cl rev >taie won.d he sure To send two Re
pubilrau senators To- Washington. lt viii be sure
to pass tie next Congress.
Nany headed municipal government has been
tr.cl in this cltv and proved failure The people
are now thanking OF trying Il sng.e-hcahel con Germ
II that do, ,nt run right they viii know what head
to HIT.
4 week from Wednesday next the electoral votes
for President and Nlcc-lrcsdrnt will BE- counted in
obedl.nce to the Constitution. The performance
will take place time whether the Democrats Ike
II or not.
The intelligence and fairness with which the NOM
nation Of Stanley Matthew'S Is opposed may be
Judged By the repeated assertions OF IRE Herald and
other papers that principal reason for the nomi-
alton Is that Mr.. Matthews is the Presidents BROTH
er-ir-law Somewhat like the very model of n NOD
crn Major General, II may be SAID of Mr.. Matthews
not only that he is not the Presidents hrOther-in-
law but that he never was ms brother-in-law.
If DIR. Hammond would ONLY go to Washington
and hypnotzo a few Democratic merbers so as to
make them vote scnsbly and .patrOtlcallyl lie
might try SPARKS and Springer first, and then Oper-
ate on Randall, who would DO the hardest subject of
ALL
The Democrats in the House need not be discour-
aged They have not yet exhausted all possible
methods If securing quorum of their members
They might open free lunch bar or get Cox to
make IL funny speech, or rritate Weaver and Sparks
into pugIlIstc encounter. The trouble with their
show is its dulncsJ. Let them enlven 1t little,
and the absent members will come Hooking in like
boys to Il circus