New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-01
1t is about to be demonstrated again that this is
bad year for the Democratic party.

1t is about to be demonstrated again that this is
bad year for the Democratic party.
Indiana has now two Presidential candidates who
are politically defunct-Hendricks and voorhees,.
| Both died from over-eXcrlOn.
The Virginia Bourbons are not able to claim the
state with much confidence. They admit that the
election Will be very close but say they think their
candidate for Governor will have about 2 900 major
ity. and that the Legislature will probably be q tie
| Those are figures which amount simply TO a con-
fcssion of expected defeat The anti-Bourbons, on
the contrary are decidedly confident and definite in
their estimates They say they will carry the State
| hy from 600 TO 10000 majority, and they give
the precise localities in which they expect to pol the
| votes: they also claim the Legislature beyond
| doubt Careful outside students OF the 81 uat0n
! agree with their estimates prominent bourbon
! said in Washington on Saturday: The result, so
! far ms can see, will be most uncomforably doubt
full" Nobody hears such expressions from the anti
| Bourbons
| The Democrat who is stepping about with a
smiling couutenancc under the belief that his party
is going 70 carry New-York State next week vic
! tim OF misplaced confidence,
The glorious Democracy seems to have grabbed
again and caught nothing but confusion. Its
Iynchburg post Office exploit is merely fresh blum
der added to the long list
VOORHEES, should devote himself during the recess
in the Senate careful Tepernsal of the National
Democratic platforms since 1886. lie was under
the impression few days ago that there were no
free trade planls in those interesting documents.
He will be able to find several If he will read care
fully The Democratic party has been more con-
sisent in its devotion to free trade than - almost
| anything else except stupidity
The County Democracy. dissatisfied with the al
lotmcnt to their faction of the official election in
spectors and clerks will place special watchers at
the polls This is doubtless intended to prevent the
other factions of the Democracy from taking
due advantage Happily the Republican inspectors
are numerous enough to secure an honest count and
10 prevent the other factions from doing anything
worse than selling each other out.
II is not Necessary to tell John Kelly and his Tam
many followers what it would mean If Tlden's
state ticket were elected this fall They know well
enough 1t would mean the funeral of Tammany.
The Tilden organs of the party said much imme-
diately after the Convention, but when they had
talked that way for a week it suddenly
dawned upon them that possibly they were not
taking the right course to induce Mr. Kelly and his
friends to support the ticket, and they have since
treated Tammany with extreme care. All the same,
Tamnany knows what the fight means; and if IL
walks up meekly to its own funeral pyre, and helps
arrange the fuel for it, Tammany is much more OBJ
fuse than it has ever been suspected of being.
The versatile World newspaper gave its solitary
little step-ladder joke its nineteen hundred and
thirty-frst airing yesterday morning 1t will be a
great relief to the readers of that eXcruciatingly
funny but sometimes mOnOtOnOus newspaper when
election day comes and retres its one campaign
joke from active service,
Mr.. r. P. Flower has just been elected president
Of Connecticut railroad. He can never issue free
pass over that road to himself rs a Congressman