New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-24

Is III true, as asserted IN OnlO tnat Mr. Pocket
bookwalter paid General Joe Geige to write a book
about the Sandwich Islands. and then put his own
name on the title-page9 Joe has had many ups and
downs, but his friends will he slow to believe that
he was ever so hard up this would seem to indi-
cate.
The Democratic party has n natural fondness for
old issues and dead politicians. II might run Jere
Black for President in 1SS4 on the burning question
OF ndolslng Buchanan's Cabinet.
Elmra has become a Mecca for the Greenbacl,ers
of this State; why, it were hard to saw Perhaps
the explanation is that they look upon the Rev
Edward Beecher prophet. They hold conven-
ton in thai outrageous little city to-day to nom
mate "A State ticket and 10 adopt as a platform Their
customary rhetoric against imaginary evils. They
are queer lot. Time dsprovcs their theories one
after another and upsets their gloomy predictions
bur they go on assembling and resolving lust the
same as IL moth ny had happened.
Massachusetts, complacently contempIates the
prospcc OF "a state canvass with General Butler
left out
In the newspaper discussion of the inability ques-
ton it Is not claimed in any quarter that tho Con-
stitution intends that the Nice-Prcsldent should
himself decide when it is his right and duty to as
sumo the powers of the Executive Office Whether
the President can declare his own inability and
summon the Nice-Presideni TO perform his work. or
whether the Cabinet is the proper authority to de-
ernne that the President is likely to be so long in
capacitated as to bring the the inability clause into
operation or whether ConrreSs is the only ind loo i'm
the premises are questions about which there are
uuerent Opinions. But no sensible person pretends
that a Nice-ircSdent can lay hands on the Pres-
dental Office at his own option during the illness of
ITS incumbent. such "A theory, if carried out. might
result IN depiorahle conflict of authority. Ii is
better TO have no President For few weeks than to
establish precedent that ight some future time
produce two.
There is mystery about Mr.. LIB. Sessions hold on
Chautauqua County which at this distance is quite
unahomable Is he the only politician who lives in
that delightful rural region
Governor Foster is practising the original and
effective method of campaigning which he first
adopted two years ago. He atte dis the Republican
County Conventions in ali parts of Ohio, makes n
little speech old acquaintances and helms 10
strengthen the local organization. 1t is an EXCELLENT
way OF starting the canvass.
The Mississippi Republican Convention meets on
the 25th inst In the call an invitation is extended
to all who are in favor of " free ballot full vote
and far count" regardless of past party affa-
tionS The prospect for union OF all the anti Bour
bon elements III the State is very bright.
1t only took little ordinary newspaper enterprise
to bring to light the fact that the State Convention
of Ohio Prohibitioniss which met lately at Love
land. was controlled by Democratic agents, who
arranged the ticket to draw votes from the Re
publicans in the close counties. and thus help the
Democrats TO carry the Legislature. Where the
fund to run the Prohibition campaign comes from
no one asks in Ohio No member of the Prohibition
party has been discovered who claims to have con-
Lributed TO it. The Democrats get all the benefit
from this little sde-show and their candidate for
Governor foots the bills
Speaker Sharpe said TO be already in the field as
candidate for Governor. There is no harm in men
who want the CUBE Material nomination saving so
thus early; but The work of the Republican State
Convention of 1882 will not be shaped a twelve
month IN advance. Many things will happen before
September of next year.
me World succeeds in convincing itself that the
Democratic City organization started by the Com
mitee of One Hundred has superseded Tammanv
Hall and all other halls" and that the rural DEM
ocrats will admit city delegates to the State Com
vent on who do not bear the stamp of the new mn
chime. 1ammany is in hurry to dishand how
ever; and its capacity for breaking Democratic
crockery does not appear TO be in the least impaired