New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-26

in 1S65,he was stricken with paralysis and went to
Europe in search of health. observation-disclosures
Baker exercised the functions of the Executive
Office under clause in the State Constitution ex-
actly like that in the National Constitution relating
to the inability of the President In his official
signature Baker subscribed himself Lieutenant
Governor. acting Governor" Morton returned ana
resumed his duties without the slightest jar or frc-
ton in the machinery of the State Government.
This Indiana precedent is interesting and valuable
Ant-Bourbonism is aptly defined by The Nec-
Orleans Times as the refusal of the young men of
the South to think backwards.
From the way the Maryland Bourbon newspapers
are abusing Governor Hamilton we conclude they
afraid he viii play in that State the part Senator
NJ ahone is playing in the politics of Virginia.
thorough stirrng-up of the stagnant politics of
Maryland would be wholesome operation.
The story comes from Syracuse that Mr. Tilden's
agents have made bargain for the support of the
prominent Tammanyites in the Interior and that
Editor Purcell of The Rochester Union is to be the
Democratic nominee for Secretary of State, and
William G. Ruger for Judge Of the Court of Appeals
The basis for the bargain is said to he the concession
of half the city delegation to the State Convention
TO Tammany, and the other half to the Committee
of One Hundred concern. Whether Ruger and Pur-
cell have authority from John Kelly to trade on his
political capital for places for themselves on the
ticket we are not Informed. If such bargain rs rat
flied all around we should like to know what be-
comes of the high and mighty moral claims of the
One Hundred organization. Either that organiza-
tIon represents the Democratic party of the City Of
New York, or I is nothing better than a volunteer
associa ion Of political iventurers
Mr. Pocketbookwalter is travelling over Ohio try
TO start boom. 1t hasn't started vet He had bet
ter stay at home and rely on his barrel.
There is fair prospect for an early healing Of the
breach in the Republican local organization in Al
bany. The pressure of public opinion in favor of a
solid harmonious party is too much for the most OBJ
stinate facional leaders TO resist The causes which
led to the Albany rupture passed into history a wear
ago. There Is no good reason for keeping IN an mn
fortunate quarrel which damages the party and
profits nobody.
An agitation is in progress in Southern California
for the formation of "a separate State composed of
the Counties of Los Angeles, San Diego San Bernar-
dino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo
Inyo and Kern, embracing about third the area
of the present State, and having a population of
S2049. The people of these COMMITTEES are ,,bont o.
far off from the Capital Mt Sacramento as are those
OF North Carolina from New-Yorl. The new move
mcnt is likely to affect California politics. which are
curlously Variegated already.
Mississippi is getting ready 10 Join Virginia in an
effort To shake OF the incubus of Bourbonisn.
The Massachusetts Greenback leaders have nro-
posed bill to bring before the Legislature next
winter compelling corporations which earn over q
per cent their capital stock distribute the sur
plus among their employees and stockholders on the
basis of treating the wages paid to each employee as
so much stock held by him. The fatal defect of the
plan Is that IT looks only To profits and makes
count oil possible losses. No way is provided by
which "a corporal on that loses a years business
can tax its employees with a portion of the loss
It's poor rule thai doesn't work both ways"