New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-27

THE fUMININIKIIJffN UlNIHt NIfI.
We learn with profound regret from Demo
cratic sources that since Mr.. Frycs speech III
the Senate the other day the Democrats in that
body have begun to distruSt the Admni>tra-
ton SO much depends upon President Car
fields winning the entire confidence and sup
port of the Democratic minority in the Senate
that we are almost disposed 10 drop into the
prevailing fashion among Democrats and view
the present aspect of affairs with alarm SO
profoundly affected by this threatened with
drawal of confidence is the President that we
are told certain Republican Senators have been
deputed from the White House to diSsuade
Democratic Senators from the suspicion that
Mr.. Frye spoke for or represented the Admins
tration in the speech which threatens to demon
alizc the Democrats upon whom the Admins
tration was getting ready 10 lean Obviously
nothing could bc more certainly fatal To the
Administration than 10 lose the confidence of The
party from which ii expected 50 much the party
which regarded General Garfield 80 tcndcrly
during the campaign which confined itself 50
strictly to legitimate mcthod- during the Prc>i-
Dental campaign, and refused 80 stuhbOrnly to
descend TO mcanncss, trickcry and falsch0od :
which hailed his Inauguration so joyfull,. and
has given him thus far such enthusiastic and
cordial support. The intmation that this party
is beginning to distrust the Administration may
well excite alarm among the Presidents friends
and induce the scrdng out Of a special en-
bassy of Cancellation.
For Mr. Frye. ~ the readers of his unconcilia-
tory and cxaspcrating speech will remember,
talked on the floor of the Senate in precisely the
Il fl..r D.. 4 1
speakers talked upon the stump during the
campaign; the same way that President Gar
field has heretofore talked upon the stump and
on the floor of Congress. He talked just ~
though what had been said by Republicans
heretofore about intimidation and fraud ut the
South under the rule Of the divine right BOur-
bons was all true, and that he actually believed
it. Worse still he piled up in the very face
and eyes of Bourbon Senators facts and figures
concerning the election methods in vogue in
their own States which they could not dispute
or deny, and could not listen to with any COM
fort. And they were mostly fresh facts and
figures; statistics Of the last election. II was
worse than opening old sores, which has been
so much complained Of 10y sentimcntali-ts; II
established Il raw" in great many new
places. And the BourbOns were not expecting
such treatment. They were in hopes that by
cones were at last to be bygones, and that
President Garfield's Administration WA the
dawn of a new era of sweetness, forgctfulncss
and peace There never was party so ready
to be kindly treated ~ they were; never Il
party that yearncd so for perfect reconciliation
with here and there pOst-oifcc or some
thing, to make it seem sincere. Mr.. Ben Hill
went so far as to say that he even thought both
parties ought to disband, so that nothing should
stand in the way of harmony.
And here in spite of all this good feeling Mr..
FRYE comes on to the floor of the Senate aud
talks as though last year, game of politics was
for keeps.n OF course the BOurbOns won't
stand that 1t isn't their way. Their way is to
make an uncOmprOmising nO-quarter fight for
the whole of whatever is at stake, and then if
defeated wait to be cOncliatcd with half the
spoils and a now deal. Their present petition
if we rightly interpret it, is that if the Admin
istration will simply abandon the attack upon
Bourbonisn and give over the effort to divide
the Solid South and put down the violence and
fraud by which it is held solid, they will-well
they will strengthen themselves and get ready
to turn out the Administration and take con
troll themselves in 1854. But if the Admins
tration lends it's countenancc to Senators who are
determined to keep up the fight against Bour
bonism, they will-wel, we don't know what
they will do but it must be something dread
full OF the Democratic newspapers would not
treat so seriously the possibility of with
drawal of Bourbon confidence from the Admin
istration. For our own part, We are unable to
see what they can do more than they are now
doing in opposition to the Administration, but
it always makes us shudder when We hear
Democrats threaten to withdraw their conf