New-York tribune., 1881-03-25


the privilege they have Is meeting once yesr 10
convention and unfurling their eaIs. They 90 ~
with regularity and enthusiasm which shows tney
enjoy It, They didn't know that practically the wnoie
Democratic southernpress had denounced HilPs con-
duct aa nnuise and uuustifabe Probably It wouldn't
have made any difference to them II they did Lass
wear ono Of their number declared his
never TO desert the Democrats party even y Ie a y
to ret down into the gutter order 20 Slick 70 ~:
The whole Convention spplauded the sentlmens
then and its vote on Hill shows that 1t Is working
toward the gutter In solid phalanx.
The augusta CGa.) COHsttutOaGhst pleas2ntiy al
ludes to Senator Malone as Nihilist. Rernaps
Malone won this title by the thorough way IN
which he annihilated Ben HILL
The Hon. Daniel Webster Voorhees, must be suffer-
ing scutey By this time from retention Oh oraory'
The eouilibrium of che globular Senator from
Illinois s 80 unstable that he rolls out OF one party
and into another without any appreciable effort,
provoc@tion or purpose.
Tuesdays appointments, the able editors OF the
diseruntled press informed US, meant that Conk-
ling was Boss Of the Administration. After they
had recovered breath in their astonishinent at
Wednesdays appointments they gasped out; Oh,
those show that Blaine is the Boss. He has Garfield
under his thumb" They have also assured us. lol
these many days. that Blaine and ConklinR are
bound TO kill each other. How two men. Dotn m1-
tual enemies can both be bossing the
is little difficult of comprehension. Probably these
able editors will solve the problem by saying the
President has agreed to allow each to boss him every
other day To less astute minds the obvious solution
ia that the Presidents his own Boss, ana that ne ID
big enough man for the task.
Hints to ofice-seekers: Judge Robertson didn't
ask for any Office, and got the fattest kind OF one
Accept this as a precedent, pay your board bill
il you can-and 20 home.
David Davis gives notice that he viii dismount
on the Republican side of the fence next time. he
will thus get the change" he was after when he
supported Hancock.
Congressman Young, of Tennessee, remarked re-
Gently, in an interview with q TRIBUNE reporter,
that the South would remain solid against the Be
publican party $50 long that party puts men into
the Offices of the South who are the worst possible
characters Imaginable The Memphis Avalanche
Democratic newspaper of independent proclivities,
says this sweeping condemnation OF Southern
officials is wholly unwarranted by the facts" and
names ten officials IN MT. YOungs own district
who 1t asserts would lose nothing by comparison
with him " eth er morally. socially or pontlcally.
This simply proves moro that there Is no reason
for Southern soidty save the perpetuaaon OF bour-
bon domination.
The Democrats do not extract much comfort rom
the New-York appointments. They are able to see
in them the ominous spectre of solid Republican
party in this State.
1t seems to be tolerably safe 10 predict that Voor
hees won't annihiate all the National banks at this
session. A few will be spared.
This Is an epoch Of disappointments for the De-
mocracy David DaVlss independence Is scarcely
more to be relied uDon than Mahones. Mr. Davis is
likolv to find some extremely interesting reading IN
the Democratic newspapers for the naxt tew Gays
Ben Hill should rouse himself from his lethargy
and denounce the whole Readjuster party OF Yir-
ginia as traitors. They oil stand by Senator Ma
hone. Perhaps they have all been bought mp"
As there are over 10000 of them 1t must have been
a good deal of q transaction.
The whole Republican party in New-YOrk has been
recognized except tho chronic grumblers-and
they don't count
General Garfield plainly recognizes the fact that
he was elected President by the Republican party,
and not by any one mans party.
The further it gets the more it looks like Gar
field Administration.