New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-05

| bourbon will be exhibited a curiosity.
The Autobiography party at Albany has split. 1t
/ will surprise a good many people to know that
! there is enough OF II 10 SpHt'
/ The Ohio Democrats have five Presidential candi-
| dates in the field already: PendletOp, IlIdcn,
! Thurman, Payne and Jewett They seem To be
| running necll-and-necl now, with TildcnS nose
| perbaps a hairs breadth ahead. Each has one or
! more newspapers behind him, and II they al keep
up for two years the race may De an interest
ing one at the end of that time. NO money Is Up on
| any of them yet
Senator Coke, of Texas, is alarmed by the growth
! of independent or Ant-Bourbon sentiment in his
| Stale lie was elected Governor not great many
wears ago by a Democratic majority OF 100000 set
of the situation in Texas to-day he says: j'ye been
in political life a great many years, but can't re-
member time when there was such spirit of in
| dependence in our State can be seen there to-
day. and it seems to spread in all directions For
! instance We have about 900 Democratic papers IN
| Texas that heretofore have been Tat and unsWerV
ing i'm their support OF the Democratic platform anu
| nominees, but gradually they have been growing
restless under the restraint, ana are shooting on
on various side tracks OF one sort or anOtei III
If can hardly be sand to-day that more than lhICe
or four of them can be called reliably unchange3bIe
! in their devotion 20 the party under any ana an
! circumstances" That looks rs II the SOLID N0uth
| were indeed crumbng yet there Ia scarcely State
IN the whole section OF which the same thhs can
| not be said
The monopoly which Tammany seems to be fight
g hardest is that of all the offices and patronage by
| the Democratic majority.
! The latest appointment runors from Washington
are that ex-senator Sargent is certain to be made
Secretary Of the Interior and that the Hon. John c.
! New. of Indiana, has pecn rendered and has ac-
Cepted the Russian MISSION
As the duel be geen Blackburn and Burbridgc has
! been indefinitely postponed, infer thai Back
| burns head has cooled OIL
Congressman Ellis, OF Louisiana, is another
| Southern Democrat who is preparing to attend the
| funeral of the Democratic party. lie says: " The
Democratic party is dying nationally OF tlmidty
| and hamilton 1t is without measures. 1t
| Is not agreed on any policy. In the States of tho
! South il is losing ground. Virginia is gone There
are grave fears for other States 1t is disrupted
| and broken into divisions and factions in nearly
every Southern State. 1t IS past praying for, and If
the South breaks up the Democratic party is a
thing of the past. In this State and city-Loulslna
! and New Oreans-iOr SIX OF eight years past any
body without morals, brains or principles could DC
| elected. provided lie could trick himself into q
Democratic nomination, and all because OF a tyran-
| meal public opinion that almost 0stIaclzed man
! who ayOwed himself "a Republican" Mr.. Ellis
! thinks both parties are destined TO break up and
| rev ones be formed which viii divide on principle
! rather than prejudice. That may happen, bat 1t
| looks now as if all tho breaking would be confined
| to the Democracy to whose prayerfn consideration
! we commend the frank utterances OF Mr.. Els
ferOciOus Bourbon newspaper, The 4drorfiser and
| MAIL of Montgomery, Alabama. makes the bold
assertion that the Bourbon of the South is the
| decentralization of progress" Yes, he IS but he
| moves backward
An independent movement has been organized in
! Georgia for the purpose of calling mass meeting
| Of Independents from all parts of the State and
| .I,%o Ton bO ia
originators of the movement hope, will be eX-Con-
| gresham FELTON,.
| The South Carolina Bourbons are finding out that
while they are able to prevent the negroes from
voting they not able to prevent them from NOV
| ing away.