Year: 1879

The 1ildcn post-mortem has been indefinitely
postponed.


Where Is the Hon. Benjamin Hill : He has not
been heard from since election. No man in the
South had more weighty influence in plling up
those big Northern Republican majorites than he,
and few remarks on the tborOughness of the work
would now be read with interest Moreover nearly
all the Democratic statesmen are promising to be-
have themselves in the coming session OF Congress,
but Hill has not joned his brethren that declara
tion yet If he shall promise to hold his tongue. the
work of the Republican party VIII be considerably
more arduous.


Every addition to Hoskins's majority punches
fresh hole i'll that but just now promising Potter
boom.


If the Democrats decide to steal the Governor
ship of Maine they will furnish instructive COM
mentary on their resolutions to avoid blunders
tins Fall and Winter. That would be 4 bunder
winch would assume at once the proportions OF Il
boom FOR the Republican party.


Judge Church begins to think the general ont
look for Il" cold victuals" is still very slim.


Schuyler Cofax says the man for the Republicans
TO nominate next year is the one who can poll the
most votes. That is the very man. and IL is just
we'll to wait till next year before picking him out.


Senator Hoar confirms "a pretty general impression
when he says thero was nothing in the recent
laborously circulated interview with Senator Car
penter but what is a matter of common knowledge.
The newspapers went over tho same ground weeks
before Mr.. Carpenter traversed II; ana while 40
one doubts he Willingness Ot the Democratic party
10 resort to desperate measures to secure control OF
the Government there are lew who believe that the
result of the voting in 1880 Will be so close as TO
give them any chance 10 attempt what they are
SAID TO contemplate.


The solidity of the North has started batch Of
fresh runors that the Solid South about split
They are in the nature of taffy.


Judge Lochrane, of Georgia, has made most
important revelation. He says there is actually on
record an instance in which Hendricks took strong
ground on only side of great question. He
spoke at an agricultural meeting and openly opposed
hog cholera" This announcement should be
bodied IN "a circular by the Hendricks Admiration
Club of indianapolis and sent broadcast over the
country. Ii is tue one hope left of starting Hen
drIcks boom.


The Virginia Reputation organs are trying to
bulldoze Governor Holiday out of his accredited
disposition to veto all their dishonest schemes The
prospect Is promising that they won't succeed


General Garfield has discovered n Southern Dem
ocratic newspaper which Is so discouraged by the
November elections that it talks about the neces-
slty of throwing off Bourbon dictatIon in the South
and he concludes therefrom that split in the Solid
south is likely TO come by 1880. He even has
doubts whether the 13S votes OF the South can be
held for the Democratic party In 1880. III he had
read the Southern journals carefully Tor the past
year he would have been less hasty III his cOnclu-
slons. They have talked IN that way after every
defeat and then at the next election the South has
voted as solid as ever The splits are all Demo-
cratic the only result being two Democratic parties
instead of One and nothing Is more certain than
that both will vote solid for the Democratic presi-
Dental candidate be he Tlden, Bayard, OF Jeiler-
Davis.