New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-08
POLITICAL NOTES.


Official announcement was made, yesterday,
In the Ohio Legislature on the yote calling Constitu
onal Convention The majority In favor OF the Con'eh-
ton 3k975.
Iowa boasts that her Chief Magistrate, Gov
Carpenter. practices the economy of the fathers lie
was inaugurated in a suit OF homespun and delighted
the good people with lis afability and good sense
To show how deep meanness can go, 1t IS
asserted that the Legislative Manual and State Register
OF Georgia contain biographical sketches OF all the Off
Gals the blacks aud Of these merely tho names are
The Missouri papers are greatly mystifed
about John Clark, whose il attached to the call
for the Philadelphia Convention There Is but one man
the State OF that name and he Il only known as an
intensely bitter and "unwashed" Rebel.
The Knoxville Chronicle believes that the
Vice Presidency should be awarded the South and John
NJ. Harlan, though good man, is too young for the
place But, Instead, Horace Maynard 1t believes would
sweep the south II placed the ticket with Grant.
The Frankfort Commonwealth congratulates
the people OF Kentucky that last the courts Of that
state open testimony right for which the
Republican press Of the state has been bathing 0r more
than four years and finally accorded by the Legislature
The action of the New-Jersey Republican
State Committee in reducing the number OF delegates to
the coming Convention in the ratio OF representative
every 1000 Inhabitants no little dissatisfaction,
and the complaint general that the Committee exceeds
us power although the september Coh'ention au'H"i
lied something OF the sort.
The virtual success of the Reformers in the
IVh District Of Pennsylvania has emboldened the Cit
OF Philadelphia discuss the entire breaking up
OF the Tammanyke Rings that have been for years rob
bling and Insulting the city. body IKE the committee
OF Seventy recommended 70 the war and tho
press is almost unanimously in favor Of immediate
action. New impetus is given this desire by the acton
the Grand jury refusing to ndict VI the chief
workers In the late election frauds.
1t is possible that facts Like the following,
from The Springfield Republican, may be among the
moving the threatened cold shoulder OF
Pal mo m Ieetp PORT
orally: Senator Wilson has gone back TO Washington.
after two or three days in NewEngand and New-fork,
very alarming state OF mind az to Cen Granite pros
poets of reelection. They tell from Washington that
says take the stump In the Newhampshlrs
election unless the President 1rst cleans OUT tue New
York CustomhOuse. Even Forney mas got Irlgnteneu'
and takes very gloomy views OF the political situatI0
There no better political barometers than Henry
and know well when to hide from the coming Storm
| The Cincinnati Commercial says, in regard to
the ominous change in the Presidential prospects In
! Washington Even in Washington there are persons
able to see that the Republican party not identified
now aud forever with President Grant. One cause oil
! tie change in the wind is the NewYork Custom-house
! exposures. They are certainly ugly unpleasant and
/ damaging. The New-Orlesns investigation, We have
to believe, will have tendency 70 lhcrse !hs
public disgust There Is not likely TO Dc an % m
he dsag reesDe. There Is still scent OF the SantO DO,
so 1oO upon tne arr r = tbs old 5srgan will
W. contaminated There have been arrangements uiade
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The party hacks who think there Is nothing in the dis
! Affection OF such Greeley, SUMNER ochurz, ana
TrmbuIl will presently become sensitive az tropical
plants to atmospheric influences. There are NO men III
the nation moro significantly representative thah tAe
! four we have just named
The indianapolis Journal has repeatedly ex-
pressed It's STRONG preference for the denomination Of
! Gen. Grant, but under the light Of recent develop
euts It proper to make this important proviso
g.te a number Of Indiana papers have spoken favor
. Of Mr. Colfaxs candidacy for the Presidency. For
IN 10 claimed that he would have more friends and
among the dlsafected elements OF IN. epnO
q. n party than any who mas been named The
friends vi Truubull. Schurz, Sumner, Logan Fenton,
and Greeley would 1t Is said Oil cordially unite IN his
support and is becoming serious question whether
or nj any other be elected in spite OF their
II IL also urged that since the death OF
Mir Lincoln the Republican party has been divided, and
that the denomination Of Grant would not be key 10
heal our dssensOns 1t Is worth while 10 consider the
proprety OF that might entail upon Us fOnr
more warfare inside Of the ranks or the
Republican party At all events, let US travel carefully
the dangerous places and not shut our eyes 10
passing events. We glad TO see the press OF the
: ate speak with becoming freedom on tAls allln-
Z subject.