New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18

| 20 have taken a contract moro easily man
AGED, if not more congeniai-that Of fur
pishing from his banking house officers
by Wholesale for Administration indorse-
ment meetings. Out of tho fifty
Secretaries announced for last nights meeting,
every single man of tho first twenty ia
clerk in Mr.. Clcws's bank. Well done. Mr..
Clews! '''
The Senatorial aspirants for places on the
Supreme Bench are in deadly trouble. They
have all suddenly discovered that their own
action i'm increasing tho salaries Of the Su-
preme Judges prevents tho elevation Of any
one of themselves during their present terms
The droll result of this mishap is that each OF
them is now fatty opposed to the law arrang-
ing for the retirement Of superannuated
Judges on full pay. We do not think they
need have given themselves yesterdays
trouble; after next March they will escape all
worry from tho divisions of the Bench
| Sometimes it is wiser to avoid showing ones
actual strength, especially when the exhibition
may reassure ones adversaries. The poll OF
the House of Representatives by the Presidents
special friends was an apt illustration of the
truth of this. Tho result only effected little
cheer at tho meeting last night, and put on
record corporal's guard in favor of the re-
nomination of President Grant. 1t is likely
that some of those who refused to be dragOOned
into signing the Endorsement. may support the
Presidents denomination. but they were not
willing then to say so.
That proficiency with the management of
Conventions 40 completely possessed by
Thomas Murphy seems to be lacking in the
otiice-holders of Virginia A Convention met
in Richmond. yesterday. with "a counties of
tho State unrepesented, and attempted to
come into proper shape for the indorsing of
the Administration and the selection of dele
gates to Philadelphia. There were few of
| tho rural sort present. however. and the
wheels of endorsement" came to hitch.
When the delegates have exhausted their
warlike ardOr. there is no doubt Gen. Grant
will be Endorsed by the survivors, and dele
CATION ordered to Philadelphia fully in the
| mind of tho Office hOlders.
In common with all who have the beat in
teress of the city at heart, THE TRIBUNE has
steadily opposed dragging the Judiciary into
politics. A Committee of Federal Office hold
ers. for the sake of paitry partisan gain. are
imploring tho Conference Committee on the
| Charter to insist OH giving the appointment
of tho Commissioners of Public Safety to the
Judges Of tho Superior Court. Such CO.
! erciOn of tho Court into active politics would
be demOralizing aud burtful to the last de-
| gree If the Conference Committee should be
weak enough to yield to the partisan demand
made upon them, we shall confidently look to
the Legislature to insist upon leaving the
| Judiciary out of the political arena.
Mr.. Thomas Murphy builded better than he
knew when, in his laundering hclplessness.
| he established in a Congress Committee the
reputation of Deputy Collector Clinch. Repre-
| sentative Willard, in his speech on Civil
Service Reform. yesterday. used honest MIR.
| Clinch as an admirable illustration of the
working of tho present system. He showed
that Mr. Clnch administered the law of the
Custom house, and Mr.. Murphy administered
the politics; that Mr.. Clinch was the real
Collector and Mr.. Murphy by turns the figure
head and the marplOt. Mr.. Willard naturally
wants to know why there must be two Coec
tors. Why. indeed. should there be useful
| CLUTCHES and useless Murplys3
Major Gen. Daniel +. Siclslcs s,w fit. last
night, speaking of Horace Greeley. in tho
| Cooper Institute. to make this grave averment {:
very sorry my Mentor two days before the
Connecticut election declare for Revenue Tariff IN
| opposition to all his previous teachings.
We quote this from the speech which Gen.
Sickles did make, as stenographically reported
for The TRIBUNE, and printed on the second
page of this sheet That may do him no
shadow of injustice. however. we give also
this from the speech which he caused to be
put in type elsewhere.
None regret much his admirers that no (Mr.
Greeley should have signalzed hs first act Of hostility
TO the Republican organization by IA dsavOwal OF tho
doctrine Of protection American industry, with which
his fame and genius have been for thirty years identified
| To say that Gen. SickVes must have known
| the one of these wantOn charges to bo I'M
| true when he uttered it. and the other untrue
when he wrote it IA the thing he had ut
| tered. is to say all that SO amazing Calumny
seems at present to require
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THE GRANT MEETING