New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-15
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Hon. George H. Pendleton will take the
stump for the OHIO Democratic ticket at Lima on Thurs
day next.
A Washington journal says that Senator
Wright OF Iowa has signed his intention OF covering
ms back pay into the Treasury" He will have good
deal peassuter time stamping his state for the Republic
can ticket thus relieves his pockets beforehand
This is a very hard time for salary grabbers.
The newspapers are worrying them on al sides The
Sllcu OJ clipper spoke freely about the share which
ex-Concrsssman Jacob A. Amber Of that State had
pocketed aud that dsIin gushed gentleman was so en-
ragged at it thar lac sought the editor and negan TO
express his dissatisfaction by a vigorous shower Of
Eics The editor replied promptly by PLAY in tattoo
with his upon the Congressional head-ln uneA-
pected response which immediately ended hostlliues
The Worcester correspondent OF Ihe chicago
Tribune writes that Gen. Butler made this confession 10
a delegate on the day preceding tho Convention: l
ought net have this year. It was bad Judgment
but the zeal Of mine enemy hath eaten me up After
the Convention he said: Grant dare not hsht me, any
way NV secure in Congress. and can 20 BACK
there and make motion to cancel the back pay meas
ure and carry IT, never needed the back pay, IL The
President did, Doubtless the action Of the Convention
has convinced the General that the people are pre-,
UNANIMOUSLY opposed 20 the back pay SW uule ana NAT
he can best win favor by urging It's repeal
The ST. Louis Republican still continues Its
unfeemg criticisms Of its old friends, the Democrats
In recent article it calls them creedless party" ana
that formerly the Democracy thought had an endur-
ing anchorage in tine Constitution" but now it cannot
declare its determination 20 stand by the Constitution
as without indOrsing the whole policy OF the RepuD
can party. On the subject Of tariff the Democracy are
hopeessy divided. on the subject Of state fights the
party no longer knows what it thinks ana It's OLD
standing hostility to national banks IS also gone. Hence
The Republican concludes "These dverses OF opinion
among modern Democrats. and this antsgonism OF
modern Democracy 70 the Democracy OF fifteen years
ago. account for the mpOssibty OF constructing an
effective and consistent Democratic platform The task
cannot be done the attempt 70 DO 1t ends either IN the
Baltimore folly OF readoptng Republican platform, or
i'm snch miserable bOsh has Just been put forth hY he
ouuucn Democracy OF Massachusetts Ihc DthOtIdey
has lost the capacity 70 ten Wh3' II WSuS al i o
pendent. selfsustaining party-the construction oi
creed"
We gave the other day, the comments of the
railroad journals Of san Francisco the recent election
in California then other newspapers Of the same
State have come to hand whose views are none the less
Interesting The Sacramento Union, independent
Repubican Journal is very ubIant over the result ana
considers it the best evidence that man is ut for self
government II says further I've Of the sunny state
have laid down upon the solid bed rock the foundations
of new party from whose action N the next four years
we may reasonably anticipate ali the reforms necessary
10 the restoration Of the state and National Govern
ments to something Ike the purity, economy, and
LOYALTY TO the people that once characterized them
and Congress to sense Of decency which has
been stranger 20 it for the last nve years
The San Francisco B'detiR anti-railroad Repu0-
publicau takes a similar view THE judgment Of the
neope was invoked yesterday. upon the issues which
had been forced upon them by the railroad combination
which not Only assumed 70 own the KepuDcan party Oh
the state but 70 own the state atso thae set
clear and emphatic condemnation OF tue ralro4d cque
and all the cOrfederated consplratOrs VINO nave Dten
working with them They have been beaten IN their
sronchods The tidal wave Of popular disapprooatlon
has swept clear over them.