New-York tribune., 1874-11-13
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Republic, the Administration organ which
ia Presidents organ this city. is very much
bewildered ut hearing from The TRIBUNE that ques.
raised to the validity OF tue adoption OF
TIE Constitutional Amendments 1t wants TO know who
has raised it, thinks he should have before tho
election informs the adventurous person who it
that he will find it question involving the very
foundations of theory OF government thinks there
is nobody who raises IL excepting John Kelly, and dis
o strain Of similar intelligence for time
Perhaps 1t would crafty The Rpbtie to know that the
A. b. Cornell. person somewhat known formerly la
connection with New-York poltIcs.
Signs of trouble for Senator Carpenter are
breaking out in Wisconsin. The La Crosse Republican,
which kept silent during the campaign for the
sake Of the party frees its overburdened mind in
this way: "Mr. Carpenter was dead weight on tho
Republican party during the late canvass. and the
which was achieved was won by unloading our
selves him in ADVANCE and by the solemn pro-
that he not the Republican candidate for
United States Senator 1t Will not do to go back
those pledges, and withdraw these protcstations We
are of the opinion that Mr. Carpenter should quietly
take himself out OF the way aud hrmy believe that
the Republicans should do any thing disastrous as TO
elect Mr. Carpenter the United States Senate, that
will be about the last thing the party Will be able TO do
Washburn. this means tnat that gentleman Is by no
means disposed TO Withdraw from the field.
There is good ground for hoping that SEN
ator Chandler will disgrace Michigan for another
term In the United States Senate. The Republican ma
jorty the Legislature is very small, and it Is absO
lutely certain that 1t not Chandler majority. Ths
hope OF Chandler rests entirely upon the ability OF h
friends to control the To prevent this his oppO
nents in the party working zeaousy The hardest
blow he has received yet comes from The Dehol
Tribune by all odds the ablest Republican Journal In
the State. 1t publishes long article reviewing the
recent election in the State in which it charges the
duced Republican majorities to the weight Of
fba and 6n,l4r fhat
time has come for the party to rid itself OF Q
men who is prominent only among those Republican
"'leaders' whose conspicuous readiness for the un.
scrupuous of debasing political machinery for theif
ends is alternating from the party tho good OF ia
best class voters and who, from this fact are re-
sponsibe no small degree for recent astonishing
reverse" The Tribune that half-dozen Republi-
cans who shall resolutely refuse to support Chandler
for reelection and shall decline TO obey tue caucus can
make themselves masters or tue sehatoraI situ1toh
and "can place in Chander's seat any or the prOmi
nent Republicans OF Michigan who repreaent the better
this kind All existing probabilities and all the prece-
dents Of the past point clearly 10 s1S aresuI We DscSs
the work. and know that puOie sentiment VIII re-
spOnd with enthusiasm to their action" Every decent
man the country will rejoice IN the prospects of sucn
o desirable result.
The first utterance Of The Chicago Tribune
on National politics since its change OF managementap
peared in OF Tuesday In long article on tho
Political Outlook" the editor says the recent Rapnbii-
defeats VIII prove u Dessns uiFVuise W
ing the party the struggle In 1876 lie says the vote
poed by the Opposition smaller than tie vote cass
for Mr. Greeley n 1s72 which, he argues shows that tho
country has not been converted to Democracy. Tho
causes Of falling of OF the Republican vote he atto-
ues TO the In the party OF many offensive issues
and persons which dead weights aud dead beats have
been shaken by the election. There were also several
matters OF questionable proprety. the Credit Mobil-
Ter affair." and number OF other matters though grossly
exaggerated and by confined 10 one party, aLd
the Back Pay or Salary Grab bill furnished the oppos
tion with material upon which to found accusations
against individuals, and by implication against tho
party and many conscientious Republicans In all tho
States, by emitting TO vote, took that means OF
having tho party purified by allowing tho
participants In these transactions 10 10
dropped out OF political lie." Other causes
were the hard times and local issnes when Lave
all worked together TO give the Opposition seeming
triumph" In concluding the editor says; Inc "s
publican party is really confronted by but one zoe ana
that Is the Democratic party, WIN "nsn i ~ 1850
during the war with which 70 struggled during Anaew
ohnsou's reign, and which t defeated under oey
An lA6s and Greeley In 1872. WITH thnt party uio ma,
iorty OF The people moro sympathy IN 1919 tns
,hey had lS72, 1863 1884, at any oher perou
since the firing SUMTER The great popular near. W ~
the principles the Republican party as II has ever
been, aud holds tho Democratic party IN as siea. w.
testaton now it did when aDemocrailc bepei asnJ
bearing u hostile Dag. threatened the integrity W