New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-02
POLITICAL NOTES.

CONGRESSMAN Alvah Croker of Massachu-
sets has published letter declining TO be candidate
for denomination.
The latest Presidential ticket is Gov. Allen
OF Ohio for President and Congressman William A.
Richardson of Illinois FOR vlce-President.
Congressman Ellis Ii. Roberts of the XXlld
District of this State who had partially decided not to
accent renomination has yielded to the solicitations
of his friends and will be again candidate.
The Subcommittee, appointed to prepare
amendments the Virginia Constitution has completed
It's work. The important changes proposed include
prepayment OF capitation tax as condition OF suffrage;
abolition OF the ballot dispensing with the sYs
TEN of registrations reduction of the memberships or
the General Assembly to l4O and the ESTABLISHMENTS Oh
biennial sessions OF the Legislature
The initiation platform of the Missouri
Democracy finds favor with the German press OK
that State The action Of the Convention Is denounced
and the Independent Reform Convention which meets
to-day is called upon to build strong platform Dy
avoiding the mistakes Of the Democrats BY nominat-
ing strong ticket and adopting platform which would
be sound the currency question: the new party couu
start on first campaign issue worth fighting for
There is strong suspicion in Massachu-
sets that Gen. Buffers unnatural quiet the question
of the Governorship seeming than real Careful
observers declare that unless the Generals enemies pay
pretty close attention to the primaries they Will md
Butler delegates uncomforaby plenty in the state Con-
venton ana that there an undemonstratlve aeuyiy
the OF Buffers friends which Indicates thit no
has not abandoned the contest so much AS he might
Gen. John L. Averill of the Hid Minnesota
District, making desperate efforts to get renomins-
ton but the backpay business is fatally heavy load
for him to carry. The Minneapolis Tribune says he is
squanderng his share OF the grab in the most reckless
way In order persuade the public in his favor. and
thus specifies some of the amounts he has expended:
"Thrtyeigh hundred dollars spent at Duluth, and the
county gone dead against him. Is about the way tho
thing is running At this rate II the General should by
any possibility be elected. he may be expected to intro
duce new back pay grabbing bill But there y
no danger-the people trusted him once and be sold
them out; they likely to be burnt twice With tho
same poker"
1t seems rather cruel in The Cincinnati En-
quirer to deprive the Democratic party of the most
creditabe convention platform which has been adopted
in any Western State this FALL but nevertheless that Is
what does 1t audes to the hysterical reoicings OF
the Eastern Democratic press the Illinois platform.
and denies that the Convention which adopted 1t was
Democratic. 1t explains why 1t was not in this elegant
way: 1.-THE machinery OF the Democratic party OF
Illinois stolen by the political prostitutes OF Chicago
who the finery Of Boston and,Sew-fork money
lenders and the Convention WAS called as an opposl-
tOn Convention. 1t contained many Republicans rs
Democrats and is not called Democratic Conventioa
by the people who got 1t up