New-York tribune., 1875-10-09


| now to be talking about an election
in Massachusetts,. as though there could be any
| doubt as 10 the result. There's been great
change somewhere. What is it'll Have the
Democrats grown better or the Kepupiicahs
worse, or have the people come to dlstrust
both, and, taking position outside OF either
compellcd the managers to bid for popular
sunport bv putting themselves on their very
bcst behavior Possibly it is from mixture
of all these causes that the present conditions
have grown. 1t is a question: at any rate,
which both parties, and especially tho Repub-
lcan, may investigate with profit.
OF the present attitude of the two great par
ties in Massachusetts,, our Boston correspond
ent gives this morning very intelligent ldea'
The effect of the nominations OF both paitlcS
upon the people is very clearly described,
tbough AS we have said, it is altogether too
early vet TO venture upon anything Ike "a
prcdicton regarding the event. Within the
State as without. the course of the Democrats
in the selection of candidates who represent
ideas instead of party name Is most cor
diolly commended. and the failure OF the Re
pubIicanS to rise to the hight OF their oppor-
tunty by nominating Charles Francis Adams
has been received with feeling some
thing sharper than regret 80 lar. the
vantage ground is with the Demo-
Gratis. They already have the Governor,
and a years experience of his administration
has led the people to contemplate the contlh-
gency of his reelection with a more philosophlc
feeling than would have been thought possible
two wears ago But the party of the Admins
tration is by no means inert or apathctic. The
managers are quite well aware of the perlls oi
the situation, aud are alert and active TO avert
them. They have everything at stake. In the
Convention they managed to escape Dr. LoilIig,
az they had two or three times just got away
from the clutch of Butler They knew the
party had been doing badly, and that the
people were getting very tired ot II ;
but they had Mt the stomach for a radical re-
form thcy undertook "tapering oil policy
with the very cstinablc Mr.. Rice as it, figure
head. They mean to win back their losses OF
last year and put themselves in condition
for the Presidential campaign and they VIII
spare no effort TO accomplish it. The re-
organization of the State Committee means
business, and thc carncstness of the effort to
fuse personal differences and harmonic on
minor matters il well illustrated in the union
on the Committee of DR.. j. {. Aver, who
was last year the Republican candidate for
Congress in his district, and Judge +. lockwood
Hoar. who resides in the same district and
boltcd Ayers nomination in u delightfully."- in
dcpendent and aggressive manner
The canvass on both sides bids iair, under
these circumstances, to be unusually active.
Outside OF the two great parties are the Pr"hi-
bitioniSts and Labor Rcformcrs, each with
ticket in the field, but the only notable cllrin'-
stance in connection with them is the appear
ancc of Mr.. Wendell Phillips in one Conyen-
ton. in which of course he made a speech,
while he was being nominated for Governor
by the other. But after all, nothing that Mr.
Phillips does can be considered strange.