New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Watertown Reformer doubts whether
Controller Hopkins wishes to again. but declares that
even II he does 10 should not DO nominated. The only
rea gives Is that he would become target for tbs
shot OF the enemy and that this would render IL very I'm
pleasant for bin and for the party.
The friends of Senator Morrill, in Maine arc
DESTROYS OF making compromise with Mr. Blaine con-
corning the senaorshp They willing. 1t Is said TO
support bin for the Presidency any other Office. pro-
yed he will abandon his attempts to secure Mr. Nor
rills seat. These advances have not been received
favoby by Mr. Blaine and the contest for the Senator
ship continues.
Here is new Presidential ticket 1t is pre-
scented by the Wilmington Commercial OF Delaware;
I'VE hear new ticket designed FOR 1876 talked Of in
Pennsylvania For President, Benjamin H. Bri o
tow OF Kentucky for Vice President John F. Harranft
of Pennsylvania There would be life spirit and young
blood In that ticket beyond dOnbt ana II The COnyen-
ton should nominate it, the people would give IL then
ratification"
There has been bad management somewhere
about the finances IN Tennessee. The State Treasury
empty and there ia way TO replonish 1t except by
conyening the legislature and 1t is thought very doubt
ful IL that body can do anything about it, This aud
various other weaknesses OF Democratic management
induce the Hon. W. g. Brownow to predict Republican
revival in East Tennessee which Will sweep the Demo
Gratis rom power
The Independent Voter seems to be correctly
estimated in Missouri The ST. Lo,is Republican, saws VI
him: "The independent vote holds the balance OF
power In tho campaign Of 1876. There IL no denying
that goes the independent vote so goes the
election Now bebooves the leaders of the Democratic
party shape their policy in such way to gain and
retain this reinforcement without which defeat Is in
evabe. II they rely merely upon the pressure OF popu'
lar opposition to Republican measures they viii moss
assurey fail That stock in trade Is about exhausted
The independent vote wants to know what the Denoc-
acy propose to do aud the sooner this quesOnis author
iiatiyely nswered the better
The generous expression of thanks sent to
fbc
ception at the Bunker Hin Centennial has convinced
extreme Republican paper as The Boston Jour
nal that the hight Of renewed national morning Is
breaking the land" Il says further: There will
be Disbursements and contests hereafter in the political
field u. always he the among thoughtful citt
zcls carrying on common Government by the exercise
equal rights. but there Will be sectional hatred and
distrus no bitterness vindctyeress wish on the
part OF either to deprive the other OF the least Of ing
the Centennial STATIONS this IL the purpOrt OF tho
responsive echoes awakened at tie sOuth.'
1t is good evidence of the desire Of Re-
public,ns to put honest men forward that news
paper nominations should be made OF such state ckee
as Frederick ". Seward, Warner Miller and Mr. Evats
The and last OF these need no description. but Mr.
Miller Is little known In this section of the state. He
haId-working intelligent member Of the Assembly.
whose comparative Obscurity is one OF his greatest
merits He is the superior in ability OF nine out OF ten
members of that laxative body the Infection OF whose
ncCssaut gable never SEXES him. lie speaks TOUR or
Ave times in the OF session, and when he does
speak the whole House listons Mr. Miller may or may
not possess peculiar qualifications for the office OF Con-
soer, but lie is at all able and ncorruptibo
legislator. We need more such men both in the legiss
ture and the State House. But there WAS time when
the Republican party had other use for men ike William
n. Evarts than to propose putting them ut the tau end
OF STATE ticket aud when 1t had 80 treated sdeh aen,
aud conducted Itself, as to have some Iesolap s
assurance that there any positions whatever In
| which il could have the benefit OF their services
| The hasty journalists in the South who are
clamoring " more money" and threatening with all
sorts OF dheu punsments every who Is opposed TO
them cannot improve their time better than by reading
recent article in The Louisville COwrier-Jo,rRai on
Sectional view Of the Finances" Here are few &C.
econs from "Of all the people OF the country, tho
people OF the South should be most deaf to the canor
for more greenbacks. II san anomaly to say that
burnt child does not dread fire. We have had our Ringers
| burnt. We know all about the blessing OF cheap
money The virtues of the new issue against the old
issue are familiar to Tie more we got OF each class
the worse of There is but pretext why the
South Should he for inGation and that Is an unworthy
| one In order that may get more greeubacks we
must have sOmethnga bag OF wheat or keg OF whisky,
bale Of cotton bunch of banauas-o get them with.
aud when get them want them 10 be good for their
and their face, not like Confederate currency.
which came yalueless that the farmer preferred
To Keep his truck to selling it, More grcenbacks TO.
-Trpudiaon Rag money IL ruin; ruin 10 every moral
and political interest; ruin Ia all nduStricS ruin alike 20
the TiCb and the poor; disturbing and dlsaraigly
all thing, beepng the people in perpetual mess ana
rudr; opening the way for the bascst men to seek w
| the b,sest mean. the basest objects"
Indiana is laboring painfully under the inn
preston that she dest med furnish two candidates
for the Presidential campaign. This is making bad
work for the Indianapolis newspapers. The Journal
feels bound prove that Gov. Hendricks Is about rs bad
there is in politics. and The Settinei yes back
with great glsto that Senator Morton is "another"
THUS The JOurRal says Mr. Hendricks is "petoggins
| statesman" swearing saint" " pOus fraud"
"dough-face In politics and hypOcrte in religion"
"paldOner of felOns and iudoTser Of thieves pOt
cal slulker and social i,triger." professional jug
gier and acrobat" and makes several other equally
! heightened aud pleasant remaTks about bin. The Se'h
mel is equal 10 ts rival In command OF polished ep
hcts bat does the best IL can by calling Mr. Morton
the demagogue in the country insiDuating thss
his moral character is bad that scrupuOus people
! could not vote for him. charging him with screening
ylany for partisan purposes and remaring by way OF
| climax that who cannot stand on his legs with
out the aid OF Is MT to be President To the
observer OF judicial mind II looks as il these worthy
journalists pcrspring unnecessarily. The desire ot
either party upon the Indiana statesmen and
thrust them into the Presidential cir docs not seem 70
be precisely understandable. This Il quite large cou
try and there several statesmen outside OF Indiana
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