New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-23

would not be seriously impaired. She would
be weaker with irreconcilable subjects than
without them.i
The Maryland Republicans met in Baltimore
Yesterday and ratified the Reform ticket agreed
upon at the conference in this city few days
ago and Immediately afterward announced In
The TRIBUNE. The platform seems to have
been carefully framed with view to attract
ING the favor of all the elements OF opposition
to the Democracy Of Maryland as at present
constituted. Both parties in Maryland, as In
this State, are sound on the currency question:
The arrival of vessel freighted with yellow
fever will not often excite such feelings
of compassion for the sufferers as in the case
of the schooner Southern Home, which came
Yesterday. That no accident occurred ON the
VOYAGE until the collision with bark In the
Lower Bay is remarkable, when it is consid-
cred that the crew, with two exceptions, were
stricken with the dreaded disease, and that
those two finally dropped at their posts from
sheer exhaustion.
Whatever may be the report of the Commits
sion, the Red Cloud investigation is not with
out incidental good results. One of them is the
resignation of Mr.. Walter II. Smith-onc OF
the many Smiths in the Interior Department
who has long served the Ring, directly or indl-
rectly, as Assistant AttOrneyGeneral for MIR.
Delano's Department. This gentleman was
selected by the Secretary as a scapegoat, and
he has no doubt acted wisely in retiring before
the report of the Commission is presented.
Mr.. Delano's resignation is next in order, and
it must come, sooner or later
The anti-Tammany Democrats settled the
permanent organization of their County Com
mittee last evening. The opportunity was
taken for the use of much bitter language
about John Kelly, Tammany Hall, and the re-
lection of the opposition delegates at Syracuse
Violent talk and angry personalities will not
prove an element Of strength to the new move
ment, and will hardly commend the organiza-
ton which was established last night to the
support and assistance of the German Demo-
Gratis who stand aloof from Tammany, or help
in forming a strong combination which shall
have weight in city politics.
Senator Selkreg has been renOminated by
reclamation by the Republicans in Reform
canvass and on q Reform platform. Self
qualification can no further 60. Mr.. Selkreg's
denomination is disgrace to his party. His re-
election would be disgrace to his State. The
Democrat who seems most likely to oppose
him is Mr.. Geo. w. Schuyler Member of As
sembly. We hope that Mr.. Schuyler will do
his duty and make the fight We adjure all
honest citizens of his district, without respect
to party, to stand by him. He is an honest
and respected Democrat, and Mr.. Selkreg-
well, MIR. Selkreg Is not that kind of Repub-
lican.
The Liberal Republican Convention ndorsed
Gov. Tilden's canal policy, made no nomina-
tons, and adjourned. 1t was probably as wise
thing as they could do. The canal policy is,
indeed legitimate OutgrOwth of the move
ment of 1872, and could fairly demand this
approval from the organization of that day.
Its members are right, indeed, in claiming
that their work gave the impulse to
nearly : all the great political changes
which have occurred in the past three
years. l. They sowed the seed of reform.
1t seemed to decay and disappear, but the sub
sequent growth has astonished even them.
Superficial observers, and men who helped
elect Grant in 1872 and have been busy re-
penting of it ever since, still find 1t an Occa-
sion for cheap wit whenever a body of Liberal
Republicans choose to have meeting. But
nobody has any better political results to show
during the same period, OF any better right to
keep meeting and passing resolutions as long
as they wish.
At the Convention of Insurance SupeIin-
tendents, yesterday, Commissioner John A.
Finch of Indiana, in introducing a resolution
calling for legislation to protect the holders of
life insurance policies, delivered an address Of
remarkable character. In the brief extracts
from it which our crowded columns admit 1t
will be seen that Mr. Finch touched the sore
spots in life insurance management with no
gentle hand. He regards the contract of the
policies as one-sided, and unjust to their hold
ers, both in theory and practice. The points
on which he arraigns the companies have been
frequently discussed in THE TRIBUNE. He
proposes to prevent by law the forfeiture Of
policies to hold companies responsible for the
representations of their agents, and for in
surance after accepting risks; to permit no de-
tense at law for fraud in the application, after
company has received five annual payments !;
and to impose fine for unsuccessfully resisting
a claim. These propositions are likely to be
received with much favor by a portion of the
public. but with little from the insurance COM
panies.
MASSACHUSETTS, PoLi7Cs
The Democratic State Convention which met
yesterday at Worcester had unusual tempta-