New-York tribune., 1876-03-25
POLITICAL NOTES.

ms Is a bad year for "favOrlte SOns.' The
people are in no mood for paying empty compliments
The opinion is becoming unanimous that the
Syracuse Convention was bad defeat for Conkllng His
organs are subdued and sad.
Congressman Phillips of Kansas is states
man OF the soft-money school. He made beautiful
speech on the currency question recently else had
speech printed in The Record, it does make much
difference either way, in which he wthered with ephets
the bOndhoder and the couponclpper and declared
pcatedy that he would be slave to the money
changers" The speech has reached Kansas, and
has not excited unbounded admiration. Mr. Phil
lips's party paper, The Topeka Common
veath, somewhat harShy sets the effort down
d" the worst specimen of 'slosh' have
in day" and tells the orator that he ia misrepre
scntiDg the people of his district when lie they
poor. downtrodden farmers. The farmers of Kansas"
II adds, are in better shape than the money changers
over whose fightful eAtortOns Col Philips maacth
moan, and we will that however sweet and proper
thing II may be for OF other States to get
up anu make Congressional Jcremiahs Of themselves,
there Is call for such display Oh the part OF repre-
sentative of Kansas"
Our "favorite son" seems to be thoroughly
understood in Cincinnati. The Gazette carrying
state Convention by of party patronage Is very
diff rent thing from carrying State ut popular eec
tion and expresses seeyden truth in the belief that
10 rational person outside Of NewYork or in IL thinks
"Mr Conkng could carry that State az
Presidential candidate The Gazette thus gives this
truthful portrait OF the Senator's political char
acter: "No man can remember when in the Admnisira
ton of Grant, Conkngs voice was raised against any
official abuse. All remember how like a eur he has
barkcd ut Republicans who have done this lie PLAYED
the svcOphanto Gen Grant and ostentaousy al vocatcd
ah teTm that he might receive the evcsion OF Grants
supporters and influence In the nominating Convention
He represents every degrading element in the pres
ent Administration. and hostility to every reforming eie
ment He coud not carry his own state in the election
No thinks his election possible he were nominated
No one thinks his nomination probable All suppose
that hia game to WELD the New York delegation in
old body his stratagcm. And all are pretty
well convinced now that Lie Will be able to do nothing OF
the kind
Gov. Smith of Georgia does not spend any
time in waing about the lost cause" lie said recent!
to IA correspondent of The Dstrod Ners regard the
ndssolubiencss of the Union settled forever. seces
sion was a mistake. Even bad il succeeded now see
that it would not have been five years befor. there would
have been further secessons within the Confederate
states The States Of the Mississippi could
have got long with those east The loss of the slaves
was severe blow TO the south. stll should bc just
as well of without them the less indo-
lent and unreliable We cannot get work ont OF them
now they are free. man may employ 20 negroes and
plant his CROP but he has not the slightest assurance
that he will ever gather it, II his hands choose not to
work lie is at their mercy, and they just as liable
to abandon their engagements at q critical time
as Mt other. They are constitutionally an idle,
thress always depending on the whites fo every
tding and will take century of education before they
can be brought up to the standard that will make them
in any degree useful members of the community E1-
Gov. Brown who was Governor Of Georgia curing The
saying: While | wOuld, during the war,
naye tGe institution fagf y ssycy noW by turning my hand
over could renstate 1t in all It's power ayow y"n
would not do IT, And III utternS this sentiment only
express the feelings OF very large majority of the
people Of the South. was somewhat OF q leader IN
Secession bat want you. friends OF the NorWest'
to understand that opposed Ia the next civil war,
and with the immense military power we have proved
ourselves capable o excrtinS am not AFRAID OF the next
foreign war;
None of the Republican papers, which were
sure that reports Of bribery in the recent Newamp
shire election wero malicious falsohoods have found
space for the letters Chairman Hall and senator Head
that thoy $3.50 for the purchase Of votes
into little town where there were only 40 voters
Other information OF like character comes TO hand
now, but IL Is probable that tho same jour
nails will never be able 10 use it. The Boston
correspondent OF The SprinQfed Repub''om writes
"A New-Ismps1re man, who has known the details OF
these election contests for many years tells that the
amount spent this year by the Republicans alone will
not fail far short OF 100000, more than ~ apiece
for every Republican vote cast. OF this he estimates
that $4,000 came from outside the statc-nucn
of il from Washington, and some OF 1t from the
contractors VINO have been paying so freely to
support the Administration In various ways ior
wears past The Of 1t raised by voluntary con
ributiou or by assessing the candidates and holders Cf
Ofce-cycn Of very petty Oct II IL Supposed tO nave
cost GOV Cheney several thousand dollars the mayor Oi
small city paid 81 900 and some candidate for Seb-
the close towns went up hRh that $500 is alleged
to have been paid now and then. for single
vote 0d , mrch Of votes for s. and $40 was
open in many towns. Not less than 1000 X publican
woes were probably by brought IN from otber
states from Washington from more distant places
men alleged to be legal voters la New-liampsh;r' but
who were no residents there than the border ri-
fans who used to do the voting n Kansas twenty years
ago Some from a. far away as Colorado u vote
for Cheney and a Republican senator. Tho Democrats
also used money but freely indeed they had less
than half US much to use, iny Informant says