New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-21
POLITICAL NOTES.

The great Samuel FentOn Cary has broken
loose In another open letter to the people OF the Uncd
States What crime has the people committed tlat IL
should be thus afflicted
Ex-GOy CASTOR will not be q candidate for
Congress in the WITH Massachusetts, District after OIL
Judge Abbotfs friends who have been little nervous
on this subject assert that no will be rcnoninaed
elected.
The fight against Gen. Garfield is based
mainly upon his attitude the silver question The re-
publicans who oppose him inilaonsts who are not
able TO forgive him he not in favor of paying
the public debt in silver f. wOuld be credit to any
man TO be defeated act plainly right as that but
there Ia he reason To fear that the SeheFa ~"
fan Of a reelection.
There will be consolation in this paragraph
from yhe Cincinnati Commercial for those rem'lous
uatents who are afraid Gov Hayes will be controlled by
bad men II ho Is chosen President: Those VINO are
calculating that Hayes be easily pulled about by the
nose and managed according the susceptibility OF the
machine managers. are, we believe h'Sl"Aon' AH'i0 -
fight In Hayes when there is war
Galusba A. Grow has not been nominated
after all I'm the old wuot District The candidates from
the other counties afraid that II he went DacK 10
Congress there wouldn't be enough rotation In that dis
tric for the next years SO they combined against
him. and after long struggle nominated Mr. Oyert9n.
MIR Grow himself Is Indiana on tho stump, Du me-
opponents have been at home attending to business
The With Massachusetts District is to he
pIed Butler Is a sufficiently strong dose for one sec
have Butler supplemented 1htDoA Is SIN
py awful Mr. Tarbox has been rcnomuated aud as his
modest opinion Is that the fate OF the country hangs upon
bs nod he will of course accept There never was bot
Ter field for the establishment o. bolt than this with
District The whole voting population ousAt ~ rise UP
ard embrace a respectable independent cahhldate'
Here is some news about that income tax at
last The Indianapolis Sentinel asserts that the whole
subrct has been explained time and time again which
Is true also ruo t rs the several explanations
are an different perplexed public doesn't know which
one 10 accept Then The Sentinel adds: "The more re-
specabe OF the Republican journals have acknowledged
that tho charge was false one" This is great news
The name of one Republican Journal respectable or not
iuliy solicited.
The Hon. Ben. Hill has proved once more
that the south not responsible for the war In a
recent speech he said: 81 say the South made war
mon the Union. There has never been au hour when
nine out of ten OF us would not have given our lives for
this Union We did leave that Union because we were
dissatisfied with it, we did not leave the Union 10 make
war on tive loft the Union because sectional party
had seized IT, and hoped thereby TO avoid conflict
pt ~ ,yar must come we intended To fight a sectional
party and the Union Therefore the late war win
all s disastrous consequences s the direct result OF sec
10 krep dead issues buried they had better pat that
muzzIc back on Mr. XIII rs soon as possible
The Democratic policy in this canvass is TO
stick 10 "A falseho0d 10 matter Low many times IL has
been exploded Early in the campaign It was said that
Blaine had sent letter containing tnc lOuONlnS
language to Daniel W. Num- in Chicugo: al have no
influence with the present Administration No man has
who is not thief by instinct" This has already been
denied several times but the Democratic has kept
IL going pcrnaclouSy that Mr. Blaine has felt obliged
to sit on il once more letter 20 inquring friend,
in which he says: Allow me to say that never wrote
letter OF any kind to Mr. Mum In my life, and meyer
ceiycd letter from him. have acquaintance what
ever with Mr. Mum Allow further 10 that never
used tine language referred to- anything resembling
e. To any other person. either orally ia writing, aud
never entertained such thought. The whole thing is
simply very silly and worry stupid fasehoOd Its pcr-
sstent repetition induces to notice IL In this way
Col Ingersol is right. Gov. Hayes is so
pure a man that even the Democrats can't lie about him.
An Illustration OF this fact is furnished by this manly
and oredituble retracOn in The Cincinnati Enquirer:
Some three weeks ago received from Cleveland,
Ohio "A letter signed John SOmertOn, in which some
charges were made against Gov. Hayes in connection
with the bounty money of lot OF deserters from his
brigade. The writer claimed to have been a member Of
Hayess regiment. We published the lettor in good
faith since that time the Cleveland papers have called
upon John Somcrton to forward and substantate
his charges They say that such lives in Ceve-
land. As John has failed make himself known we
conclude that we imposed We have desire
10 uujustly assa any candidate and in making state
endeayOr 10 guard ourselves In this instance
feel that Gov. Hayes an apology. John somer.
has been loudly called for and has failed TO respond