New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-03-07
POLITICAL NEWS.

Gen. J. NJ. Comfy writes from Washington
that Senator Thurman il generally conceded there to
nave the best chance for the Democratic nomination for
the Presidency. He says Hendricks and Tilden con-
sdered out of the questionable former because he
"straddlcr" aud the latter because he has only local
reputation
Here is a rumOr which il will be wise
thing 10 watch. The ST. Louis Republican publishes il
IL Is stated in quarters likely 10 be reliable that Me-
Donald has fallen into bad health, that confinement is
telling on him, that protractcd Imprisonment would be
fatal 70 him. and that for this 1t Is probable be
viii be pardoned and released This report was not
heard before the aequta OF Babcock, but 1t has been
very current since"
There is evidently prejudice against Gov.
riden in the Office Of The Augsa Chronicle Of Georgia.
for the editor says: of Tden IS not nominated until
southern delegates vote to make him candidate, he viii
walt long time for the nomination. There may be
danger too that If Tden is forced upon the party and
the RsPhDestis put 0n sucn ae MAN a. Sn9e Do
the Republican fold before November
eff Horace Greeley were alive to-day" re-
marked a merchant OF this city who hos hitherto been
m unfincljng Grant man. Saturday. and were to
take again the stand he took four years ago. he would
lind the whole country ut his back He and the little
group Of men who stood around him fOresaw all the
shame which lumiates country in the eyes Of the
world today but the OF too blind to GLOW
him. lie was only four years ahead Of his time This
Belknap business ana Tue Other daces Whlch nave leu
mp To- this are his yindicatiOn."
Mr.. PierrepOnt's zeal in pursuing Mr.. Marsh
has excited good deal of admiration. The Cincinnati
Commercial Is especially moved by it, and thus com
mends t.: at is pleasing 10 hear that the vigorous
Attorney General, who excluded enough testimony
against Babcock to him. is in full pursuit Of Marsh
It will never do to have Marsh at large. Men who bab
under OATH and so right and tell the whole truth when
sworn To do So unsafe members OF society. We must
have an HE Marshes muzzled. the devil be TOT pay
throughout the land. cap nuz@ie on Marsh right
away ana save the country
1t Is a great comfort TO many of the Admin
stration journals to know that eXSecretary Belknap
was formerly Democrat The Chicago Tribune Is ese
ciay angry because attempts have been made 20 put the
blame his crime upon The shoulders Of the Grant party
It says: "Thc ineable meanness Of the Democratic
parti,ans who would fasten the >criIne OF Secretary
Belknap and his wife on thu Republican party IS almost
beyond comprehension" II Is little hard tho
rehcnsion to understand why The man and the party
who kept Beknap in power four years after hs dshon
estv was eXnosed should he regarded without espons
biity mis- Without Grautsm, his crime would
have been impossible.
The opinion is spreading rapidly that the
Independent Voter has more companions than he had
few days ago, and that would be polite net for the
Republican party to solicit the votes Of these gentlemen
by making some such man Bristow the Presld niial
nominee. Party papers which have hitherto been non
commta the subject have broken ont suddenlYn "a
OF candidate who has 10 this time received his
sole commentator from the Independent press. For in
stance here is TIE Wilmington Commercial of Delaware
saying cit would to-day that the demand of the
hour s for Old true, hretricd rs Charles
Francis Adams To one that has proved himself less
allied We fear to trust the ark OF the Centennial
covenant But II not him. then to hands not less clean
and trustworthy End strong must il - committed' and
The Mluakec sentinel which has always been euamorCd
the Grant kind OF craftsmanship rises up and says
"Thc man who is naugurated President one year from
to-day will be against whom there Is no suspicion OF
connection WIZ the mistakes mishaps whatever they
may called Of the present Administration, either in
the OF adviser apoost lilo will be states
man whom the nation trust with perfect confidence.
both as 20 his honesty and hs capacity for the high
duties OF the position, without which capacity honesty
Ia vain II the Republican National Convention shall
nominate such there is IN despair but
that the people will raty its selection II lt shall fail 70
nominate man, IL the unWlOcsOme influences and
the unwise cC;:..se.s which have already worked such
DAMAGE 10 the party shall obtain at Cincinnati, Il will
not escape the defeat that it will deserye"