New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-12-12
ciliatory disposition all difficulties will dis

eiliatory disposition all difficulties will dis
appear.
With one Cameron powerful at one END OF
Pennsylvania-ave., and another Cameron pow
erful at the other, tho prospect Tor Clvn ger
vice Reform just at present seems 10 De pretty
slim. The Postmaster of Philadelphia diso-
beyed orders at Cincinnati. and his official head
is the price of his political independence. Per-
sons with views of their own, living within
the borders of Pennsylvania, will please take
notice.
The "Adam Smith Dinner" tonight will
undoubtedly gather number OF able gentie-
men, and lead to some earnest free-trade talk.
The same gentlemen who talked the free-
Trade League to death, having recovered from
the obsequies of that institution, are ready 1or
fresh festivities of the same sort. NOW as
then. they fancy that all that is necessary TO
mako free trade practical issue in our politics
is to talk about it.
The Republican State Committee is not as
nrompt in ordering q reorganization in this
CITY as its promises before the election led the
more sanguine reformcrs to hope. The Reform
Climb now addresses to the State Committee an
what it intends to do about it. Tho election
of the General Committee Is fixed for
to-day, and up to to-day The State Committee
has gwen no sign of intending to do anything.
The Reform Club is perfectly right in protest
ing against the close corporation features OF
the local organization, and The leaders cannot
afford to ignore tho protest, 1t Is not likely
to receive much attention to-day but for every
week it is neglected there will come month
of repentance.
From Philadelphia to Sydney Is long
stride The Exhibition has scarcely closed IN
the one city before tho last ships leave Ameri-
can shores with goods for the Exhibition in
the other. In a very few days the last chance
will have passed by for the adequate repre-
sentation of American manufactures to the
people of continent which spends annually
abroad sum equal to one-tenth OF our ma
tional debt; and yet, as an account printed
elsewhere shows, very little preparation has
been made by our merchants and manufac-
turers to avail themselves OF this golden OPP
portunity. Canada is far ahead of us, sending,
it is now estimated, seven hundred tons III
weight of exhibits to our one hundred. our
merchants ought to make a last EFFORT to better
this condition of things, for their own interest
if not for the sake of national pride.
The report OF the Democrats who went to
Louisiana protests at too great length. III
there had been less of it the public would
have been inclined to think that there was
moro in it. = No cause, just or unjust, Is adj
vanced nowadays by too long an argument.
The points of this document are more or less
familiar to all newspaper readers, though par
ticular stress is laid on some that have not
before been made prominent. One on which
the Democrats seem to place great reliance Is
the question as to the jurisdiction Of tho board.
their claim being that the present law is silent as
TO It's right to count tho Presidential vote, and
the former law has been repealed. The chief
interest, however, will attach TO their admis-
sions that lawlessness has existed in the State.
though they deny the political animus ofhnuch
of it, and got rid Of good deal by throwing
tho blame on Republican shoulders. But the
subject is handled merely in an incidental
way. This is a point which the distinguished
Democrats seem disposed to treat with truly
dignifed reserve.
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