New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-14
POLITICAL NOTES.


death.
The Administration seems to have been reduceu "
q business basis
The Custom House Commission wonders "Lclo
its influence comes IN, anyway
Mr. Eyarts suspects that the Civil Service reform
machine is a vicious double ender'
The Senate will probably not vote on Mr. Bana'
bill to demonetize gold before the recess
Tho Democratic party demonetized silver in 1893,
when they reduced the intrinsic value OF golu ooi'
It must discourage blr. Randall to find himself
crcuuvened in all his effort 10 thwart the sCuo0S
OF the Subsldlsts.
The Greenbacker and the Silyerpeibist are locked
IN a long embrace with Jones's benedcton hover
ing over them.
The phrase. ono removals except for cause and
no appointments except FOR Merritt appears TO ap-
ply to New-1orA.
What does Conover mean by saying he might have
voted differently on Wednesday had the result de-
pended on hint That looks like bid for an IN
ducement"
In Beaufort County 5. c., the sword has been
beaten into ploughshare5 the shot-gunsnto cotton
hooks and the Democratic candidate into Smith
Greens b. 1900 majority.
ooh. Lord give them Common Sense" was the
fervent petition of the Rev. Morton Dexter in New
Bedford last Sunday He was praying for the mem
beers of the XLYth Congress. Amen.
Perhaps it will occur to Mr.. Hewitt that Speaker
Randall has been using him as a cover for flaw in
his clumsy stradde the subsidy question. 1t 10
not customary to make such a parade oil appointing
a man to the tail Of COMMITTED
There is a remnant of the Republican party still
extant in South Carolina Itput in its appearance at
an election in Beaufort county, on Monday, and sent
n Senator to the Legislature with 1,5OO majority
behind him. Perhaps this is another gooa result
of Pattersons speech. Patterson Will clamlt 10 De-
anyway.
Senator Ben Hill doesn't believe it good Demo-
cratic policy TO oppose the Resumption Act, because
if il is let alone when the date for resumption ar
riyes Mr.. sherman will find be cannot resume. lie
thinks this will be better thing for the Democrats
than the repeal of the act. The trouble with this
plan is that MT. sherman may be aDle 10 dlSaPiolus
his enemies, and then the Democrats VIII nave poem
cheated of good deal of irst-class " holierulg''
The astonishing report comes from South Carolina
that Senator Butler has actually been at home try
ing to stop the proceedings against Patterson lie
stopped the sending Of the legislative report OF Fat
terson's election brberies to the United States
Senate, and was carrying out his bargain in other
ways, when Governor Hampton stepped in and de-
clared that it would be disgrace to South Carolina
to allow criminal proceedings based upon such
overwhelming evidence, 10 be dismissed as return
for political services. You are right there Governor
It would not only be disgrace 10 the STATE but 10
would nut a blot on your own name, which would
stick there as long rs political history Is written
and read
The postpouement of the vote in the Senate on tho
Silver Bill till after the holiday recess wi! give the
silver agtator, who deludes himself with the belief
that he is not an infatonist, time for reflection.
Let him contemplate the grand combination be-
tween the Groenblckers and the silyeS leaders, and
ask himself what it means. 1t may dawn on him, II
he thinks long enough, that he can continue to
argue in favor of unlimited silver, and against UNI
limited grecnbacks only at the expense OF hs Tepu
fRfK IfVfsH
every Republican Senator time to 90 home and
commune with his constituents, aud the result can
not be anything but benefit TO him. The public
sentiment of the Republican party Is, and must
always be- against reputation III any form.
The city of Providence, Rhode Island, has just haG
a lively wrestle with some typical Democratic re
formers and has thrown them with considerable
damage. The city and state is somewhat seriously
afflicted with too much Barnaby. This euphonou
name placarded every tree, fence, and roadside
rock in the State accompanied with the valuable
information that its professor sells ready-madl
clothing at seductiyely low prices. This is
nuisance but it is business enterprise But tho
Barnaby does not stop with pantaoons. He aspire
to craftsmanship, and recently ran for Governor on
the Democratic ticket. He was defeated, anC
amused himself and the public after the election by
prosecuting the men whom he had hired to buy
votes for him. but who had put the money into theI
own pockets As a help to better luck next time
the Barnaby decided TO have his brother.
who is also panta oonlst, elected Mayor OF Provl-
dencc. BY liberal use OF the proll's OF the elOthhF
business ne came so near that there was NJ
election aud a second trial was necessary; At tins
the ready-made combination was OVERWHELMINGLY
defeated and the glorious work OF reform Wa
Indefinitely postponed. The dance being over the
fiddler demands his pay. One delnded hqu0r-seller,
who also owns teams bulges INTO the puol9 eye
Nth an indignant card stating that he was induced
by a Barnaby agent TO use his teams and furns9
refreshments" gratis to backward reiormers anu
that he is able to get not even pair OF ~ paht1-
Looms in PAYMENT lie gave checks which Barnaby
was to redeem but Barnaby Is no io fgsn he bes
Io,, J. ,,IIed lie has But the Barnaby mas posted
pee peen , IN another and more conspicuous place.