New-York tribune., 1877-09-29
POLITICAL NOTES.

Mr. Conkling has succeeded in making his enemies
almost love him out of sheer gratitude.
If the Republican party could excrete the Hon.
| relief.
If the President had Of his predecessors tenn
per- what fall of heads there would be In the Cus-
| tom House. presently!
| Tammany is so happy about the Republican in
harmoniousness that it is almost willing to vote for
| the old ticket That would be shabby treatment Of
| Tweed, though
| The mind of the paceman now says under its re-
cent garnered knowledge that convention without
him, make itself quite as scandaous as it ever
| contrived to make itself with him.
The Maryland Democrats left the fraud cry in
all its variations, out of their platform entirely
and its presiding officer said he should support the
President in Congress. Is this the first fruit of the
| Southern tripf
The absence Of any display Of personal feeling in
the Rochester Convention, was probably due to tho
thrilling appeal of Temporary Chairman Platt 1t
was that exemplary and disinterested orator who
] eXhorted everybody to sink self"
The Minnesota Republican platform promises as
sisance to the grasshopper sufferers. The prospect
Of such relief must be cheering to Senator Conking
who stands out in cotemporary history as the mon
umenta sufferer from the rayages of "grasshoppers
| III the corner of fence'
| The bosterous confidence Of General McClellan's
friends in New-Jersey has already spluttered itself
into qualmish mstrust, and Fitz-John Porter and
| Senator Randolph are quoting to the fant-hearted
| and feeble-kneed that encouraging scripture-the
race is not always TO the swift
Judge Kelley has turned up in Washington once
more with his chronic prediction that the Resump-
ton Act will be repealed as soon as Congress meets
| 1t is sad to think how lonesome the Judge will be
afteg the country has reached specie payments
There will be nothing for him to do but to return to
| his first lOve-pig iron.
The resolutions of tho Maryland Democratic Con-
vention indicate that pretty stiff anti-subsldy
breeze has set in, and if the hermaphrodite brig
Randall wins the cup she must carry a little more
square sail forward. The spread of fore-and-aft
| canvass with which her mainmast was originally
rigged to catch the wind from the South now looks
| a trltle disproportionate.
Spriggs, which his full name is J. Thomas Spriggs
begins to loom the Democratic candidate for At
torney General district convention IN Oneida
County has resolved that he ought to be nominated
| Perhaps ex-governor Seymour will support him ont
of gratitude, for Sprggs did for him what Mr.
Seymour has rarely aud with mnch difficulty done
for himself, made up his mind in few seconds.
Senator Dorsey of Arkansas, is Hayes man so
completely, that he speaks harshy of the Gar
pet-bag setn to which Spencer of Alabama, belongs.
Mr. Dorsey says he is undoubtedly a carpet-bagger,
but he went South because he had material inter
ests" there The trouble with most statesmen of
this class was that they absorbed all the mate
rial interests" !" OF the community they aghted in.
DIR. Newell has begun the campaign in New-Jersey
by assuring a delegation of colered people, who
honored him with serenade, that he had been one
of the earliest advocates of universal suffrage He
proved his statements conclusivey by reading
tracts from speech made by him IN Congress in
| 1867. His remarks were made with much good
taste and quiet dignity, and furnish a good open
ing of the canvass.
The climax Of contradiction and absurdity in the
Ohio Democratic canvass is to be capped with the
appearance tho stump of Uncle Jimmy Blue
Jeans, of Indiana. At least that is the report in
the latter State. There ought to be no doubt of
| Judge Vests election after one speech from the
protector of my son-in-law and his "cattle"
Perhaps Uncle jimmy is to be- put forward to catch
the vote OF the workingmen by showing that he let
the strikers have their own sweet will in his State.
Nobody believed tho report that x-Goyernor Fem
| toms friends were working in sympathy with Mr.
| Conkling at Rochester. Mr.. Fentons denial is,
therefore, not unexpected He made it to a reporter
| of The Ercning Post, yesterday. follows: The
| Rochester correspondent of The Erening Post was
mistaken in saying that Strangely enough Gov.
ernor Fenton's friends ranged the side of Nr.
| Conkling' While my friends made no effort TO
| attend the convention, aud comparatively few OF
them did attend, they are generally and altogether
so far ~ am informed, warm supporters OF Presi-
| dent Hayes and his policy. That is my own po-
| sition."
The great trouble with the South is the tendency
of the Bourbon editor to put his foot in it without
provocation. AT this very time. when the best and
| most influential men of the section are trying to
show that they are in earnest in protesting to desire
| reconciliation and National reunion Of sentiment
and purpose all editor IN Vcksburg breaks out with
| a demand for the repeal of the amendment granting
universal suffrage. lie wants the negro deprived OF
his right to vote and rs willing TO have the South
deprived of its increased representation If II can be
| DONE He admits that the Democrats are able 70
keep the negro vote IN subJecton now Dul ne S y
afraid that parties will break up before long, ana
then nobody can tell who viii control II. This Is
confession Of fear that the Solid South cannot DC
| maintained sod-that the negro Will have chanco
TO vote he pleases soon as the OLD Denocfa'io
| party splits Of its own weight. The able edllo, ~
| constructing excellent argument on the otheI
side by admitting that in time negro suffrage even
in Mississippi will cease TO DO mere nahe' anu Do-
come an actual TACT.
Secretary Sherman seems to be out of patience
with the slow progress of the Republican campaign
in Ohio. He writes to friend there that It makes
him restless and uneasy that he cannot partieipa'
in the canvass and then he tries TO lift mp the con-
test to something like respectable level os a""
What magnificent chance the hepuonoan P"'
| in Ohio now has, not only to place Itself III '"e
guard in the United States, but TO do ths e'"r,y
| service as great any victory won ps .ne -
Army during the war! Here il Is demohsissu ~
the cordial reception Of the President IN 'n' 49,
by his hearty indorsement in MassasnuSos ss,a with
| a public sentiment now growing anu sp.ogIuSS pI b. has
amazing randity that in his Southern pocy no S ns
| opened up the means Of order. saio'S, r S.ben "A
security in sil the Southern states N?m ,hs way
is demonstrated that the oi,nvJ;S nn;nreS IN by tho
vi ss,aip nS a.msgoQues, whom our notes Az