New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

Some extreme Democrats builded better than
they knew when they elected Mr. Randall Speaker.
1t will be some time before unfiedgcd Con-
will have another opportunity to PROJECT the
selves at full length upon the national canvass.
Reactionary members of Congress are trying
to figure UP the sum total advantages which they nave
gained by their facilitating campaign as filibus;ers.
Poppleton Poppleton! It's a remarkable
name! His behavior in the House showed great deal
more of the abrupness of his first syllable than Of the
weight of his last.
Compassionate Republicans will now en-
deavor soothe their afflicted adversares by reminding
them in tones of sympathy tina; this Commission was
their own invention.
1t is a mistake to suppose Judge Black was
trying quote Longfellow the other day, and to say
the mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceeding
small" 1t wasn't a quotation at all. What he SAID
" Gods mills grind slow but dIeadfully ine. lie
meant Mills Of Texas.
If Senator BOgy is anxious to read those 700
pages OF printed testimony the South Carolina case
he can attack it at once. 1t will I've quite interesting
TO him as his speeches the country. Perhaps by
sitting up nights he will be able to finish 1t by the time
Congress meets IN December
Mr.. Tiden is a gentleman of dIsccrnment'
and he probably knows in what manner and to what ex
tent his suengs in mind body and estate have been
aeviated by the ncantatiOus of his boss medicine
in Washington 1t is however the popular opinion that
the Hon. ID. ID. Field has not earned his money.
Wisconsin was one of the pivotal States in
the hate Presidential contest, and one Oh which Mr.
Tilden confidently counted AS she gave her vote for
Hayes the politicians would naturally not be backward
in claiming their reward But MT. Reyes, Chairman OF
the Republican State Central Committee, says that
Wisconsin has nobody to recommend FOR Cahinet ap
pOintmenL"
Mr.. Goode of Virginia is grieved because the
State OF South Carolina Is not i'll his opinion properly
represented. Inasmuch Mr. Goode was not elected to
the position which he decocs becomes him to speak
reservedy the subject OF representation and misrepre
sentatiOn. People do not forget that Mr. Goode was
counted in and MI Plat count nut by that strictly
nonpartisan tribunal the present House OF Representa-
tves.
Mr.. PeltOn didn't need to swear to Mr.. Til
dens ignorance OF those dssolue dispatches. for Mr.
Tlden has already proclaimed his spOtlessness But
is pleasant TO learn that Mr. Peon also was ncorrupble
undefed So IL turns out after all that everybody
was most exemplary. Mcssrs. Kelly and Grover at ono
end, knew nothing about these slippery transactions,
while Messrs Thden, Hewitt and Potion, at the other
equally gueicss Those slniu cpheFs seem 10 DE
d very clear case OF spontaneous generation.
Some wears ago Mr.. Beebe had achieved
rather inirm notoriety which spread thnly over
limited area in the remote West More recently his
yocifcrous and somewhat untrfstworthy craftsmanship
has been SrudgDgy appreciated in the hdcReberry dis
tricts Of Sullivan County, but 1t was not until March
that he vaulted into national reputation. II is very
easy to say dsparagney that any representative could
have danced a rgadoon upon the desks Of his fellow
members but the fact remains thai no one else did and
Mr. Bcebe deserves the credit OF discovering TIN. eco
hUmical way OF bouncing into the dispatches OF the
ASS cated Press ami splOutlng out In sudden glory.
Mr.. BCebe ought TO have his plan patented.
This scene was to have been enacted in
Gramercy Park ENTER Mr.. JONES' an ofiiceseeker,
with carpet-bag hand and petition the other.
The Governor is very much pleased to have met him.
Mr. Jones begins by saying he i'll the army.
The Governor inquiries after his health Next the petit
ton presented 1t Is glanced over and orders gwen to
file among Others and it. will ba considered al some
future day. Another gentleman comes forward, is
recognized, and Mr. Jones departs with all the conf
dence john g. Thompson endeavored 70 Inspire into
the OHIO Democracy during the late canvass" BY some
misunderstanding however, the scone aRl the actors
became changed, causing confusion and not little
crustiness those who we're unable to play their parts
Scene Washington, house Of an NJ C., who
has been on a flibuster" Time-Yesterday The hon
orabe recllnes upon sofa, his head in an ice
box Attendants hurry and in. The physician stands
with watch in hand and fingers the sufferers pulse.
without moving his eyes from the patient he says:
Ice" The attendants apply it. A half hour passes
and the physician speaks again: More ice" Another
half hour goes by before the order 'Nuther ton
Of ice" Slowly the time slips away. Now and then an
incoheren escapes the lips OF the sick man, but
the only words that can he distinguished are appeal
"clair"-" country -" certificates" The sun sinks be-
hind the horizon and night comes on apdce GRADUALLY
the to twitch the right arm s0ps ges u!at
ing; the patient sleeps Verdict OF the physician; A
rush of brains to the heels"
II is a good time now, when the evils of
contested succession still fresh in the minds OF
every one discuss provisions for future Presden-
tia disputes" The Nation has timely article on this
subject 1t believes That the best remedy yet proposed
ia the plan suggested by Mr. T. H. Dana, Jr, III The
North American Rerec viz the election OF electors by
Congressional districts rathersupposing the cleo
tors TO be oboshedthe division OF the votes OF Con
essiOnal districts Of each State between the Presden
tia candidates so that each instead OF receiving the
entire vote Of the state in which his party had popular
majority would be credited with vote OF the State
for each district lie carried. Under this system the
electors might very proftably be dispensed with At
present they no useful purpose and they furnish
as we have recently occasion Of much sin aud
sorrow. They can do no good III the existing or any
,,rn,aha slate OF public opinion winch might not be
done by well-contriyed machine while they exert, and
will hereafter exert than ever an exciting influence
on the guilty and resess spirits oi Behedle Arhod ana
Judas Iscariot"
The forty odd millions of people who have
never held an office, and never expect to hold one are
prepared say to these words from me chcdgo
Tribune: "The country has witnessed during the last
year the withdrawal and retirement OF the Old etanod,
filthy diseasebreedng, and ragged fractional currency,
and the therefor OF the clean bright hand
some silver CON- having the ring OF the true metal IL ID
time the Republican party, now that IL has fresi
dent who only not been connected with machine
politics but nominated and elected In defiance OF the
machine to withdraw from public use and retire from
public gaze the old, stained, filthy, and corruption
breeding politicians, whose very names have become Of
fensiye TO the country and with President propos
ing new and reformed system OF administration to fur
nsh the country with public agents clean and bright
Of modern coinage, and having the ring ana ster-
ling value which the President himself possesses The
country expects OF tho President faithful independently
fearless administration OF the Government ana 10
aid him this he wants men, as free ~ himself
from the old and corrupt past-men whe hold machine
politics In contempt and are prepared To restore the pub
Lo service honest and constitutional basis"