New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-23
POLITICAL NOTES.

Springer took reef in his lip before he adj
dressed the Supreme Court in the Centennial appropra
ton case
Mr.. Adams, Clerk of the House, will be.
about the LIST OF June, bigger man than almost any
body else with the possible exception of Demas.
There is something sublime in the courage
Of some Democratic editors. who are trying to work
people into sweat the deplorable condition OF the
country.
According to the theory of the new Admin
israton, it does not follow that an applicant for position
deserves appointment because il is proved that be
good for nothing else.
The Presidents determination to send a
commission to Louisiana is streak" Of Providence 10
the Democratic organs. They have been vanly endeay
orfng for some time to find vent for their emotions
There is a loud call from the Democracy OF
Ohio TO John G. Thompson TO come home and begin
preparation for the next State campaign But John g.
fingers about Washington pulling wires for the position
of Sergeant-Of-Arms OF the next House.
There is a story of a minister who threw
boot of his deacons for placing chair crooked at
the communion table. That minister must have been IN
the same state Of mind as the crochety person who
trying to find fault with the Presidents grammar
The predaceOuS grasshOpper is trembling in
his lair. When a joint non-partisan commission with
Pro- Riley at its head sets out TO investigate the public
and private life of abandoned insect, damaging
disclosures may be looked for in chronological circles
This is the millennium of the oilce-hOlder,
civil service reform having lessened his duties by one
half No need of attending aud OF Jumping up
at the right time and nominating the right man Tor chair
man seconding the right resolution Truly "Othellos
occupations gone"
81 am very glad to get out of It," said ex-
Senator Cameron to interviewer IN Harrisburg 10
errng to his retirement from publc life "ti dogs
life be always hunting Office for ungratoul people and
answering begging letters" And then he went into the
Legislature and kept tally OF the vote which elected bis
son to the same dogs life.
If President Hayes sends n new commission
to New Orleans they will DE likely TO take any testi
mony The fact developed in the investigations OF
Mr. Fields committee that the ordinary Louisiana wit
ness could with facility all around the horizon
and at any range aud elevation and that hstclass Wit
nesses bedded and bored To deliver nne tes
tmony in every direction at and with great Nc
lOcity.
Congressman Cox, while hunting through
the South for the Speakership is accumuatng material
for the second volume OF "Why We Laugh" When no
arrived in Columbia s. c., the whole town was In hub
OF President Hayes for the purpose OF compromising
the existing political complications. Mr. Cox told them
that was the biggest joke he lad heard since ho len
Washington.
Gen. Hancock, who is travelling in Missouri,
another gentleman who find fault With the Pres
dent thus far. In conversation Tie 81 Louis Republican
reports him saying concerning his nomination ion
years hence by the Democracy that he did moi seek inc
place. but II the party Thought lie Was tho candidate