New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-17
POLITICAL NOTES.

The size Of the Democratic mouth seems to have
been underestimate.
The Texas delegation looks ut that spilled pottage
and declines to sell out AZ any price.
The Philadelphia Custom House is now liable at
any moment to be struck with reform of a very yiO
lent type.
There being a temporary lull in Massachusetts,
notifies the solemn voice Of Mr. Adams is heard
once more saying Fnud " fraud"
The Treasury Departments order in reference to
"discharge of ballast" does not refer 10 the forty or
fifty threatened speeches n the House against tho
Resumption Act. Wind l. considered As ballast no.
where except IN the Democratic party.
MIR. Bland is a pretty bad specimen Of financial
demaeogne. but he is at least 10 be commended for
honesty in saying outright that the silver dollar
movement means population Tie isn't 800 stupid as
TO pretend to think it means anything else.
Jones has revised his view Of the probable action
If fine President on the Silver Bill. and thinks now
no will not veto il, because he has common sense.
Tho troube with this calculation Is Joues's gn0r.
auce of common sense. lie wouldn't know a speoi-
men if he saw II.
The sustained effort on the part Of the Federal
Government to collect the whiskey tax in Georga
and other Southern attitudes is altogether com
mepd,ble. and it may be that acclimated Demo-
cr,tic officials can alone be trusted TO bag this com
b,tive sort of revenue. But after all the country
observes with pain that something has taken tho
wiry-edge of of the zeal which tue Administration
once displayed IN the cause OF the ga Line Nhlg,
and him conciliated
Governor Lulington, Of Wisconsin, says the Re-
nublican victory in that State was undoubtedly
triumph for hard money The people might favor
q limited demonstration Of silver but they are
onn,sed to the rcpa al OF the Resumption Act, since
/ resump,cn is 80 nearly secured The Governor SAYS
blo'sn', din much into National politics hnt he u
inclined f. think that tho best Kind Of Civil ser.
vice Reform consists ln appointing ana eecting goel
men TO Office The popular lde" u .ot esse"ii4liy
different from ihal dAu 81 Oo''' P'''' "N"' '''"s
| right.
c,lorel Inrer,oll M, been asked once more about
tbo, Rerln Mission. and has answered again thai 10
wac never offered TO him. II It were offered. he
r,i,-bt accent and he might not There might b.
ho s,il to \ reporter OF TIE idcI Republican, some
ol,.ct,on Some reverend IDIOT be sure and say
idioD might object" 4, for the future political az
| titude of the South ne thinks IL will remain IN
! changed until il becomes more widely ci'iif-' IN
time questions viii aIiSc upon which the wmlf men
will diner Then there viii be a division OF parties
some will il TO be to thor interest 10 unite WI
! the Republicans. and after that the negro vote viii
| be protected. But for some years 90 come the Souh
| will DE governed by white men Ihe colored men
are as well protected now - when the troops were
! there
Senator Thurman has. at last. landed on both fec,
/ inside the imitation camp. He started away from
| his hard money moofngs few years ago. by AZ.
tempting to support a soft money candidate for Gov
eruor of Ohio. while repudiatiug the platform no
stood on. The next year he advanced h,tle FAR
Their and supported both candidate and platform
without protest. Now he completes the transfer
| nation by coming out IN favor of unlimited silyI
| and consequent rrpndiatiOn. What roar Of tn.
umph there will be from the Ohio initiation orgsiS
when they learn that their long haunting has a, "a
had an effect. llencelorth he Is sure Of nothing br
, sweetness from them. Perhaps he will be able
| ENJOY II. \.
Virginia ia another State which has suha .
| through the Misrepresentation 0f hex demago3~