New-York tribune., 1877-12-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

II Bland VIII keep talklhB' tho P""''' '' "
be saved.
Perhaps the silver advocate is playing possum
when he pretends to be discouraged
The iuicv iohnny-cake will be displayed at Paris.
THE Tilden movement for 1880 may be said to have
started.
Was il Bland whom the countryman described as
person who had more meat on his head" than
any other man in Amerlcaf
Governor Hampton refuses to loosen his grip upon
Pattersons cOat-cOlar, AT the request OF sena-
tor Butler, and that penitentiary door begins TO
yawn omnOusy again.
In his forthcoming message President Hayes
should suggest some exped.ent for mitigating the
recoil of the Civil Service machine, after 1t dis
charges general order.
This lull in politics presents a great opportunity
for MullctFs maiden speech for abundant green
backs The editors Of the country could give him
their entire attention now, and they would make IL
interesting for him.
At semi-centennia -of something, in Whining
ton the other day. senator Bayard found The
President Of the United States" too arduOus toast
for him to tackle. The Senator wants 10 be con-
ciliated some more.
Private Dalzc is carrying his advertising scheme
too far. He has made for himself National rcpu'a-
ton by persistent peppering Of newspapers with
postal cards about himself. He ought not To try the
expense of his own.
Perhaps Mr.. Patterson will find ont that he has
been conciliatiug the wrong man. Senator Buffers
success seems to bc gratifying to Senator Butler
than it is TO the Hon. Wade Hampton. and until that
gentleman is placated the penJenary Will continue
to ydwn for Senator Buffers friend.
Congressman Fort, Of ILLINOIS, is a brilliant mod
em financial uminary. lie says he Is not afraid Of
injurng our foreign credit by paying our bonds IN
silver because the trouble with MS now is that our
credit is better abroad than il is at home" As
friend of the Oppressed Masses Mr. Fort Is IN
favor of the highest rate Of interest instead of the
lowest He is simply making gratmtous spectacle
of himself.
Colorado is not inclined to he calm under her share
of the Pattersonan nhiction. Her newspapers rise
mp in wrath at the swinde which the 'retornerS' |
of the House have pcrpetmtcd upon the state and
remark in the vocabulary Of anger that Pater-
son Il a "WTetched ShvSter,' political sneak
thief and "hOdcr of informal elections. lhls -
ugly language. but the most unabridged of dlctgn-
does not furnish cpithct5 which better ht Tie
case.
Ex-" Boss" Shepherd has kindly given tie public
his views upon the sort Of government needed AZ
Washington. lie tells reporter Of The Post, of that
city, that he has devoted many anxious months to
the subject and is convinced that what is necessary
is a representative and compact Government.
Thatis the kind il bad when Mr.. Shepherd was It's
chief representative" # was so compact then
that il rested credit aud all, in Mr.. Shepherds
DIeecles pocket
1t refreshing TO hear one Western Congressman
talk something like about financial questions.
Congressman Burchard. of Illinois. Of whom such
ferocious silver advocate as The Chicago Tribune says
that he Is n careful student of finance, announces
his belief that resumption is entirely possible in
1879 under the law. though he for q long time
doubled whether il would be. lie adds that the
H.
due 10 the absence of the confidence which only re-
sumption can supply.
General James b. Stcedman, of Toledo, thinks ex-
Congressman liurd is a promising compromise can
didate in the Ohio Senatorial contest lie tells a
porter of The Cincinnati Commercial that Hurd Is in
full sympathy with the Ohio Democrats on financial
questions, which is an awful recommendation to IN
hict upon any man. As for Pendloton, the General
has doub,S Of his " hsiug latf0otcl enough on The
Grceuback question" IL Is curious fact hat this
same doubt Is generally entertained in Ohio that
IL i, doing PcndlctOn more harm than any other
influence. Nothing could more tOrcbv illustrate
the utter financial chaos in the ONO Democratic
mind.
1--WE are not to settle question of this kind rs if
we were trying law case. We are 10 appeal to The
enlightened Judgment of the world for the correct
ness of The decision make. 1t is not question
for the courts to decide The language of the statute
will allow you to do a particular thing if you choose
TO do it, but we are 10 appeal to the enlightened
Judgment Of the world" THESE were the words of
Senator Fcssenden when he was lighting another
form of Icpudiat0n, but they are worth considering
by statesmen who insist that IL is technically legal
10 pay the National obligations with light coin. IL
is well to remember that according to the letter Of
the contract some Of the bonds payable IN green
backs.
The South seems disposed to leave nothing undonc
to strengthen the growing distust of ts attitude
toward the public faith. Even such conservative
Southcrncr "a Henry Watcrson makes the a,tonish-
ing statement chat the entire debt cannot be paid
ANA that a readjustmcnt must DE submitted to. In
his own words the statesmen of the East Will
make a hopeless mistake If they don't procure q
satisfactory adjustment now, whilst they cau. and
before the devil is loose This IS the familiar
threat of the southern state rcpudajor- applied
now to the National debt: " If you don't take what
we are willing 10 give you, We will yet mad aud rc-
fuse To give yOu anything The most ,mVuuc
friend of reconciliation must admit that thI, utter
aucc OF Air. WattefsJn hctphtuS q situation whose
seriousness can scarcely be eXos -cratcd.
PERSONAL.