New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-12
POLITICAL NOTES.


The mission of the Worklngman's party seems to
be to organize and-spIt.
The Republican who is unhappy enough 10 vote
the Democratic ticket evidently does not live in
Maine
Has Tammany sent seductive cirular to Tweed.
asking for a contribution lie would give his bless
ing, at least
The contrte and broken-hearted fuencv with
which the Hon. Niles g. Parker coniesses the sins Of
ex-Gov Chamberlain is very touching
There will be music in the Black Hills when spen-
Ger hears that his friends in the Federal offices Of
Alabama have been removed, to give place to "rc-
putabe men,"
sloanakers glory is to be short-lved. The Adj.
minstFation has recalled him from his Special Agent
duty in Virginia, for the purpose of dscharging him.
This is wise, but an immeasurably wiser thing could
easily have been done By not appointing him at all.
That bilious Bangor editor would seem TO have
squandered himself. In all Bangor he accumulated
only eighty-slx Democrats who cared enough for
the repudiated fraud > platform to vote AGAINST
Mr. Williams That is about the size OF the Adams
party in Ma sachusetts.
The late5t Washington rumor is that Mr. Schurz ia
to have the Berlin mission, and Assistant Secretary
Mccormick is to have the Secretaryship of the In
terror This report is possibly good for twentyfour
hours. The President is away from Washington
and some excuse nust be made for reporters suii.r
ing from dearth of political news.
Senator COnklings friends are working with might
and main to control the coming State Convention
and are likely TO succeed. They have secured the
Albany delegation already. The opposition is apa-
thetic il not absolutely Indifferent. Even in Oneida
County, his hitherto active opponents seem disposed
to let him have his own way if il is any comfort 10
him. Meanwhile, the Senator's friends continue 70
talk to reporters of Democratic newspapers cOnc.rl-
ing his undying opposition to the Administration.
The Cameron family is credited with character
ist;c piece of ingenuity. Dreadng the growing
power of GOV. Hartranft, they said to have de-
cided that the Administration ought to send him -
Minister to England to take him ont of their way.
This sounds as if it might be true but the addea-
dunn that the Administration fayOrs the scheme,
does not. Gov. Hartranft doubtless has serse
enough to that he Is not made for dlplonatst,
and if LIE hasn't there 10 good reason 10 beneTe
the Administration has.
IL is said that Patterson will try TO escape his trial
by pleading Senatorial privileges Ii this is so, the
Senate cannot do desirable thing than relieve
him of those privileges by taking his chair ont from
under him as soon possible. The Republican
party has been burdened with him long enough,
and if he tries to dodge behind it now for protection
he should be taken by the ear and led ont into to
cold with the greatest expedition party majority
in the Senate be valuable, but II ceases to be
anything bnt burden aud a disgrace when 1t col-
ssts Of person like Patterson.
Senator Thurman has at last been told when no
can have a chance to speak from the Democratic
stump in Ohio. The State Committee has assigned
HIM meeting at Marion on September %, lttio
more than two weeks before the close of the canvass
THIS will be too late for him to have any effect upon
the issues of the campaign. and too late for lin to
do ANYTHING more than follow in the beaten trail of
Ewing and Pendleton EX-COngressm9n Payne has
received no appointment yet aud as he has desire
To 20 to the t. :. Senate he Is not likely 10 get any.
The PendletOn faction seems 10 be succeeding IA
running his III his interest and for the benefit
of the Republican party. No fault VIII be found by
Republicans with so able a programme.
Some able correspondent has invented a plea for
Patterson or Patterson has invented one for himself
that shows how man may be elected to the Senate
of the United states without knowing much about
the Constitution. Patterson is to plead his Senatorial
privileges it seems, in bar of trial. If Patterson
will refresh his memory, he will find that whris
members Of Congress are exempt from arrest in cer-
tain cases. they not exempt in cases of treason,
felony, and breach of the peace and their limited
exemption continues only during the tine that Con-
gress in session, or that they are on their way TO
and from the session. There seems to be little dou5s
that Mr. PattersOn's case comes under the head OF
felony and Chief Justice Cartier lntlmates wicked
intention to give hun up.
The harmonious Democracy is agitated with an.
other controversy now. The few editors who arc
anxious to renomnate Mr.. Tilden by keeping the
fraud" yell a-goinginslst that Dir. Williams failed
to poll the full vote of his party in Maine because of
his "traitorous conduct" The rest of the editors,
who absorb the small amount of sense still left in
the party, maintain that that Williams did poll the
full vote, and that he polled it because he kicked
over the absurd platform. 1t must be admtted that,
with the exception of the eighty-six votes in Ban
gor there signs IN the returns that any appIe-
cable number of Democrats refused TO vote for
Williams There is nothing surprising in this Iho
Sc fran hos lap i'm ia
partly because of its manifest stupidity and partly
because it is merely mortgage on the party for Mr.
Tilden's denomination.