New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-28
POLITICAL NOTES.

1t il safe to bid long farewell to ex-Congressman
Plat.
Mr. Conllling will discover shortly that lie has
had one personal convention too many.
The fraud" cry sounds dreadfnlly feeble and
discouraged now that the Solid South has sat down
on il.
The man who prophescd that this was 70 be duh
political year. begins to think he must have said it
in run.
Mr. Curtis need have no further an xiety about an
"onice-hoding despotsm." 1t is clear Of
suicide.
The irreconcilable Republicans, at Rochester,
would have had more effect on the people if they
had put less autobiography into their walls.
There are fewer symptoms Of political congestion
in New-Jcrsey than there were before the conven-
tons. Rouse We, Romans! and whoop her up.
It's sad that there should be dI vergence Of view
between General Ju9son Fitzpatrick and the Hon.
Thomas C. Platt on the vital question of sentiment
in politics.
Alexander Stephens is a subsdy-man, and favors
Randall for Speaker. Furthermore, he knows OF
only three Southern Congressman who will oppose
him. This does not indicate that Mr. Randall is
violent anti-subsdy man.
The Hon. Thomas c. Plat has succeeded in con-
yincng the country that no part of the Presidents
policy demands such grateful Endorsement as that
which Hospitality opened the Cabinet door to Mr..
Eyarts and left Mr. Conkling's out i'll the night
air.
II was wise precauton for the Republican Con-
ventiOn OF NewJersey TO resolve against sectarian
schools for the coast Of that State is entirely de-
fenceless, and the Pope could have sailed into
Barnegat Inlet almost any fOggy night and upset
the Constitutional Amendment.
There wasn't much " man-millnery," carpet
knightism or " gush about blr. Curtiss speeches
at Rochester but there was an immense amount of
genuine eloquence, and of the most virile sort OF
common sense. Mr.. Conklings irony was bitter and
brilliant, but it did not fit the case.
The Iowa Democrats are in dreadfully unhappy
condition. Three Of the leading party organs refuse
10 support tho candidate for Governor, and declare
with much vigor that they "repuGiate" him. Well,
il does not seem necessary to make such a time
about il. The people Will do the same thng quietly
on election day.
General Banning, of Cincinnati, is n cool customer.
In the face of the confessed frauds on the ballot
box. by which lie secured his election to Congress,
he mounts the stump anddenOunces the registry law
which makes a repetition of the frauds impossible.
OF course it is natural he shoull have strong feelings
toward such an interference with hrs methods, butt
wonld have been decent TO keep still about them.
The new Senator from Missouri whom the Gov
ernor is to appoint to succeed Mr. Bogy. will have
chance TO nearly finish the term before the Legis-
atnre can act on the case Unless there is special
session called the Legislature will not meet till jan
uary, 1879 and the term expires in March OF that
year. Who the man will be is unknown. The
absurd rumor that Governor Phelps intended to
resign and have tho observation-disclosures appoint
him to the vacancy Is auth0rltatlvely denied.
The different varieties of financial heresics
crammed into resolution of the Wisconsin
Democratic platform almost exhaust the mathemat-
zeal capacity of the average reader to count them.
The able architects of the structure demand paper
money and silver but are especially opposed to
National bank notes are dead against resumption.
and yet desire to have the public debt paid in cur
renew The King of Bedlam would be discouraged
at a proposition to attempt the execution OF that
policy.
Even the Democrats have given up all hope of q
Republican opposition TO the President in the next
Congress. simultaneously with Mr.. Conklng's
volt comes the news from the Democratic CORE
spondens at Washington that letters received there
from prominent Republicans show that the President
will have united party at his back. The same
thorlties admit that the people behind the Presi
dent, and that the few politicians who growing
at him have no following This would seem to inn
ply that the late Mr. Patt. of Iioga, doesn't count.
Postmaster General Key seems to have sound
idea about the question of clerks going home to
vote. When asked what his wishes concerning
the clerks in his department, he made this admirable
reply: 81 have no advice to give don't see why
clerks should not have the same right to vote as
other people. If the clerks in my department
choose to take part Of their regular leaves of alb
sence to go home and vote. ii is affair of mine.
shall not advise them to go; shall not advise them
not to go; aud / certainly shall not advise them
whom to vote for, If they do go"
Messrs. Garfield and Pendlcton held the first of
their joint meetings Tuesday and though there
was the utmost courtesy throughout the debate,
there was u good deal of lively talking. blr PEN
dleton unfoded an elaborate scheme of resumption,
soemnly assuring the people that ho was in favor of
specie payment when the poor oppressed masses
were ready for it. In brief closing speech General
Garfield made clear calculation showing that it
would take ut least $50 years TO develop Mr. Pendle
toms plan and the great advocate OF resumption. by
means of imitation. covered with ridicule. Gen
eral Garfield took breezy, cheerful view OF the times
aud gave the people ample to believe that the