New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-25
POLITICAL NOTES.

Gen. Butler is an enthusiastic Hayes man, too
Who win mourn for pltkin nOwf
There isn't 50 much talk as there was about the
Southern policy being still an experiment"
Did Tammany pay Mr. Hendricks the distin-
guished honor of pOstpOning the Tweed exhibition
for week. that there might be room for reception
II begins to look bilious for Your Uncle Dick in
OHIO. The heightened Democracy propose to snow
him that when they nominate man for his money
they will have that or Ills scalp.
The hard-money Democrat has cheerful time of
it in Ohio this year. EX-COngressman Payne has
lust been gned to his first speech, and the
mttee has picked out for the scene of his effort Oak
Harbor metropolis containing at least LOO voters,
all Democrats.
The Minnesota Republicans hold their State Con-
yention on Thursday and likely to give the Presi
dent pretty good Endorsement. There has been
little excitement or discussion in the State about the
course of the Administration, and the convention is
not likely TO be especially demOnstratye IN any dl
rectlOn.
The latest phase of the daily rumor about the
Ohio clerks is that they have sgled paper pledg-
inQ themselves to go home on an excursion train at
half fare. This report will probably be tipped over
to-day. Meanwhile the interesting statement is
made tbat there are not more than 80 Ohio voters
in nil the departments. One would think from the
talk which has been made that there we've at least
10000.
Senator Thurman takes occasion to say that the
President has adopted the principles he has himself
been ii ghting for during the past ten years Then
why il Mr.. Thurman climbing the stump at the tail
end of a campaign to make a speech against the
presdent2 He would he more consistent to speak
on the opposite stump and then lie would not be
forced TO diSgTaceful surrender IS he has made
to the lnilatiOnsts
The good news comes from Mississippi that the
Grand Jury of kemper County has found six indict-
ments for murder, and twenty-five indictments for
being accessory to murder. 1t is surmsed, though
not authoritatvely stated, that nearly all aimed
at the participants III the Chisholm massacre.
Whethes the indictments will secure any convic-
tons is of course doubtful but il is great relief to
the credit of the State that the first step toward
Justice for IA great crime has been taken.
The Mississippi Democrats sent a man who was
formerly in the Union army to the State Senate last
year. and they have just ren0minated him enthusi-
astically. The press of the State is making good
deal of pow-wow about the act as a refutation of
what is pleasantly termed Northern ISLANDERS
AGAINST the Soutl's methods of treating newcomers
This seems a trfe hasty and inadequate. So long
as the generous Democracy of Mississippi invades
every Independent party meeting with shot-gnns
its appeals for gentler judgment from the North
will be in vain. 1t creditable that Union soldier
ia treated he ought to be- but that fact is not so
stupendous that 1t can blot out a thousand other
cases where the simplest justice Is denied
There is chance for some brisk music in the
Wisconsin Democratic Convention tomorrow. The
committee IN calling the meeting, took the liberty
to drop the old name of the party, and affixed the
less fragrant one of Peoples Reform" This stirred
up the Bourbons, and they have been growing ever
sInce The suggestion that the dispute be settled by
a compromise on the name Of Fraud" party has not
been cheerfully received On other points there is
likely to be much labor If tho Convention tries to
build n worse platform than the Republicans
did they will fail beyond doubt. That is a lob
which can't be done. If they try to nominate "A
better ticket than the Republicans agreed upon they
will fail again. for the Republicans have the best
ticket they have had for years.
This is Mr. Randals week to be n subsidy man.
evidently. The announcement is sent out from
Washington that his friends claim his nomination
on the first ballot and the information Is added that
he will so construct the committees that the subsidy
claimants viii not DO greved. In harmony with
this bulletin comes this statement from the always
favored Texas paper: Mr. Randall, through q
convenient friend. comes to the front and emphati-
cay denies that he had anything do with drafting
the platform Of the late Democratic State Conyen-
ton of Pennsy lyania that mathematics subsidies
and strikes ut the Texas and Pacific Railroad He
says he was not there, never saw the platform,