New-York tribune., 1877-09-15
POLITICAL NOTES.

Fame awaitsthe interviewer who can extract from
Mr. Randall his subsidy attitude
The present State officers can be renomlnated IL
they can coax Tammany to persevero in its opposi-
tOn.
The gifted Tarbox completely ruined the prospects
of a candidate in the Massachusetts, convention, by
remarking, feelingly, that he loved him.
Congressman Goode denies that he is out OF the
Speakership race, anu is looking for the man who
said he was. Perhaps Mr. Randall could tell him.
The able editors who are sure Mr. Williams lost so
MANY votes in Maine because he had the good sense
to kick over the fraud platform, should wreste with
the fact that he received about 1000 more votes
than the Democratic candidate III the last oii-year
The Massachusetts Democrats desire that the reg
istry laws shall be so constructed that the largest
possible portion of the community may be brought
under the educating influence of participation in
public affairs THIS doctrine is not intended for the
southern wing of the party. An ignorant " Niger
is so different voter from an enlightened ana al
WAYS Democratic foreigner.
Spriggs the refugent genius who nominated Mr.
Seymour for Governor last year, and also saved nm
the trouble Of accepting the Office, bulges into the
public eye once more. He thinks he ought to be
the Democratic candidate for Attorney-General. and
he is right Tammany should support him. 1t de-
sires a change. and Sprggs is more OF change than
any other man in Christendom.
Congressman Rice, of the IXth Massachusetts
District. is the warmest kind of a Hayes man. He
saws the President has acted like brave, true,
leyel-headed man." who took in the situation at
glance and shaped policy (which most of our
leaders would not have reached in lifetime AT
first il struck all of us aghast, but now it seems per-
fectly right" Mr. Rice is not so enthusiastic about
fine Civil Service Reform policy, but he tells re-
porter of The Boston GiObe that he thinks the Pres
dent right and Is honest, and the party ought
to help him.
Senator Wallace of Pennsylvania, whose love for
Mr. Randall is of that fervid kind which jealousy
ALWAYS inspires takes leave toremark that be thinks
the subsidy question will be too many for his
colleague He announces and this will be especially
interesting for the South, that the ant-subsldy
plank in the Pennsylvania Democratic platform was
'entrey the handiwork of Randall and his friends"
Having aimed this shot in direction, Mr.. Wallace
tnrns about and remarks that "Throckmorton, OF
Texas is Understand for Randall, and Inrockm0r-
ton is understood specially to represent the Texas
Pacific interest in bis State There Is basis Tor
good deal of music these brothery observations.
There is one thing which the Democratic party is
doing well this year, and doing it with great unan-
unity, and that is, quarrelling with itself. Every
State has its peculiar squabble There was very
pretty one in the Massachusetts Convention yester-
day. between the Bourbon and the CASTOR parties.
because he might turn out to be Republican with
in n wear he wanted a man who could be depended
on every time. There seemed to be vague fear
that Mr. CASTOR might follow Williams and refuse
TO stand on the fraud" PLATFORM Ii would be Just
like him. for he has a surplus of that dreadfully in
compatible attribute In Democrat-comnon-sen
Republican, who displays strong anti-COnkling
bias. writes to The TRIBUNE that there was good
deal of what might be called "shenanigan" in the
recent election of Albany delegates to the Repubi-
can State Convention He alleges that the calls for
the primaries were not posted till the night before
the meetings were hold and the opponents of the
machine" had. therefore. time to organize for
action. As the convention not to be held for
three weeks, this critic thinks such haste un-
seemy. Worst of all he alleges that Nr. Cornell
actually in consultation with local manipuators
only the day before the notices were posted, and no
suspects the job was arrange then.
Gov Wade Hampton does not give the Solid South
admirers q great deal of comfort He says the Presi
dent is growing popular in South Carolina constant
w. and that if anybody expects to use the Southern
Congressman to kick up rumpus with the Presi-
dent he will be mistaken. There isn't a corporals
guard of Democrats III the whole South who could
be used in such way. The policy is bound to sue
ceed because it is the true one and the President
will gather around him the conservative of all
parties. This is sanguIne view of the situation,
bnt Mr.. Hampton expresses il as if he believed II
thinks Hayes has done more good than Ilden could
have done. Evidently the fraud" battle-cry will
not all-powerful IN the South three years hence.
The meckness of the Tammany-Canal combma-
ton ~ now great as It's noise few days ago.
Its organs are so sorry Mr. Tiidcns name has been
dragged into purely local question, and more than
sorry that any unpleasant feeling has been excited
about candidates. Let us leave all this to be de
cided III the convention, they beg. The other wing
of tine party ia not so quiet or so humble. You
started this row." thoy say " and we beat you b.,
fore the committee Now we propose to keep the
music underway till we beat you in the conven-
tom And they are keeping it underway in the
lveliest sort of style. They have even taken up
Secretary Bigelow whom they had about decided to
drop. aud are now insisting upon his denomination.
Funniest of all they are claiming that MIR. Eyars is
trying to defeat Mr. Bigelow, because the latter re-
fused 10 'recognizen him when he was IN Albany |
The man who suffered most by that burst Of sill-
ness. was not Mr.. Evarts
The Ohio campaign is suffering visibly from the