New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-14
majority first and constructing the list to correspond
with it, is original with Adams.
POLITICAL NOTES.

|
The smaller the party, the louder and longer Is
| the platform.
| Mr.. Randall is even more confident than Mr. Cox.
and he is much superior straddler.
The storm-tossed Cox seems to have rugged up his
anti-subsidy jurymast with faint hope Of catching
! the gentle Northern breeze.
| Democratic majority in both Houses OF Congress
would make the Republican mortgage on the next
Presidency mighty good investment.
So it was Mr.. Weiss Free-Trade landslide which
sent The North american through so many editions
Jere. Black thought his Electoral Conspiracy
| article did it.
Mr. CASTOR retired in favor of Mr. Adams last year,
| and now Mr.. Adams returns the favor. This makes
| them even once. Gov. Rice will beat Mr. CASTOR.
| and this VIII make them even twice.
| Perhaps the anti-Iilden party was not disap-
pointed in the action Of the State Committee but
they have been good deal less noisy since the meet
ing. John Kellys organ goes so far as to say there
are no anti-Tilden Democrats. Is that the reason
nc has put the price of The Express down to two
centsf
The large Greenback vote in Maine is said to be
due to the dissatisfaction in both parties toward the
regular tickets Ii safe harbor of refuge for the
dlsgrutled patriot. The size Of the Republican vote
however indicates that not many members Of that
party indulged in this feeble belief II many be-
levers IN the FRAUD platform voted for soft money
Gov. Rice of Massachusetts stops the mouths Of
some of hIs captious critics who were whispering
that he was not in harmony with the President,
Civil Service reform. by sending this admirable let
ter to a friend: 81 believe am as warmly in favor
of President Hayes reform policy as he il himself
There is difference of opinion among Republicans
resp citing the merits of specific measures but there
is substantial unanimity respecting his main object
ana purpose; and these have my cordial approval.
and always have had"
Gov. Hampton caught by a correspondent OF
The Pkilddelphia Times, in Chicago, on Wednesday,
and asked about tho truth of Parker's confessions
He said that Parker was in all of the rings and
could let out some hideous secrets if he chose As
for his accusation of ex-Gov. Chamberlain, tho
Governor said a. can't say to what extent CHAM
berain realized on these spoils, but he was con-
nected, know, with nearly all the boards where
the stealing was going on yet he himself says he
was ignorant OF the yllainies perpetrated upon the
people"
The Prohibltonists would make their cause moro
popular if they would not pick out for candidates
who talk as il vinegar was their fayOrte bever-
age Their candidate for Governor Of Massachusetts,
Jsdge Ptman, to be a sort OF second edtionof
Wendell Phillips. In his speech at Worcester the
other day, he remarked that he "blushed" because
he supported President Hayes, who is travelling
around the country, taking his Cabinet with him.
holding up the warrior in one hand and the traitor
the other, as a happy family, while the Republican
party is dead in many Of the States" The Judge
evidently hopes to the party dead IN the rest for
he advocated the defeat of the Republicans in Mas
sachusets a necessary discipline. If c0ld-water
diet makes man SO unhappy as this the tendency
will be TO shun it.
The danger of ToOmbss election to the Senate is
not imminent. In the first place. his political disa-
biltes have not been removed, and, in the second,
he il openly opposed TO subsidies Of all kinds. The
latter obstacle would be fatal in any Southern State.
Perhaps he Will be able TO modify his views on this
subject but to do it he will have to swallow such
emphatic utterances the following in one Of his
recent speeches: ~ am afraid that | would not
suit the latter-day constituencies. l should not
give my consent to assist in the schemes
of public plumber that they appear TO
pect at the hands of their Representatives.
During the ten years | was in the Senate not
one dollar of the public money went into my
State; did not ask for dollar and my constitu-
ents never asked me TO ask for accept dollar
for them" Mr.. Randall Will tell the General that
talk OF that sort is fatal to aspiring Democratic
statesman, at this tilne