New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-02
POLITICAL NOTES.

-" "Shut up. "Oruer'
ooCs Rutler is in doubt whether he will have
,e,epce with the next ADMINISTRATION That is the
Sp hing said Of Gov. Hayes yet
"s %' 80 much intellect is what bothers Mr..
w NE should be careful and not exert himself, or
sa,,v be laid up with spasms'
Tho buddled-up wisdom of the nation is
iself felt these days. II is easier for elephant
through key hole than for Democratic Congress
~s' miss an opportunity to make n donkey of him
en- fG2 to miss '' ''' a,n..... u,.. w
-..,,cstns committee appointed TO search Proctor
It's rockets. Perhaps some forgotten envelope is
hidden therc: puPi'"'' " "'' ''''
able Just now
Tbo,e is a charming frankness about this
.sranh in TAe Cincinnati Enquirer: " The Democratic
p I. now apparently in the condition of the old man
SIos, his wife The neighbOrs came in 10 console and
,o,e with him, and sympathetically inquired If his
GU was wiling 10 die. 'WilinS, said the old man,
she was OoieeSeU ."
prvote Dalzell writes from Columbus, Ohio,
=. rus TRIBUNE as follows; "The prospect Of ext
- forcine itself our Legislature To elect
or 70 John sherman in the United States Senate has
u.ed me 10 make a canvass Of the two houses. find
, the contest down TO the Hon ]. \. Garfield,
g. Hon O. j. Hodge. Speaker pro ten. OF the House.
~ The Hon. Charles H. Grosvenor, Speaker OF the
uo1se with the chances pretty nearly even between
ihem with Hodge slightly ahead
Mr. Eaton can say an infinite deal of nothing
nth less fatigue than any other Senator. Mr.. Sauls
,,v has gifts il true, but in his neOherent rhapsody
5nns the socaed south Carolina debate lie made
acrimonious illusions to the subject under discussion.
n, salisbury has pretty thoroughly sUbugated any
lurking tendency toward scmi-ucid defamation but
-tl he is prepared TO furnish article OF unadul-
,raed virgin nonsense Mr.. Eaton will hold the belt.
Modern names are rarely significant, but
usprvsS an undertaken in Jersey City andt he viva
eov.way in which he member from Illinois skps around
,beercumferenee OF suppressed debate proves that Mr.
sprucers arpeatiOn is proper noun. The conn
Nv vond mourn the elastic Mr. Springer laid out
IN apostou where he would be compelled to view ever
stngy the wrong side of one of the nhexibe Mt Stfs
eofapates; but the country would be grateful To MI
Springer If he would compose himself
Congressman Hatcher of the WITH Missouri
District was endowed with little mpudcncc and, what
g hotter he knows when TO show it, The delegation from
his district in the lower house of the Missouri Legislature
aoopted resolution instructng him 70 do all in lis
nWer TO delay the count of the electoral vote and sent
Il 70 him. Mr. Hatcher replied: II entertain high re-
gard for the views OF the delegation from my section in
the Missouri House of Representatives but being on the
round think they had better trust the matter my
discretion" The delegation now thinking O1 instruct
ng themselves To - get mad
New-Jersey makes an emphatic demand for
several Cabinet positions. That state is blessed with
large family of fayorite sOns-Newark alone could have
furnished several besides the twin Commissioners Brad
lev and Fre.nghuysen-and yet at Cincinnati not
single complimentary vote was squandered on "a home
PRODUCTION but the very first ballot one-thrd OF the
entire delegation named the coming man; and that too
when Hayes votes scarce, especially east OF the
AIcrhauies Thl. ought TO constitute very ObtrCslVe
"caim although the court may admit certain tfdhsdc-
tons the 9TH of November III rebuttai.
Representative Carr keeps on writing letters
he bos under the deluson that he made stupendous
bt with his maiden speech the House and lie hugely
teked thercat His latest efuson is to gentleman in
Vermont in which he takes occasion to pay his cOmp
uents to the Democr tc leaders as follows Or course
these men who have plotcd US upon the destructive
reefs and wrecked us will condemn me for having placed
the responsibility OF defeat where belongs, as Will
also the trucking press which has been controlled With
po greater amount Of brains YOU justly term but
the MASSES OF the Democracy who think Tor themselves
will discover WHO are true TO thef best interest,"
l. 1t is now divulged that a wildcat Electoral
College invented itself somewhere in Vermont, and in
str,ctly confidential way elected Mr. Tlden President
Mr. Hewitt IN one of his stihunts after concealed col
eges unearthed this unObtrusve organism, captured
certified copy OF its proceedings, sealed them mp ID an
envelope put package in his hat, and kept 1t there
carefully for three months. Mr. Hewitt may not be able
10 run Presidential canvass but he can keep secret
and no one ever discovered that Mr. Tden had received
the electoral vote of Vermont until Mr. HeT't II an
upg1iarded moment revealed the fact to Nj. Ferry
While presiding over the last JOINT meeting
Mr. Wattersou was one of the Democratic
minority who opposed the Compromise Commission -
long as he could but having been oyerrued by his own
raty he insists that Democrats are bound IN honor 10
stand BY their agreement :" For my part nave DO
mind for leapiug from the fryingpan into the IRE
urged resoue policy when there was the occasion to
give II efficacy The time has passed when bold move
meprs could avail us. To-day have but little impulse
but our anger left aud supports at all we are WISE
We shall take into account all the circumstances that
surround u.s. shall possession OF ourselves We
shall give our the full rope and line OF ms wrong
doing Does anv man think there Is penalty hNeu 10
political exce>s II he does. he Is mistaken IN puDt
private life the lnfraetlon OF Zoo %s and
punishment or Late
"Itis an i'll wind that blows nobody any good
Amid the general wreck OF Democratic hopes, Two mem
bers OF the party contemplate the rum ABOUT tneh
with complacepcy OF these fortunate persons INC
Indianapolis Journal says: so far as Known Oronih
and John Morrissey the only Democrats VINO nave
got anything TO show for their labor in the cause OF III
den and reform Tlden himself is out about half NH
lion dollars and whatever character he had When he en-
tered the contest Hewitt confesses that he Is out nun
tred thousand dollars PeltOn is bankrupt IN reputation
and probably in purse and on through the list bH'
Conn and John Morssey were shrewder than the rest
The former demanded his pay in advance ana nc Is
ahead about $4,000 that he knows Of while MorrlsseY
pocketed big commissions the pools deposited win
him, and then declaring all bets on saved his own m
These two, therefore are model reIofeis ne fnr
frate position TO represent the DcnOcfatic Pa - o
years hence the word be passed around-MofrSSeS
and CrOnin IN 1850"
The lll-cOncealed anger OF the Noithoin ~
mocrsey at the conservative course pursued BY the
Southern Congressman drawing out some sharp replies
from the press of the South The Charleston Necs ana
Courier says There signs in Washington that the
Northern Democrats dissatisfied with the conduct OF
the Southern Congressman What these Northern Dem
ss fear whateycr 1t s will not be made Impossible oi
occurrence by dcuuncatOn OF the South The south mas
been trle as steel the National Democracy. "a"e
Hampton free from the lncumbrance OF the lluen eec
cker hay Governor
Carolina by 10000 majority. 1t was the Apprehension
that Tden would carry the state that caused south Car