New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-25
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Greaser war has been postponed.
date TODAY VIII no1 repu-
Senator Patterson will soon be able to 30 home
| to Pennsylvania ''N'
T WY not transform the Confederate balance into
Texas Pacific subsidy ''o N''o
lhere will be plenty Of reconciliation to-lov e.,
everybody except the turkey Of our fathers. iO'
Uncle Dick Bishop wishes to sell his house IN Tin.
clhhatl lie has his eye the White House, snrc
Ihe Republicans In the Tennessee Legislature ara
almost solid against the majority's scheme for
razeeing the State debt. iOi
Mr.. hendricks says he has not made up his mind
on the silver question. But he favors Voorhees,
rejection. and Voorhees, immense mind il all red
hot for silver. 1 " III i'U
DIT owen Murphy must be a man of integrity
The papers all say he is non est man. But tbo
truth Is there is no such person. How can tbcro Ia
an y IN Murphyi ''0'' W
II the country could get a fair look at Senator
Gordon's account current with the Administrator
1t would find ont just what amount of Cancellation
an Administration is credited with when II appoints
the War Department. -
John G. Thompson has gone home to organize hi,
legislature, and several eminent Democrats If Ohio
poses to hur his influence when the Senatorial com,
bat deepens. Suppose the Colonel should take il
INTO his head to nominate mmselfl '''A' -
The Indiana Democrats, after relieving their
minds OF great pressure by giving vent to some
super-heated views on the Electoral Commission.
were enabled to give the county this maCnanimous
assurance " We do lot propose to disturb the in
cumDehts.- lhe Administration can now tran
quIze itself.
Simon Cameron thinks the President has betrayed
his party more ungratefully than either John Tyler
or Andrew Johnson did his, and that the party
ought t. him up unless he re0rganizes his Cab
met. Wait till after Christmas, Mr. Cameron. The
bracing power of New-iOrk turkey may helm the
Administration wonderfully.
There is here and there n silver advocate who is
trying to convince tine public that he is not hostile
to the Resumption Act when be fayors initiation.
He has good deal Of trouble, though in explaining
why it IS that all the public meetings which Assem-.
be 80 call for unlimited silver, call for the repeal Of
the Resumption Act at tie same time.
The Indiana Democrats have dsregarled the
wishes of Mr. Hendricks, evidently for they have
issued an address which is simply prolonged and
stupid variation of the fraud war-whoop. They
propose to "rebuke the crime" but announce with
praseworthy magnauimIty that they edo not propose
70 disturb the iucumbents' of the White House.
This j. kindly but unnecessary explanation that the
hollcring' will 60 on, but that 1t will mean moth
ing
Congressman Brcntano, of Chicago has the Bit
terness Of soul to say that the only difference be-
tween ancient and modern Civil Service methods Is
that while formerly the patronage was bestowed
upon the friends of the President and of the Sena-
tors and Representatives, now it is all bestowed
upon the friends of the President alone. Mr. Bren-
tino talks like disappointed man, but even a dis
appointed man hits Oh great truth once IN
while.
The unlimited silver editor has suddenly lost trace
of Mr.. Thurow Weeds letters TO TIE TRIBUNE.
Until the last one was published each contribution
was eagerly copied in full with delighted editorial
comments But the one which contained SIR. Weeds
manly avowal that he had been mislcd in accepting
the sureptitious' charge, though much shorter
than any other of the series has not yet met the eye
of the silver editor at ALL apparently for he does not
even find space for a two line summary OF ITS con-
tents. We are living in a grand and awful time