New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-31

the German vote than Sunday-law cnforcer ana an
! old Know Nothing could not he found"
a tier this blunler do YOU think the Democrats
can he bcatcnP EVERYTHING seemed TO be drifting
their way before the Convention"
"The Republicans can't well make worse fools Of
/ themselves than the Democrats have done. If
they nominate fair ticket at Cleveland and
endorse the Administration shall carry the
State We must not have the Blame and
Packard fellows mediling with the platform
though. No Iowa performance can he allowed with
ont certain defeat following. square. strong en-
dorsament of the RESIDENTS policy Will carry us
through The Ben Wade faction is not large and
will not 20 over to the Democracy. The negroes
are disposed to he fractions. but when the time
comes for them to choose between Republican and
Democratic tickets thew will come around all right
If you 20 into the to defend IIayes's pol
/ icy Only. how can you make an attacking fighti"
! Not defend bnt assert the policy. 1t doesn't
/ need defending The Democrats don't dare attack
| it,"
"What do you say of the order to the olice-hold-
ersY VIII it weaken the Republicans''
81 have of red a reward of - cents to anybody
who VIII point out county where the Republican
organization will be weakened by the ofice-holders
keeping out of it. That county hasn't been found
yet"
"About the Civil Service Reform business people
down East think the Administration talks too much
and does too little"
perhaps it would be better if there less
pronmciamcnto and more performance; but we
think Hayes is driving the horses the night way any
how That's good deal. BY the time his four
years are mp they Will be too far out the reform
road to turn back
How does the Columbus platform strike you y
"An absurd hodge-podge. The financial plank Is
an attempt to harmonic the radically-oppos ne
views on the currency existing in the Democratic
party. Ihercsult Is meaningless mess Ii couldn't
be anything else. 1t opposes resumption, but calls
for currency of coin and paper which shall he inter
convertible winch is the same thing resumption.
All that there is in resumption is TO have the green
backs convertible into COM
! did not ask Mr. Halstead anything about the
silver question. Having written two or three col
a day upon It for The past three months it may
reasonably be supposed that the country knows his
opinions -
Mr.. Richard Smith Of The Gdeotte does not come
down TO ms Office at NIGHTS. He is TO be
found at any time during the day after 10
O'Clock in a room over the publication office,
TO which access is had by dark and dirty
back stairway. In TINS room four of ms assistants
work, and the only distinction enjoyed by the chief
is that he Las little bigger desk and an easier
chair than the rest, and perhaps tribe
more clbow-room. Mr.. Smith does not write
much himself, but his paper is under his
watchfu supervision in all lis departments.
and is made to reflect his ideas all pablo ques-
TONS II is not a party organ in the sense of being
,IhscrvIent to Administrations oiice-h0iGcrs, but
il represents pretty accurately the views If the mass
/ of the Ohio Republicans. that it is regarded rs
! Republican newspaper in 4 sense which rs rival,
/ The (OmmTcdl is not One works with the party
| always but in an Independent fashion the other
/ works against the party whcneyerit is not suited
/ with its
eff we had had the making OF the Democratic
ticket" sad Mr.. Smith to-day, " we couldn't have
fixed il up to suit Us better. Bishop is good cit
zen. lie is an active member OF the Campbellite
Church and strong temperance man. We respect
hIm for that, but these qualifications don't commend
him to the average Democrat in Cincinnati. His
temperance ideas and his Old KnowNothing record
will drive away all the Independent Ger
mans, who vote as they please and don't
care much for either purity. They VIII
beat him in this county, and that Will lose him ne
state. There is q special absuriity about his cam
didacy, which we shall show in The gazette tO-Inor
row. lie Is director of of our national banks,
and large owner of bank stock. The platform de-
nounccs the banks, and proposes to break them mp,
hut the candidate helped organize bank and has
been connected with il since. You asked about
Bishops personal popularity here He has no more
than any other wealthy, respectable citizen. Wcput
/ out a bulletin on Wednesday showing the ballots in
the Convention, and announcing his nomination,
surprising that would attract a crowd, but nobody
seemed to notice it. The crowd went around the
corner 10 read the news of the strike our other
board Thursday, Mr.. Bishop went 10 the Board Of
Trade rooms, expecting that an enthusiastic recep
ton would be improvsed in his honor; but | am
told there were only six there. OF course the
strike draws all interest away from politics just
now. bat IN ordinary times Bishops nomination
would not create any enthusiasm in Cincinnati.'
"You feel pretty confident, then, thai the Rcpub-
lcans can carry thc Slater
eyes; the Democrats have been electing Rcpubli-
can Governors for the last thirteen years, and be-
| lieve they will do it again this Fall. They might
have put up a candidate and platform at Column
bus that we could not have made head against, but
! they have bundered usual"
/ "What do you expect from the Cleveland Con-
yenuoni VIII it sustain the Presidents And what
will it do about resumption and the silver ques-
/ tionp
of il had been held two or three weeks ago it
would probably have followed III the track OF Iowa.
Now there's no danger. Public sentiment is develop
ing so rapidly III favor of the Presidents policy that
it won't be long before many of the politicians who
are opposing it will pretend they were for it all
along Hayes IS growing all the while. | think we
shall have square endorsement of his administra-
ton at Cleveland. The Blaine faction has been urg-
ing Taft as the candidate for Governor because they
| believed he felt towards the President about
! the Southern policy; but Taft says be is opposed
| to taking issue with Hayes, and that in no