New-York tribune., 1877-09-20

done. This sort Of Southern talk does not harmon.
ize with the fraud" warcry, but 1t Is becoming ex-
ceedingly common.
Later reports from Oneida County indicate that
the Conkling wing of the party has come out ahead
in the primaries. OF the twenty delegates chosen
to the County Convention all but two said to be
in favor of Mr. Conkling's candidate. There are
evidences Of a good deal of wire-pulling by both
factions and it IL not surprising that victory is like
ly to fall to the more experienced manipulators.
somebody in Washington has received q letter
from another somebody in London who heard Cen
Grant say President Hayes promised him not to re-
move his friends Minister and brother-in-law Cramer
of Denmark, and Consul General Badeau Of London
The President had asked the General il he would
like have any Of his friends kept in Office and he
had requested personal favor that these two be
spared. And was not Mr. PierrepOnt included, asof
Bir. Bishop made his first speech in the Ohio cam
paign in Cincinnati the other night, and it filed al
most column of q newspaper the next morning IL
was q solemn sleep-Inyitng effort which was
noticeable chiefly as an emphatic Endorsement Of
the silver dollar. The Enquirer, animated by that
subdued. .tendernesstoward the partys leader which
it has exhibited from the outset, observes that
Uncle Dick speaks his piece" but it does not tell
us who helped him to construct it,
The syness Of the anti-renom lation portion Of
the Democrats Of this State is on the increase They
are throwing out vague hints now that il may be
advisable to trade off the State ticket for the Legis-
lature, as a reaprortiOnment is more desirable for
the party than anything else just now. Their argu.
ments are put in this way: When you have a sur
plus majority on the State ticket trade off a safe
number of votes for the Legislative ticket IL you
can't get both tickets let the State ticket slide it
the names il do not suit us. This is free trans
latioa, but il gives the spirit of the original.
Stanley Matthews seems to have lost his temper
first IN the joint debate with Ewing, but the provo
cation was severe. Ewing repeated for the thou
sandth time the old Demo ,ratic SANDER of bargain
between the President and the Southern members
of Congress. Mr.. Matthews put the slander into its
coffin with bang follows "The gentleman
went far TO particularzc that this bargain was
made in writing. Now intend to make my denial
to it in every form-written, verbal. implied,
expressed, collateral incidental; in every possible
form, shape, variety mode, tense or view that tho
ingenuity or the mallce of men may affirm tit
is a lie There is not word of truth in IT, There is
not particle OF plausible foundation for it, There
is not an event. fact. document or an incident
which could satisfy a reasonably conscientious man
concerning the possibility Of il. Every scrap that
ever wrote Orsgned III connection with the history
of that event has been published far and wide.
II any man has anything yet, let him produce It,
defy all my accuSeTs. No. fellow citizens ii is not
fair II Is not right TO undertake to deprive President
Hayes Of the honor and the grace of FIRST conceying
and originating the policy which ne himself carried
out. Ii was born of MS own good sense and his own
good heart. II is Inscribed first on his letter of ac-
ceptance. where il was seen and known and read