New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-31
NETWORK, TUESDAY, JULY 81 1877.


for more of it, and we shall have no sound financial
system. The Democratic platform on the silver
question is simply imitation with new face. They
want all the greenbacks kept a1oat anda unlimited
amount of dcbased silver coin put IN circulation"
MLEAN's VIEWS.
Mr.. John II. Mclean of The Enquirer, the leading
Democratic newspaper of the West, ~ one OF the
Youngest men occupying prominent positions III
journalism. | SHOULD not take HIM for day Older
than thirty He is remarkably bright and energetic,
and has impressed his qualities upon the paper to
such an extent that he has transformed it from an
old-faShioued, slow-gong political organ with no
aims 10 echo the sentiments of parcel OF Ola
party hacks into of the most wlde-awahe, enter
prisng, liberal and widely read dailiesin tine country
He has a h0bby-to replace the bank notes with
greenbacks and he rides it on all occasions lie be-
levcs his constant advocacy of this notion has Sc
cured for the inquirer its extraordinary increase oil
circulation In tins he is partly right. the grecnback
theory being unquestouably very popular in the
West; but he modcstly overooks Che chief cause OF
his success the fact that he is making live paper
and securing the news field with great CLERGY and
sagaclty. Like the other Cincinnati editors, MI
Mclean is very Democratic in his working habits.
Everybody about the Office down to the printer ;
devil can into his sanctum to ask questions al
all times, and the standing answer To outside callers
who inquire for the editor the countlng-room Is to
"walk right up stairs"
Talking of polite, to-day Mr.. Mclean said: " /
don't altogether like the Columbus platform. IL
doesn't 90 far enough on the greenback question.
am afraid the Republicans will out-bd us for they
are almost as unanimous against resumption ana the
banks rs our people ! doubt whether the Cleveland
Convention can be held back by the old managers.
The business questonis the only question in politics
fI.as-
and for those who will come after them. They are
not doing it now, and they have not been for years
They are out of patience with condition OF affairs
that binders them from prosperng. Under the present
financial system, everybody is getting poorer. Thus
the movement for change gets srOngerevery year.
If, a. you think, the two parties are III substan-
tia accord on the money question III the West,
what have they to fight about!'
"Rcaliy, nothing There can't b. any issue made
with Hayes He suits us first rate, and Is protably
doing IS well as Tldcn would have done. As TO his
title have always maintained that the Democrats
could not assa it after we had set up the Electoral
tribunal against the opposition of Republicans like
Morton and Sherman. The popular belief that he
was not elected will help us in future contests but
any movement for assaIliug his title would bee folly"
In answer to question about the Democratic
State ticket, which il was evident Mr. Mclean was
not particularly pleased with, lie sad; Il uoh
think II makes much difference who Is nominated IN
the present tempcrof the public mind. Ii achanee
of financial policy the people want, ana they viii
vote for whoever is put mp to represent the popular
demand for new measures. | look for an easy We
tory for Our party this Fall. Everything tends that
way The only chance Tor the Republicans Is to cut
in ahead of Us and make more radical greenback
platform than was given rs az Columbus; hut, IN
that ease people would see That they were stealing
our doctrine. Ii Is Democratic doctrine, and tie
Republican theory and practice Aas always been
autagonstic 10 IT, E.V. ;.