New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-13
POLITICAL NOTES.

! No more Interference with strikers is what the
Democrats want.
The Democratic party has at last got even" with
the army for wallOplng 1t.
Jones's bitterness about the President is the most
cheering sign OF veto to- the Silver BIZ.
II would be n kindness to Jere Black to remind
him that the funeral is He Is exhaustlng HIM
self by bowling III wilderness.
The Administration has united the country on one
of its appointments. any way. Everybody is
against the sending OF Dir. Sanford to Belgium.
There is suggestion in Connecticut that Mr.. P.
T. Barnum be made the Speaker of the Legislature
this Winter. The illustrious man would then be at
the head of two of the greatest shows on earth.
All of the combinations in the Ohio Senatorial
contest are against Mr. PcndletOn, and the chances
for his success are therefore, not brilliant General
Ewings laundering management of the Silver Bill
has taken the ego" out of his canvass and he is now
far in the rear. The only clear indication at present
is that William Allen will be able TO elect any one
he uses his influence for. That man, NJ tins time, IS
thought 10 be General Morgan, red-hot nllatIon-
ist
Ii is curious fact that State with such admira-
bic advantages for obtaining sound information as
New-Jersey has should contain 5000 citizens de-
luded sufficiently by demagOgues to vote IN favor OF
imitation. Yet this is what happened last Tuesday.
General Mcclellan would have squeezed in bya very
small majority, had not the Greenback ticket drawn
away 1000 votes from the Republicans, for from
that party they nearly all came. There never were
in any State cheaper or feebcr SET OF delna9oRucS
than those who have broken out in New-JerseN, ana
that they should have found 5000 people willing TO
follow them Is most astonishing.
The Eastern Democratic press is wasting good
deal of valuable brain power in trying to prove that
the Wisconsin Republicans did not conduct their
canvass on the hard money, resumption issue. The
case is perfectly clear that they did. The platform
declared IN favor of resumption and against unlim
tied silver. and the State Committee issued adj
mlrable address, which the keynote Of the can
vass ably defending both positions The able editors
who are wrestling with these facts get help from
their brethren in Wisconsin, for the latter admit
frankly that they defeated because they
rendered to the Greenback hcresies
Mr. Ben Wade has been relieving his mind some
more about the Administration, this time to a cor
respondent of The ChcagO Inter- ocean. He was par
tIcularly severe in his comments on the Presidents
Southern speeches. He drew crowds around HIM"
slid Mr.. Wade, land then he cOmplimented those
who had been rebels against the Union. and told
them that he believed they had been fighting for
what they thought to be right, just as the United
States troops had fought for what they considered
right Now 1t stands to reason that If the Southern
ers did what they thought right they should not be
Obliged to suffer for it. Why, then, should the rebels
moi receive remuneration for their losses during the
wari Why should not their soldiers receive pen
sions the hands OF the Government. just as the IN
jnred Union patriots were granted pensions or ny
pension list 7 II those remarks 10 not come
home to rOOst then am mistaken" General Grant
seems TO have grown IN favor since the LAST inter-
view, for now Mr.. Wade says he doesn't believe
George Washington, in his time, ever had more
honest and upright Administration than that Of
General Grant"