New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-12
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Hon. Ben Wade suspects that he laughs be.:
who laughs last
The solemn refrain floats in from the Ohio Repuh.
licans, g All is lost but Dalzell."
The dispossessed civil servant is not pining awav
with grief at the present moment
When Iowa becomes a shaky Republican Stat.
even off year vote begins to have significance.
No political earthquake shake the foundation.
of Patterson's allegiance. Patterson continues 10
indorse.
Perhaps Stanley Matthews will be able TO adm,
to himself that he has been rather too numerous far
his own good.
1t would be sad if Mr.. Pe1dleton should be unabls
to control the Legislature he has chosen. The ma.
Iorlty Is big enough to be ugly.
Several enterprising reporters now acclimatine
themselves in lucifer match factories preparatory to
an interview with Hon. William Allen.
Garfield was not so much Of a fool and a green.
horn, after all, in leaving the Senatorship TO Stanley
Matthew'S last Winter, and obeying the President,
request to remain in the House.
There is always an unfailing consolation in a
Democratic victory. little success always upssts
the party and makes a series of frst-cass bunders
on its part inevitable. mere taste Of Democratic
rule always turns the cOuntry's stomach.
defeated asplrant for Office in country town
was heard solllOquzing: " give lot of thin Eel.
lers me tickets, and kept me eye on EN- but not A
wan Of 'em voted for me; now III shut down Inc
beer pump on EN-" That man has the stuff in him
tor Tammany Boss.
1t is to be hoped that Senator Robertson can
be prevailed upon TO for the Senate. His
name at the head Of the ticket in the IXth District will
insure victory, and this is time to throw Senate
districts away 1t % be hoped also as much for the
sake OF the senate a. Of the Republican party. Judge
Robertson has done great deal 10 bring IL back 10 its
Old standard.
Several Democratic newspapers hasten to announce
the demise of the Republican party, and anxious
to hold the funeral without delay. 1t enough
to appoint the funeral, but it is another thing to
prepare the corpse. The Republican party is too pa
tnotic TO think Of dying so long as the Democracy
survives 10 make mischief.
The Ohio papers do not seem to be making quite
much fun of the Chairman Of their Democratic
state Committee, Mr.. John 6. Thompson. BY and
by it will be found that calling man Jongee" does
not constitute "A sufficient Offset TO his effective cam
paim work. Less If the Jongcey business would
have been at least as good for the campaign and
better for the Selfrespect Of the papers afterwards
The intiationIsts and anti-Resumptlonists are
the Ohio election has ended tho Cabinet career Of
Secretary Sherman and assured the repeal of the
Resumption act. 1t is difficult to understand why
this is so. Neither party made any fight worth the
name on the money question, and a Republican tr.
umph would have been almost as much of Iebuke
TO the hard-money policy as the Democratic one is
The policy of tine Administration does not rise or
fall with the neyer-setted financial battle IN Ohio
The Democratic candidate for Governor of Min.
nesOta is not a bit OF an inlatiOnis though report
said he was the worst kind of one. He has writ
ten a letter defining his views, which, summed up,
that he favOrs greenbacks a circulating mo-
dunn, but he insists that they shall be brought TO
par value with gold and then substituted for the ma
tlonal bank notes. There nothing out of the way
with that SOFT of doctrine. and # all GreenbackeIs
were as sensible Dir. Banning, they would cease TO
be a nuisance in the country.
Congressman Gibson. of Louisiana, who has been
travelling abroad with Mr.. Tdcn, has appeared in
Washington as an advocate of Mr.. Randall for
Speaker. This is the nearest Mr.. 1lden's influence
has approached to the contest. Mr.. Gibson also
has power of attorney to east Mr. Hewits vote for
Mr.. Randall. This is enough TO make Tammany
more furious than ever against Randall. But where
does Mr.. Hewitt, and presumably Mr. Iilden, stand
Oh the question of subsidies Are they, like the
rest of tue party IN the North against them in the
platforms and Indifferent. 60 them in Congressi
The Republican disciple of the Dollar of the
Fathers in Ohio has abundant food for meditation
for some time to come. He. more than anyone else,
demoralized tho Republican party on the financial
question, and set 1t drifting hiCher and thlther.
without rudder or compass. Nobody dared say
"A word for hard money for soft money in the CAM
paign just closed. because nobody knew where the
party stood. The only good issue the party had.
was uncompromsing support of the Resumption
act, and this was taken away from them by the
convention. Ii tho silver agItator had Gained his
mind and let the Democrats do the clamoring fors
cheaper currency. the convention would have been
able to do its duty and though II might not have
saved the party from defeat it would have saved 1t
from disgrace.