New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-05
POLITICAL NOTES.

Why doesn't somebody give Packard BAN
quetl He would praise Grant, too.
The President should have dropped few
torpcdoes with good deal OF bounce in them among the
ofce-seeNers yeserd1y
What grieves the Democrats is that no Repub-
ncan is vet discovered who is sufficiently "dsafected
be able To vote the Democratic ticket
Ii is denied that Speaker Randall has as
smed the Quaker and hat The report seemed I'M
reasonable, for any man who Is as anxious Tor Demo
cratic Mr. Randall Is ought To Know that lne
garb OF tine Friends looks too much ike thar OF clergy
man to make its wearer popular in the fraud party
It will be a relief to the able editors who
have been distressed by Mosby's visits to the White
House to that the President has appointed the very
man Mosby did not want to be Collector at Richmond.
Mr. MOsby dsbclIcyes i'll the Presidents desire 10 re-
form the civil Service.
Gov Nichols has cruelty disappointed his
party by announcing that the members OF the Louisiana
Returning Board not been indicted and Will not BE-
The Democratic press had not only indicted and con-
victed them but had almost got Mr. Tilden into tne
White House the strength OF the shocking
revelation" made. There nothing for the party 10 do
but to settle back and yell fraud " again.
Somebody has overheard Cabinet officer
expressing opinion and that Of the Administration
upon the Iowa Convention, as follows: II they had
meant fight they would hav' said fight. They would
have denounced the Administration openly As they
did not, they probably meant to serve notice on the
President that his Southern policy ~ not theirs ana that
they would wait and how 1t worked before ENDORSING
cOndemning IT,"
A good illustration of the familiar and safe
doctrine OF Heads winails you lose" given in this
guileless observation by The Bvgalo Courier: II Mr..
Hayes accomplishes that thorough, radical aud com.
pete reform OF the civil service which he has promised
the Democratic strength and countenance given to his
efforts will constitute OF the principal causes OF ms
Should he rail- il will be the policy OF the Dem
ocras make it sufficiently clear that he and his party
are responsible for the failure.
Senator Timothy 0. Howe, of Wisconsin, has
lost his temper The Civil Service squabble in that Sac
has much for him. He has written open let
ter to editor who criticised his aud has thereby
done himself more harm than all the editors in Cnr>ten
dom could do him If they to attack him daily for
the rest of his life. A who is not only United
States Senator but who has ventured to aspire to tho
Enthusiastically OF the United States should not permit
himself TO write sentences like these: "Whcn am dead
the maggots are welcome TO my remains, but while l
live afford Ia lie stll and be carried on piece
meal by them." when spring lice can be employee 10
feed HE thy est then such spirits as control me
sentinel can be relied upon 10 hep goo9 cause u o'
TIL then" This Is not only coarse but IT Is bad NIX.
ture Of metaphor. man should not be called naSSot
and louise in the same letter IL confuses MS hehty'
and destroys the effect Of the epistle.
One of the most striking addresses delivered
during the Commencement season was by the Hon.
James Monroe, Hiram and Western Reserve Colleges
In Ohio His subject was The Wants OF the Nation"
and he divided these wants into three classes Tho
first great want OF Nation is final and permanent
pcace-quot. rest from the agitation Of those irritating
questions which led TO. grew out or the war. The
President has adopted policy with this end IN view
and however may differ its wisdom. TIE only
thing to do is TO help make success. p The next
great want Of the Nation after pacicaton. based upon
the impartial execution Of the Laws, Is the resumption Oh
specie payments. The reconciliation OF silver would
in the opinion Of the speaker help In the attainment OF
this step. 3. Again, the Nation wants Reform IN tho
civil Service. L. The whole body OF the cZeus must DO
educated. >. The Nation wants exemption from SUD
Sides IN land or money TO corporations The uno
has come when railroads, like other business enter
prises, should stand or tall upon their own merits Let
The business Of railroads be conducted upon sound aud
healthy principles, without artificial stimulus, and let
bubble domain be reserved for actual settlers and for
the education Of their children aud tho children OF the
American people
The latest discovery of the enterprising cor
respondent that there GOODNESS between Mr. Hayes