New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-11
POLITICAL NOTES.

A vote for the Bland Bill is a vote for reputation
ARepublcan Senate voting for reputation would
be an infamous paradox.
A rousng defence Of the pubc faith would be the
making of Republican Senator with Presidential
aspirations.
In every quarrel about appointments between tho
President and the Senate the hands Of eminent
Democrats are visible cheering on the disturbance
The Hon. James Harlan has been maligned Ito
is not candidate for Senator from Iowa. for any
other office. Iii, denial furnishes an unusual chance
to compliment HIM tor excellent sense.
Mr.. Eustis has been admitted to the Senate by
vote Of to l. 1t will now be in order for tho
majority to explain why Senator with so clear a
title tOa seat has been kept out Of 1t 50 long.
Pinchbacks Parthian shot was not SO badly aimed
after all, but he does not recognize the fact that
Keogg's case became a very strong one as soon AZ
Republican Senators found how sOrely they were IN
need Of his vote.
The opponents Of reputation in Virginia arc
pretty solemn the triumph Of the "readjustecs"
in organizing the Legislature. If they had been
solemn enough during the last campaign to call
things by their right names, they would be more
cheerful now. IL does not answer 70 meet the talk
Of a repudlatOr with sweet phrases
Senator Thurman is doing his best to keep the
squabble about the Toledo postmastershp warm and
vigorous. He has taken the side Of the removed
official, because the Hon. Stanley Matthews is in
favor of the other man. and in order that the uproar
may not subside Immediately, the rest Of the disln-
teresed Democratic Senators would take q similar
course. If there is anything smaller than modern
American politics, the most powerful AID 10 human
vision has failed to discover 1t.
General Ewing joins with Mr.. lIalstead in the pro-
fessed belief that the President liable to be scared
out of his stand against reputation The General
has discovered that n careful reading of the Message
shows that the President did not say he would veto
the Bland Bill, and he Is Of the opinion that the
Wing training of the President will tend to mako
him chary Of exercising the veto power. In fact,
the General is pretty well convinced that if tho
bill passes by decided majority the President will
ton of the dcmOrlzlng effect which steady tax IN
favor Of financial dishonesty has upon the human
mind Ii the President were 10 do what Ewing sug-
gests after his plain words IN his Message, he would
be beneath the contempt of all honest men.
Nosooner is there a chance that the silver move
ment may succeed than the greenback inilationst5
reappear and clamor for hearing also. They have
no trouble in getting from the silver agitators,
for they all belong to the imitation family. Already
Messrs Jones' Ewing and CO. are declaring that too
much silver will be burdensome for business trans
actions, and that if We have unlimited silver We
must also have unlimited greenbackS to represent it,
OF course there would be but one result. The green
back would be the cheaper currency, and would ~
short time drive all silver from circulation. ms
would be an enormous depreciation OF the currency
and would be initiation enough TO suit the most
lunatic huanCer who ever lived.