New-York tribune., 1877-09-18
POLITICAL NOTES.

Tweed is showing the country what the glorious
Democracy can do W hen it has a chance
The Democratic arithmetic man has ceased to
search for comfort in the returns OF the Maine
election.
Postmaster General Key seems to have been in
dulging in brilliant burst of silence for the past
few days
Judge Taft has injected elaborate discourse on
silver into the Ohio campai gn, with no perceptible
result except to increase its dulness about twenty
five per cent.
John Morrissey says John Kelly is pulling the
string which is making Tweed's tongue wag so
rlbly. 1t isn't the first time Mr. Kelly has done the
Republican Party good service by holding up Tam
many as horrible example.
Senator Barnum, of Connecticut, has been out to
Ohio in solemn consultation with John G. Thomp-
son. Where there is a scarcity of campaign funds,
Mr. Barnum is a great power. If he can't get your
Uncle Dicks pOcket-bOok open, nobody can
The latest Cabinet rumor is that Assistant-Secre-
tary Mccormick will be offered the Russian mission
and that the Hon. Galusha A. Grow will have Mr.
McCormick's present position. The selection of Mir
Grow for any position would help the public to for
get good many bad appointments.
Gen. Butler has comforted the greenback disciples
in the West with the assurance that he thinks as
much of their pet hobby as he ever did. He
hasn't found anybody able to answer him on the sub
iect, and he is waiting till he does before changing
his opinion. If the General holds on little longer
the greenback will take itself out of the way, and
then lac won't need any opinion at all.
Ii is announced to the anxious patriots, who are
editing newspapers in the interior of Pennsylvania,
and drawing salaries for not working i'll the PhIla-
delphla Custom House, that their will be con-
sidered by the Cabinet after the process of reform
has been accomplished among their fellow sufferers
in the Newl0rk Custom House. Judging 10y the
outlook, at present this appears to be long respite.
The Hon. Zacharah Chandler has paid brief visit
to Washington looking as brown a berry, full OF
eheerfuness and very talkative about the delights
of fishing, but as ignorant as girl about political
complications. The hungry interviewer sounded
him in vain for an opinion, and had to content him
self with the general observation that the ex-Secrc-
tary looks like Il man who Is saying nothing but
doing an awful amount of thinking
In spteof thesubsidy question, Mr.. Randall appears
to be clearly ahead in the Speakership contest The
Southern support to be practically solid in his
favor and to have some good reason or other for
believing that he is on their side Of the reconcilia-
tion with an appropriation" question. The Northern
Democrat, unless he Is a candidate himself, appar-
emily does not care where Mr. Randall stands. He
denounces subsidies general principles, but then
he does not mean ANYTHING by IL. As for Mr.. Cox's
chances the main obstacle seems To be the persist
ent refusal of the country to regard his claim rs
anything but joke.
The ponderoslty of the speeches in Ohio this year
passes all precedent. No orator who has yet taken
than page Of newspaper, and nearly all of them
have gone beyond this limit. Stanley Matthew's
first speech something like twelve columns in