New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

Gov. Hampton's success has instilled into the
mind Of Mr Packard idea that the way TO win Is to
insist obstinatey upon your claim.
The Presidents reported decision to appoint
no more foreign consuls from Ohio will prematurey snuh
ont the aspirations Of many politicians from that State
Senator Stanley Matthews Is i'll serene
frame of mind He says all his letters bearing upon the
politcal situation have been published, and he has
nothing more 10 say
Mr. Chamberlain is implOring the President
20 create some tribunals but the President seems
IN think that the people and the courts OF South Carolina
will suffice for present purposes.
Mr.. Chamberlain's government had shriveled
into such AN arOphy that neither troops nor any other
medicine could have saved it much longer What 1t
LACKED primarily was nutritious revenue
Now that South Carolina is to govern her
self it is to be hoped that she will be her good be-
h,or In the future The Country doesn't want another
such chapter she furnished between 1896 ana lsol
Major Burke is another gentleman who is
d.iended by secret which has been ermcnting within
him ever since last February This is a trying season
for gentlemen who contain secrets and the Major ought
10 be securely hOOped or allowed 10 Tap himself
Fx-GOy. Brown has been cast into outer
darkness somebody-presumably Democratic pope
for the aDathcna appears in sanccd organ-has for
rnaliy accommodated him from fellowship with Demo
cratic believers Upon the WHOLE this is rather worse
for the believers than Tor BrO"n'
This seems to be proper time for everybody
tokeep cool Even Congressman ought to restrain Nun
self from telegraphng any ncendary advice than
he finds absolutely to relieve MIN OF any con
gtsted wisdom from which lac may be suffering Inc
case Of Mr. Representative Ellis is not SO serious that ne
needs 10 counsel bold assertion anu 'csi'''H'0' ~ W.
that sort of thing. .
The Utica Observer has rubbed the dust OIL It's
spccaccs and made careful inspection OF tie Potc"
probabilities in this IL Republican elements OIL
dscord in every Senatorial district which are hkey 10
no kgasn
op,ConLIng factions and result in the election OF
D,mocIaiic Senate aud the choice OF Democratic oeh
Tor in 1879 The faculty for seeing what one Wahs "
see l. unlimited.
few wears ago one of the highly colored
Legislatures OF South Carolina ordered for use In the
State House gross of sptoons Of such elaborate arc
lecture and decoration that they excited the admiration
OF all expectoraors These vessels probably cost more
than all the furniture the executive and legislative
departments OF Hampton Government including the
Tin dinner In the Governors receptOnrOOm. This com
parsOn proves the superiority OF tue southern hep"
lean over his Democratic brother in the matter OF
@sihetic culture.
Concerning the building up of an Admins
traton Marty m the South The yieksJur0 Herald has
this TO say: "The way for the National Administration
10 build up party the South Is by discardng forever
all the old material The fun equality OF the Soath
en states 20 the Northern States must be recognized and
practically enforced Appropriations for southern inter-
nal improvements must be equazcd to those that nave
been given other sections Of the Union Inc miilafy ls
States fixed by the Constitution ana Reconstruction
acts. respected
Unlike Mr.. Tilden, the contributions OF MI.
Peter Cooper the cause lac represents are maze VIVID
out the intervention OF nephew. lie sends the toow
ing to The Indianapolis San, Rrecnback paper
herewith ipclOse check for twenty-five dollars (S2o) as
an acknowledgment Of the zeal, fidelity, and intelli
gence with which your paper advocates the peoples
cause In the matter Of national currency nave III
abiding faith in the principles of that cause ana am
persuaded only necessary 10 enlignen the people 10
order its triumph For ms purp99se ,vJore
that your paper is msnfuliy spreading Knowi
edge ON "a subject OF unmeaSGred Importance To our
country aud the world"
Undoubtedly the most important political
contest Of this year VIII be waged in Ohio Governor
be elected and Legislature that will choose sue
cessor TO Stanley Matthews. The prominence when INC
State occupies in national politics. ana the cose
Of the the last few elections, lena an auu
tona interest TO the coming contest The Democrats
will make an earnest struggle in the hope OF Dreaklhg
the line Of Republican and OF establishing an adj
line from which the Presidential Date OF iooS
can be fought The Republicans hsTe an Ine h eols 81
victory, will into the nght WIN strong noPes u
accessions from the Liberal and German elemeh'S.
The Indiana papers are unable to brook
The constant interference OF the Cincinnati press in the
Politics Of that State, and the Queen Guy euore "i
told pretty frequently TO "mind Their own business.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is the latest example IL
offered some advice about the Indiana senatorsnip'
Including cx-GOv. Hendricks name among the cand-
dates The Indianapolis Sentinel takes 1t to task In THIS
wise mir Hendricks is not In the Senatorial race al
all be Is Vice-President OF the United States eJe
and will take rctrograde step To speak OF nm as an
asprant FOR Senatorial honOrs Unauthorized and med
olesome. Under such circumstances it is difficult 10
divine the motive The Enquirer could have had in
dragging his name before the public and assigning II q
place ia what is pleased 10 call scrub race Tor tue
United states senatorship"
1t is beginning TO dawn upon those who
fastened to get themselves chock full of Indignation be-
eause the President did not remove the troops from the
South s soon as he came into Office that they gave them
selves away too chcaply. The Phiiddephlo Times has
been among the journals that have impatienty de-
nouneed the delay. But Col A. X Mcclure the editor OF
tia journal has Washington for few days past
viewing the situation at short range, and his conclusions
are as follows: am convinced that injustice has been
done President Hayes by The Times and the many other
public Journals politicians which have criticised his
delay believe that he has not paused or hestated
for moment the execution OF the policy that ne had
decided upon before he left Columbus for Washington,
and which was distinctly pledged by Evarts Matthews
Poster and Others and clearly foreshadowed In his In
augural address Whether his predetermined plan OF
slowly reaching the surrender OF South Carolina and
Louisiana 90 the governments OF their people Is wise
not do discuss; but that II was the policy
adhered 10 without turning 10 either the right or 10 Inc
left under pressure accept as the TRUTH anu small
~ trust HING he denies himself py some act tlat