New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-25
POLITICAL NOTES.

The silver cause is in peril and Mulletts voice is
not lifted 10 save.
The tariff tinker is regarded "a a sort of public
plumber-to be cursed by everybody.
Mr.. Hendricks is in favor of that view Of the sill
yer question which will make him President. lt
doesn't exist.
II Mr.. Wells wishes TO save his reputation as (,
prophet he must remove the cork from the bottle
containing his Free Trade cyclone pretty soon.
General sherman is in danger OF being handed
down TO pOsterity as of the guileess souls who
didn't know wicked man when he saw one. lie
is almost rs reckless as President Seelye
Tho ant-repudiation victory in the Virginia Leg.
slature is almost too good news TO be true. IL shows
that righteous indignation is rs powerful an ele-
ment for good as ever il was. State afford 10
lose its temper If thereby il saves its honor.
In the face of threatened expulsion from the fold.
the Democratic Legislatures of New-York New
Jersey and Connecticut give notice to the Western
brethren that the party in those States will stand on
the side Of honest finance This Is what the Western
brethren will call insulting arrogance ard hostii.
titles liable to break out anew with increased
violence.
All rumors of Cabinet reorganization are set ~
rest by the familiar assurance that the prodigious
amount of harmony existing in the Presidents
council Il such that neither death resi- ynaiion
can hope 10 enter there. Tho numerous candidates
who had begun To put themselves IN training iI
position may as well, therefore, go a-hshing LOT
season.
One of the Brstow squad has discovered curious
no to say suspicious. act on the part of the oanla'
ton which serves as headquarters for the movements
in Boston. The name of Bristow Club has been
changed 10 Civil Service Reform Club, and the
Jealous follower wants 20 know the reason ior ifs
implied lack of faith in the name of the candidate
az a rallying cry Ii is little queer, but the size OK
the vote IN the Cincinnati Convention II Nuy
probable cause for the change.
Congressman Chittenden is the sort of friend the
worlIngrnan is looking for. lie does not make loud
professions of love for the poor aborcr and then eI
ert all his efforts TO secure law which viii give
every employer the right TO pay hsmen 90 cents n-
stead of dollar. He works faithfully and efec'
lively for honest money for all men. and he steps
forward when the lahOrcrs money IL backward ~
reaching him, and offers To lend $1,000 at his pr
vate risk. Mr.. Chttenden IS one of the men MnO's
the dcmagogues denounce rs "Shylocks" ana
"gold bugs" but he Is pretty good specimen Oh .
man for all that.
Secretary Sherman adds his testimony to the over
whcmng mass adduced against the absurd charse
of surreptitous demonstration in 1873. he
writes TO the editor Of The Burlington Hdirk-hg'
"Ihe old silver dollar If any are in existence
coined before 1873, is lcgal-tender for all suns
but practically there have been none in circulation
since 1897, when the change made in the stana.
ard from Is of silver to 1 of gold to 10 to / but
all silver coins are now legaltender to the extens
| of So We were on the high road to resumption
| and real prosperity when THIS agitation OF Tue I"