New-York tribune., 1878-10-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

day, ana sne gave IL square DlOW between the eyes.
| Mr.. Marble should send out dove from the ark
to if that shower of cipher dispatches isn't most
| over.
Antiquarians should make haste to collect chips
from those desks frescoed with Beebe's bOOtheels.
ibey will be scarce after the 4th OF next March.
There has been evident diminution of Democratic
Growing during the past ten days. On the contrary
the tone of the Republicans has sensIbly Draeed up
Butler is being worried by the numerous promises
he gave TO his followers. Like fat money, they
we're intended to circulate and not to be redeemed.
After the rebuke Colorado has given Patterson
he will need to have ton or two of brass worked
into his cheek if be continues to hold that seat IN
Congress.
Can it be that Mr. Smith Weed has not yet seen
those cipher dispatchesi He could at least rise to
a question OF privilege. and demand to know how
| The TRIBUNE got them.
IL imitation is the highest fattery, then the Sara
topa platform has received an enviable compIi-
ment. The Republican Convention in the new
county of Lackawanna, Penn, expressed their ap-
probation oft by adOptlnglt entire
Has Senator Stanley Matthews joined the Grant
columnf It would seem so. In a speech delivered
in GAINESVILLE. Ohio. Monday. The Cincinnati COM
psrcja reports him as saying that the question Oh
the abolition of the National banks would hot prop
| erly come up until 1883, and then Grant W0uld 10
| President"
Is there no friend of Mr.. MantOn Marble who can
take to him copy of The TRIBUNE drive him INTO
corner. and insist upon his reading iti There are
diseases in which the patients friends compel hlm
| ro take medicine no matter how much he dslikes
il. and if poor Mr. Marble is not careful the grue
| he will have to take some Of these days VIII 10
| terrible.
eff those dispatches had been traced home to me,
| should deem it a disgrace from which would
never recover" This is the opinion Of the Hon.
Abram s. Hewitt, in regard to the telegraphle con-
nections of Gramercy Park with Gobble. ~ I Toud
be interesting now to know what Dir. hewitt @ tllnhs
of the dispatches which passed between vi idnhei0y
| Park ana MODDle.
Senator Blaine had a brilliant reception in Bur-
lington. Iowa, Tuesday evening His speech was
clear and convincing exposition OF the hhahclai
ouestion. The Iowa Republicans are not a' al
| frightened by the marriage between the Democrats
and the Greenbackers. They propose W @ lna,u 80
an" aaneraI assault upon the enemy's lines from now
| until election day.
II is laughable to watch the palpitauon Oh 'no
! democrats over the spread Of Greenbacklsm In
| Democratic States and Congressional districts.
While its efforts were confined to Republican States
! IL was as .amoosin'D as Artemus Wards Kangaroo
But the scene Is changed now, and the laugh is on
the other side Democratic editors are IN as pltI1l
a Condition as Mr. TOots was when he exclaimed:
I can't get through my meals. have no pleasure
i'm my tailor. | often cry when am aiohe'
The Jo,dsrilLs Courie-JourRal has been printing
some nlain statements about the Democratic can
voss in Indiana, and Offering little candid advice
IN that party. This disnterested serving up OF
cold facts" has not been met IN very charltaOie
snrit bv the HOOser Democrats. and MI Nattersoh
ia told pretty bluntly to mind his own business
The upshOt of the matter appears 10 pe 'n'' VIC
Democrats went into the canvass underestlmaiing
H. strength of the Republicans, ana now ,Hhulhg
! that they have bungled the campaign Dauly, theS
naturally hate to have their Dad t hnevar
t,Iated There never was mucn lONe ios., uoN9No.'
between the Louisville aud Indianapolis lourhas's'
The complexion of Illinois politics is murkY.
18th of the old parties are working for the control
% the Legislature, which elects Unlted states
senator in place of Senator Ogiesby. The members
% tbe last Legislature whose terms have expired
have baen generally discarded and new men nonl,
nated In most of the districts there are tnree' anu
~ ,asos four candidates the Prohibition party
,rt,ir0 mn the fourth man. Tbs Democrats have
no hope of carrying majority oil the leglslatVe
districts but expect by combining with the Green-
hackers TO control the body. In the Congressional
dlstrlcts the Republicans hope TO make gains Inc
Democratic nominations III the three Cncago uls-
tricts are confessedly weak, aud Efforts are Delng
made to push some OK tIe oSan v are sueaking
nearIv every night and express strong hopes VI tuo
success of the Republican party.
Mr. Walter A. Wood who has received the Repub-
lcan nomination for Congress in the Troy Dis.to.,
IA successful manufacturer employing aoou' -
men in his moving machine works at hoo'''A .,,
IIe has good business and financial taieu', anu
make a useful member OF Congress ""''N
Townsend, who now represents tho ulS',,O''
have had no competitor for the place h@u a. n0 No'
olined nomination some months ago. in' SUI"
ouent withdrawal of his declinatloh 0ouiu ~"
oirea3v 6xed upon Mr.. Wood rs their GaluiyuuSj uyuj
The district is strongly Republican, anu & sI. .It
will undoubtedly be elected dn,;nsta Mr. Towns.
tnS @ nnt as he cordially ndorses the selection on
NJ Wood the prospect OF causing spiit i'll tnc
Republican ranks Is not very Drlght'
Butler is in trouble with his usually loyal Green
hackers in Massachusetts, at least with portion OF
them. The propensity of the man to bargain, sell
oDd convey is indomtabe. The Greenback Con-
eress Convention for the With District met on ueS-
dav in Lowell and a certain delegate named Byron
,uade disclosures to that convention which were
very exciting The great little Tarbox wanted tie
nominaton. but as he had hard money reputation.
whatever may be his opinions now. he didn't seem
On be inst the man for tho Greenbackers TO noml-
pate Ryron told the convention that Butler had
cant to him. and proposed that lie should take the
nopination for two or three weeks and then WIN
dro,, In favor of TarbOx Bat the Indignant ID ron
was no such person. SO the same game was carried
-, ~, dominating John A. g. Richardson, Mayor OF
| Lowell. Then Mr.. Byron got upon his legs ana
made An exciting aud excited speech, IN whlen he
td the story OF the attempt upon his virtue III zen,
oDJ Rnter,s Office and how the plot had been hNed
of selling out the district to Tarbox lie also ex,
pressed his firm determination VIGOROUSLY 10 sunny '
the district against Richardson OF .i1bardso1
| ether man. The consequence was that hlepaiuSvn sun
rot only 22 votes against 90 ON motion & 70 eep
! him the candidate. The convention WIZ ,1I 1oS'
nun HIN '' vhen warm work NAV be- expected. heh-
Ttlson lfor the present the candidatel TON t Ger
assntion that he was only Greenbaeker 0''-