New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-02
POLITICAL NOTES.

As an investigator, Potter is simply nip for
| GloveTs tuck
The silence of Montgomery Blair is SO dense as TO
| be almost painful.
| Mr. Foster makes a brutal attack upon corpse
! when he assails Democratic economy"
| The Democratic editor is backward in showing
his ioy over Eliza PinkstOn's confession. His faith
| in such documents seems to have waned.
| IL doesn't seem worth while to send a committee
to New-Oreans to find out what everybody knew
before. that Packard believes that he was legally
| elected Governor OF Louisiana.
Collector Smith, of NewOrleans, is a civil service
rcformer of the right sort. lie says the only polt-
ca service he is doing Secretary Sherman is the in
direct one of efficiently collecting the revenue. All
parties in New-Orieans agree that he Is attending
strictly to business, and ignoring politics.
The startling announcement Is made that EDh
Holland, of Cincinnati, has determined to JOIN the
Republican party. The ingratitude Of the Ohio
Democrats has gone to his heart and he will stuff
ballot-bOxes for them no more. This VIII be
fatal to Banning but perhaps it will not be alto
gether unpleasant news in Washington. Inc Admin
istration has been trying TO eOnciIate eminent Dem
ocrats but its pardon of Holland seems 10 be tho
only crumb of the abundant bread east upon the
waters which has returned at all.
There is painful dssimilarity in style between
Mrs Jenks's letters to Anderson and the letter she
dictated to the unknown amanuensis in Parlor
p" The latter epistle has statesmanlike Tone
as she claimed it had, but whatever " tone" there
is about the Others is long way below the level
of modern craftsmanship even. How Stanley
Matthews could be in correspondence with such
pair of adventures as these letters disclose, and
could even stand lecture on proprIety from Mrs.
jerks will ever be among the greatest mysteries
OF this or any other age
Stanley Matthews makes a curious remark about
l. kofor Dof He
told correspondent of The Cincinnati Commercial
before leaving Washington, that he did not care TO
say much about his reasons for refusing at present.
but he would say with emphasis that he was not re-
strained by selfish motives. So far as be was person.
ally concerned be feared nothing the Potter Commit
tee Ben Butler included. could do, or any questions
they could ask. III this means anything 1t means
that Mr.. Matthews looks upon himself rs martyr
to somebody else-that he is sacrificing himself to
protect another person. If he Is doing that be
might as well tell who that other person IL. as TO
hint at his existence. The attempted mystery only
stimulates speculation. and speculation about
political secrets knows no reason or law,
Senator Thurman fairly bubbles over with hap
piness. He is so grateful to the Ohio Demo-
Gratis that he is anxious to prove that he has always
agreed with them in the worst of their financial
hereses He tells reporter of The Cincinnati En-
qairer that he spoke and voted against the ReSump-
ton Act when il passed the Senate, and voted for
its repeal at the last session: that no man worked
harder than he did for unlimited silver, and that he
was the first man in Ohio to favor the substitution
of greenbacks for National bank notes. His zeal
for this sort of finance is so sudden and so intense
that The Enquirer, which has been his ablest and
most effective enemy for the past FIVE or six years
wonders what the trouble has been about anyway,
| if Mr. Thurman has held these views all the time
Ii is bewildeung. Mr. Thurman has jumped into
the fight just as it is ended, and asks everybody to
believe he has been at the front all the time, deal
ing out fire and slaughter beyond all description.
| The Ohio Democrats evidently believe him, for
| they are apparently united under his lead.
Whether they can secure his nomination for the
Presidency is difficult question TO answer, but II
they remain united, they can make HIM what he
never was before, formidable candidate. The Re
publicans will contemplate the possibility OF his
nomination with entire equanimity.