New-York tribune., 1878-10-08
POLITICAL NOTES.

Oh Moses MantOn Mobile, won't you Just gODDle
to-,ay's TRIBUNkl
Who anteed that money 10 buy the Florida
Returning Board Echo answers {: " WhoT
IL McLin, OF Florida, is m ague-smitten Pariah,
what is the condition Of his polysyllabic accuserf
Does anybody ycarn for n further injection Of
cipher morality into American politics There's a
great deal more coming.
Mr.. Marble il horrible example Of the moral
desolation tn which the persistent editing Of Dem
ocratic newspaper can bring man.
The elections today likely to furnish surprises
10 all parties, but they Will he useful In giving n
dchnte indication of the power for evil existing in
the Democratic Greenback coalition.
Now that Tarbox has unlimbered his chin. Gen
cral Butler and Hendrck B. Wright will not have
the hardihood TO call themselves tho only dema-
gogues in the country.
Several assistant Democratic editors, who are
pleased 20 call themselves Independent. have been
drcadfully afraid The TRIBUNE would not find any
crookedness i'm the reform " clphers Perhaps to-
days TRIBUNE will soothe them.
Mr.. Marble is still sending out his pamphlet
edition of his remarkable shechnah letter, entitled
Secret Chapter of Political History" THE
TRIBUNE generously advertises the work this morn
ing by liberal quotations from IL. and furnishes at
the low price Of four cents complete Key 10 its
otherwise unintelhgible sentences.
The gifted but unnppreciated Tarbox has made a
solemn explanation of his reasons for supporting
Butler, but has lett out entirely the true one.
which was an understanding that ho should be sent
10 Congress He remarks that Butler may be a bad
man. but If he Is TarbOx does not know IT, This isn't
bit strange for this world IL crowded with seltey-
dent facts which TarbOx has never absorbed.
Mr. James Parton has made q statement
| concerning General Butler. He says he is
| not a Greonbacker. but at the same time he
would be delighted to soc Butler Governor. know
| ing him to be an honest, able man. devoted pa
| triot and possessed by an honorable ambition to
| serve his country" Mr.. Parton also thinks that
fifteen years OF abuse deserves some atonement."
There are people IN Massachusetts, and else where
who think that fifteen years OF political DlsnW hack-
| ing deserves some punishment.
| Mr. H. Bowman. who has been nominated by
| the Republicans to succeed General Banks IN Con-
oress. has defined his political attitude in an ad-
| mirable speech. lie is unfrnchingly IN favor Of
honest money, and believes the future of the Repub-
| hcan party depends upon the unaniInity and vigOr
| with which 10 meets present issues He thinks the
| next two years of Congressional service will be
| among the most important this country has ever
| seen and he sees no place for a man who wishes TO
| 6vht ON the right side except IN the Republican
| ranks. That Is what good many people are hnd-
| ing out, and the straiRber the Republican party
stands up on the money question tne iaster VIII the
| recruits come In
| The champion demagogue of Pennsylvania, Hen
| drick b. Wright. has ut last healed the quarrel
among his Democratic supporters and won the party
| as we'll as the National nomination for Congress.
He issaid by The philadelphia Press to have secured
harmony by giving written pledge that he will
vote for the Democratic candidate for Governor and
will induce AZ many Nationals as he can to follow
| his example, THIS Is entirely probable. The Demo-
Gratis declared ut the outset that they would defeat
| bm unless he gave such pledge, and Wright would
even swear give up the coneenial pursuit of dem
| agogsm rather than risk chance Of defeat.
| Governor Hampton has eased the minds Of rival
Democratic vice-Presdential asprants by declaring
that he thinks the candidates for the next National
Democratic ticket should botI be taken from States
outside the Solid South. He thinks this would con-
vince the country that the South 10 disinterested
| and sincere. The Governor has frst-class oppor-
] tunity to convince the country OF his sincerity"
| right under his nose now. III be will mlzZie his
militia and rife clubs and fulfil his promise of Civ
ing the negroes their rights he viii convince the
country that for once he act fairly as he can
| talk Until he does this the quieter no keeps his
| tongue the better.
| Governor Talbot Ia clearly enough determined
that the Republicans of Massachusetts, shall not
fail to elect him through over-eonfdence. He made
| q speech last week at meeting Of town committee
chairmen in Boston, whore thero had been good