New-York tribune., 1878-05-27
POLITICAL NOTES.

1t is easier to yell fraud than to prove it, isn't 1t
Mr.. Potter
Nephew Peton should be given a fresh opportunity
to display the defects Of his memory.
If the Potter expedition should turn out to be
disastrous failure, what a wretched man Dir. Hen
bricks would be
1t ia a natural sequence that the COpperhead of
the Rebellion should be the most rampant revou-
ZIONIST of to-day. The Northern Democrat is the
worst of his species.
They suspect out in Ohio that one object of the
revolution may be to make Senator Thurman Pres-
dent TIL 1880. That runOr does not hail from
Gramercy Park.
Perhaps Mr.. Randalps zeal in behalf of the fraud
movement is prompted by a conviction that Tilden
and Randall would be an uncommoDy nice ticket
for 1850. Mr. Hendricks should mediate upon tins
possibility.
The South is making desperate efforts through
its newspapers to escape from the effects of the
stand of its Congressman against the President
But repentance comes too late. The country has
lost faith in the good intent of section which talks
so fairly and votes so outrageously.
Senator Wallace seems to have understood what
Randall went to Pennsylvania for, because he tele-
rraphed to Washington at the close of the cOnyen-
tion Have carried everything The Tllden men
were here in force but did not prevail.D That gives
n fresh significance to the declaration of Mr.. Wal
laces platform against any attempt TO unseat the
President.
The latest gossip about Pennsylvania politics is
that Mr. Randall is extremely hkoly to be left at
home at the next election. Senator Wallace is so
elated with his victory in the State Convention that
he il said to threaten to continue the fight in Mr..
RandalPs district and defeat his denomination. This
will not be difficult task. There is ugly feeling
i'm Pennsylvania that the Speakers anxiety to win
strengt in the West has led him to neglect the
y has excellent excuse for existence III the crooked
rulings and votes of the Speaker during this session.
As a subordinate step in therevolutionary scheme,
il is proposed to redstrict Missouri so as to give the
entire delegation TO the Democrats. They have nine
of the thirteen districts now. The consequences of
an increase should be calmly considered by the
marty The present delegation includes Glover,
BLAND and Buckner, three men who have given the
party no end of trouble. If they capture the four
other districts they will be dangerously likely to
and even a revolution could not balance two such
men,
Mr. W. NJ. Ampt of Cincinnati, is impatient to re-
Leye himself of that story of his which he is said to
have estimated rs pOrtentous enough to startle two
continents. He has written letter to Congressman
J. D. Cox requesting opportunity to testify before
the Potter Committee. He says he considers the
charge of fraud an lmputatiOn upon the honor and
honesty of every man who went South in the Presi-
dents interest and he wishes to yindicae himself
lie went TO Florida, and though he hasn't much to
saw he is anxious to say it. He is extremely careful
not to say which side his testimony will affect,
winch may account for the Democratic backward
ness to summon him.