New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-27
POLITICAL NOTES.

Give up digging for fraud and try your hand at
clans, Dir. Potter,
Major Burke's attenuated story details with sub
dued enthusiasm the great deeds Of Major Burke.
The size of Senator Thurman's Presidential
chances viii depend upon the way Ohio goes in
October.
The deputy fraud dggcrs are on their way home
from New Orleans and the exhausted Louisiana
liar will have chance TO recuDerate.
II the Administration would borrow backbone
somewhere and put plenty Of grip" into the rest
of its term, there would not be a whisper Of the
Grant movement left by 1880.
The Democratic opening in Ohio has been post
poned three days. or till August Is. The cause for
delay is not given, but it is entirely probable that
Mr.. Thurman required time TO work himself
into closer fellowship with the Ohio ldea.
That windy but wilted statesman, Samuel Cary,
admits that the prospects of the National party in
Ohio this year are not very flattering, but he
poets TO see them carry Michigan by $4,000
majority and is sure they will "almost carry"
Pennsylvania. There is virtue and pathos in that
almost"
Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, reappears upon the
surface of politics with the remark that his heart
yearns for another term OF General Grant, and he
Will have nothing to do with politics until That de-
sire is gratRed. General Grants enemies cannot do
a shrewder thing than to encourage CLAYTON and
bis kind express themselves often and feryently
for d third term.
Congressman Foster thinks the Republican pros
poets IN Ohio are good because there is dispOsi-
ton to quarrel with the Administration, and no.
body will stay away from tue polls because he does
not like the White House policy. That the prev
alcnt Republican disposition everywhere. Nobody
wants TO "Tebuke" the Administration badly
enough To let the Democrats come into power.
IL
though unattended Int in of his recent speeches
in Georgia. His feeble condition iustifes him in
carrying about in his pocket small bottle of re-
freshing liquid said by competent authorities to be
Bourbon whskey. When his talking begins TO
weary him he draws forth the bottle and drinks like
man in the presence of his audience. On the occa-
sion alluded 10. he had been mdulging in his favor
ito OratOrcal Hight the principles Of the immortal
Jefferson. As he closed, he produced the bottle,
his pocket said: Yes fellow citizens, this is true
Democracy" IL was the most popular sentiment
ever uttered in Georgia.
The Hon. Gleani w. SeoGed, Register of the
Treasury. has put the limit OF the hard times long
way into the future. He says that before the war
he could get good board at his home in Warren,
Penn. for 50 n week, and he doesn't expect 10
good times again till the price Is reached.
AT present the rate is So the precise sum he used
10 pay AT inc Dtsl nOtti III Nllcft the
price now is $1sa week This calculation gives a
new importance 10 the much abused persons who
engineer what are vulgarly called hash fac
tories" Mr.. Scoheld's words should he carefully
excluded from the attention of the National party
lest they organize movement against boarding
houses and hotels as the greatest enemies OF the
oppressed people.
II is generally agreed on all sides that Mr.. Hen
bricks has ceased TO be a Presidential p ssiblity,
and that Mr.. Thurman has taken his place This
may be reversed by the October elections, for If
Indiana should go Democratic and Ohio Republican.
Mr.. Thurman would subside as quickly as he arose.
Ifboth States go Republican. or both go Democratic,
Thurman would still be ahead. If Indiana should
go Republican and Ohio Democratic of course
Thurman would be stronger than ever. Both men
are thoroughly identified with the campaigns in
their States the canvass will be made under their
leadership. Both aTe committed To the worst kind
OF initiation principles, for Hendricks must support
Voorhees, for the Senate. aud Thurman must stand
on the " Ohio idea " for platform. Ii will be a
risky contest TO bet on, but the man who bets on
Hendricks viii run the greater risk.