New-York tribune., 1878-04-27
POLITICAL NOTES.

Florida leads the world as a producer of versatile
liars.
If McIin got more than q lead ten-cent piece for
that confession, ii was swlndle.
The fraud" party seems unable to comprehend
the tremendous danger of standing behind It's own
guns
When a man makes affidavit that he is gifted
liar what is the affidavit worth, except to give HIM
standing rs Democratf
The fraud" galaxy Of martyrs now stands
Cronin Whitaker, McLin and Dennis, with Glover,
Knott and Cox rs revolving lumlnarles.
II does not seem worth while for General Ewing
to continue to spend the peoples money simply to
show that no respectable authority finance coin
cides in his fantastic notions.
Senator Barnum appears to think that the Democ-
racy will try 10 dodge all important public issues in
the Fall campaign. II Will have q aborious time
doing that for it Is the wrong side OF all OF them
and viii be kept there.
A curious characteristic of all the victims of the
epidemic of quicened cOnsciences in Florida is their
unanimous confession that they very hungry for
more than year previous to the attack This would
seem to indicate that the provocatOn for the alarm
ing outpOuriug of sins, original and acquired, Wouid
be most easily found by investigating the quality OF
the sudden supply oil loOd'
Northumberland John L. Love, Of San Fran
cisco Is announced rs n candidate for United states
Dstrict-Attoney for California. He Is commended
by the highest authority in the State, and will un-
douLtedly have the hearty support OF Senator Booth
He was Acknowledgement in the trying times when
Mr.. Booth was Governor and retired from oiilce a
poor man. instead of the rich one he might have
been had ho been less scrupulously honest.
The silver question has dropped from politics
completely Nobody has any more silver than he
had before the amended Bland Bib went into opera
ton, but yet there are no signs of dissatisfaction
a., don, ltat.a
attempted to stir up a popular grumbe once or
twice, but have received not the Slightest encour-
agement. The buzzard dollar repOses IN the Treas
ury instead of the pockets OF the people yet the
people seem content, more so possibly than they
would be il they were forced TO carry many OF the
ugly things about with them.
New jersey seems to have been cheated out of her
equitable share of the great river and harbor divide
The roaring Raritan draws S200,000 the Delaware,
S11OOOO; Staten Island Sound, $4,000; the
North and South Branches of the Shrewsbury
SIS 900. and Cohausey Creek $1,000. Besides
these meagre amounts there is little appropriation
of 81, 900 for extracting snags from the mouth of
the Salem River, and little for scraping out
thc bottom of the same stream between SharpstOwn
and the Delaware Canal, and there Is an order to
survey Woodbridge Creek. the river EllzaDeth the
river Railway, and the Manasaquan. II tins COM
have neglected the PaulInsllll, the PeppercOttOn,
the MounscanetkOng, Spindle Gut, and several
other streams and straits navigable for smelts.
The tax-paying citizen who looks over the titles
of the bills introduced in the House of Representa-
tives in the Monday morning hour will not find 1t
cheerful reading. Last Monday bill to endOw the
Lowery Academy in Alabama was referred to the
Committee on Education and Labor, and bills for
the relief of the Presbyterian Church in Manetta,
Ga for the reefof the Medical College of Alabama,
for the relief of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows of Oklahoma Miss, and for the reefof pretty
much everybody and everything else, through
four pages Of The Record Were referred TO the Com
mittee Claims. 1t is appalling to reflect that the
predatory experts of the House have been in train
ing all the session TO frame that Miscellaneous or
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill which Is to be rail
roadcd through just before adjournment. This Is
liable to be the monumental steal ot the age.
II is becoming more and more evident that the
Democratic party will be forced to get upon the
fraud platform this Fall, whether it wishes to or
not The simple fact is that the party has no other
issue. 1t has done nothing in Congress but what is
bad; it is entirely on the defensive, and must yell
"naudr TO divert attention from its own short
coniinCs, OF course it won't help them much. but
then nothing can do that. There are unmistakabl
evidences that the people out of patience with
tins perpetual effort to keep the issues of the last
campaign unsettled. one can see II eyerywhere III
the universal query " hat Is TINS stun about tior
of the whole thing can't read 10 at all" Outside OF
political circles the whole business is regarded as an
unmitig gated bore, and far the agitation has
any effect at all it to create unpleasant feelings
toward the men who are keeping it going.
The sudden weakness of Speaker Randall on the
qneston Of Protection is said TO be due to an old
| offensive and defensive alliance between him and
| Fernando Wood. The agreement is said to have
been that Randall should be made Speaker and
| Wood chairman Of the Ways and Means Committee.
| and the support of the Southern and Western mem
lers was obtained by the promise that if they made
| the scheme a success Wood would prepare tariff
! bill which would protect the Southern tobacco,
| sugar and rice interests, and the Western whskey
traffic Everything was going smoothly till a rival
! candidate for Speaker disclosed the game, ana
| created partial panic among the western members
| by declaring that while Randall sometimes talked
against Protection he always voted IN favor OF It.
TO stop this panic Randall is said to have written
several Letters declaring his sympathy with Free
| Trade movements, the general tone being similar TO
the one already published. These letters are all SAID