New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-23
POLITICAL NOTES.


That Butler delegate in the Worcester COnven-
ton making speech with his left eye frescoed and
a pipe in his mouth was q subject worthy of the
pencil of q HOgarth.
The attempt to switch the Republican party off
from the straight hard-money track to a crooked
greenback side-track is proving a lamentable fail
uTe.
As bother General Butler will rank above Gen
eral Grant For while the latter only bottled But
ler Butler has bottled the Democratic party Of
Massachusetts,.
Butler quoting scripture has become a familiar
figure. But his comparison of the creation of light
with the printing of rag money approaches little
nearer the sublime than any previous eHOft on MS
part.
, General Lew Wallace in a published card reit-
crates his opinion that Mr. Orth cannot and ought
not to be elected to Congress from the lXth In
diana District Evidently the GOyernorship of New
Mexico is very Intellectual choke-pear
The report that Montgomery Blair would be an
independent candidate for Congress in the With
MARYLAND District is pronounced untrue. He has no
leisure for such folv The entire weight OF his col
ossal intellect is centred upon those cipher tele
grams
General Butler bulldozing witnesses before the
Potter Committee was n sight that conyulsed Dem
ocratic editors with laughter. But General Butler
DullQOZlng GOe DeMOcfdItC PETTY VI hldcstCuuSobtS
affects the aforesaid editors much as red rag does
an enraged bull.
Without waiting for an official notification Of
their nomination, two of Mr.. Buffers coparceners
step down and off his ticket. d. n. Skillings, NOM
mated for Treasurer, and John Boyle O'ReIlly,
nominated for Auditor have written letters declin-
ing the positions rendered them. Neither of them
says whether he will support the Worcester ticket
or not but both doubtless glad 70 get out OF tho
company in which they found themselves.
The two Republican aspirants for Congressional
honors in the XXIId District of this State have
adopted commendable course to settle their dis
pute. Both are residents of Jefferson County. BY
an agreement between them the delegates from
that county are to go into the convention I'M
pledged and the nomination will consequently be
secured by the gentleman who can obtain the largest
support outside his own county. IhIs removes all
bitterness from the contest, and assures harmony
and success.
Ben Hill has made long speech to the faithful in
Georgia, which from beginning to end was nothing
but an appeal TO vote the Democratic ticket through
thick and thin. He was sure the Republican party
was doomed and the Democratic party destined to
be in power for q generation TO come. 81 begin to
think he said that the Democratic party can
never be killed. Secession did not kill it; the
has not killed it fraud has not killed it 1t has
killed itself aud it will not die" Mr.. Hi seems TO
be surprised that any party should survive such
series OF dlSgfaceS, ana wen he may D. III IL no
wonder that he concludes that party which could
live through so much would live forever
The convention which nominated old Mr.. Stratton
for Congress tho other day in the LIST District of
New-Jersey seems to have been a normal Demo-
cratic assemblage. There was greater carnage and
more raiment stripped into shreds at the Honorable
Miles Ross's Convention and the blasphemy was
more sulphurous. But then the South Jersey show
lasted longer and it contained Scovel. Captain
Isaiah Rynders's Convention was rather more
fragrant in its fraud because it openly robbed
Mr. Cutler of his nomination after he had been
chosen fairly three separate times. But the Cap
tain didn't do his work up clean and Cutler is left
with another chance-whle Grosscup in Camden
was laid out so stif that he will stay where he has
been put. So far Democratic conventions in New
Jersey have been trihe more disgraceful than
usual this Fall-and the With District is yet to
hnar from.