New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-18
POLITICAL NOTES.

Massachusetts, is good deal madden than wet
hen.
Butler may never make himself Governor, out ne
Is having glorious shlndy.
Once more Butler has touched off his powder boat
and hit nothing but the empty air.
Tammany cannot do Mr.. Tilden a greater favor
than to try to carry the State Convention for soft
money.
Whether Mr.. Sherman intended TO surrender or
not to the Greenback movement he has succeeded
in powerfully stimulating 1t.
There is the true Butler flavor of smartness about
that Worcester trick but the only result will be to
split the Democratic party and make Buffers sue
cess impossible.
The latest disastrous news about hestrikng Con-
gresham from Maine, Mr. Murch, is that he is
warm friend Of the great and eruptive Mullett who
was present in the district and aided IN bringing
about what The UOrld calls cataclysm.
Every honest man is taking comfort in the
thought that the Resumption Act will go into effect
before the Congress to be elected this Fall gets to-
gether There are sufficient barricades in the Sem
ate and in the White House TO hold the December
session of the present Congress IN check.
Nobody but Butler would have had the audacity to
put Caleb Cushing IN subordinate position on a
ticket with Butler at the head oft. 1t is a remark
able combination as it stands but it would have
been more grotesque if Charles Francis Adams could
have had the nomination for Secretary of State.
What trio that would nave made: Butler, Cush-
ing, Adams! Think OF putting them III a Dag ana
shaking them up!
Ex-senator Robertson, of South Carolina, expects
to see a solid Democratic Congressional delegation
elected from that State this FALL lie says the Re
pubhcans will make no fight except in the LIST and
lid Districts, and he does not think they can sue
coed there as the cOlOred vote longer be held
for them. He is sure Hampton will be elected to
the United States Senate, and hopes to see him q
candidate for Vice. President in 1850 All of which
the State and are bound TO keep t at any cost Tor
the two Congressional Districts Mr. Robertson men
tons cannot De carried for the Democrats except by
terrific bulldOzlng.
Ex-senator Morrill,, of Maine, has been giving an
explanation of the Republican defeat in bis State to
a reporter of The ST. Louis Post He says the "pri-
mary cause is that tho Republicans weakened on the
finance question and surrendered the good name we
had earned as the most faithful advocates of honest
money. No party ever had better principles or q
grandcr record than the Republican party, and when
ITS leaders weaken before question as important
and as vital the finance question: cannot be eX-
pected that anything but disaster VIII follow. MT
Morrill, - something OF Grant man, ana says Nc
found more talk in favor OF the General IN the west
than IN the East. Grant a strong man, hc thinks;
The people believe when they have MN at the neau
.
say: " He saved the country once; he may have to
save il again.
The Republicans of Massachusetts, will nominate
the next Governor of that State as Worcester to-
day His name will De Thomas Talbot, and the GER
tainty of his election is assured by the split of the
Democratic party. Mr.. Talbot has made a speech
within a day OF two which shows what perfect
opposite no is to Butler on important public ques-
tons He believed if Congress had not met last
Fall. and kept the country IN turmoil by ITS inan-
ca and political yagaries the business of the coun-
try would now be in fair condition Ii was great
mistake to suppose wild talk and agitation did not
harm business, and thus injure the workingnan.
Capital IL the friend of the wOrkingman, but capl-
tai is tlmid If his mills for some years could
have stopped in December and resumed IN April;
thev wouid have made more money, but they had
run 10 give the employees occupation. This is pre-
cisely what great many other manufacturers nave
done who in return for their kindness, now see
their employees running after Butler in wild cru
SADIE against capital and industry.