New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-07

own riotous convention. For it will give them one
chance at least of voting for reputable man.
IL appears from the full text of the articles on
Canadian Customs Union, in The London Times, that
Il assumed. without sufficient grounds, that an OIL
cial suggestion had been made from Washington on
that matter It's Philadelphia correspondent gave
the current opinions the subject, but went no fur
Their than to say that there is reason
to believe that this suggestion is now receiving
attention in United States official circles and that,
if the Dominion were assured Of perfect liberty OF
action, a negotiation looking to ultimate re-
ciproclty might be proposed upon the basis
above sketched." The Times magnihed this
statement into an actual proposal, and pro-
ceeded to argue pOnderousy on the subject. Its
confusion on the matter generally must have
been very great. On Monday August 26) 1t de-
clared there is no disposition in Great Britain
TO fetter Canadian liberty Of action, even If
the establishment of Customs Union with
the States was the result OF IT, ana
again, 1.-THE mind of Canada can be freely
expressed in the Parliament of the Dominion, and
we are willing to abide by its free declarations"
Next day it returned to the subject and recanted the
above. saying Canada has the fullest liberty in
regulating its tariff subject to the single condition
that the import duties it imposes must be the same
for alD This provision, it must have known, would
be tho greatest "fetter" England could impose,
were a Customs Union seriously contemplated.
It does not always follow that because man has
proved himself an accomplished and destructive
enemy of his country in the field, he therefore
would make valuable member of Congress. Here
is General 10. Johnston, for instance, who just
escaped being a member of the Cancellation Cabi-
net because he had shown himself a better fighter
than most other rebels Nominated for Congress for
the same reason, no is left TO fabricate his own
platform and he selects about as bad lot OF
material as can be found in the political lumber
market man who pledges himself TO vote for an
abundance of paper money" and for scaling
down the tax on tobacco and other Democratic
luxuries, who forgets how amiable Republicans
have tried to conciliate him, and credits the Demo-
cratic party with releasing the South from the
condition Of conquered provinces" can safely be
trusted to vote. he fought, on the wrong side of
every issue Of National imp' rtance.
The judicial reserve of Mr.. Blackburn. as an al
legged investigator thaws out into a fluent express
sion of views" whenever an interviewer subjects
him 10 moderate friction. The last column Of opinion
which oozed from Mr.. Blackburn was TO the effect
that the american people would never abandon
the fraud issue" Mr. Blackburn has evidently been
asleep for a few weeks. Somebody ought to tell
him that Mobile and Gobbe and all the rest of that
very considerable fraction of the American people
who were in telegraphic communication with
Gramercy Park some two years ago, are at present
engaged in abandoning the fraud issue with great
energy and perseverance,
The KeDsington iron workers seem to think that
tho volume OF business now doing IN that particular
industry is sufficient to justify strike for higher
pay If so, the public has been treated to great
amount OF misinfOrmation However that may be-
the murderous assault upon an old man of sixty for
the crime of working for the wages which were re-
fused by the stout young fellows who stoned him,
was nothing less than cOwardly and malignant
II il difficult to understand why the manning or
murder OF tho man who will work by the man who
Won't work should DO regarded one OF the rights
of labor"
What with his yacht and his bonds and the $780,
600 worth Of poor sailors prize-money which he
pocketed for horny -handed legal services, virtuous
Massachusetts, to think that Butler, rs arepre
sentative of the patriotic labOring classes is some
thing Of an inconsistency. But what Of that
Massachusetts, never suspected Butler of any pOitl
cal consistency sincerity or morality, and yet for
years she has outraged public sentiment by sending
him to the National Congress. This Is why the
country at large rather enjoys the present distress
of virtuous Massachusetts,.
"n these dispatches had been traced home TO
me, should deem il disgrace from which woald
never recover These are the words of the Hon.
Abram s. Hewitt and the dispatches referred to are
the Gramercy Park kilograms. II is to be hoped
that this expression Of opinion by the late chairman
of the Democratic National Committee will not al
together escape the notice Of Colonel VIM T. PeltOn
and others.
Mr.. Fernando Wood solitary and alone, wrestling
with athletic Custom House clerks TO gain some
aid and comfort for his Tariff Bill next Winter,
is a moving spectacle for the sympathetic and
scientific Free Trader.
POLITICAL NOTES.
Does Mr.. Tilden sigh for some more ciphers3 He
shall not sigh in vain.
Where did the Nephew Of his Uncle learn all
his political skulduggery, anyway
An uneommOnly good opportunity is presented for
Mr.. Tiden once more TO come out bald-headed and
shout; II am ruined By fraud.'