New-York tribune., 1878-07-13
POLITICAL NOTES.


The Fall campaign cannot be won by snarling, but
by hard work.
Collector Merritt will be amazed presently at the
multitude of his friends.
The South can well afford to pay JEFF Davis lib
eral salary TO keep his mouth shut.
General Buffers fraud bird slips away from hun
every time just he gets ready to deposit the salt
on its tail.
Webber is hopelessly involved in the conflict of
his own lies and cries out that there is conspiracy
10 ruin him. 1t would be like running an over-rpe
egg
The party Of the Disconnected is known variously
as Labor Reform, Greenback and National. but a
more appropriate name would be Assistant-Demo-
cratic 1t simply affords an opportunity to cast a
left-handed Democratic ticket.
Brother-in-law Casey is a furious third termer, as
might have been expected. He says General Grant
is sure to be nominated the first ballot, and that
the Southern Republicans will DO solid for him.. If
Mr. Casey is anxious to have his prediction verified,
he should secrcte himself from the public eye till
1880.
Mr. Watterson is still labOring under the imprss
sion that the public is interested in his controversy
with Mr.. Hewitt. lie calls the latter a veteran
and varlegated prevaucator." and once more begs
Mr. Marble to come out and sustain his charges. If
Mr. Marble thinks of going into the card publishing
business, he Will ind the pubic most interested IN
any thing he may have to say concerning Mclhns
charge that Marble assured him that " he would not
die poor man " if he gave the vote OF Florida to
Tden.
The greenback complications in Maine are not
confined to the Fifth District In the First District
proposals have been made by the Democrats for y
combination ticket and the leaders of the Green
back party have thought favorably of them; but
the candidate picked out does not suit anybody ex
o,,I Of ,ts-
cuous boiling if he is nominated The fact is, the
Greenbacll party has been nourlshed and nattered
by the Democrats for the purpose of drawing
strength from the Republicans, and the few Repub-
licans who were begued into the movement are
finding this out, and are returning TO the old party.
This narrOws the organization down to lot Of sore
heads from both old partIes all Of whom want
office, and will bolt If they don't get one
The Wisconsin Democrats are in a curious situa-
ton They tried to absorb the National party last
wear. and find now that the National party has alb
sorbed them. They adopted a soft-money platform
and nominated Greenback ticket. They were
beaten, but when the Legislature met they formed
the same coalition over again. and again got the
worst of it, for the Nationals reaped all the benefits.
The net result has been to strengthen the party
at the expense of the old, 80 that the former has
started out on the coming campaign all by itself.
Ii does not consult the Democrats at all, but goes
ahead and nomnates its candidates, and leaves its
or 90 ahead alone and be hOpelessy beaten. Tins
is precisely the condition OF affairs which the Re
publicans like most to see, for it gives them the
State beyond doubt.
There are a good many "hard blowers" in the
National party, but the Hon. Sam Cary easily the
hardest Of all. He has already announced, with the
positiYoness of omniscience that the Nationals will
hold the balance of power in the next Congress,
and elect the next President. He tells reporter Of
The Cincinnati Enquirer that the party is growing
like weed in all parts of the United States. He
starts out to say that it will elect sixteen or
eighteen Congressman in the Fall elections. and be-
fore he finishes he gets the number up TO twenty
distributing them as follows Five from Michigan
two or three from Illinois; two from Wisconsin /;
two from Missouri two from Iowa one from Ar
kansas two from Texas ono from West Virginia ;
one from New-Jersey; one from Maine. and one
from Ohio Besides this, the Nationals will control
the LeQi stature in NeW-YOrk and defeat Conkling;
do the same thing in Pennsylvania, and defeat
Cameron defeat Voorhees, in Indiana, and Howe in
Wisconsin, and control the SenatOrship in Mis-
souri, This is "a modest claim, and it will sur
prise nobody so much as Voorhees,. III he isn't
full-blOoded National, who isl Cary says Frank
Hughes will be the next Senator from Pennsyl-
vania. That will be fresh news 10 the Democrats
there who think about as much of Hughes as they
do of Don Cameron. In concluding his observation
Cary is good and unassuming enough TO say that
he docs not expect to be the next Presdenthe has