New-York tribune., 1878-01-19
POLITICAL NOTES.

There are signs of glut of Presidential candidates
The silver dollar is rolling out of sight with the
most delightful rapdity.
Mr.. Mantle Marbles silence has reached the dig
nifty OF sublimatcd cloquence.
President Seelye must be terribly cast down to
learn from the omnscent editor that he is a mere
baby in worldly knowledge
Even a great reformer cannot afford to model his
course on the notion that all the virtue and wisdom
IN the world Is concentrated under his own hat.
II twould bc difficult 10 find a more aduteratcd ar
ticle of Civil Service reform than that which the
Administration furnishes for the Louisiana mar
ket
Senator Eaton never did moro creditable thing
than when he snubbcd Voorhees, The man Is a
demagocue, with malice aforethought and TO
squelch him is PATRIOTISM
Since General Mcclellan declared himself in favor
of honest money. great many Western Democrats
hovc found out that he wass" dllatOry and ncom-
pctcnt" in the field, and thaS he never was safe
leader anyway.
About the leadest thing in this country to-day is
thc fraud" war whoop. 1t has had as many lives
"a q cat and every successive death has been moro
violent than its predecessor. Even Mr.. Tdcn must
be convinced that tho Jig is about up now.
ferocious attack upon Speaker Randall has
broken out within day or two in the new Demo
cratic organ at Washington, The Post. Keen OBJ
servers of the disturbance think they discern the
manly form of Mr.. Cox and other disappointed as
pirans for the SpcakerShp dodgng about Ill the
Background
General Williams made an eloquent speech before
the Kentucky caucus which nominated him for Scna-
tor and swore themost sonorous rhetoric to stand
by the Constitution, as "it lifts its dome toward
heaven in all the grandeur with which IT came from
nur forafa hprs y The Gem
crol viii have hard work to find i'll even "dOmed"
Constitution any authority for making ~ cents n
dollar vet that is what he also pledges himself to
work for
Aso SHARED monument of Democratic grace. John
SON of Sumptcr. just now towers very high in the
air. Johnson was elected to the South Carolina
House of Representatives, but he could not prove
it. because the ballot boxes had been desoated, and
vet this Republican was given his seat bv the Dem
orratic majority. 1t looks as if those influences
which tend ito make reason and the Kingdom of
God prevail were more potent IN Columbia than
in Washington.
There is moro than 4 suspicion in the minds OF the
SILVER advocates that voorhees, oyerdd the business
1t was all well enough for him to roar silly false
hoods about "surreptti0us decentralization" but
when he followed these with denunclations OF the
Resumption Act and pleas for unlimited greenbacks
the silver agitator turned pale, and has been re-
rating ever since. lucIc II no lctSOu WHY hc
should though tor Voorhees, is the more logical of
the two. Unlimited silver Is unlimited imitation, as
well rs repudiatOn, and the most emphatic protests
in the world can't make it anything else.
Signs multiply that the people of the West have
been msrepresented on the silver question. In
indianapolis. the very cen;rc of all initiation panics,
careful investigation elbows an overwhelming por-
tion of the better clements of the city to be against
unlimited silver. The Journal, of that city, has re-
Gently sent reporters among the leading business
men, to find out their attitude and the result has
been the discovering of only here and there man
in favor of anything but honest money There was
found tr No an almost entire unanmty of sentiment
in favo: or dollar worth 100 cents, based gold
standard. The vote for Garfield in the Ohio Legis-
lature was an equally valuable revelation about
Ohio. The people are ut last making their voice