New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-03-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Louisiana Supreme Court seems to be biased
against q" REFORM"
Whitaker and Cronin should meet and mngle
sympathetic tear or two
Mr.. TIlden has nothing but the hot corn issue 10
fall back OIL He should revive it In serenade
speech.
The clink of tho silver dollar is not loud In the
land The friction of IL cents premium seems 10 ID
terfere with It,
Between Southern claims and rebel archiVes .he
nerves of the Democracy are badly demOralized.
The party editor Is already on the edge OF panic
There is loud demand for the substitution OF an
eagle for the buzzard ON the 90-cent dollar. Why
not make an enduring record Of the recent contro-
versy by putting on gold Dugf
Doorkeeper Polk doesn't believe the House will
abolish either him or his Office He is sure the party
can't get along without him. Mr.. Polk has made 1t
pretty evident that the party can't get along with
him unless it starts branch Treasury Tor MS
benefit.
General Butler is prancng around Congress with
a bill for the relief of the rag baby, trying TO get
the floor long enough to present it to the House. lie
wants the subsidiary silver currency called ill., and
General is as restless as cocky baby. lie seems
to think that the way to cure hnancial Ills Is 10
change the remedy as often as possible
Secretary Sherman grows more hateful to the
Democrats daily. They were bitter enough toward
him before he defeated that $4,000 postal claim,
but since that they cannot endure even the mention
of his name The Western brother is particularly
mad that Mr.. Sherman should give the Senate COM
mttec his views about Resumption. All tins venom
is additional proof that tue Secretary Is DONG good
work.
The cheering announcement is made that six OF
the Ohio Republican Congressman are determined
to oppose all schemes for further imitation OF the
currency by silver or otherwise and that an effort
will be made to consolidate the Republican party III
Congress in favor Of the Resumption Act and
against rredeemable paper. That is precisely what
ought to be done, and when once u IS eiec,ed 'he
financial future OF the country Will De secure.
Mr. Hendricks will not be inconsolable over the
sudden collapse of the Louisiana prosecutions He
has given the fraud platform several vicious kicks
himself and is just heartess enough to dance a
hornpipe amid It's ruins. With the fraud issue out
of the canvass Mr.. TIlden's principal mortgage on
the party won't be worth picayune, and as lii
denis star goes down. Hendricks hopes TO see his go
MP. Perhaps IL will, but lie would better not SET
bis heart on it too strongly. lhe Oramercy fark
statesman has been retired no end OF times already
but the trouble with him is, that he won't stay
put"
The Democrats all over the country are putting
seductiyey baited hooks under the noses Of the
Nationals They talking beautifully about the
lifelong devotion of the Democracy to the laboring
man, and are asking what is the use of going into
another party to get what the Democrats will only
be too glad to give, provided they can gain posses
sion. They are careful to say nothing, however,
about the increased depression of trade aad in
dusry which the present Congress has caused by its
continual agitation Of financial questions. No party
has ever done the workingmen = much harm as the
Democracy, but il is too much 10 expect that the
workingman himself has yet begun to realize that
fact.