New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-28
POLITICAL NOTES.

1
! Mr. Tilden's only hope is to make a scapegoat of
| Marble as he did of Hewitt-if he can.
| Watterson can see now what sIindy he stirred
| ND when he induced Marble 10 help him smash
| Hewitt.
The only thing that remains TO be said of Kearney
! is that as political influence of any kind he is
| completely played out.
Perhaps it begins to occur to Thurman that he
has made tremendous sacrifice to obtain, at best,
only tbesecond place on hopeless ticket III 1851
1t is the sheercst waste of time to expose the fall
lacies in General Buffers financial speeches The
General knows as much about finance as a bat does
| about drawingrOOm etiquette
There is growing suspicion that even if Mr. Til
den is the great and glorious refOrmer he pretends
TO be he is hampered by an uneOmmonly large and
active lot OF wicked partners"
| General Schenck has been travelling for month
| in Vermont and reports the result of his poit-
| cal observations, that he found only one Hayes
Republican, an old man who thought the President
meant WELL" Was the lonesome old gentleman
| Judge Polandf
| News comes from Nevada that Senator Jones will
be easily reelected, and that Senator Sharon will re-
sign the seat he has never pretended to occupy Mr.
Jones is SAID TO be exceedingly popular in all parts
of the State, which is entirely probable, for he Is
| popular everywhere.
| The Hon. GOdloVe S. Orth has made brief speech
in the district where he has been nominated for Con
gress and has been moved to remark that no shall
attempt 10 meet the foul slanderer and enemy before
the campaign closes and put his heel on him." 1t
ought to suggest itself Mr.. Orth that the time to
meet that foul sauderer7 is now, before the cam
| paign begins. The charge against him has been
! standing unmet for more than two years, and be
ought to be fully prepared to Tefute 1t without an
hours delay, If he can reiute IT,
An instance of the rapid manner in which the
| Greenback movement is disintegrating in Maine is
| furnished in the fortunes of a club at Newport.
few months ago it had very large membership and
| a thorough organization. Now, its former DFeSi-
| dent is making honest money speeches. and when
the club tried TO pull itself together TO elect a
president the other day. u could muster only seven
members. This is striking YiEdicaton OF the WIS
dom of Mr.. Blaine's course IN making vigorous
| attack upon the lntatuaElOn. The whole movement
50 hollow and weak 1t began to totter even De
| fore 1t was hit.
| A Virginia farmer has written to the Treasury
! Department at Washington, requesting loan OF
| $50 I'LL October, 1879 He says he wishes To pur-
| chase q pair of mules and has good prospects for
earning enough money with them to pay the Gov
eminent $40 for the loan, well To pay back the
principal as early as the middle of October, 1879
The letter ought to be referred TO General Butler.
II IL i'm harmony with his views Of political economy
| as applied to the Government, and he would In all
TTobability be glad to furnish the money himself.
In would in any event he cheap way OF securing n
| vote for Butler for President IN 1850.
| Patterson denies unequivoeally the Washington
| rumor that he had been trying to escape prosecu-
ton in South Carolina by Offering to resign mis- seat
in the Senate He also denies that he left Washing
| ton TO avoid arrest. He has been to Pennsylvania
for his health which had been impaired by tho I'M
portunities Of Ofice-hunteTs, for whom he could do
| nothing, because of his unpleasant relations with
] the Administration. He has no hope of any Repub-
icon success whatever IN South Carolina this year,
lint il confident that the Democrats VIII elect their
State legislative and congressman tickets FatteF-
| son talks like a man 10 whom life IS burden. The
only thing which makes him at all cheerful seems
10 he a hope that the Democratic party Is speedily
coming INTO power
! Mr.. Tilden can relieve himself of the burden Of
Mr.. Marbles cipher dispatches ty publishing brief
card saving that he was in no way responsible for
them aud never saw them until they were published
! in me tribune. But perhaps he cannot say this.
! lie may be as closely connected with Dir. Marble rs
a certain eminent politician of neighborng State
was with one OF his employees, The politician in
question wasalso large manufacturer, and one of
his mills healowed boiler TO be retained in service
after II warknown TO DC in q dangerously weak con-
diuon. Some of his friends questioned mm about
this one dav asking why man so wealthy as he was
allowed that boiler 20 remain IN use. The answer
! WAS prompt and convincing " The engineer VINO
| runs that boiler Is the only man who knows any
| thing agin me in politics. Some day that hieF y
! poiug 10 bust and blow him into the Great HeTeai-
ter and that will leave me with untarnished rec
| ord Perhaps MIR. Marble knows something agln
the belated refOnner whom he was trying 10 clpher
| into the Presidency, which makes silence on Mr.
| Illdenis part merely discretion