New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-21
POLITICAL NOTES.

Roorbacks will be as plenty as Southern CLAIMS
presently.
Will Congress condeScend 10 attend TO the pubic
business for day or two now
Glover realizes that he stunning mere side show
now and is disposed to put up the shutters.
Mr.. Potter can hurry mp things by advertising
liberal reward for the quickCulng OF OYerWoiked
conscieuces, for ten days only
Mr.. Randall wouldn't have been so good Demo-
crat if he had given Mr.. Hale place on that tx
plorinq Committee. but he would have been more
impartial Speaker.
It would be n moving act Of patriotism for Mr..
Tilden to announce that he will defray in person
the expense Of this Potter expedition 1t is under
taken for his benefit, and why SHOULDN'T he pay the
chargef
Springer suspects that he has been snubbed, and
If looks as if he had. He should console himself
with the reflection that all modern statesmen be
is the one whom the country most reJOces III seeing
squelchcd.
That Republican Congressional address seems to
have stirred up the Democratic brethren. They did
not expect evidently, to have the cover removed
from their little game iii so precipitate manner
They declare they do not revolution, but they
declared lust as emphaticay that they would abide
by the finding OF the Electoral Commission.
Mr. Watterson voices nervous apprehension Of
coming trouble. which agtating the entire DEM
ocratic party when he says to the Potter investiga
tors: "Wo to you if your work fall short Of the
markw Every man in the party realizes that moth
ing but the NEST startling disclosures can justify
this uncaled-for effort to revolutonize the country
and he has precious little hope that any such dis
closures viii be made. Mr.. Watterson also remarks
with considerable pathos: I'VE have had a surfeit
of laundering" Poor man! The trouble has Just
begun.
General Grant writes to his friends IN VEN
which will be apt to discourage Bishop Haven and
other third term advocates. He says the immedi-
ately prospective relations Of parties demand an
important struggle before the political status of the
| country can be regarded permanently estab-
| lished within the bonds of legitimate aud safe
political issues and party feeling. As for himself
he thinks his eight years i'll the army. and eight
more in civil administration, constitute his share OF
public service, and he hopes TO return nome aIter
another year to enjoy the quiet of private life He
seeks no responsibilities OF public service, and
| will decline them perSlstehtly'
Cassius NJ Clay joins the small minority of Demo-
crafts who have tho hardhood to denounce the reck-
less conduct of the party leaders at Washington
He tells a reporter of The Cincinnati Enquirer that
he thinks the movement uncallcd for and silly He
can see no good result possible, since if Tilden is
| seated, the next Congress may be Republican and
| uuseat him. He is q personal friend of Tilden, but
he thinks Hayes has done all for the South that
Tilden could have done, and that for the Democrats
TO turn about now aud attempt to unseat him will
not only be ungrateful but hurtful to themselves.
II will be noticed that Mr.. Clay like ex-COngress-
man Lord takes il for granted that the only object
of the movement is revolution. The able Democratic
editors who are vOcferatng that the charge of such
intent is "A Republican lie, should reason with these
| brethren.
A desperate effort has been made by a correspond
cnt of The Boston Herald to extract an opinion from
| Dir. Hendricks concerning the uproar at Washing
tom 1t was only partial success. Mr. Hendricks
thoughts were clearly enough many sizes too large
for uterance. He declined positively to be inter
| Viewed at all, but when the correspondent re-
marked in an insinuatlng manner that things
seemed to be torn up" at Washington, tho great
man forgot himself long enough to say: Torn up
Well, / should Think they would be torn up. When
prominent Government officials are charged with q
high crime involving the title to the Presidency
the matter becomes one of the grayest Importance
|, in common with every citizen, will watch will
interest the progress of tho investigation ordered by
| Congress- As for the charge of intended revOlu
tion Mr. Hendricks could not give an opinion, as h,
had not been in communication with the leaders il
| Congress and did not know their plans. Whcl
would seem to indicate suspicion that the move