New-York tribune., 1878-04-03
POLITICAL NOTES.


The way to resume now is to let Mr.. Sherman hsv.
his own way.
That Toledo teapot boiled and bubbled only a
scald the fingers of the Administration.
Anderson is free. and tho fulcrum of the fraud
lever shifts from Louisiana TO Maryland.
Uncle Dick Bishop is an able trustee Of the Gin.
cinnati Southern Railroad but rather slim Gov.
ernOr of Ohio.
Senator Howe thinks he has made the President
feel better. and the President hopes the Senator
feels better. Which may be called Cancellation on
ice.
Montgomery Blair has worried the Maryland Sen.
ate into giving his fraud machine a push, and II
behooves the Democratic party to prepare itself
for q fresh catastrophe.
1t is said that the Democratic leaders are nervous
about Glover They fear he is bringing contempt
on the party by his mud expedition under the drec
tOn OF roorback experts. They may fret, but they
can't stop him-till the appropriation is exhausted
Mr.. Dean, the new Democratic Congressman from
Massachusetts, who is in a seat which belongs to q
Republican, is likely to be credit to his party Ho
says he has no position the silver question never
having had time to give the subject enough study
to form an opinion. be is evidently waiting for the
party TO make up bis mind for HIM.
Doorkeeper Polk threatens to stick, and is trying
to consolidate the Southern members in his support
The prospect is that he will win His only offence
was in trying TO quarter too many hungry Demo.
Gratis on the House, and the Democratic majority il
too sympathetic to find fanlt with an act Of
generosity like that His great blunder was In
allowing the request for an extra appropriation 10
get out He might have disguised it under some
misleading name, and had it passed with ayell as
another measure of Democratic economy. There ore
plenty of precedents for such trick in the reccsSA
OF this or the preceding Congress.
Exclusive information about the recent Republic
can caucus at Washington has been received by the
Democratic journals They announce that war was
virtually declared on the President, and will be be-
gun unless he turns about at once and surrenders to
the Republican leaders; that all Senators who refuse
to read the President out Of the party will be given
to understand that they must acquesce or be treated
henceforth as Democrats. The Democratic editor
makes tremendous effort to believe this nonsense,
but he does not succeed The dreadful truth forces
itself upon him that 10 matter how much the Re-
pubhcans differ they roll up Just as large a vote
against his party on the next election day.
That is curious letter the members of the Kem-
per County Grand Jury have sent to the Governor
of Mississippi. They say they were compelled by
the obligations of their oaths to find indictments for
several persons engaged in the Chisholm massacre.
but they hope the Governor will pardon all of them,
even before the indictments tried, because sach
pardon will accomplish more for the promotion
Of peace and good order in our county than
relentless prosecution OF these cases. his IS good
specimen of the kemper idea of justice. The eyi-
dence against the murderers so strong that the
Jury was forced against its Will 10 md the lndct-
ments. and yet the same jury turns about, before
the indictments can be tried, and asks to have tho
indicted persons pardOned as an incentive TO peace
and good orderw Ii the Governor comedies in this
view, Kemper County will be more than ever tho
best place III the country 10 move away from