New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-31
POLITICAL NOTES.

Will this Nation turn swlnder for eight cents on
the dollar
1t is woful fact that Congress is the country's
most formidable enemy.
Judge Clifford has at last consented to break bread
with Fraud triumphant
France scents the coming silver deluge and seeks
% rock of safety gold standard.
The size of the silver calamity be calculated
by the porentous shadow which its possible advent
casts before.
Charles Francis Adams still fingers az lonesome
curiosity-a sort of political Dodo; but very the
species will exist only in fossllized specimens.
Massachusetts should stop making faces at Blaine
and try her powers of persuasion on Batter. Sc
diligcnt a Bibo student must be susceptible to
moral influence.
The country has been the parent OF n good many
queer parties, but it never before produced such
picturesque menagere of political gucrrillas as the
Reputation League.
Tho fraud" agitators are circulating the old
story abou. Louisiana Indictment of Secretary
Sherman. They are sure that snch trfng OBJ
stacle as a tOtn lack of evidence will discourage
Democratic Grand jury from finding an Indictment
Mr.. August Belmont thinks Mr. Hendricks must
haze been misrcpresented on the silver question, be-
cause his reported utterances do not harmonic with
some things he said several years ago. 1t is clear
u
brace Mr. Belmont is feeling for his fifth rib.
Mullett emerges from obscurity long enough to
discharge the customary mixture of profanity and
abuse at the heads of his SUCCESSORS. 10 says tho
chief business Of the men who have come after him
seems to be to pick flaws in the great buildings he
had set up. Well. they to find flaws enough to
keep them pretty busy most of the time.
Senator Kirkwood writes to his friends in Iowa
that he thinks the President will veto tho Silver
Bill, and that this will probably defeat it, If the
veto does not secure the necessary two votes
to prevent two-thirds majority in the Senate, it
will bo almost the only case on recOrd'where the Ex-
ccuNes influence has amounted TO absolutely moth
ing III his ow II party
Stanley Matthews is amusing himself by inventing
ways in which tho President could dodge action on
the Silver Bill One of them is that the President
| might send the bill back to Congress, without a
veto, merely accompanying il with protest against
| its passage OF course the bill would become law
then after the lapse of ton days, and the country
would be treated TO the edifying contemplation Of
| "A Chief Executive without a backbone.
Senator Bayard has been doing himself an inius-
ticc by giving partial Endorsement to the fraud
clamor He says he always believed that if the
| Electoral Tribunal Bill had been fairly executed
| Tilden would have been declared President. He
spoke bitterly about Senator Edmunds's conduct in
| the crisis if correspondent of The Baltimore Sun
| correctly reports him, remarkng that it is 1.-THE
| height of simplicity TO expect anything fair or in.
| genuous to come from him" and quoting an alleged
| remark about Mr.. Edmunds by the lac Senator Col
| !amer, of Vermont, to this effect: "Oh consider
| Edmunds in our State rs quite smart young man
he fly on barn mile OF, but he can't see
| the barn." This sort of talk about an opponent
sounds good deal more Ike Voorhees, than like
| Bayard.
friend of Mr.. Peixotto newly appointed Consul
to Lyons, writes to defend him against the criti'
| cisns of The Ciereland Herald, which were copied
the other day in THE TRIBUNE. He declares that
the appointment was asked by every member of the
Cleveland bench and members of the most promi
nent legal, mercantile banking and manufacturing