New-York tribune., 1878-04-19
POLITICAL NOTES.

Mr.. sherman's platform beats the Presidents.
That Tariff Bill acts like a smallpox flag on the
nervous Democracy.
Early adjournment means good deal for tho
! future Of the country, but more for the party Of
/ fraud reform.
There is good deal Of talk IN Chicago Of sending
! the Hon L. b. Washburnc to Congress from one Of
the city districts. Ii would be difficult TO send
better man.
The Northern Democratic editor Ia sure that no
partisan capital can be made out Of the resumption
question. He is right. for the Republican party
holds clean monopoly Of the whole OF IL already.
General Ewing comes in like belated echo with
his lapdoodle about the "bondhoders sucking the
life out OF the country" and the people looking TO
Congress to pat it back The people win put mp
monument In advance 20 the patriot who will
suck y The wind out Of Ewing and this Congress.
1t is intimated that the studious quiet Of Judge
David Davis means mischief for other Democratic
Presidential asDrants He has been the working
mans candidate once. and may trrn mp at a critical
moment close in the embrace Of the Nationals. lie
isn't making much record but what there ~ OF ~
of the same quality Hendriekss and possibly a
sLade better.
The latest suggestion about Mr.. Bair's fraud bill
il that the House Judiciary Committee may decide
upon report which will damn the bill and make
campaign thunder at the same time; that Is may
say that the seating Of Hayes was fraud but that
IN the interests Of peace 10 IL better 20 take no
action. The only campaign thunder In that would
be TO strengthen Mr. Iilden's claim for renonliRa
tion.
The response Of the Republican press TO the Adj
minstraton's remarkable discovery of a platform
which contained its political views Is not especially
enthusiastic. The general comment is that what is
good in it Old and what is in il is irredeema-
bly, bad. The lack Of any reference 10 Civil Service
reform il REGARDED as especially significant, and tho
plank in favor Of internal improvements Is unani-
mOusy denounced by the Northern journals No
body believes it is good platform 70 carry the Fall
elections on, as its predOmlnant ehaFaeierstic -
serenity" and the party has had Its Ill Of that
quality as a political power.
The Hon. Samuel Fenton Cary bursts upon the pub
lie, which has been happy in his long Obscurty with
a new idea. He says the fall in the premium gold
shows what poor opinion people have Of il; no.
body wants it, and hence ITS fall in value. Resump-
tion won't give relief, because it won't help any
body pay his debts. What the country wants is
fourfold increase in the greenbaok circulation.
That will revive business and make everybody
happy. lr. Cary sends these original views 10 Tho
Cincinnati inquirer, and the Editor advises the pub:
lie 10 read them, thus Tecklessly burdening himself
with All awful responsibility.
This is an era of Civil Service reform, and yet the
members of the House Of Representatives
did not manifest so much eagerness to find
artistically as to select beneficiary with an
orthodox "clam" upon Democratic charity The
friends Of Mr. DOorkceper Field were not compelled
10 insist on the services which ne had rendered the
Khedive and the MOhammedan religion. His loyalty
to the Conf dciate cause alone sufced TO give hm
a clear title TO the dlgntles ana emOluments OF MS
office.
Senator Wallace is convinced that resumption on
January 1 il utterly impossible, and that panic
viii Dc almost certain to follow. Within ninety
days a majority OF the banks would b. forced to
suspend, and Congress would have 20 pass measures
for their relief If Mr.. Wallace believes this he
ought, like the good Democrat he is. to lie low and
let the Republican party 90 to the bOw-wOws in the
inevitable smash He does dscredit 90 his usual
sagacity IN thus opposing what he believes viii be
the surest way of bringing his party into power.
OF course he may say that he does IL because he
cares more for country than party, but nobody
will credit that sort of virtue in Pennsylvania