New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-12
POLITICAL NOTES.
Islature.

The "fraud" gun has exploded in the rear again.
The cold-bug is about to seat himself the debris
of the silver movement.
Mr.. $. s. Cox as usual put his head into the
fraud ring just in time 20 receive sonorous
thwack
There must be something dead in the silver cru
SADIE when Mr.. Beck begins to take reef in his
views"
1t looks very much now as if Bland and his bill
would be wiped ont with his own sponge. Hal
stcad's tears will supply the water.
To the unsympathctic eye of brute man it looks rs
if the woman suffrage advocates at Washington had
c0nf0nndcd their movement with that OF the hgAt-
ning-rod agent.
Patterson is liable to feel hurt by General Ben
Buffers card. Eyen$l3 day must be an made
Guate balm to a statesman who his friends
rushing into print to deny that they have given
him even q friendly call
There are strong indications that the silver hcreSy
will disappear as rapidly as it arose. The Congress
sona recess has been of immense service in giving
the people time to examine the question, and they
are making themselves heard so plainly that the
politicians are taking warning and are modifying
their views.
The change on the financial question which Iowa
has experienced within the past few months Is
something most remarkable. The Republican press
of the state with few unimportant exceptions, Is
solid against the Bland Bill. The party was MIS-
represented al its last convention. when plank II
favor of SILVER was put into the platform. Since
then full discussion has enlightened the pubic
mind, and to-day it is not TOO much to say tiat III
no other State ia the Union IL the Republican party
more thoroughly united i'll favor OF honest money
than II Is IN Iowa.
Ex.Congressman Payne of Cleveland. is credited
with the remark that there not six sound hard
money men in the whole Ohio Legislature. The
vote for Senator shows the entire truth of this obser
walton. SO far as the Democrats are concerned.
There were only two members hard-money enough
in their views to vote for Mr. Payne, and the small
ne,s of his support is nothing but creditablc to him.
lie was the only candidate who did not surrender 10
the imitation pressure and he stands alone IN the
crowd of defeated aspirantS, to-day, the only one
of them who has nothing to regret.
Congressman Foster. of Ohio, is one of the men
who voted for the Bland bill, and discovered when
ne went homo that he had msrcpresentcd his con-
stituents He found that the sentiment of his dis
trict was against reputation, disguised under tho
name of reconciliation, and he cOnteSseS that lie
has had TO suffer more abuse than ever fell upon him
for any other vote of his life. He is against the bill
now, and was when he voted for it. lie thinks II
the bill is returned to the House different measure
will be adopted i'll its place. This Is one OF the
many indications that the country has been safely
delivered from great danger.
Senator Blaine was serenaded at Hot Springs, Ark.
Just before leaving for Washington, and in brief
speech of thanks, made this slight ausion to polit-
zeal questions: desire. gentlemen, also to express
the very great satisfaction | have experienced in
witnessing the harmony, friendship and cordiality
that exist between the two races i'll your commune
ty. Perfect peace in the South will everywhere fol-
low perfect Justice There is no man in the country
who desires strife for the sake of strife, but there
will always be strife so long there Is wrong. be-
ieye that YOU set great example To your entire
State and believe that in following IL, Arkansas
will share generally in the prosperity that you will
have concentrated here"
There are signs of trouble in the Indiana Demo-
cratic househould. The chronic straddling of Mr..
Hendricks seems to have at last wearied his own
beloved brethren. The absence of his name from
the call for ninetycent silver meeting is appar.
emily the origin of the dissatisfaction. Without
calling him by name, the principal organ of his
party declares that the people aroused on the
silver question, and demand bold. defiant aggres-
sive leadership that they have an unmitigated
contempt for tmidity now that politicians and
trimmers may hesitate. but the people will not fol-
low" and that there is nothing but pity for the
poor trembling galO0t that hesitatcs under such cir
cnmstances." Alas, and alas! Does a man straddlo
like colossus all his life to be called "gaoot" by
his best friends at last 1t is cruel Mr. Hendricks.