New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Potter Committee devoted three days to the
testimony" OF lunatic
Poor Leet seems to have gone mad from notion
that he had coparceny with Marble and Tilden.
Buffers chance for being Governor of Massachu.
sets was never poorer than it Is now Kearney is
very sorry investment
If Mr.. Thurman has always been loyal TO tie
"Ohio idea - what was the cause of the GOODNESS
between him and his venerable uncle when the lat
ter was " rising up " for Governor
If the Administration hasn't stirred up the Old
Line Wing it has impaired fresh brIskness to the
bulldozer There is hardly a Southern State in
which the latter is not numerous and rampant
The fraud hunters allowed Leet to tell bis crazy
story at the Government expense for the purpose Of
showing what a bad lot Of men used to run the pO-
tical machinery of the State of Louisiana. What
they succeeded in showing was their own eagerness
10 swallow anything labelled " fraud"
The Democratic candidate forGoyenOr Of Ten
nessee, as might have been expected, is an ex-COn
federate officer He Is fOrtytwo years OF age, was
Colonel in the 7th Tennessee Infantry, lost
leg at the battle of Stone River and has been Cham
celor of the Franklin Judicial District for eight
years The authorship Of the remarkable PLATFORM Oh
the convention IS credited 10 hlm'
General Banks's prospects for a denomination to
Congress are said to be entirely hopeless. Yet bis
frlen0S say uc Will FiSVhONo ~DhtN''' $500
are four or five Republican asprants for the nomk
nation. but no one of them is sufficiently prominent
vet 10 give any Indication of the result The SORT OF
man most desired Is one who wall look out Tor tho
"Deestrict" rather than devote his time TO political
scheming and speech-making.
Prudent persons will not be liable to pass Mr.
Manton Marbles bedroom door unless they are
clad in q suit of plate armOr. The awful example
of Mr. Leet shows how a weak-minded little gentle
man who has been burdened with momentous
political secrets, and who has only partially
relieved himself, may be suddenly transformed
INTO highly destructive citizen. Hitherto Mt
Marble has been harmless, only wreaking himself
al intervals upon the English language; but thieves
no telling how soon he may fall foul OF his fellow
creatures.
II is pretty we'll agreed by those best informed in
regard to Massachusetts, politics that Butler has
ceased to have any chance for capturing the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor. What his own bad
management has not done to injure him, Kearneys
speeches have done. RE hurt himself when he said
there was nothing good in either Of the old parties
and that he preferred the National party TO BOTH
Then the traces of his coaching" are so evident IN
Kearneys later speeches. that the causes OF the TWO
man are Identical ana as Kearney has offended both
the higher and lower clements of the Democratic
party the effect is bad for Butler. The chances now
ara that the Democrats will nominate Q eandldate
of their own, possibly MI UASton' hu tho WISE
effect of Buffers movement will be the trading OF
Denoeratic votes for Governor in favor OF Butter
votes for Democratic Congressman.
Mr.. Thurman evidently consOled himself with the
belief that nobody ever read his speeches in the
Senate. or else he would not have been so reckless
in claiming that he had always favored irredeem-
able money. In speech against the imitation bill,
on April @, 1874 he said: It simply means that no
man of my age shall ever again see in this country
that kind of currency which the trainers OF the Con-
atitution intended should be the currency of the
Union: which every sound writer on political
economy the world over says is the only currency
that defrauds no man. 1t means that 80 long as
live. aud possibly long after shall be laid in the
grave this people shall have nothing but an ire
deemable currency with which TO transact their
busness-that currency which has been well de-
sorbed as the most effective invention that ever
the wit of man devised TO fertilize the rich mans
field by the sweat of the poor mans brow. lwlil
have nothing TO do with it, In another speech on
the same bill he said: ultimately this discussion
will be reduced TO g single question, IN my hnmble
Judgment: question between sound currency "
Let every man take his stand one way or an0thef,
and let him bide the result; and IL 10 taxes
stand which his conscience shall approve, although
be NAV be condemned and may fall, he will at least
have the satisfaction of having done ms duty Inc
prediction has been fulfilled TO She letter, but the
strange spectacle is presented OF the propnet
standing upon what he 80 ably described as tge
wrong side. the side with Whleh ne No"oo no ""ui"
hayo nothing 10 do.