New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-06

Mr. Pelton. did You hear the remark of Mr.. How
III in regard TO the Oregon telegramSf
POLITICAL NOTES.

A bulletin from Saratoga says the pedometer is
laid ND for repairs.
That Civil Service Reform machine has clearly
enough jumped the track once more.
Mr.. Tilden should revenge himself by blowing up
the ark before Marble and Pelton get out.
Mr.. Sherman need not fret himself about the Pot
ter Committee IL is as harmless as wet lire
cracker
Mr.. Tllden's friends arc not taking such a rose
pink view of his prospects for another nomination
as they did a month ago.
II Mr. TiIden didn't know what his coparccners
were up to- he Is entirely too fresh" to be trusted
with the management OF TINS Republic
No wonder Nephew Pelton retired from the Ele-
waited Railway business subteTanean railway IS
the only place to bring his talents into full bloom
Mr.. Hewitt says the worst thing he did to Cover
nor Grover was to telegraph him a summary OF
Hoadley's famous eleyen-story " opinion" No won
der Grover didn't know how Oregon went, after
that!
Whatever issues control the next Presidential
campaign it is toleraby safe to predict that neither
party will battle for success under banner OF re-
form floating from the summit of a nincOmpOop
Bureau That piece of furniture has gone 10 eteI-
nal smash
1t seems to be an oppOrtune time for Mr.. Charles
Francis Adams to drop frozen word or two about
fraud" He was very eager to fasten brand on
somebody few months ago, and he must beable TO
see now that he tried extremely hard to apply 1t TO
the wrong person. If he doesn't know what else TO
do with the brand, he might leave 1t carelesSlY
where Mr.. Tilden would be likely to sit down on IT,.
When Mr. Potter's Committee huddles up for bus
mess again, the Republican members will have the
innings and they will probably feel called upon to
subpoena some witnesses who appear to have quite
as familiar an acquaintance with the details OF the
Electoral Conspiracy" as Leet or Anderson or the
jerks. COparcener Mobile and ms lltte cipher
under CrOSs-CXamnatiOn viii be q National enter
tainment
Secretary Thompson has made up his mind, it is
said to speak few times in the Indiana Republi-
can canvass He is said to be an eloquent speaker
but little out of practice in campaign Oratory, as
he has not taken an active part in politics for ten
years or more. One of his admirers is quoted as
saying of him: " For the first four hours theIe Is
not better speaker in the land, but after that ne
gets a lttle scattering" Probably the audience
scatters too, by that time.
Mr.. Watterson gives substantially the same inter-
probation Of that quadrupex dispatch as Mr.. Often
dorfer does. He says the proposition that Mr..
Tllden should select two friends and Mr.. Hayes
two the four to select fifth, who should cOnst-
tute a commission to go 10 Louisiana and see fair
count of the vote. This is precisely the prn-
ciple as the one on which the Electoral Commission
was constituted and Mr.. Watterson's chief griev-
ance with Mr.. Hewitt is that ne misrepreseuted Mr.
Tilden by fayoring that 1t looks as if WattersOn
had been shyng his bricks while sitting in house
OF the most fragile kind of glass.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, says the Southern
Democrats do not insist upon having the candl-
date for either President or yice-President taken
from their section, but they do think that they
ought to have the Speakership Of the House, as
a matter of Justice and because it would give
them some influence in the real affairs of the
country. 1t would be mere matter of form.
The sonth practically had the speakership at the
last session. and will have it at the next In case
of complete Democratic ascendancy in the Govern
ment It will have the President and Nice-President
also no matter where they may hail from; Ii any
body doubts tins, let him look back and see how
completely the House was controlled by the South
mt the last session.