New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-09
POLITICAL NOTES.

The air is full of trouble, for Congress meets ae,I,
tomorrow.
The silver advocates confess defeat when tbs,
ask for compromise.
For an inharmonous Republican party thers |.
nothing but defeat and dishonor.
If the Texas Pacific subsidy is granted Mr.. Ran
dalPs Presidential prospects may brighten little
1t is useless to talk about compromise on the sil.
yer question by striking out the free coinage pnyi.
lego and making silver only subsidiary currency
Those two restrictions would deprive the crusade -
all that makes it attractive.
Congressman Milton Sayler, the Cincinnati statea.
man who is distinguished for chronic ambition
to be elected Speaker and chronic failure TO find
enough votes to sustain his ambition, has been in
Cincinnati cheering the responding heart Of Mr.
Hastead on tie silver question He tells a repcre,
of The Commercial that there never has been fair
test of the strength of the Senate on the Silver Bill
and he does not know whether it would pass that
body over the Presidents veto or not. As Tor
the House, il would 90 through in lively way
there. Mr.. Sayler is down on all compromises. He
wants Unlimited silver or nothing. Well the out.
look is at least hopeful that he will get nothing.
Tho Women Suffrage advocates are showing
great want Of the tact usually credited to the gen.
tier sex in choosing this tire to bore the unwilling
Congress sran with their grievances. The mind Of
the average statesman is loaded to tie bursting
point with plans for the m king and unnakng AZ
parties and presidents. TO him the voice Of the fe.
male suffrage agtator will come like the song OF tie
mosquito in the watches Of a Summer night.
General B. f. Butler was always discreet letter
writer. He takes the trouble to publish a card in
Tic Boston 1iGrclier denying q report thst he has
bsM selected to offer resolution in the House for
the Investigation of the alleged bargain between
the President and Southern leaders but is careful
not to express even shadow of an OPINION on tho
merits of the proposal He has heard nothing aboat
such STEP but he leaves the world in ignorance as
to what he would 90 we're he TO near Of such thing.
Congressman Gibson, Of louisiana is little dc.
pressed about the outlook for subsidies. He told his
friends in New-Oreans, during the recess, that he
had some doubt about tho success of the desired
S40000,000 appropriation for levees, owing to the
poverty of the country and the Northern pressure
against it. He hoped. however, to secure a trlling
appropriation Of 81 800 900 at this session, and
couraged belief that under more prosperous cir.
cumstances at future date" the larger amour.
would be forthcoming. Nh GibsOns also doubtful
about the success of the Texas-Pacihc subsidy.
4his news has q good and bad side. IL shows that
the present Indicators point to temporary check
of the proposed raid on the Treasury, but II also
shows that the hungry section is looking with long
ing eyes to the advent of more prosperous circum-
stances" to wit, a Democratic Administration.
Postmaster-General Key thinks the notion Of run.
ming him fox Governor of Tennessee "A very funny
idea" Why funny he does not state. and it should
be remembered that Mr. Keys ideas of fun have been
misunderstood. As FOX the presence Of population
in Tennessee he has no doubt Of that for he says 10
a correspondent Of The PhiL0de'phia Record: I'VE
have some few men down our way who belong TO
the unreconciled, and they have been going about
preaching the gospel Of reputation to the people.
1ley are men like Savage and Collier, who dids
great deal of fighting for the lost cause, but now
have scarcely any property left. They attribute it
all to the war and the loss Of their negroes, and
charge that the bondholdeTs are building up for.
tunes on their ruins. In these hard times they seem
to be successful in telling certain classes that they
ought to seize tins opportunity TO get even with the
bondhOdcrs by TepUdiatlng the Whole debt and thus
escaping any further taxation, which, you can I'M
derstand is rather repugDant just now. Undonbt-
edly the question of Reputation Of the honest pay
ment of the State debt will form the issue IN the
next State campaign, and hope the Democrats will
have the good sense and sound policy to piaat them
selves on platform of good faith"