New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-09
Southern Governors say.the same thing and stick
to it,
POLITICAL NOTES.

Future speeches on that Tariff Bill will be simiy
funeral Orations.
BY al means let Springer go ahead but LET tina
democratic party pay the expense.
Tho Republicans say they can carry Oregon; but
eau they carry Cronin That Is the vital QUESTION.
First-cass foreign nations do not seem to tumble
over each other mnch in their haste 10 get 1to our
| International Silver Conference.
| The Democratic party would save Itsef GOOD
deal of friction if it would acquiesce in tie nevta
bic, and prepare at once for the denomination OF
| Iilden in 1880.
The Democrats are very anxious 70; Packard TO
decline that cOnsnship and remain sore" They
have hopes of a confession from him # he will only
refuse what they pleased to call the Presidents
bride" Packard is liable TO conclude that consul
ship viii support his family better than Democratic
sympathy.
Washington Republicans claim to have encourag-
ing reports from the North and West concerning
their prospects in the Fall elections They are more
hopeful than ever of securing cOntro, of the next
Congress- while the DemOcrsts are palpGbly anxious.
The way to Republican saecesS ~ To Work as well
hope, and that seems 90 DC tho spirit Of the party
everywhere
General Butler denies the report that he expects
TO be the National. Greenback and Labor Reform
candidate Tor Governor of Massachusetts,, this Fall
we're already flying about concerning his plans and
will leave the new Greenbaek paper, which is about
to be started at Boston, with no man of national rep
utatiOn TO - whOop up for Governor,
The speech which Hendrck B. Wright made to an
empty House appears in The Record spiced at fire..
quent intervals with the word applause" and or.
namented with the stirring parenthetical tail.
piece: Loud and long continued applause" The
question arises, who made this noise The
pages were all asleep. the Acting Speaker was IN
capable of such indecOrum, and ii follows that
Wright must have made it himself.
It's pretty well agreed IN Ohio that the Republic
cans can carry the State if they put approval Of
the Administration into their platform. If the effort
to commend is made there viii be disorderly con-
venton, and if il should succeed the prospects for
success would be good deal darkened. The Presi-
dents defenders, or at least portion of Them are
able to these things, and are willing to admit
that it will be wiser to let the Administration take
care of itself while the party goes to work for vic
tory. 1t looks now as II thu lnd0rsers" would be
induced 10 calm themselves before the convention
meets, and as If there would be no mention of the
troublesome question when the delegates get to-
gether
The President is about to prOmulgate another ex-
planatOry supplement to Secretary Schurz's Civil
Service Order. for the relief of those con-
scientious placemen who have plunged them
selves into a state of mental bewldeT-
mcnt IN tnelf enuedNOfS 10 harmonic tne
various official interpretations Of that paper already
offered. 1t is understood that the President
still holds his purpose to make the refor-
nation of the Civil Service thorough, radical,
and complete, but that no Federal oiee-holder who
can furnish medical certificate that he Is ~ an
advanced stage of pulmonary consumption will be
required TO talk politics in a loud tone OF voice.
There is a tendency in Ohio to crowd Uncle Dick
Bishop uncomfortably hard The trouble seems to
be that he is a better grocer and railroad trustee
than he is a Governor, his fault being in trying to
perform the three functions at once. He is under
gong investigation as a trustee just now, and is dis
PLAYING an uncOmmOnly defective memory for 50
successful grocer. He cannot possibly remember
whether be visited the Kentucky Legislature in
1S71-72 with $4,000 in his pocket or not. He
remembers he went there. remembers hear
ing about $4,000 being raised for lobbying
purposes in Kentucky, but for the life of him he
can't remember whether he carried the money or
not He is badgered for hours this point in vain,
and the worrying dialogue is paraded in full in the
columns of that sprighty leading journal of the
Governors own party, The Cincinnati Enquirer. To
the sympathetic outside observer, the performance
has strong aspect of cruelty.