New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-24
POLITICAL NOTES.

Will you cremate that Tariff Bill or bury it, Mr..
Wood
There are indications that Mr.. Tilden is not an
inactive private citizen
The conundrum which agtates Mr. Wood is !:
"Wll it be easier to adjourn after defeat or before
itR0
II looks as if Mr. Randall had been ndulging in
surrepitious straddle on the tariff question also
The one industry which the Democratic House
has succeeded in stimulating is the manufacture of
Southern claims. The activity Is awful.
A prominent item in the next Democratic def
cheney bill is likely to be large appropriation for
cOpper-bOttomed pantaloons as protection for the
brethren against GlOveTS hooks.
Senator Don Cameron is credited with the convic-
ton that the trouble between the Republican lead
ers and the President will soon blow over and that
Pennsylvania is safe for good Republican major
ity this Fall. There Is good reason to believe
lac is right Ill both cases.
General Ewing's malignant attacks upon Secre-
tary Sherman are entirely uDjustifabe, not to say
outrageous but they are after all advantageous to
the Secretary for they afford him opportunities for
explaining his plans which always result in
strengthening the public confidence IN him. The
effect upon Ewing is not tatteriDg, but then Ew-
ing passed the point where he could become more
ridiculous long ago.
The Administrations Toledo experience seems TO
have made it nervous about post office changes In
order to escape any repetition of its famous teapot
tempest it has decided to settle the question of a
change in the BinghamtOn Office by referring it to
the Republican electors of the city. They are re-
quested to decide, by ballot. whether they prefer
the retention of the present official Mr. E. b. Steph-
ems who has held the Office for several years, the
appointment of a new man, Mr. {. H. Amsbury, who
has been strongly urged for the place.
Congressman IIartridge. of Georgia, cites as an
evidence of what Democratic rule in his State, has
done for the negroes, the fact that while they
formerly returned no taxes at all they now pay taxes
Oh over 81, 100000 of real estate alone. He says
they steadily contributing to the material wealth
and prosperity of the State Then does it not
to Mr.. Hartrldge that they ought to be permitted to
have at least fair chance at the ballot-bOx in re-
turn for this valuable aidf Does he think they do
have Il fair chance when a Democratic majority of
10000 is rolled up in State where the negroes have
nearly as many voters as the white men hayei
A New-Oreans correspondent of The Cincinnati
Gazette gives Glover hints about the size of the
Louisiana Democratic fraud which he caught SO un-
expectedly, that may increase the value of the
"haulp considerably if they are followed up.
Glover discovered that $4,000 of the appropriation
for the Democratic committee which went to New
Orleans had never been accounted for. The CORE
spOndent declares that the Republican witnesses
whom the committee summoned were cheated out of
a large proportion of their legal pay, some who were
entitled to $50 receiving only SlO ana so on IN that
ratio. He thinks one of GlOyers experts could ind
fruitful employment in ascertaning whether the
amounts credited 10 these witnesses IN e vouchers
agree with the amounts actually paid. de could,
but his business is to discover Democratic fraud