New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-12
POLITICAL NOTES.

The way to scatter the Greenback party is 10
resume.
The most imposing thing about Ewing is his talk
His record is made up OF that entirely.
That poor Civil Service order ought to have A
vacation. 1t has been peTpetually Oyerworked from
its birth.
The Potter Committee discloses its one CLEAN Of
wisdom when VI declines to dig mud without Butler
as a guide. lie has had no end of experience.
General sherman wishes it to be understood that
he did not cal! Banning fool. He merely supplied
the necessary data to enable the public TO apply the
cpIhot
The Western Democrats are throwing themselves
in a body into the arms OF the Labor-Gre"nback
party. Will the Eastern Democrats follow their
cxamplcl They will if they sec chance to win IN
that way.
That declaration Of the Missouri Democrats that
resumption is impossible places them on an
intellectual level with Brother Jasper, of Richmond
who - just posltiv" that " de sun do move, sab"
There's an opening for "A coalition here
Senator Thurman has returned TO Washington in
high spirits He tells Pot reporter that The OHIO
Democrats will carry the State and elect twelve.
and possibly fourteen Congressman. lie Is quito
,ure that neither the gcrrymander any other of
the party ; rascatic, will hurt it, and hrI, probably
right. The average Democrat long since ceased 10
be squclmieh about such things.
General Noycs will blossom ont into full-bp-i,i
third tcrmer If he remains in the country long
enough He was far advanced enough IN Cincinnati
t. tell an enquirer reporter that If General Grant
were renominatcd he could work for him with his
whole heart and soul. He recalled with evident
satisfaction the fact that when the cxPre,!drut was
in Pan, 1--WE gave him twenty-thrcc dinners IN
1--WE weeks besides the operas and ttr> he attended,
Some one having suggested that senator EdmuuiS
might bee the Republican candidate in 1850, General
Noycs made the discreet ana nolI-conIIhtIdl remark
thar ne i a very me man.
Mr.. B. +. Devices, Chairman of the National Conn
mittcc of Pennsylvania, gives a definite statement
of what the party expect to accomplish N that
State this FALL He SAYS their chief object VIII be
the defeat of Senator Cameron. To do this they
will comb ne with the Democrats for the control of
the Legislature. There are $50 members, twenty
five Of whom hold over rs senators. lie gives these
twenty-five to the Republicans, and estimates that
the same party can elect scyenty-iye more. There
are SIX district, where he thinks the chances are
even between the Republicans and the Nationals
GIVING all these to the Republicans h" iOots up their
total lOG. He claims that th' Nationals are sure
of rlrcting forty members outside OF Phlladtiphia
and lIttsburg and that the Democrats are sure of
eighty -clght. That gives IN" combination IA N"rN
or thIT;y-toUr majority over the kcpubh,alN. 9r
D.v,r, Is man u' generous cutIU-Ia-lH.N 10 never
fails 10 " claim about twice ~ much a. he II dhie
T., .,. but ms figure. are LARGE enough 10 hc brr-
ally discounted and .lI bee of sufficient Importance
10 command Scllou, thought from the Republicans.
John G. Thompson has done Senator Thurman
many kind office and he now essays a greater one
than all. tie sees. with the quick eye of an obse-
duipri, follower, that MIR. Thurman has suddenly
discovered that be- ha, been au utItonI~, from the
origin of the movement. and he also sees that tho
puhr Is SURPRISED that the senator WAS able - dis
puise ms attitud, 50 long. - Mr.. Thompson takes
MON himself the task of explaining matters t. the
public. lie say, Thurman has always >yupiAfed
with tine "OhO idea" but has been prr>l'tcntly
misrcprc>cutcd. lie wanted to explain. hat he
coudu't get chance Ia do il Ia the Senate III! last
Winter Then he defined his position. ana the ONO
people are del GIFTED beyond measure now 10 hit nc
hl, been ON their side all the time. TINS l. tiue
too tran, lucent When Mr.. Humans Uncle VII
liam Allen was running for Governor on The same
platform that Nh thurman has scrambled upon
now. where was Mr.. Thurman: lHint be- SPIT upoh
the platform then? piu't he SOFT upon II aSin IN
tnr icNt campaign. and declare lh1t he would .Ip;
port the candidates while rejecting the Puhclpr''
" ho "mlsrcpIc>rntcd' him then! The OHio Dhl,
nrrai- are a crr,6lOuS and contdug people o'
they are NOT capable of swallowing such q No'' I'll
illuioudle %, this explanation OF lhomp'nS