New-York tribune., 1878-04-29
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
The confession market is suffering from ovel
| production
The quickening of badly spawned conscience Il
| never an impressive spectacle.
McI.in should embody in second confession the
| amount of profit accrung from the hrst.
The only Democratic gain from the Florida fraud
| sensation has been the increase in Montgomery
| Bairs happiness.
Mr.. Wood has just discovered what everybody
else knew months agO-that his Tariff conglonera-
| tion hasn't ghost of a chance.
jeff Davis hopes the South will not put in peni-
tential plea for secession. He need not fear it, The
only plea will be for the payment of claims to cover
| the damage secession caused.
Mr.. Moneys astonishing speech Is good evidence
| of the Democratic panic on the Southern claims
| ouestion Such an exhibition of grand and lofty
| lying would only be made i'll defence OF desperate
| case.
| Mr. Randall admits that he wrote that letter adj
yising the Ohio Democrats to redstrict the State,
and saws the same thing ought to be done IN Penn
sylvana and Indiana. If he goes on at his present
rate there is likely to be some redlstrlctng neCes
sary In Pennsylvania to enable him to get Dack 10
| Congress.
The Republicans of Bnghamton do not seem to
he especially pleased at the Presidents expedient
for Kidding himself Of the burden OF choosing their
| nostmaster They see no reason why the question
should he put TO vote Of the Republican electors
of the CITY since the effect will only be to exagger-
ate its Importance and strengthen personal anlInos
| tles They declare, with good show OF reason IN
their favor that the Administration ought TO nave
backbone enough to decide so trivial question IL
| self.
Senator Mcpherson. 1t seems is not in favor OF the
BlaiI bill He has been represented as saying: " L
do not believe in cOndOning fraud whatever it may
cost the country to blot out the most infamous rec
| ord of our history would favor any measure that
would propose to unearth the greatest political CRIME
IN the annals of the nation" The. Senator disclams
having used this language On me coht[aiy, M III
not i'm favor of anv scheme whatever, Tor ouStlng
HAYES running in Tilden and promoting dlscord ana
! anarchy in the country. Sensible Senator.
Mr.. Hendricks is shy about talking on the Florida
sensation He wishes to yell fraud, but is afraid 1t
would help Mr.. Tden. and so he merely hints at
his desire and then pleads that he out OF potcs'
He is sure there was fraud in Florida, but does not
| know whether il is best to say much ab0ut IT..
| Within n few davs his duty will doubtless appear
cIcarer to HIM for he will see that Tilden has been
| hurt rather than helped by the confessions" ana
will be able to saw with his former postiyeness that
HAYES has perfectly clear title, ana that III Is uh-
! wise to continue the agitation.
Martin I. Townscnds card. announcing that he
will not be candidate for reflection Is as short as
II cmld be made In one sentence he states that he
will not be candidate. In another, that he
| makes this announcement early that the electors
| may have full time to consider other candi-
dates In tho third and last he thanks
his party and the people of his district for their
snpport. The whole thing occupies something like
twelve lines Now that Mr.. Townsend insists on
retiring from public life, would that he would de-
| vote himself to teaching other congressman the
| whole art of compact letter writing.
| f,t...1.o Lrrorois AdarnS Comes IN the front
more with the old remark about " fraud" lie isn't
surprsed bit at the Florida revelations, but he
docs NOT see how they can help to unseat the Pres
| ident He thinks that HAYES has proved a great
failure but Is convinced that matters should be al
lowed to remain as they are. The great thing to do
| now. he believes, is to provide a new method for
holding Presidential elections, since civil war VIII
| inevitably follow another election under the same
conditIons as the last one. He differs with the
Soutb on the question of rlldens nerve" ana be-
heyes the country him debt of gratitude for
| his patriotism and set-denlal.
The Republican voter of independent proclivities
has an arduous time of it trying to make up his
mind to vote lust once for the Democratic party.
Inst rs he feels almost willing to make the critical
| experiment the Democratic leaders do something
either so dishonest or stupid both, that he turns
hack in disgust and says the Republican party, with
all the faults its enemies invent against it, Is
| better and safer than tho Democratic party ever
was or will be. How can he vote for party which
supports in solid mass the Southern raids on the
treasury. stands behind every measure which is
calculated to nure the industrial prosperity of the
| country, sanctions every disastrous financial
! scheme and sends agents throughout the length
and breadth of the land to buy up every impe-
cuuious Republican sorehead who wishes 10 confess
| his own or other peoples smsf Then he looks at
| Glover and adds: " How can trust party which
Is so full of rottenness that even its own attempts
at investigation reveal nothing but its sins "
Herein appears the glorious work for good which
this worst of Congresses sisinyountary performing.