New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-27
POLITICAL NOTES.

OF course the man who wants three Presidents
| halls from Ohio.
The ability of Congress to devclop fresh idiot
| every day or two seems to be established.
The silver agtator is determined to have no quiet
unless it be the quiet Of desolation.
| The most ominous thing the silver party is con.
frOnted with is the appearance it of Proctor Knott
rs q leader.
If the Heather Chinee would vote the Democratic
ticket, tho reform /" party would look with less
horror upon his immoralities.
General Butler is liable to be confirmed in his sus.
picion that he has influence at the White House.
He should enlarge his resolution declaring lack of
confidence in Secretary Sherman. and make it III.
clude the President also.
Simmons should not be discouraged. There is the
New-Orleans Custom House yearnng for reformer
to take charge of it, Let him apply for that New
Orleans might object, but she Is used to doing that
Colonel Ingersoll hasn't any affection for the Sill
yer Bill but he thinks if it has any effect upon BUSH
ness 1t Will be for good, since business is not in
condition to be injured" That is pretty nearly tho
case. The bill in its present shape might do good II
the agitation stops but not otherwise.
A loud complaint comes from Toledo that the re-
cent National Convention was captured by Cary,
Muett & Co.. and run in the interest of unlimited
grcenbacks rather than of the laboring men. Tho
Labor party claims that it has not sufficient recogn
ton of its wrongs and its demands In the platform
This is startling intimation that the platform Is
not so bad as il might have been: Nobody even
dreamed that it could have been made worse.
The Ohio Democrats show signs Of uneasiness
over the title of the National party They say.
with great truth, that everything that is asked tor
in the Toledo platform be had If the Democrats
are put in control Of the Government. Give us the
power say they, and we will give everybody pre-
cisely what he wants. Perhaps Southland is prepar-
ing for such a contingency when no asks for three
Presidents. As Que Doorkeeper has been shown TO
be miserably inadequate to the task OF distributing
the spOils of Democratic House of Representa-
tiveS, so Southland sees that one President could
never be able to pass out the pap OF the Nation to
the whole Democratic party.
Mr. Woods Tariff Bill is liable to die of inhuman
treatment. Everybody is kicking 1t who can get a
sight at it, and even its supposed friends are begin
ming to turn their backs it. Senator Allison says
he is something of Free Trader. but he has no
sympathy for any measure which intended to dis
turb the present tariff laws. The mere agitation
has unsettled every business interest IN the country
He expects the bill share the fate which met
the Schenck bill several years ago After having been
discussed for several weeks 1t was LAID on the taDe,
amid great laughter. Mr.. Wood is keeping his de-
alterations as secret possible, but secrecy will not
save bill which nobody wants, and no Congress
man will dare vote for.
There are signs of mild Infection Of the silver
craze in the recent elections for Supervisors in the
central and southern counties of this State. OF the
$50 Supervisors elected IN eight counties, 1t Is
thought that about One-fOurth were chosen by tho
faction called variously the Greenback or the Work.
ingmen's party. In Steuben and Onondaga counties
the development has been most marked, the vote
having been doubled in the former and more than
doubled in the latter. The only other gains of any
importance were in TiOga and Chenango counties.
In all instances the vote seems to have been drawn
most largely from the Democrats, the proportion
being about two Democrats for every one ReDub-
Lcau, In Oneida County the Workingmens party
Is said 10 be well organized. drawing twO-thirds
of its strength from the Democrats. This third
organization could more properly be called the
Discontinued than the Silver party. 1t is made up
of the men who dissatisfied on general prin-
ciples and who vote against the old parties more
for the sake of relieving their minds than tor tho
accomplishment of any definite purpose.