New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-23
POLITICAL NOTES.

Keep your temper, Glover There's lots of fun in
You yet.
Nobody seems anxious to pay $3OO,OOOOOO fol
the blessing of Democratic rule.
Mr.. Blair is still muttering fraud" He would
save his wind by chalking the word on his back.
The army is likely to come ont ahead in another
tu-Slc with the Democratic party. 1t got into that
habit several years ago.
If General Ewing would comprehend that the
public has infinitely more confidence in Secretary
Sherman than it has in any Ewing he would spare
himself large waste Of nervous energy.
General Butler said in a speech at Boston, last
week, that he could not say much about the
work Of Congress as 1t had done almost literally
nothing If he had added that the little accom-
piishcd was all bad, his definition would nave Deen
complete.
Governor Wade Hampton authorizes the state
ment that he has not written to the President ask
ing for wholesale pardon of political criminals Of
all kinds in South Carolina. he has merely asked
for the pardon of the three Ku-Klux criminals now
I'm the albany Penitentiary. II there ever was q
convict who deserved to serve out his full term 1t ~
a ku-KluX fend.
One of the suddenest of late politi-
cal portents is the change of tone
in The World as to the fraud" yell. Tie
TOIH has been one Of the ablest as well
as the earliest among Democratic journals that
secuted the folly of attempting to uuscat President
Hayes. Now it skilfully nurses tie bantling and
suggests chat Congress should do something.
The latest man whom the President is said to
have his eve on for Collector of New-Orleans is ex-
Congressman George L. Smith. He is a native of
Ncw-Hampshire, served in tine Federal army during
the war and settled in Louisiana at its close. He
WAS n member of the Legislature there from 1870
to 1872, aud at one time was proprietor of a news
u,rcr at Shreveport. He IL said 10 be man of
ability and integrity. II he Is GOOD man LOT me
place the sooner the President puts him into It the
better. IL IL folly to be talking about making
vacancies anywhere else till tins long standing one
Is filled.
The summary manner in which the House sat
upon General Buffers financial invention will be
ant to discourage the hationIots for the of the
session. Their clamor about Secretary Sherman's
bargain with the Syndicate VIII hurt no one except
themselves In the Senate voorhees, has made his
last move for them in the form Of amendments TO
tine - mates already bad substitute for the repeal of
the RESUMPTION Act. Ii he could invent an amend.
mcut bad enough 10 XIII the bill II would be- q
capital piece of good fortune. AS il Is, his amend
mruts will share the fate of Buffers bill, and the
more money! aRtators Will be permanently
muzLled for this season.
General Banks made a stirring speech before the
Middesex Club, of Boston, on Saturday, against the
restoration of the Democrats to power. He believed
the spirit of the Republican party was to drop the
question of the errors the eXcclcnces of the Adj
ministration and unite against the common enemy.
All parties had made mistakes, but the Democratic
marty was different from all others in that it had
never been known to do any good 80 There is not"
he declared, vice or crime with which II Is not
stained and degraded. II the people are willing TO
Weld the country to them, they can do 1t; but one
Thing Is certaIn--they will wait long time before
they reach period at1ording such an opportunity
for completing the victories of the war as the
present"
A member Of the House is said to have made a
careful canvass of that body, and to have ascer-
tanned that it is certain to concur with the Senate
IN favor of adjournment on June 10. Mr.. Wood an
nounces at the time that his tariff bill is cer-
tain to pass the House. IL would be safer to bet
the accuracy of the former prediction than of the
latter. The Democrats not anxious to vote on
Woods bill at ALL and will snatch at an early adj
ioumment rs good way TO escape. They
know il means trouble for them in the Eastern and
Middle States to have the party committed TO so
unpopular a measure and SO Mr. Wood will dis
cover before the Fall elections are over II his faith
is justified by vote. The fate OF the next House
can very easily be settled by vote on that bill