New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-14
POLITICAL NOTES.

and the only question is which do the most cut
ting.
Playing second-fddle to Judge Church would bea
role in which MIR. Clarkson ~ Potter would hardly
make an impressive hgure.
judge Church is prudent man. Before he draGs
the judicial ermne into the Tammany- Tilden row
he wants to be sure that II Will pay.
Judge Church should not forget that even the
soundest Presidential timber may get the dry-rot In
the course OF "A quarter of IA century or So
Senator Wallace and his fellow committeeman
still linger in Providence. They had better be oil.
Rhode Island is dangerous ground for prominent
statesmen.
Congressman Springer went to see Mr.. Tilden the
other dav and the Claimant told him in mutiied
and portentous tone that the people would never
cOndone fraud 1t occurred to Springer that he had
heard the remark before.
Greenbacker Smith, of Maine, is in bad box.
Evidence Is accumulatlng that he was ready to
rpnounce his soft-mOney heresies last year If the
Republicans IN the State senate would make MIN
Governor instead OF Garcelon.
Senator Wallace has Recovered to his great cha
grin that the leading Democrats in Rhode Island
do not want the property qualification for foreign
e,s abolished They frankly say that they prefer
Republican rule TO Celtic rule.
Tomorrow the Democratic State Committee
meet AT Niagara Falls. That locality was, no doubt,
selected from prudential motives 1t is hoped that
outsiders will cOufOuud the rumpus IN the Commit
| tee with the roar OF the cataract.
The Rev. DE La Matyr is down in Maine stumping
for the Greenbackers Last Sunday he wanted to
preach in the Methodist Church in Portland, but the
trustees declined to invite him. Probably they
were af aid he meant to expound some new-tangied
fiat theology.
General Ewing made the poorest speech Of his
canvass at Trenton the other day. The roar OF the
furnaces and the cangOr of the irOn-mills seemed
to mock at his financial theories, and to proclaim
the efficiency of specie payments III ROWING the
industries of the country.
Senator NJ C. Butler, Of South Carolina, wants the
National banks abolished and the 10 per cent tax
ON State bank issues repealed, that the old State
banking system can be revived. He would. no
doubt like to see a palmetto tree on the corner OF
every bill he handles The word National annOys
him.
Banton Duncan, who is or the Greenback stump
in Maine condemns in strong terms the rule or the
shotgun the South He ought TO go furtherand ac-
Knowledge that the only party in the country which
actively antagOnizes that rule, and means TO break
it down and restore free speech aud tree ballot, Is
the Republican party.
An important discovery has been made by The
LOckport Union. II has found the man to harmonic
the differences in the Democracy of NewYOrk.
His name is Sherburne b. Piper, and he lives in
Niagara County. 1t IS much to be feared that the
Democracy will act like the deaf adder, and refuse
to hear the voice of the charmer pipe he never SO
wisely.
The belief that there is truth in the report of
Governor Talbots intended retirement from public
life causes active discussion in Massachusetts, of
the perts of available candidates for the
cessiOn At present the choice seems to lie between
IIeutenant-G Governor John ID. Long and ex-COn-
gresham Henry l.. Pierce, with a bare possibility
that Acknowledgement Devens may consent to en-
ter the field.
Mr. Dorsheimer has no faith in the fraud cry. He
saws there is nothing heroic in taking the stump
and terating that Mr. Tilden had been cheated.
Besides, he adds, soon you begin to discuss
that some fellow will call out, 4" How about those
cipher dispatchesl" You right there, Dir. ID. A
good deal will be said about those dispatches dur
ing the campaign of 1880. But II yOu do not take
up the fraud cry, what IN the world has your party
got to scream aOodtT
The announcement that the publication of a daily
Republican paper will be begun at Little Rock on
the 1st of September is hopeful indication of an
era of healthfu politics in Arkansas. The shotgun
Democracy succeeded in almost wholly destroying
the Republican party in that State. but 1t has too
much vitality to remain long PROSTATE. Beside
large coored element it includes thousands of intel
lgent white farmers who fought for the Union
during the war, aud who are determined as the
Presidential campaign approaches to assert their
right of voting tor the principles they defended on
the battlefield. Under the leadership of good
newspaper, and freed from the corrupt politicians
who dlsgraced them IN the uays OF the carpet-bae
regime the Arkansas Republicans may lead the
way TO "A Republican revival throughout the south.
The paper will be called The Ltttte Rock Repu6
HcdR. In It's prospectus IL announces that II will
advocate the denomination OF General Grant Tor the
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