New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-13
POLITICAL NEVIS.

The Republicans will have to make lar..
gains in Congressman in the South II they are 10 lss,
control OF the House of Representatives. They have TIA
best prospects in Delaware. Maryland, Virginia yoth
Carolina, Mississippi and Texas.
Controller Pattison, the Democratic can.
didate for Governor OF Pennsylvania, begins Ours
the state this week He ia expected make stup
speeches and will cOnfine his canvassing TO holdngu-
ceptons in the larger towns and appearing the plat
! form at a few meetings and bowling to the clOvi
! between trains.
Indiana, Mr.. John c. New thinks, is mocs
safely Republican than ever before The ehanc
ter Of the population. he says, has changed within
few years past, the people coming into the State beng
more from the East and less from the South Ths,
advantageous to the Republican party, and the HIi
result seen in the Presidential election Of 1850
The Temperance State ticket in Califor.
MIA Will probably njure the Republican party. AmGal
the prominent Republicans who viii support It'll Mr.
Frank Pixley, Editor Of The San Francisco ArgOnaut
He was a delegate to the Chicago Convention which
nominated General Garfield for President, aud ady0-
Gated the claims OF Mr. Blaine.
The free trade organs in the South are
urging the support Of such candidates for Congresses
pledge themselves for tariff for only
The Victs5T0 Herald says that Civil Service Reform
the control Of corporations, internal improvements
finance. who is 10 be the next President, and all Other
questions combined sink into insignlncance compared
the tariff question There is more at stake and mora
liberty aud labor involved IN ii, than any question
that has been discussed IN American politics in twenty
years"
The good result OF making q strong Repub-
lican nomination in a Democratic Congressional dis
trct is shown in the election of exSecretary Coffin
the Ist District OF West Virginia. The Republicans
there had heavy odds to fight against, but they picked
out a strong candidate, worked hard and elected him
The quarrelling Republicans who are endangerlng
number OF districts might copy the example Of thfE
party brethren in West Virginia with pront.
There are three Congressional DistIics
in Maryland where the Republicans have reasonable
hopes of electing their candidates to Congress The
With District is considered safe, 1t is repre-
sented by a Republican The lid and With Districts
are close, but the Republicans have popular nominea
and will work earnestly TO win The condition OF tie
Democratic organization tayors them. There Is nqea
apathy in the party and little interest In the campasa
is manifested
The more sensible Greenbackers are re.
turning to their former political associations. NJ
Leonard Brown has been leading man in the partyh
Iowa. but he cannot the use OF keeping up the
izatiOn any longer. He says ii has no principesO
fight for. The Government issues all the money, god
silver greenback and National Bank currency As thsi
il what tho Greenbackers have all along cOntended 0
he thinks they might well stop lighting and be hs,
accordingly, gone back to the Republican party.
John c. Whittier was asked to presids
at the With District Congressional Convention ia
Massachusetts, but he declined in the following letter.
must beg leave respectfully 10 decline the honof@
presiding Mt the Congressional District Convention
the 10th OF October The state OF my health makesh
doubtful whether attend the convention. thOughs
delegate and the warm personal and political nendd
Colonel Stone should be glad to do my part IN again
presenting to the voters OF the Vita DStn9
of tried ability and integrity, whose whole heks
guarantee of bis faithful and efficient performance q
every duty" Mr.. stone was renominated by aceAmA-
ton.
The peace which was patched up between
the factions Of the Georgia Democracy during the sas
campaign has been broken the danger Of 10
independents getting possession Of the Government M
vanished. The Macon Telegraph, the organ OF 10
Bourbon faction, prints letter by its Editor AbeE
Lamar, fercely assalIng Governor Coquitt He
the Governor OF slandering him in speech ana
enters upon long defence OF his Confederate reeora
Mr. Lamar says To Coquitt: Knowing you as Il o.
do not doubt your capacity 10 seek nay destruction
hands OF bTbed bravOs but deSpise your motives va
defy your malice. The people Of Georgia are aWakeas
10 the fact that you are Parah In politics ana ~
band IN religion" There is evidently to be EMW'-'