New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-02
POLITICAL NE US.

| A surprising amount of interest is shown IN
the question OF Civil Service reform. Democrats
ddates for Congress doubtful districts consumed
with desire have the opportunity TO show thdf
zeal in furtherng the movement. II the ConSresuea
chosen do not suddenly lose their interest In tue reform
after election ought to be prominent question tho
| next House.
| The unfortunate quarrel among the Missouri
Republicans has been carried into the Congressional
tests The legislature OF the State did ts best divide
| up the party majority make all but one Of The
districts safely Democratic. But In several OF the dis
trics the margin that union Of the oppo
sition elements could have overcome IT, This however
has not been done and 1t is doubtful now the Repub
cans will have a single member of the DELEGATION.
The Liquor League and its Democratic ten
ders Indiana reported TO have concentrated their
efforts upon securing control of the upper house Of tho
Legislature In that State The lower house Is believed
will certainly be In favor OF submitting the prohihitOy
amendment to the people but # the Senate IA against
its massage can be blocked. With this end IN view the
League is supplying ample funds for the election OF
DemOcIatic Candidates III the doubtful SENATORIAL us
tricts.
Twenty thousand majority is the figure the
Indiana Democrats fixed upon for their State eks,
next Tuesday. They claim an excellent organizanon
and many accessions from the German Republicans
Next to carrying the State they anxious TO defeat
the reelection OF Congressman Calkns In the Alia
District of the prominent part he played
unseating rauduently elected Democrats in the House
last winter.
likely to be competitor for the speakershp the Dem.
oerats control the organization Of the House of Repre-
sentatves the XLVIIIth Congress. The augusta Td
Chronicle thinks that II Mr. Randall finds his own sue
cess impossible may throw his strength in favor Of
Mr.. Kenna. The same paper says Una " kenna mas
made more Improvement than any man OF his age In
public life. and is the rising young mau OF bis time at
Washington"
The amount Of GubernatOrial and Presidel.
ta timber that has risen TO the surface in Ohio since the
in Astonishing
ist Of asprants for party is already made oui
and daily additions coming I'm. Some OF the best
known names included are Theodore Cook Judge
Hoadly Hugh ]. Jewett Alexander Long, George W.
Morgan Americas V. Rice, Samuel Hunt, Allen o. Inar
man and Ex-Governor Bishop. Democratic triumphn
always certain to show how overwhelmed the parVh
with talent
The duty of the Republicans at the coming
session of Congress- Senator Edmunds thinks is to give
especial attention TO reduction of the revenue oya
iudoiou revision OF the tariff and the internal revenue
taxes He says The reduction must come. and II ths
Repubcap Con gress does about and accomplish
IT, the Democrats likely TO make capital oy the
the country by the rash and rcck changes IL a1l
winch they will surely make when once they get cono'
OF legislation"
1t is believed that the liquor interest which
aided so materially giving Ohio to the Democratan
now working to defeat several OF the Republican csnaf
da,es for Congress in Iowa The Des Aotnss Rsgs'r
says that the evidences are ndisputablo that Tue w
ters and brewers are pouring money into the o'~o
bsaalf of the Democratic nominees. In this way 'n'
none TO revenge themselves upon the Repuoncan' o'
the adopion of the prohibory amendment snd a. tse
same time secure the election OF Congressman Iasos
10 the reduction Of the internal revenue taxes uRya
whskey Colonel Henderson, secretary oil me heluS
can Con. ressona Campaign co nmltee~Anh tne pa'y,
candIdae for Congress in the lid Iowa DsIrc1 '
TO be one Of the men marked for slaughter
In speech in Vicksburg, Miss, V. Is. Waa.
dell the Democratic candidate Tor Congress IN the ii'
District of that State told his hearers In what moea
tons contest the BOurbons were engaged lie sa%
twenty-five hundred years ago. at Marathon, Vh'A,
confines OF Greece, Miltiades, In the name Oi oou %
civil and religious liberty, led his army TO oat'ie
the combined hordes who had assembled there an" VIZ
had said to civilization and progress Inus isi '4.
thou CO. and no farther But the army OF M'iA"e'
triumphant and the principles IL represented oon,t
10 moye onward and upward. The Democrats p,Zt az
the lid District OF Mississippi The Democratc p.ls
the state and the Democratic party OF the len
today fight under the flag OF MIltades, wncn We wen
transmitted to them by direet succession through or
ingiun and Jefferson and their compatrlOtS IA now
will have revised az once and posteri'I snoys
Miltiades stuffed ballot and DuldoAeu i"0