New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-22
POLITICAL NEWS.

Presidential speculation is much more COM
mon at the South than at the North The interval be-
tween crop and the next one ones the leisure
for this WHICH the busy North does not have
IL noticeable that that section brings forward no new
candidates the old list still having the stage Pendle-
,on Bayard David Davis Justice Field, Thurman Hem
drcks Mcdonald, Palmer and Randall are discussed and
their points gone for the thousandfh time This
threshng old straw Is not likely to further the chances
OF any OF the men inentloned or 10 it, abret
that the Democratic party intends 10 place lt aorese
OF the time. It IL the same old machine with the same
old hands at the crank.
The Indiana aud Kentucky Democrats are
deudng themselves with the hope that they are to DO
permitted to reap all the fruit of the parys restoration
TO power in the House Representatives and OF the eK-
e,ted National triumph in 1884 The programme Is this:
Carlisle Is 10 be Speaker and Mcdonald Is 10 aead
the Presidential ticket What to be given tn the party
in the other thirtysix States is not mentioned There
are perhaps no two in the Union where the De-
mocraey is more completely under the control OF its reae-
tionary element than il is In Kentucky and Indiana
They exhibit less berniy and progress there tasn even
the southern Bouroons show. II NOME os Of the
Democratic party for II to take its candidates ana p
cipes from that locality.
The dispatch which was sent over the country
Monday detailing the brutal manner In which United
states Marshal South Carolina had arrested ana i'm
nrscned come of the best cz ems OF that state is
looked upon as fshy." The eOlorng Is laid on so
thcky that motive ia apparent Ii Is deemed highly
Improbable that any Government officer would take
pains To perform his duty in manner 30 offensive as
described The statement doubtless issued from tho
came source constant appeals to the people
10 sustain the accused of violating the election laws
and thiny disguised attempts TO brine aoont eOnIct
between the state and the Government officers.
So long as General Butler is allowed 10 have
his o Is n say he makes creditabie showing as re-
former and eeUromzer But the moment bis state
ments are examined all his claims vanish into thin air.
He asserted nstan,e that he had saved the state
$50 by stopping three newspapers. One OF these Inc
Boston Journal says that it never sent to the Gov
error and that the ether two only cost the state U.s.
Here Is q difference OF So. or about 90 per cent-a
pretty good margin even for guess Tie Journal also
examines Buffers reply to the charge that his private
secretary travelled with him the expense OF the STATE
and points out how his explanation connlcS WIN
another his statements Before General Butter serves
his Governor he likely 20 De more otroRV
than that the press forty Jackass
mud power.
When Iowa adopted its prohibitory amend
ment year admit ed that appropriate field
had been found for al impartial trial OF the scheme
The character OF its population held out the hope that
they would neligenty test question OF prohibition,
and had Il succeeded wOnld have given strong i-
petus to the temperance throughout the country
declaration by the supreme Count that the amend
meut was null and void necessarily fatal II tho
advocates OF temperance had shown ordinary common
sense. They have however, by their advised course
done the cause more harm than could have TO It
from any other The most OF their support was
derived naturally from the Republican party but by
making Greenback the cLel shoutcr in the Tenn
perance camp they have aeuated many OF their warm
est advocates among the Republicans. III they had
blded their time aud educating the people IN
heir belief they would probably have been able TO carry
has cooled and what might have been certainty is In
yVlyed IN grave doubt