New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-23
POLITICAL NEVIS.

The Republicans have four tangled Senate
rial skens unsnar yet These are IN Michigan, MlE.
nesoa Nebraska and ColoradOan unusual number 20
eur In one winter They perhaps the las. evidences
OF the dissatisfaction which marked feacure OF
the canvass OF 1882 The ony result 10 be deplored Is
the probability that some of the ab.est Republican Sens
tors win probably be displaced Dy weak compromise
candidates.
Several Legislatures have to rearrange the
Congressional districts Of their States this winter There
will probably less Interference with the work By
pirlng statesmen TO represent district In Con-
sress than witnessed year ago The failure made
by 50 many get after they had bad
trct all patched up Tor themselves Will not encourage
like attempts IN the future. The people cone care 10
have 1t taken Tor granted that they vii VOC al the next
election exactly rs they votea at the last one.
The Massachusetts, Democrats propose TO make
the present tide ia their favor aud reOrganIe the
party The state Committee meets this week, and will
begin the work at The purpose Is to elect Governor
Butler next fall aud give a strong impetus his
Presidential boom That he nave the support of the
state in the Democratic National Convention Is hardly
doubted o;wthsandng the few feeble protests made
These protests sonnd mid IN comparison with the de-
nuUcal bcapcd upon Dim 10y rne mOcratic press
(ioyernorsnip. And yot he secured unanimously at
last. and can get - Ike Endorsement Tor PFes
dent
Ohio is not the only State where marked
signs Of Improvement in the Republican outlook vsi
bic In Pennsylvania The Philadelphia Press reports
that many gratifying and encouraging Indications OF
harmony visible. The two factions in the Legisa
ture evident desire for union ana willingness
to work cether The Regulars evidently the folly
OF keeping the party divided and tho
Independents satisfied with tho effect of the
lesson they administered We shall have peoples
convention this year" The Press says. The Republic
can delegates Will represent popular rule they will seek
candidates Indicated By the popular will the managers
will nd themselves constrained 20 Dow Ia puzzle se9u-
men and Pennsylvania VIII thus swing back into tue
Republican cOlumc."
The ProhibitiOnsts made an effort all along
the line last winter legislation favorabs to
the temperance To-day hardly any OF the result
OF their work remains. The Pond law was speedily
swept from the statute-books OF OHIO, and the Iowa
amendment has just been declared null and void. In
several other states the agitation either failed IN seour
ing laws restricting the liquor traffic most OK
those that passed openly violated In Kansas
the lief promoter of prohibition met with over
whelmng defeat N November and pronounced enemy
OF the causo was elected Governor But notwithsand
ing these acknowledgements, the Temperance people are
active ever, and seeking Tor legislation In Wis
cOnsn, Indiana, Nebraska Missouri ana oiher states
The cause and the occasion of General Weay-
ers leaving the Republican party told by The hoa'
tine Journal OF Iowa In the state Convention OF 1879
Weaver was a candidate for Governor. and he probably
had majority OF the delegates pledged TO support him.
But his opponents determined upon his defeat Tho
only way open was TO stampede for some p0pu'
lar candidate by prngng his Spectedly upon
the convention When the proper time arriy ed exGoy
ernor Kirk woods name presented and his nominal
ton rushed through amid great excitement, II is ADMIT
ted that General weaver was uOi fairly treated anu
had he remained IN the Republican party the wiOhs
would doubtless have been rghted But he sought con-
ISOLATION Tor his wounded feelings among the GreenacA
and they sent lin to Congress ana him for Pres
who engineered the movement against his n0mlhI'
ton III 1870 mas ocen robbed or large sum OF hOuos