New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-23
POLITICAL NEWS.

An amusing eagerness Is apparent among the
Democrats those Southern States that have repudated
their public debts to get the question out OF politics
Having cheated their helpless creditors they naturally
want TO have as little said the infamous trans
action as possible They know, too that will not
sist them In the effort for which they are making ready
TO pose year the champions or honesty and re-
form these southern repudiators imagine that they
can withdraw public attention from their acts by trying
20 hush up the subject they were never more mistaken
in their lives The public IL blessed with long memory
and does not readily forget those who have s~lnded
| it.
Judge Black is nothing if not original, and his
deverance question Presidential candidates for
1884 will sustain his reputation in this respect He Is
quoted by a PittsbWD Dispatch reporter as saying:
The man who looks TO the most probable RepuD-
lican Presidential candidate is Senator Conger, OF
Michigan have heard his name mentioned In quiet
way among prominent men. He has the elements OF
leader He Is not an eloquent brilliant man. but he
has got the stuff in him. Conger has enemies; his
record both pri gate and public is clean Are you Re
publican Then tie TO Conger DIT. Black g. prefer
the Democratic side are IN favor OF hancock.
Mcdonald he believes, could be elected but Hancock Is
" his man."
The success of the Philadelphia Committee of
One Hundred in reforming abuses and checking e1traya-
ennce in the government Of that city suggests to The
Boston Transcript the desrablty OF every large city
having similar organization. 1t says: ." compact
body Of the influential citizens who give their
time to the cause Of reform they did 10 patriotism
public good, right onward, will come 10 be
power in any populous city, which will drive into OBJ
scurity every element tending 10 maladminstration.
he Generalization settling down upon some American
cities needs drastic remedes-nO anodynes Du te APP
plication OF such powerful smulants wide awake.
thoroughly In earnest aud perfectly dlsnterested or
ganizaiion Would prescribe"
The Geddes boom for the Democratic nominal
ton for Governor of Ohio, which rolling along with
much speed TO threaten TO smash all other booms,
has come to sudden halt In fact, It begins be wis-
pered that Mr. Geddes is not the remarkably pure and
upright gentleman that his admirers have been painting
him. The Clegeland Herald gives conversations with
his neighbors, of whom charge that when Mr..
Geddes the bench men indicted for selling liquor
In violation of law If convicted always got of with tho
lowest possible penalty this being of the methods
adopted By him 10 make himself solid with the saloon
men, In aluding 10 this practice OF the Judge while
the bench, neigbOr OF his says After trials In which
had the saloon of easy for fragrant violations
OF the law, he would 20 home and entertain visiting
ministers OF the Methodist Church and play the high
moral dodge in manner that did not eomport with his
relations with the on-keepers' This may be only
method often adopted among the Democrats to kin
OF popular candidate but 1t shows that there is 10 be
oadlys friends DO not propose 70 see him uneeremo-
niously crowded of IL track by new conner.
When Congress adjourned the Democratic
organs with voice began 10 proclaim the partys
readiness take the tariff at the next session OF Con-
gress and settle Democratic principles Ii was the
question of the hour. they said and would not down
until the Democratic reformers had fixed on
their basis. They fairly gggled over the Republican
supposon that the tariff bill of last winter would re-
main substantially unaltered for q period OF years
Well the last Congress has not been at home three weeks
yet but the discussion of the tariff in the Democrats
papers has developed such alarming and rreconclabls
differences the subject that the shrewder party organs
Fastening to put stop to the debate TIE ST. LOUIS
Republican rushes into print follows: There Is no
tariff issue before the country at this moment and even
II there there national elections TO be held
this year. The Democratic Hcuse-eect does not meet
until next December, and when IL meets II may eithe,rr
reopen the subject and pass simple act reducing III
duties 20 per send the matter before the country
as the leading Issue Ia the Presidential and Conrge
iOnal elections of SSi Either will he permss-
bic and Democrats will not be under any obligations
20 choose between the two till the meeting Oh the ho"
Congress-"