Political Clippings

Gen. Ewing, Senator Thurman, and George H. Pondleton, are all expected to take part in the Ohio campaign on the Democratie side. If it be coutrary to civil sorvice reform lor a postiuaster or üustoia house tide-waiter to particípate in political mutturs, with what sonso ot' docency can a cnbiuet oñicer be allowed to work for party auywhere P - Oeneva (N.Y.) Democrat. The Cleveland Leader says that Cari Schurz is not satisfied with hig position in tho Cnbinet. The country, too, is dissatisfied. Ho wants to get into botter placo, and tho public want to ge him out altogether. - Pittsburyh Commer cial. Assistant Secretary McCormick ha decidod that tho credit of the Govorn mont roquires that itg duties should b performed by mon who pay thoir debts that the Secretary cannot be annoyec by the creditors of its employés ; tha all clerks wbo, after notico, rofuso to pa; their dubs will be disoharged. Gon. Hawloy, who Borved with him on the Centouuial Commission, say that Col. Holliday, of Virginia, tb. Conservativo candidato for Governor " made a most favorable improssion 01 hia associates of the commission," anc describo him as " a gentleman of fin presence and addross, fine abilities an( high charaater." We beg the President to oall a halt in this Stanley Matthews idiotio triflin with law and irrevocable rights, N one not clean daft on the subject can b bauiboozled with the idea of any Con gressional or Executive action regula! ing the prioe of labor between corpora tions chartered by the States and thei euiployós, and itjilly becomes áu admin istratiou to get down to such palpabl demagogisui. - l'iüadelphia Times (Dem. The venerable Thurlow Weed is tak ing a vory active part in political man agement in New York. He is repre sentud by nis friends as spending mor time in pulling wires than he has don before for years. The special point t which he appears to be directing nis el forts is a unión of the Bepublican and anti-Tammany Democrats for th nomination of anti-rapid-transit mem bers of the Legislature. So at least re ports the World. Wade Hampton made a speech a White Sulphur Springs last week in which he expressed hin satisfaction tha peace should have prevailed at th South during the recent strikes. Thous and of voluntivrs, he said, were read; to go North trom South Carolina anc aid in putting down the rioters. Th South loyally accepted the Constitutioi with all the amendinents, and propose, to uphold the law. It did not want strong standing anny, for it oould com mit its intorests to its citizen soldiere As States, said Governor liampton, " Ie lisbons distinct as billows; as country, let us he one as the sea, ai striviug aliko for the happineBS anc prospority of tho wholo ropublia." - N K World. Mr Schurz's active purticipation in the Greeley moveiuent in 1872, whic was manifostly intended to destroy tho Bepublican party, renders his injudicious and unnecessarily irritating methods of enforciug civil service roform especially obnoxious to men who suspect that one of tho real objeets now is to complete the work he began when he was the leader of the opposition forcos. Tho right of Frosident Hayes to select his Cabinet oflicers without rofereuce to thoir partisan anteoedents is not questioned, but the policy of noedlossly intcnsifyiug ordeals that are at best