The Portland daily press., 1872-05-22
The ExaItation of Our American Arls-
tOcracy.

under the somewhat importunate question
ings of court of justice he has been brought
to reveal the fact that he is graciously pleased
to be the natural son of Dukel This is a
good deal better than our American TUT
hunters feared. A thrill of horror ran
through the highest ''circles'' in many OF our
principal cities when "Lord Gordon was
first thrown into prison charged with swim
ding that good, but supplemented, unsus-
pecting man, Jay Gould. Our American bar
ons feared their noble friend had only his ma
tive talent for roguery and natural aptness
for fraud to commend him, and that this ap-
parent immortality was not redeemed, gilded
and digniied by the blue blood OF the swim
dler. But now great peace falls upon them.
They thought they could tell the genuine Eng
glish Lord when they saw him. They thought
that patrician lineage and aristocratic associ-
alton left indicid which could not escape
their trained eyes. They deemed it impossi-
BILE that their instructive perception of what
peer must be should be at fault. And they
were not mistaken. Gordon is a Lord--"by
courtesy and real live, fesh-and-blood
Duke is his putative father! He is an earl
by suferance with only bar sinister on his
arms! Sleep in peace, We American gentle
folks-sleep in peace. You have been en-
nobled instead-of disgraced. This is one of
your most noteworthy conquests. You have
never lived on so familiar terms with an earl
before. The son of Scottish Duke has new
er before sat at your table, slept in your beds,
driven your horses; slipped your wine and re-
leved you of your money with SO little cere-
mony-with so little presuming in his superb
ority and his exalted birth. The real Earl of
Aberdeen did come over here, to be sure, and
lived some years, but as he called himself
plain George Osborne and was one of the
''toilers of the sea- your penetration was at
fault for once and you didn't know him in
that guise. But if Earls piU stoop to such
follies as earning their own living, who can
such vulgarity? .,il t.f.t..-. 4
Happy Tom Scott! Happy Horace Gree
ley! o terque Quaterque beatil So you
both breakfasted with the young patrician-
fellow who might even figure in one of Dis
r@li's novels without lowering its tone-so
you both breakfasted with him at the Metro
politan Hotel no longer ago than the I'd of
last March? You were in his very room,
then? Well, well-probably there are per-
sons who will still hold that the king of edit
ors and the terror of farmers is unfit for
President. But the average common sense of
the people will teach these eccentric persons
that man who runs after the son of Duke,
breakfasts with him in his o,on room and
holds high and solemn conference with him,
is worthy of the highest honors that can be
conferred. The legs of the wearer of the old
white bat have been under the mahogany of
the reputed son of dim, nebulous, hypothet-
ical Scotch Duke of inconceivable grandeur.
Shall such man be kept out of the White
House by rough soldier who doesn't know
an earl from coal-heaver? Let Tom Scott,
President of seven thousand miles of railroad.
who has salary of $170, 900 year, and who
has so far undermined our institutions that
he is about to run an emblematic tunnel right
under the national capitol, see to it! Some
thing is due to our American aristocracy in
these days of proletarian impertinence.
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THE great skill with which Congressman
Dawes managed the tariff and tax bill in the
House entities him to the credit of being one
of the ablest parliamentary leaders that has
ever been on the floor of Congress. He not
only baffied his opponents at every important
point, but turned their. half achieved success
to his own purpose, and at last brought them
to support his own measures, which the coun-
try will probably accept as the best possible
and the only ones that amidst the conflict of
interests could be brought about. Mr. Dawes
long experience, industry, integrity and rare
judgment have conspired to give him the en-
yiable place he now occupies. Moreover, Mr..
Dawes example and influence demonstrates
the absurdity of changing a representative to
Congress every two or four years when he has
displayed the requisite qualifications for the
position, merely to crafty individual prefer
ences. sew Vs. .u d r ~
THE gallant Hawley does not lose heart or
get soreheaded over his defeat. He says that
whatever the disasters, treacheries, disap-
pointments or defeats that come upon the
Republican party, the duty of every good
citizen remains the same; to work steadily
in every due time and place for the success of
sound political principles. This is facing the
situation" manfully. No Sinking off into
corner to whine over his disappointment, or
gloomily to mediate on the treachery ofpoliti-
oal frinnds. ht1f oil M omar frr,,, 10
feat, he pushes on, more determined than
ever to fight in the cause he has espoused,
putting to shame the "soreheads' who aban-
doned their party because loaves and fishes
came not fast enough. q G.
SPEAKER BLAINE was nominated yester-
day by the Republicans of the Third District
for the sixth time. There is an unusually
large number of gentlemen in that District
that would adorn the position, but the Re-
publicans have very wisely concluded that
Mr.. Blaine's experience, wide influence and
ability cannot be dispensed with at present
Political Notes.
THE New York World has come to the
conclusion that Mr.. Greeley has no Republi-
can strength in New York at all There is
but one Republican paper that supports him,
and that is his own. His speech at Pough-
keepsie, which was expected to fire the hearts
of the freedmen, was delivered to empty
benches, and none of his friends went to FL
mira, simply because they did not dare to
confess his weakness. All the supporters he
has, or about all, are ''Ring'' Democrats
Some simple Indiana people, who heard
Greeley's address before the Agricultural As
ISOLATION last fall, labor under the apprehen-
sion that in case of his election, everybody
will be compelled to eat mutton. The Lafay-
cite Journal assures them, however, that
this is mistake, that the question is to be re-
ferred to the Congressional districts, and
they can vote it down.
just before Greeley was nominated, Carl |
Schurz declared his nomination would be a |
burlesque and his election a catastrophe.
Now people want to see Carl Schurz pitch in
and carry the Burlesque and the Catastrophe
to the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the
United States.-ChicGgo Post.
The growing sentiment, as best we can
give it at this writing, concerning Horace |
Greeley's chances for the Presidential chair
is this; "1hou art so near, and get so far"
-Geneuo Lake Herald
IL is pellved that Gov. Palmer, who is said
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