The Portland daily press., 1872-03-18
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, MARCH IS, 1872,
ssDoIIy Warden Suits" In Politics.

The spring fashions are sensational. Pref
ty little Dolly Warden, who gave such sweet
ness and grace to the wierd story of Barndby
Rudge, has stepped out of the humble lock-
smiths house and the cozy ''Maypole" inn,
and now moves in all the fashionable circles.
Poor Joe Willet, who left one of his arms lin
the Salwanners," has no doubt ceased to be
an agreeable companion for her in the new
life to which she has been called two years
after the death of her great creator. But
what career! 'Dolly Warden" dresses,
suits and carpets-"Dolly Warden" this, and
Dolly Warden" that-'Dolly Warden in
all sorts of incongruous and inharmonious re
lations Dolly Warden of old was not pro-
fane-bless her bright eyes and loving heart
but who can say, according to Mrs. Stoves
conceit that articles of dress and furniture,
when forced into unsuitable and reluctant as
ISOLATION, ''swear at each other" that the
simple artizan's daughter and inn keepers
wife does not shock the high-bred people into
whose society she has been forced by an occa-
sional expletive?
bC spun vi tnio ouiiiS huo Sotiieo POA1oASNt
and Dolly Vardenism is rampant everywhere,
especially in the United States Senate. The
sensational spirit has seized on men who upto
the present time have been models of quiet
sagacity and moderate, judicious statesman
ship. One Washington correspondent says
that every hour has its new sensation grow
ing out of the startling combinations Of the
anti-Grant forces. Such incongruities were
never before so much as imagined. Not
didates alone, but platforms and principles,
both ''swear at each other" in the metaphor
ical sense above referred to, and engage in ac-
tive physical conflict. Think, for instance, of
the Labor Reform" people going to work to
emancipate themselves uuder the lead OF
Judge David Davis, man whose immense
wealth is utterly incompatible with the exist
ence in his mind of sincere convictions that
harmonic with their own. This is Dolly Var
den sitting in state in millionaire's parlor,
with vengeance! r
But this is only beginning of the notable
follies of the season. Sumner and Greeley say
they are going to give in their adhesion to the
ed by the Missouri free traders. Fancy Mr..
Greeley, with the Tribune, burning in his
pocket, standing on platform that begins
with declaring that ''the only legitimate pur-
pose of tariff is to provide the necessary rev.
enue."
But there is some probability that the Da-
Wis and Parker ticket will be adopted at Gin
cinnati. In that case the interest of the situ-
alton passes expression. The Missouri "Libe-
rails, i" who breathed the breath of life into the
Cincinnati movement, are hard currency men.
Judge Davis is on a platform that requires pa
per currency, with no specie basis, as per-
manent circulating medium. The Missouri
ans insist on ''the inviolate maintenance of
the national faith" while the Columbus Con-
vention thought it necessary for the promo
ton of the laboring mans rights that the FIVE
twenties should be taxed and should at matur-
ity be paid in greenbacks. Finally, as a last
contribution to this surprising miscellany,
there is every probability that the Democracy,
taught by the severe reverses of the last six
months not to hope for any success in their
independent efforts, will ratify the Cincinnati
nominations. If all the elements in this COM
bnation succeed in keeping each other COM
pany we shall then have the following results:
Laboring men, revenue-reformers and pro-
tectionist Republicans all working for the res
toration of the Bourbons, who have reluct-
antly given up the idea of o,uning labor, who
have never under any circumstances effected
a reform Of any kind, and who are at open
fragrant war with the Tribune on political
economy. -Hl
Charles Sumner trying to bring into power
the party that has just concluded twenty-five
years of virulent opposition to him by killing
his new civil rights bill in the Senate.
Trumbull and Schurz working for the res
toration of the party whose representative
men in the House refused the other day, al
most to man, to affirm the validity of even
the constitut ional amendments! -r
Sumner and JEFF Davis, Trumbull and
Beauregard, Schurz'an Forrest, all working
for the same ticket. t- 800
Labor reformers voting into power party
whose chiefs all over the country are opposed
to education, and who have just made de-
termined resistance to the Republican scheme
for consecrating the public lands to the ed
.
ucation of the people. 1 tas
Temperance men, by supporting the ma
donal ticket which they have already put in
che field, helping along the cause Of free rum
A brighter man than the elder Willets, Dolly
Varden's 'futile'' old father-in-law, might find
himself sersiously puzzled if he undertook to
unravel such snarl as this.