The Portland daily press., 1873-10-11

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What adds to the agony of the Pennsyl-
vania democracy, Forney says, is the per-
sstent free-trade chatter of the New York
World.
The Boston Post is impatient to hear "the
death-knel of liberalism" The Post will
have to wait a bit, however. There is
another funeral in progress at present.
Springfield Republican.
Spades are trumps, this fall, and no mis-
take. This is the artful way in which Col.
William Allen, the old man vociferous, be-
gins his addresses to the Ohio yeomaury:
From the silence and solitude of farmers
life, protracie through many years, again
eappeai in the midst of the people at their
request to join them in consulting for the
public welfare
What Congressman Beck of Kentucky said
TO Don Piatt, the other day, on foreign
SHORES: ''The day is not distant when the
stones that have been hurled at Gov. Cooke
and Aleck Shepherd By indignant citizens of
Washington will be gathered by the same
people to build monuments to their memory.
If may be that they have expended moIe
money than they should have done, it
may be that some of it has stuck to the fin
gers of the contractors, but the fact remains
that to Cooke and Shepherds energy, bold
ness and genuine patriotism, Washington,
and indeed the American people, owe more
than they can ever ay."
The Albany Journal announces that the
Republicans of the State have inaugurated
the campaign. ''They have not" it says.
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ing to do, but have started in as though they
mean to win and had all confidence of doing
it,"
Mr.. Boutwell, has rendered the State good
service in publicly stating at an agricultural fair
that he considered agricultural colleges mprac-
ticable, as they did but little toward making
farming successful.-Bo Transcript.
The Press has never given much encour-
agement to what is known in the newspaper
world as as interviewing, nor has it thought
best to join in the hue and cry against the
custom. 1t is reasonable that an honest in
terview, wherein what public man hes to
say is set down in his own words is farer
toward him than when the reporter writes
the account after his own fashion. Inter
views, like most things else, may be abused.
gus reports of the regulation order, but we
fail to see how the genuine interview deserves
all the censure heaped upon it.-Philadelphid
Press
If there exists any remnant of the ancient
prejudice that man who writes verse
aoandons the field of good, practical common
sense, Mr.. E. G. Stedman, the broker-poet of
New York, ought to pass for living and live
ly refuti ton of the fallacy. The statement
that he made in New York on Friday, in the
fiercest heat of the Black Friday furnace, con-
tains more of acute discernmcnt and good
judgment than all the non-poetical brok-
ers of New York could develop in a genera
tion.--Chicogo Tribune.
Captious readers of the Columbia Is. C.)
Mail may complain Of the editors inconsist-
ency in acknowledging the receipt of milk
punch in one column, and publishing "Tem-
perance Department in the next. But that
gentleman, believing in fair and amicable
division. of labor, explains that the editor of
the Mail has nothing to do with what goes
into the temperance column of his paper, nor
have the gentlemen who conduct that de-
partment anything to do with what goes in
to the Editor of the Mail
ga majority of the grangers and anti-mo-
nopolists, 'says the Davenport Qowa) Gazette,
''have long been, and now are, the earnest
supporters of Republican principles, and will
rot be led away by Demo-Liberals, when it is
patent fact that they can accomplish no
good by such course"
1t is very creditable to President Grant that
he chief anxiety he has shown about the
money stringency has been in regard to its eff
feet on the demand for labor, and the liability
to loss of employment by many workmen Just
On the eve of winter. He has express ed the
strongest desire to do everything possible to
prev, mt the closing of manufacturing estab-
lishments and the discharge of hands.-Loa-
iSuille Commercial.
The Brooklyn Eagle argues that if Chris
gopher Columbus had not discovered America
some one else would have" and that there
ore there is no need for the proposed monu-
nent.
The Pennsylvania Constitutional Conven-
ion, on motion of Mr.. Buckalew, approved,
10 Committee of the Whole, the following
constitutional novelties: The practice of
boring shall be defined and punished by law,
and shall include any corrupt solicitation of
members of the General Assembly, or of
public officers of the State, or of any NUM-
;ipal division thereof, and any occupation or
practice as common bore Tor or against the
the passage or approval of laws. The pun
tor the offence shall be by fine and
imprisonment.
There is one point, at least, concerning
which the Republican and Democratic parties
would seem to be agreed. Democrats protest
that they have not the slightest wish to re-
vive ''dead issnes.' Neither have Republic
cans. And Democracy. is about the deadest
issue of the nearly completed century.--Pitts-
burg Commercial.
The Quincy Herald urg the Democracy
TO sacrifice everything for the good of the
party. Other Democratic papers are very
generally urging the sacrifice Of the party for
the ,ood of the Democracy.
The Democratic party is the subject of
very many jokes, just now, which seem very
much like kicks bestowed on man that is
down The st. Louis Republican says that it
is difficult to tell whether the present low
state of the Democracy is owing to Demo-
Gratis leaving the party, or the party leaving
the Democrats. Journal
Chicago sends to Cincinnati for stone for
her postoffice, but Cincinnati sends to Maine
for hers. Which is proof that stone is not
without honor save in its own country, and
that the government is bound to get its
material from distance whether or no.-De-
tr0it Post.
There may be sharp criticism of the Re-
publican party, and by unwise and reckless
action its hold upon the country p,ay be re-
faxed; but so long as the alternative is the
Republican party or the Democratic, the Re-
publicans are secure. Mr. Greeley learned