The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-16
Current NOtnS.

The old proverb runs that Republics are
ungrateful," Since the Elmira Convention
repudiated some of the candidates on the
Democratic ticket the Democrats have new
reading of the line. Their version runs that
Liberal Republicans are ungrateful. al
bGny journal.
The interesting thing about the address of
the democratic executive committee of New
York is, not the assurance that full vote
means glorious success, but the fact that it
contains quotation from the Sacred Scrip
lures. In the case of the New York democ-
racy this is novel and, we should say, an
alarming symptom.
The Boston Traveller has devised sure
way of preventing bank defalcations. Make
the cashier take athree weeks vacation every
year. and have the president or somebody else
take charge of the books while he is away.
This plan would be likely to prove popular
with honest cashiers.
The Boston Globe is assured by its Wash
ington correspondent that Justice Swayne is
undoubtedly Gen. Grants personal prefer
ence'' for the empty chair of Salmon P.
Chase, and that there is reason for believing
the appointment, whenever it is made public,
will prove to be a promotion. Justice Miller
has warm and earnest hackers, but his opin-
ion in the New Orleans abattoir case is
against him.
The doctors of finance are in a state of
hopeless disagreement. The wise men of
Wall street and the financial theorists in
Congress are so divided in opinion that we
should as soon expect from them harmony
on a plan for resuming specie payments, as
common creed from an assemblage of Pres
byterians, Roman Catholics, High Church
Episcopalians, Unitarians and Positivists.
Resumption must come from the voluntary
act on of the people, and must come natur-
ally, without reference to theories, and in
accordance with the circumstances of each
day. as they arise.-N. Y. Mail.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
thinks New York needs Mr.. Conkling in the
Senate and that he is too good an orator and
debater to be made chief justice of. Be
sides, it says, unless his commission as Chief
Justice should create change in his deport-
ment scarcely miraculous, he would make a
very unpopular and dSagreeable Judge.
The Jewish Times, discoursing on the
Protestant Congress, just closed at New
York, SAYS: 1t has demonstrated anew the
difficult and anomalous position of the Prot
estant Orthodox Christian. Protestant Chris
tianity makes front against the non pOssunlus
of Romanism, and is forced to malnt ain the
non possuInus in order to prop up its owl edi-
flee. 1t declaims against miracle-worship,
and cannot afford to disavow miracles as the
groundwork of its creed. 1t pretends to up
hold the right of private judgment and rea-
son, but establishes arbitrary boundaries, be-
yond which it will not permit reason to step;
it champions the authority of the Bible, the
Old Testament as well as the New, as the
word of God, oerbatim ct literotina, and re-
jects that same word when it suits its pur-
pose. 1t is not at all astonished, therefore, if
even such constellation of learned divines
counot find the proper way that will lead out
of this dilemma. 1t is a lane without turn.