The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-30
Current Notes.

Mrs. Zina Fay Pierce says that woman
should not want to vote, because they scould
not adhere to party lines'' Never mind
there is great excess of men who can.
Thousands of whskered voters who are able
to bolt good food are unable to bolt a bad
nomination. Christian Register.
The reaction of the Ohio election upon the
Massachusetts democracy has not begun yet,
and the time tor encouraging symptoms has
so far gone that il really looks as though they
are beyond revivifying. Trne, they are hold
ing caucuses and conventions in some places,
but it is simply the effect of habit contract
ed in years long bygone, just as an impover-
ished tobacco chewer goes over the motions
with secondhand quid.-Worcester Spy.
The North Star is very sure that Toby
Candor's informant would have felt much
better, and made a much truer report if he
had seen the colony in fair day, and had
stopped to dinner.
The democrats cackle over their success
lik5 pullet over its first egg. They have
been sitting on the nest so long without pro
ducing anything that the result is sweet
surprise, over which they are making good
deal of noise. Cincinnati Commercial.
Brick Pomeroy is going to Europe for the
benefit of his health. There was never any,
thing very good about Mr.. Pomeroy, and #
his health is impaired he is poor indeed. 1t
was the only thing he had to boast of,-Roch-
ester Democrat.
Citizen johnson did not come to make an
oratorical display. What he came for was to
inquire, "What kind of a Government have
we now p'-or rather, as his speech shows, to
tell what kind of Government Citizen John
son thinks We have now. We used to think
that we had kind of Constitutional Govern
ment; but that idea, in Citizen Johnson's
opinion, is now obsolete. Now, when any
body questions the constitutionality of a
proposition in Congress, somebody gets up
and says: "Damn the Constitution We've
got the numbersp' which shows that Citizen
johnson has not forgotten the time when
President johnson undertook not only to ex-
ecute the functions of the peoples head-ser-
want, but to RIM the Representative Assembly
Of the people also; to be at once head-water
and master of the ousehold.-Chicdgo
Times.
The Wsrld thinks the country will not con-
Germ itself further with questions which have
chiefly occupied its attention since the forma-
ton Of the Republican party in 1854. That
cycle of our politics has closed In the Sc
we're financial embarrassments which have
oVertaken us the clock has struck which
marks the transition to new era. Questions
of trade, currency. intercourse, taxes and
commercial regulations are now TO be con-
sidered.
History repeats itself in this quotation
from newspaper printed one hundred years
ago: sit is comruted that no less than one
hundred and twenty considerable merchants,
bankers, and traders have been absolutely
ruined since June, 1772, owing to specula-
ton, made bills and every species of deceit
full credit
The Journal of Commerce (Democratic)
calls Andy johnson croaker and says of his
recent Washington speech that ''it is full Of
generalitiet, not glittering, but excessively
dull, and great must have been the patience
and sturdy the legs of his hearers to enable
them to stand it out.'