The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-11-07
Current Notes.

1uC DOoOOa I1UU6TCtS6I III ITO SOlliiShlo VA
the elections says: The Republican party
must reform upon conviction of duty and not
under stress of circumstances, if it would Sc
cure respect and length of days. But the
time when it can do this is departing. The
people are impatient: Already they hold
their allegiance as a light obligation, some
thing that it fair to sport with. Their faith
in it is relaxing, and is recching out toward
other support. The rotten wood of Democ-
racy is only serviceaSle for partial dependence
To change the figure, the people play the CO.
quette with the Democratic party not be-
cause they love it, bnt because they would
have the Republican party consider them
with "a earnest desire to mort favor.
Another Boston ward of large Democratic
majorities shows curious discrepancy in its
counting 1t Is thought by the Advertiser
that the correction of both will elect Gen.
King Register of Probate.
The bank OF England has recently raised
the rate of interest to s per cent. On May
IL, 1866, the rate was 10 per cent. for few
days. In January, 1864, it was 10 per cent;
in April it declined to 6 per cent; and again
in May it was advanced to Q per cent; in
June it was 9 per cent; in August it was
again per cent. and soon ran down to per
cent. In 1861, it was s per cent. In Octo-
Der, 1857, it was 9 per cent, but in one
month it ran down to per cent, and in De-
cember it was per cent.
We judge that the writer of the verses be.
ginning
We must not hope to be mowers.
And TO gather the ripe, gold ears,
Until we have been sewers,
And watered the burrows with tears,
is not a granger. Corn let us inform him, is
not mown, but is first ploughed up and then
thIeshed; and it is not sown, but grows wild
in the outrageous forest. And, furthermore
the farmer who should set out to water his
burrows with tears would find in due season
that it couldn't be successfully done without
more irrigation than the human form is cara
BILE of.-Rochester Democrat.
And what but Republican control and d.
rection of the finances has brought about this
unfortunate condition of affairs, pray let us
ask ?-Poaghkeeps Press.
A remote cause of it was doubtless the fall
of the Southern Confederacy. And yet, now
we think of it, Republican control was re-
sponsible for that too.-Rochester Democrat.
The New York Evening Post thinks the
Democrats will sink their ship with prema-
ture confidence.
The Worcester Spy gets its useful lesson
from the elections. The best of Congress
men and statesmen can afford to clip few
of them to take to Washington. 1t is as fol-
lows: Upon the Republican leaders the eff
feet of this reverse will, we hope, be sautary.
They have in some cases been made too arro-
CANT by continued prosperity, and too ready
to believe that the people would ratify at the
polls whatever they could dictate through
caucuses and conventions. There is nothing
like defeat to teach them the wisdom of max
ing the best use of their power. The lesson
is hard one, but we hope TO see the Repub-
icau party stronger and parer in consequence
of it,
The Democrats will vote for about any
man; the worse the larger the vote. This
fact is illustrated i'll Rochester N. Y, where
Jarvis Lord the Democratic nominee for SEN
ator run ahead of his ticket though the
Rochester Democrat published official testi-
mony before the canal and legislative COM
mittees showing that he was as bad as Bill
Tweed The New York Tribune said the
elected.
The Worcester Spy gives the following rea-
sons for Democratic triumph in that city:
But after making due allowances for these
sources for republican weakness and demo-
cratic strength, it is obvious that many re-
publicans, hundreds of them, voted the dem
ocratic ticket. Why they did so is ques-
ton not easily answered-some of them were
PROBABLY influenced by desire to take re-
venge upon Governor Washburn for Buffers
defeat in the preliminary canvass; more of
them by favor to the democratic party's po-
sition on the liquor question, and some per-
haps BY personal and special reasons of va
rious kinds.