The Portland daily press., 1874-11-14
Is il quite fair in the Boston Herald to in
innate that Mr.. Blaine spoke in Buffers dis
trict, when that paper cannot fail to know
that he did no such thing?
Current Notes.


Minister Washburne is reported to be very
decidedly opposed to the initiation scheme of
the West.
Speaker Blaine will lose nothing but the
Speakership by the revolution, With Grant
ism and Butlerism atop he never could have
been the Presidential candidate. Now he can
go to cleaning house.-BOston Herald.
Evidently the chastisement of the organs
November third is not bringing forth the
peaceful fruits of repentance. Witness the
Washington Chronicle denouncing President
Grants attempt to reform the civil service.
Blaine may not be Grants successor, but
in the course of nature, he is pretty sure to
be President. In the meantime, he is young
enough to wait, browsing in the Senate for
the want of something better to do.-Louis-
vile Courier-Journal.
The Springfield Republican says: "The
talk against Dawes is quieting down little
in the Republican ranks. Unless something
new in the machinery breaks, we think the
party will carry him through"
Especial dispatch from the land Of spooks
gives report Of ratification meeting of the
late elections, attended by Charles Sumner,
Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln and Glenn
Vallandigham. -7eG s.if s.e
The Allegan Mich journal (Republican)
nails the names of Gen. Sherman for Presi-
dent and Senator Ferry for Vice-President.
A little early for Gen. Sherman, but no Fer
ry, if you please. lri is
The New York Republic and the Mail ask
why Gov. Fenton should not be his own sue
cessor in the United States Senate by Goa
lition of Republicans and Fenton Democrats.
This is a strange proposition for the Presi-
dental mouthpiece to make Ed r..l aa4,
The Springfield Union says: Somebody
suggests.that the Massachusetts railroads will
soon he called on to run s'drunk cars" as
well as smoking cars, if there should be any
preceptible increase in the number of intoxi-
Gated persons travelling by rail afterthe aboli-
ton of the prohibitory law. Almost every
train has several drunken persons abroad,
nsw." Does snow mean since the late
Democratic tidal wave? f-1 ~.
The defeated candidate for Congress in the
Essex district is credited abroad with de-
sire to form new party in Massachusetts,.
He can save himself the trouble, for new
party is already forming, with him and all
his belongings on the outside. Salary grabs,
Sanborn frauds, revenue Matchmaking, eau
cus-packing, ballot-stufing and political viii
| lany of every stripe are discharged from SER
vice in the Republican party, together with
the authors of them.
The Nation says that when Mr.. Tilden or
ony one else pretends that the Democratic
party is in possession of great store of ira
ditions and principles which it will now bring
into play and use for our salvation, he makes
too heavy demand on our faith. The fact
is that the war has left the Democratic party
no better off in this respect than the Republic
can indeed, one may say, it has left it worse
off,
The New York Herald says that elf these
seven Observation-Disclosures, Tilden, Bay
ard, Hendricks, Seymour, Kerr and Pendle-
ton-would hold private conference and
agree to mutually support one another, and
act in perfect concert on all the great ques-
lions of currency, trade and finance, they
could give the Democratic party what it
/ chiefly lacks, policy. But if these eminent
Democratic statesmen cannot agree among
Il oAAShASSA'SS hVN Gall VIC parry CNCl NC unA-
monized?" s.,-. -.....,--.
The Springfield Republican which has long
been opposed to the Republican party, says
respecting the Bourbon Democracy: s'They
hold that the party has only to stand firm to
its old order and in its old tracks, and every
thing will come round to it. They are in
spired by the feelings, they pursue the meth
DDS OF 1S50-60. They take the recent cleo
lions as tributes to the virtue of their organi-
zation and the popularity and power of their
habits of administration. They made Allen
governor of Ohio, and Eaton senator from
Connecticut; they gerrymander cities for par
ty advantage in one state; they wrench con-
stitutional provisions from their object that
they may sweep all the petty Offices into their
fold, in another: in Missouri they propose to
uony Carl ocnurl d rcturu ov VIC o0natv, IN
New York city, they are run by "boss"
gambler and a ''boss" politician of the Tweed
school; and everywhere they show DISPOSE
ton to return to the old and forbidden ortho-
graphy of our colored man and brother"