The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-25
Current Notes.

The Cincinnati Enquirer assigns Senator
Thurman a back seat in the Democratic party
since he has championed the interests of the
Wall street clique. In the same connection
the Enquirer asks Senator Thurman what
authority he has for the statement that the
Democratic party is hard-money patty, and
asserts that no such doctrine can be found
in any National Democratic platform. l
The Washington Republican which was
decidedly in favor of initiation week ago now
says that the President has clipped our eagles
wings, and brought us down to the hard level
of tact, of plain, common sense, instead of
wildcat, untEinking, unreasoning and igno-
rant experiment. The Republican refers to
the veto message. e3
A cable telegram informs us that Ledru
Rollin, the veteran French publicist, is sui
fering from an affection of the heart. and
that his physician has advised him to abstain
from politics. If that doctor will come to
this country and write similar prescription
for Ben Butler, he may draw on the Globe for
affection Of the heart But ts Ts With az
fix.-St. Louis Globe.
Representative Beck Of Kentucky, Dem
ocratic leader, said on the announcement of
the veto of the currency bill: ''That gives US
Democrats the President next term;' to
which Speaker Blaine replied: "that is dis
counting the note for very much more than
its value"
The N. Y. Evening Post says that the
right thing for Connecticut to do is 10 put
David A. Wells of Norwich into the United
States Senate; that is, if Connecticut wants
to honor itself and benefit the country. The
Post ought to know that Democratic legisla-
lures are not in the habit of comforting such
positions when within their control upon gen.
tlemen who have not party record of twen-
ty years.
The New York Mail says: The Veto mes
sage is the greatest document since Lincon's
Emancipation Proclamation.
President Grant has vetod the Currency
Imitation Bill, and thereby rendered noble SER
vice to his country. By this act he has won
applause from the soundest fnanciers and the
best thinkers of Europe and America. He
has not done wiser or better thing since he
took charge of the Presidential Chair.-St.
John n. B. Neios. ei.L a+ I e
The Brooklyn Argus says of President
Grant: While assailed with good deal OF
truth by his opponents, and while in his sec
ond canvass he sank to be a choice of two
evils, the politicians have never unloosened
the peoples continuous gratitude toward or
their belief liz his periodical capacity to do
conspicuously sensible and intrepid things.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Times re-affirms that the Cuban excite
ment is manufactured wholly, at the present
time, to serve the purposes of spectators in
that city and New York.
Matthews, the Hon Stanley Matthews of
Ohio, is again on the rampage. He wants a
new party-in fact, can't exist without it.
Matthews is liable to affected in just that way.
He had it bad in '72-until the Cincinnati con-
yention nominated Horace Greeley. The st.
Louis Republican suggests that, "whenever
new party is organized, this gentleman be
urgently invited to keep out of it."-Spring-
field Republican. ni l-D5a sn54a L