The Portland daily press., 1875-06-18
Current NOtpS

We suggest to such Republican journals as
think it worth while to wrestle with the
''next-candidate" problem, that it would be
well to think of James G. Blaine as oGe OF
the possibilities. If the situation remains IN
changed for another year, he will be not only
a possibility, but strong probability.-St.
Louis Globe.
The Maine Republicans did good days
work, nominating General Selden ConnOr for
governor, and adopting an excellent plat
form. 1t was worth noticing that all the re-
cent Republican conventions have insisted
upon the unity OF the nation as one govern
ment, and not, as the Democrats under the
lead of Mr.. Eaton assert, confederacy OF IN
dependent nations. This is a point which
needs to be urged until every school boy rec
ognizes its force, and sees that the party
which holds contrary belief endangers the
peace and prosperity of the country.-Hart-
ford COarGnt
The Democracy are forecasting the future
with considerable hopefuluess, but just so did
the Irishman who put green spec.aces on his
horse to make him think that the straw set
before him was fresh mown hay, and soon
found the animal dying, full of faith to be
sure, but quite scant of fodder.-LOutsUttIe
Commercial.
The place that the strawberry holds in con-
temporary literature is not what it ought to
be. A plant whose leaf crowns an English
duke, while the berry crowns an American
cobbler, ought to be celebrated in poetry as it
is in prose- Emerson regards it as sort OF
aristocrat, while he callsa blackberry an ETH
iop sweet.'' But in general our poets neglect
the fruit-in their verse, not in their diet
and our dramatsts never allude to it except
when they want to bring complicated plot
to happy conclusion by the discovery OF q
strawberry mark on the person OF one of lne
characters. rs.-PhiladeLphiG Bulletin.
The shirt is the true emblem of human
progress, and every step of national or Sec
tional advancement OR retrogession can be
unerringly traced by the changes in the guam
tity, quality and fashion of this garment,
which has come down to us through all the
ages, like hammered prophecy, leading the
world steadily forward, amid the heat and the
harassment, over the sharp stones and
across the droUthy wastes, to the good things
that go to make up what we call civilization.
st. Louis Globe.
The Maine Republicans signalized the
Tooth anniversary of the first steps in the
Continental Congress to organize nation
out of the hitherto separate and independent
colonies, by declaring with marked emphasis,
in their resolutions, that ''the Uniteu States
constitute nation aud not merely confed-
eracy." 1t is notable coincidence that it
was on June Is, IT'S, that the Continental
Congress in Philadelphia voted to adopt the
volunteer militia as a national army, to make
Washington the general in chief of the "Cor-
tinental Army" of the United Colo
nies,'' and then it was that these names ap-
peared for the first time. Then was commit
ted also the irreparable overt act of ordering
evies of troops in certain named colonies as
under a national authority. The national
question has been a most mOmentous one
in our politics ever since, and great civil
war has been fought over it, resulting in the
triumph substantially of the principle in
favor of which the Maine Republican Con-
vention resolves on the centennial anniversary
of the very day the first national action was
taken.-Boston Transcript.