The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-24
Current Notes.

Gentlemen who are waiting for the Post
master-GeneraPs shoes will be likely to
feeeze their toes. Winter is coming.-Ne,o
london Telegram.
We would not care to be responsible for
what the Democrats may do; but the Repub-
licans will be sure to bury the third term
ghost so deep that timId Democrats will not
scare at its shadow, and they will also nomi.
nate a first-class man for the Presidency and
elect him.-Cincinndti Gazette.
The Democrats are pretty much running
Bayard for President, just now. They
couldn't have more respectable engineer for
| the party machine. He is so much of a gen.
tleman that it never occurs to him that peo-
pie who vote the Democratic ticket can do
anything wrong.-SprinQfeld Republican.
Mr.. Kerr is positive advocate of resump-
| ton, and, having taken his position from con.
viction, is not likely to abandon or modify it,
while Mr.. Randall, though inclning toward
"hard money!" and quite willing to see the
| government notes redeemed, is not incapable
of yielding his opinions for political advan-
| tage.-Neao York Times.
The Democrats have got the power, let
them have the responsibility. If they choose
| to elect an infationist, salary grabber or q
rebel to the speakership, let them do it. It
| is not the mission of the Republican party to
| help engineer the Democracy, or assist them
| in avoiding mistakes. Let them show their
! true inwardness. Indianapolis Journal.
| We do not believe that Catholic voter
l should cast his ballot at the dictation of his
| priest, ,!nor do we think that such course
would be good work for the Catholic church.
We do not think that Catholic citizen
| should drag his church question into secular
| politics any more than Methodist, Baptist,
| or any other citizen.-Bost0n Pilot.
The wits of the press are ridiculiug obitu-
| ary poetry great deal now, and finding
fault with its measure and rhythm, and all
that, but down in the bowels of every news
] paper office there is an old bald-headed book
keeper who blinks and blinks and knows that
obituary poetry rhymes better with dollar
line than anything Tennyson ever wrote
Neac Orleans Bulletin.
Postmaster-G General Jewell is candid,
straightforward, honest, outspoken man, who
does his duty and expresses his sentiments
fearlessly; and those who know President
Grant are aware of the fact that he is not
ready to break away from persons like this,
| unless he has serious reasons for it, Both
Jewell and Bristow will stay in the Cabinet
to the end of Grants erm.-P;ttsburg Gu
zette.
The Louisville Courter-Journal has at last
cornered the Cincinnati Enquirer in the bill
lingsgate duel which those two organs of the
true Democracy have been fighting over the
cold corpse OF the rag-baby. Having each of
them exhausted their stock of epithets, the
Courier-Journal closes the fight with the oh.
servation with which it retires, that sto be
blackguarded by small trickster and shallow
Drained blatherskite is always an evidence of
merit which is grateful to our souls"
This is to be the year of the revival of the
spirit of the old leaders of American politics.
1 know and you know that at this moment it
is the demand of the country, ripening more
and more, that there shall be the loftiest
character, the most trained ability, the ripest
experience, in the centennial president that
is to take the chair in 1877. And here and
now let us make ourselves into propaganda
of that faith; let the spark which is kindled
in this room fly burning and flaming over
this whole land.-Mr. Curtis at the Alpho
Delta Phi Dinner.
Trade always wants" an increase of cur
rency because people who are engaged in trade
always want an advance of prices. But con-
sumers, who are the great majority. suffer
from an advance of prices. Producers of ar
ticles, the price of which is fixed in foreign
markets, suffer when prices of what they con-
sumo are artificially lifted, because the price
of their products cannot be correspondingly
advanced. Thus every artificial advance OF
prices presently necessitates reaction and dis
aster. What the country needs is a strong,
steady, and, within certain limits, irresistible
restraint upon the Inherent tendency OF
prices to recurring spasms Of abnormal ad-
vance. That restraint is in some degree sup
piled by the use of coin as eurrency.-Neau
York Ftnancier.