The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-12
Current Notes.

Current Notes.
The grave of the currency question was
dug in Ohio, and the voters Of Pennsylvania
have erected over it a monument more en-
during than brass."-Mobile Register.
Referring to Joaquin Miller's nomination of
Longfellow and Bryant for the Presidency,
the Rochester Democrat thinks Presidents
message in verse would be pleasing novelty
for few inmates.
When the force bill was strangled by Re-
publican and Yankee hands, tina. leaf was
turned down TO stay down. The south has
to-day no snceger and more sympathetic well
wishers, no wiser and more trustworthy
friends, than among the conservative, nation
al Republicans of New England Springfield
Republican.
The Boston Advertiser says of the centen-
NAL buildings: None of the numerous en-
cravings or Autographs which we have seen
gives satisfactory representation of any of
the buildings, and the visitor is agreeably sur
prised to find how admirably the principal
buildings have been planned for the purposes
intended, and how good is the general effect.
The Republican party must be hard
money and anti-innation party in 1876, Or go
10 pieces as has the Democratic party. II
evil counsels and wicked combinations shall
place the Republican party in even an equiv
ocal position on this question in 1876, then it
will amount to an invitation to all friends of
a sound national currency, no matter of what
party, to unite for the common purpose of
saving the country from general ruin and
disaster.-Chicago Tribune.
On one occasion much-prased represen-
tative, who had favored in the house re-
form bill, which, if enacted, would have cut
off members perqusites. rushed over TO the
Senate and besought Mr.. Fessenden's aid in
preventing any further action on the meas
ure. He explained to the senator that so
many men in the House had voted Tor the bill
ito secure the applause Of the country, that
it had actually been passed by mistake. The
senator grimly said to the representative,
'My dear, when you are as old as |
am. you W i'll learn that national reputation
cannot be made on fOurpence-ha'p a'penny votes
like that."-N. Y. Times.
If half of the predictions of the inaationists
come true, the country will go 10 the bow
vows abut dozen times within the next
year or two. just because it didn't follow
their advice. The latest bugaboo has been
discovered by the editor of the Pittsburg Post.
Real about it and shudder: ''If the noneyed
power of the East succeeds in capturing the
National Convention, and nominating a can
didate that wears New York Uniform, the
West is likely TO bolt and make another
nomination. This may throw the
election into the House, which Grant will
readily dispose of with bayonents if necessa.
ry, and the Senate will declare the Republic
in danger and Grant the President for ten
years. This is gravely discussed in certain
quarters and will be attempted"
The Springfield Republican urges the Lou
isvile Courier-Journal to stop its talk about
the ''debt" which the south owes the Demo-
craticparty, particularly such talk as pronoun-
cling the white voters of that section "curs'' if
they forget their obligations to the Democrat
ic party. The Republican says: Gas we
read the political history of the last thirty
years, the south does, indeed, owe debt TO
the Democratic party but it is not exactly
debt of gratitude. For the miseres of civil
war, and for the unnecessary hardships and
iniustices of reconstruction, it is, indeed,
largely indebted to that party. Again and
again it has leaned upon the Democracy. on
ly to find it broken reed, and to get pierced
for its pains. After the experiences OF seces-
SIou duu TecOnSLTuctlOu, luis periSteuJ lOydl-
ty to old associations may be political chival-
ry; it certainly is not political sense"
Really now the Cincinnati Enquirer is
rather hard to suit in the matter Of Prest-
Dental candidates. Here is the substance of
four of its successive paragraphs in one issue.
Concerning Gov. Tilden It says: ''Sam Tilden
has been perspir;ngly following the tow-path
on the Erie canal, flagellating a spawned and
foundered horse headed toward the White
House, that was hauling leaky boat labelled
Reform The horse is dead, the boat is sunk
and Sans occupations gore" OF the prom
inent Republican reformer il thinks equally
small beer: "There never was greater bosh
in the world than the talk Of Bristow. lie
doesn't carry enough under his hat. He is a
shaun reformer, and in less than a year will
go to join in oblivion the ghost of civil SER
vice REFORM" Next it gently takes Sam
Bowles by the ear, and makes the novel sugges-
ton that 'there never was more inoppor-
tune time to urge the claims of Charles Fran
els Adams" And finally it growls savagely
at the threatened revival of Horatio Sey-
mour as a Democratic candidate. YES" 1t
exclaims, 'let's have little more OF Hora,
tic. He's very popular He might. by harl
work. be able to carry one state" somehow
they don't seem to be happy out IN Ohio.