The Portland daily press., 1875-11-29
Current NOtps.

This winter we shall see the Democracy in
Congress take no step toward a solution of
the currency question ON the already deter
mined basis of honest money.-Philadelphia
Press.
The attempt to make votes for or against
either Kerr or Randall ON either the one side
or the other of the currency question is not
honest. As there is no difference among the
Democratic candidates for Speaker OF the
House on this subject, it might as well be
dropped at this stage OF the contest.-HdTris-
burg Patriot DEM.
The truth we suspect is that the people
generally have come to regard NJ. Tilden as
an ambitious schemer, who was playing the
part of reformer and making great fuss over
it, while really accomplishing very little. The
contrast between his methods of pursuing re-
form and those of Secretary Bristow are very
striking. The secretary makes no noise, but
he has already recovered something like 81
OO0, 900 from the whiskey thieves. So far
Mr.. Tilden has succeeded In recovering $12,-
600 from the canal ring.-Nelg Hduen Pal
lddiotm.
Gov. Hendricks is in the field early for the
Presidential nomination. He has organized
Hendricks Club in Indianapolis, where
speeches are made at frequent intervals, set
ting forth his eminent fitness for the Pres
idential chair He seems also to have begun
operations in Michigan, for a special despatch
to The Cincinnati Commercial, from Detroit,
announces that "wilhin the last few days the
friends OF Gov. Hendricks in this state have
| taken series of adroit steps which promise
to secure for him the states delegation to the
next Democatic National Convention"
The people will watch the organization OF
the House, and will mete out swift condem-
nation to the party if any man, with the
slightest faint or suspicion of jobbery in his
record, is placed in Office. Especially must
the score against the speaker and chief clerk
be clear one. There is the salary-grab, for
| instance, that the people have not got done
| thinking about By any means. Rgdy ex-
| anime every candidates. record, for il either
| speaker or clerk shall be selected from the
lists OF those democrats who voted for the sal
ary-grab, il will be idle 10 talk about reform
thereafter.---St. Louis Republican.
For the position which they occupy, Ro-
man Catholic priests have only themselves 10
blame. All their rights and reasonable priv
| ileges will be guaranteed TO them. But when
they use their pulrits to defeat beneficial leg
islation, as they did in New jersey, and al.
| low their church journals to denOunce Ro-
man Catholic laymen who recognize their du-
| ties as citizens, as the Freeman's Journal has
denounced Senator Herman for his sympathy
with non-sectarian public schools, they must
be ready to accept the censure which is sure
to follow.-New York Post.
| Gen. Mcdonald, the convicted Whisky
Ring conspirator. is very cheerful in his dis.
| grace. He told reporter of the Globe Dem
Ocrdt who visited him in jail that he was in
as good spirits as ever he was, and that he
chad not lost one iota of his manhood or
selErespect BY this thing" He hoped his
friends would moi think any the less of bim
for the misfortune that had come upon him.
He had only 'pity for the specimens of weak
humanity who have no more manhood about
them than to plead guilty and testify against
others, and thereby save themselves" The
miserable man seems utterly unable TO COM
prehend that he is not martyr, but con-
victed thief.
Concerning the change in the vice-pres.-
dents name, (which was made by the authori-
ty OF the New Hampshire Legislature in 1888,
there is this to be said. During his appren-
ticeship he formed an attachment to the
daughter of his employer, whose name was
| Mary knight, with whom he corresponded
for some time after his removal to Massachu-
setts. She had formed by a sort of feminine
whim fondness for the name Wilson, and
it is thought that the only motive that in-
duced him TO change his name was regard
for her. The baptismal name of jeremiah
Jones was given by his parents at the request
of neighbor, gentleman OF that name, Of
the highest character and respectability, who
promised the parents suit Of clothes when
he should be old enough to wear them. 1t is
a curious fact, in this connection, that the
same Jeremiah Jones was the person who,
as member of the Legislature. presented
Mr.. Wilson's petition for change Of name
Mr.. Wilson has often been criticised by his
enemies for changing it to the name by which
he is known to the world. But no reasona-
BILE person can blame him for the act.-Bos-
| ton Herald.