The Portland daily press., 1875-04-08
Current Notes.

an ostentatious expression of undiminlshed
confidence in the President on the ground of
his southern policy, is now an exploded idea.
There will be no more of it outside the States
where there is an ignorant voting mass com
pletely under the domination of politicians
holding office by favor Ct the administration.
The name of the President is not a potent
rallying cry East or West; and if there ever
was design on the part of anybody to make
him the republican candidate for third
term, the Connecticut election is significant
warning that it will not do to try it.-BOstOn
Advertiser.
The fight has been most stubborn one,
and indicates an approaching national contest
of unparalleled closeness. We venture that
an analyzation of the total vote in Connectl-
cut will not give the Democracy any reason
for great rejoicing. ng.-Philadelphad Press.
The trouble in the South has been, for vari-
Gus reasons, public sentiment that wnked
at offenses against the rights of the colored
people. Had those offenses been properly
punished by the local governments. there
would have been no excuse for stretching the
power of the general government, and we
never should have heard OF the ku-klux act
and the force bill. The people of the South
and the people of the North who oppose arbi-
trary power should keep this fact in view.---
Boston Herald.
That the Democratic party has failed to i'm
prove its opportunities is clear to all intelli-
gent observers. The worst instead of the best
of the party comes to the front, and it is the
restoration of the Bourbons---not even the
Orleanists, but the regular old Legitimists,
Ultramontones, the incapabables OF other
days that is proposed. The Democratic
party. by the election of a mere Confederate
in Missouri, and mere Copperhead in Con-
necticut, and by sticking to nobody with no
chance in Massachusetts, and picking the
smallest instead of the largest man in Penn
sylyania, has placed itself, as the Old-fashon-
ed conservative National politicians sought to
place Slavery, iD the course of ultimate ex-
tinction. The indispensable margin OF liberal
and independent voters will not take part
with that party Cincinnati Commercial
(Ind.)
The most natural inference from the result
of the Connecticut election seems to be that
the worse the candidate in that state the bet
ter his chances Gen. Hawley, who, as all
agree, had been one of the ablest, most up
right, conscientious and personally popular
members of congress, was defeated by can
didate of very moderate ability, whose record
| in the state legislature showed great lack OF
| decision and independence. Mr.. Stark
| weather, by no means General Hawley's $
| equal, and probably the least creditable OF
| the republican candidates, was elected against
| an opponent, who was certainly the best Of
r the democratic candidates. Mr.. Barnum
| who has no personal qualifications for the of
i flee, except his wealth and his readiness to
| spend it for his party, and of whose congress
sional service the best thing to be said is that
there was very little of it, because he pre-
ferred staying at home and attending to his
own business, which he understood, to pre-
| tending in Washington to do the public busi-
| ness which he did not understand, has an in-
creased majority over candidate whom,
| without knowing anything of him except
| what the newspapers Say OF his general repu-
| tation in his neighborhood, we must presume
| to be greatly Mr.. Barnum's superior. WOr-
cester Spy.
The press wishes to cooperate with the bar
| in the exposure of wrong and resistance to
tyranny, but it must be as equals and not as
| servitors. The American press is done play
| ing second fiddle to any profession.-Chacago
Tribune.
The confusion into which Mr.. Phillips has
fallen is that currency or promises of dollars
or of other forms of coin may be made to do
| the work of coin when not convertible into
/ coin. or into commodities measured by the
| specie standard in other words, he virtually
| says that the symbol or shadow OF thing
| may be converted into theEubstance by an act
| of the imagination. He might as well hand a
hungry man bill OF fare and try to persuade
him that il was a dinner, or, rather, his
offer of an inconvertible greenback secured
| by the whole property of the nation. is like
| offering a general bill of fare of every other
mans dinner to hungry man and telling
him that it ought to satisfy him; but" says
tbs man, 81 cannot get hold of the other
| mans dinner. ''No matter says Mr.. Phillips,
"the faith of the nation and $2S, 600 ,OOO,O 600
of property is pledged to secure dinner-in
the next generation p'-EdDGrd Atkinson.
The retirement of Joe Hawey is one of
those incidents which are calculated to shake
for the moment even pretty robust faith in
the popular ell ection. But there is this con-
soling thought: CONGRESSES and the party's
loss is journalism's gain. Hawley was an
editor and good one, before he was Con-
| gressman. He is liable to be better editor
now than ever.-Sprinatetd Republican.
By taking advanced ground in favor Of
party reform, the Republicans of New Hamp-
shire were enabled to regain much they had
lost. BY their reactionary course in Con-
| Deetlcut Jney IOSJ llCCle InOre. IHe NeW
Hampshire policy, adopted everywhere
might have secured for them general success.
The Connecticut policy can prove only fatal
throughout the country.-NeD York Post.
1t is proposed to add another building to
the centennial village. That is refuge fol
the surviving body servants of George Wash.
ington! One wing will he devoted to the
old ladies who, when gddy girls, strewed the
path of the hero with flowers, and the garret
will be filled up with people who handed the
immortal George a glass of water when ht
passed Though small town in Connects
cut.-ChicGgo Inter-Ocedn.
The Centennial now does not need speech
es, nor newspaper discussion, nor flaming
resolutions, nor the abundance of goo(
ad 7lce which always comes from those whC
usually proffer nothing else; but it does wan
hard work and plenty of it in generous ac
cord with the management, and that will
make the year 1876 the most memorable
year in the history of modern civilization
| PHILADELPHIA Times.