The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-26
Current Notes.

The way the Democrats are reducing the
expenses of Arkansas is this: The Repub-
lican Legislature of 1873 appropriated 800,
600 to pay the expenses of sundry civil affairs.
For the same purpose the Democratic Legis-
latuSe of 1875 appropriated $4,000. Nine
thousand more would make the increase ex-
actly 100 per cent. The ''carpet-baggers'
are likely to come out, by comparison, as eco
nomical.
"James Gordon Bennett says" we are told,
"that he expects to sink half a million dollars
in starting daily newspaper in London. y
Few of the brighter hopes Of this world are
realized, but it is fact, nevertheless, that the
loftiest expectation of sinking large sum OF
money in trying to start daily newspaper is
seldom, If ever, blasted.-Louisuitte Courier
Journal.
General II. Y. Boynton, in Washington
letter to the Cincinnati Gazette, says: 'Very
general interest is felt here by men from all
parts of the country in the reelection of Gov
enor Hawley of Connecticut. His defeat will
prove no common loss in the minority Of the
next house. He has established a character
for the strictest honesty and integrity of pur-
pose. While thoroughly loyal to party, he Is
at the same time absolutely independent in
his mode of thought, and strong in methods
of expressing them. In pointed speech there
are few upon the floor of the house who ex-
eel him. He never occupies the attention of
that body unless he has something worthy OF
being said and something altogether pertinent.
In that minority, which in the next house is
to manage Republican affairs, General Haw-
ley will be, in all respects, the right man in
the right place. Where so many confederate
generals are to appear, and aid the struggle
for the mastery ofthe nation in the Interest OF
the old party which they served so well under
the confederate flag, it will be misfortune if
SO good Union general, and so honest, fear
less, and just Republican as Governor Haw-
lev is withdrawn from the contest which Re
publicans must wage against them through
the next congress.
The looker-ou in the Senate gallery at
Washington must be awfully impressed with
the eloquence of the Democratic Senator'S who
talk of the South as poor, down-trodden, and
oppressed Poland, as his eye takes in at a
glance seven rebel generals comfortably tilted
back in Senatorial chairs and drawing $4,000
apiece from this tyrannical government.
There is nothing like the power of an awful
example.
George William Curtis believes in the sue
CESS vi TeiOIu WltHlu tuc HcpuuHCdu pdIty,
and that for the next President it will name
some man "whose character is his platform
will declare policy of which he will be the
type; and his election will prove that the
American people will never again restore the
party that sustained human slavery aE6
plunged the country into civil war;
h The Hartford Courdnt says: "Mr. Eaton
our distinguished senator, differs FROM Shaks
peare, who is said never to repeat himself
Since 1860 Mr.. Eaton has been making
speeches, or rather he has been repeating
the same old speech about State Rights. He
clung to the idea of a confederacy all through
the war and long after the Union armies had
decided at Appomattox that he ana hls
Southern brethren had mistaken notiols =, oI
the powers of the nation. He rehealsed tne
same sentiments annually at every ; DGino-
cratic state convention. and reiteraleu lneii
in 1872"
And now, suppose the Republicans carry
Ohio and Pennsylvania this year-saying
nothing for the present about New York
which nav also be carried with the right kind
of a ficht-what then would be the outlook
for 1915? Wouldn't the face of the situation
he yery materially changedp Wouldn't the
prospect be very different from what it was
after the last elections? There is good rea.
son to expect that the Republicans will carry
both of these states, and, carrying them
there is no reason why they should not car.
ry the Presdency.-Al6any Journal.