The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-17
Current Notes.

No one will charge the Cincinnati Com
merciot with any bias in favor of the admin
istration, and Iits testimony should have
weight, when it says of the Louisiana troub-
| les: "Whether the returning board was JUS
titled in going behind the lists and arbitrarily
| throwing out the votes of parts of parishes
and entire districts, is question which, as
| we have said, we do not now propose to dis
| cuss. The present purpose is now simply to
| point out the fact, which the evidence abun-
| danty supplies that the election of Novem-
| ber in Louisiana was greatly influenced by
organized effort to deter colored voters from
| going to the polls, and that the means re-
| sorted to were such as would invalidate an
| election in any state where the rights OF
voters are properly protected by law"
General Schenck himself tells us that
| about twenty million cotton bales and some
hundreds of thousands of likely Africans
| have been lost trying to bluff through what
| is known as "bob-tail ausb," that is, a
| strong hand lacking the one essential card to
fill out five of a suit. During the last session
of the Kentucky legislature Senator McMa-
mama prepared bill, at the instance Of a
number of statesmen of beth parties, max
ing it a penal offense for any player at draw
be in the enjoyment of ''threes," or to draw
one card to "threes" by which vexatious and
mean devices much uncertainty and many
mischances are brought about. The bill was
never reported from the committee to the
judiciary, to which it was referred. But it
will be, we learn, revived for next winter.
Candidates for the legislature should be
called out on this question.-Loaisuille Cou-
rier Journal
A correspondent of the New York Post cor
rects the recent story about w. W. Phelps
defeat and says The colored vote in Mr..
Phelps district is not large, and he lost about
one-half OF it on account of his opposition TO
the civil rights bill; but for every vote thus
lost he gained more than three from the
Democrats, who admired him for his indie
pendence and maniness on this and other
meas ures and for the great ability manifested
in the discussion of the financial and other
questions. He also lost votes through the Sc
cret hostility of several Republican leaders,
who were jealous of his growing reputation
and influence. and determined, if possible, to
kill him off.
The third-term spook is beginning to trouble
the Democratic party again. Take care, gen
tlemen. A few such idiots as John Young
DIOWu Will tudb opoOh W oh VA
tent that will make your hair stand up.-St.
Louis Globe.
Mr., Frye of this state is credited with say
ing that any man who wants foretaste OF
hell should 60 to New Orleans.
Some of our people are, naturally enough,
alarmed at the election to congress by the
southern people of large number of the ex-
officers of that army. Now, comrades, it
seems to me that little consideration will
show that there is no great cause for alarm.
These ex-oficers, it should be remembered,
are under paroles of honor. While we all
know the most sacred earthly duty of an
American citizen is that of loyalty to the re-
public, yet we must not lose sight of the fact
that soldier, in his individual capacity of
soldier, can realize no contingency that
would make him violate his parole. There is
every reason why these ex-confederate SOL
diers in congress should see that they were
clearly, honestly, If you please, but with the
present lights before them, clearly in the
wrong; every reason why they should be 10y
al citizens, and every reason why they should
sacledly keep their paroles of honor, whether
given in person or in an implied form, by ac-
cepting their leader and the authorities of the
general government.-Gen Burnside.