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

ut SduuiudlC lOI pOVtTuO. TG-
ceived 91OO votes, drawing equally from the
two partes-the first two figures from the
Republicans and the last two from the Dem
ocrats.-Worcester Press.
If the Republican party will put its best
men in the front, and steadily repudlate the
counsels of its towards, trimmers and huck-
sters, it can have the services Of all those
who have lately withdrawn themselves, and
become as invincible as it was in its best
days.-WOrcester Spy.
Mrs. Starrott of Lawrence, Kansas, pro.
pounds the interesting query, "What shall
we do with our daughters ?'' and farmer in
the same propinquity wants to know "What
shall we do with our corn?' The able editor
of the Topeka (Kan.) Blade, eager to make
himself useful and popular with both parties,
saws, t'Let us feed our corn to our daughters"
Cesarism is dead, and the tune the organs
are grinding is dirge. The Republican
party has disavowed it. The Republican
conventions have pronounced against it em-
phatically and unmIstakably. The President
himself has taken occasion to put his foot
upon it. 1t is dead and buried, and can do
no more harm, if it ever did any.-ChicdgO
Tribune.
1t is plain that the contests of politics in
this state hereafter are to be closer than they
have been for that fifteen years before last
year, and the organization, as it has been un-
derstood and practiced in Maine and New
Hampshire, for instance, will be the greatest
means of victory. 1t is not too early, TO. day,
to begin the work with reference to the great
campaign of next summer.-BOstOn Aduer-
tiser.
1t will be an easy matter to throw away
the present opportunities. If "bummers'
are allowel to gobble up the Offices in the
gift of president and governors; if whisky
rings and Indian rings can exist; if Bristow
and Jewell are to be snubbed, and Zack
Chandler run the machine, then the recent
victories will amount to nothing and the
party will perish. The life of the Republi-
can party is in its own hands.-B0ston Tran
script.
1t seems that this thing of subjecting the
supreme judges to the humiliation of presi-
dental candidacy is sort of sorrow that
should be comforted. Judge Davis has had
touch of the presidency. 1t is almost as Sc
we're as stroke of paralysis. Indeed, the two
have at times been known to go together
Waite has been subjected to solemn imputa-
tiOns of being such an average person that he
could be run without peril of painful record !;
bat we are not at all sure that he deserves it.
He is not so commonplace that nothing can
be found against him, and he has not the
millions in his pockets that bestow upon Da-
Wis his golden measurement. Let us strive to
save our great men from this slaCghter.-Cin-
cinndti Commercial.
No part of NJ. Thiers's speech is wiser than
the rebuke it gives to those who say that
France will live in state of isolation so long
| as she is ruled by republic. There would
have been good ground for such an appre-
hension if republic had been set up after
the 4 wnfall of Charles x. Then the great
vivid memory of the horrors which attende
the great revolution. They feared the con-
tagion of popular fury might spread, and
they had uneasy visions of disturbed coun-
tries and exiled kings. But these apprehen-
sions have now sobered down. France. it is
seen, is one of the most conservative coun-
| tries in Europe, and the periodical outbursts
| of her revolutionary elements do harm only
| to herself-London Times
The Democratic victories of 1873 and 1874
were not due to any special merit in the pol
| icy or candidates of the successful party On
the contrary, in nearly every section where
the Democracy won important advantages,
| its platforms, and the men who were placed
| upon them, were characterized chiefly by a
| peculiarly impudent demagogism. Nor was
| this the worst. In Pennsylvania the party
presented, as the fruit of its success, Senator
| Wallace, tricky and unscrupulous partisan
| politician of the lowest type; in Connecticut,
| it sent Eaton to the Senate, and in Missouri,
Cockrell-one confederate raider, the otEer
| northern secesSIonist; while in Missouri,
Ohio and Indiana. it boldly placed in its dec
| laration of principles the pernicious and dis
| graceful doctrines of imitation and reputation
| doctrines which, this year, it repeated in
Ohio, ard proclaimed for the first time in
| Pennsylvania.-N. Y. Times.
The turbulent and aggressive forces with
abuse the name Democracy have received a
check. The architects of a new party have
had notice that their services are not needed.
| Republicans have learned the conditions on
| which power will be entrusted to them. They
must be faithful 10 the traditions of the repub
| lie, and must place the sword subject to the
constitution. They must go forward to ad-
vancing duties, and be true to the enlightened
conscience of the best citizens. They must
be as brave, as progressive, as constructive in
peace as they were in war. As general after
general was dropped in the war, who, what
ever his merits. became an obstacle, so now
ambitions must be buried and individuals
banished who stand in the way of success
On such conditions the November elections
| give assurance that President Grant shall
make room in due course for another Repub.
lican Fresident.-Uticd Herald.
Tie Jackson Times, the leading Republi-
can organ in Mississippi, says: "From the
character of those who have controlled the
primary caucuses of the party, and thence
the leadership and policy and destiny of the
Republican organization, defeat was only a
question of time. 1t has come at last, and
though by means we do not approve, yet il
has overtaken us, and the party is at the bot
tom of the hill. Republican party manage.
ment this year has been worse than words
can express. There has been no influence
from leaders and from committees except
what has been deleterious. Strife, conten
ton, pickering and bitterness have universal
ly prevailed. Those in the charge of tn,
party management have not made themselve
felt, they have not been felt for good, they
have not sought, as far as is known, to bring
harmony and unity to the party; but they
fought rather to run it in the interest of the
few and by the few, to the exclusion and in
| defiance of those not of their sOrto