The Portland daily press., 1875-12-17
Among the democrats, the mania for iaves-

Among The democrats, the mania for iAyes-
tigaton is very strong, but how or where to
begin seems to puzzle them. The Replbli-
cans, while in power, did so much in the way
of turning themselves inside out. that there is
really very little left for the Democrats
Washington Letter to the Boston Globe.
1t only shows to what desperate straits the
democrats are reduced for political capital
when they charge the administration with
checking an investigation which will now be
pursued with greater determination than eV-
er. These attempts to divert attention from
their own plentiful lack" of policy fit to be
submitted to the people will only recoil upon
their own heads.-N. Y. Times.
The attempt to discredit the Administra-
tion, and especially the President, on ac.
count OF the dismissal of Mr.. Henderson from
the Government counsel in the whiskey trils
at st. Loais, will not succeed. Any perOn
with spark of self-respect in his compsi-
tion, placed in the Presidents position, ,vjuld
do exactly what the President, with th, ap-
proval OF his Cabinet, has done.-Fston
Advertiser.
Mr.. Luttrell of California is one of tie fools
whom brethren Cox, Lamar and Irr are
trying to suppress in Congress with Megulat-
ing committee. But he has broken ot before
they have got their machinery in oper, and
sent around list of fifty investigaions, for
each OF which he wants committe of three
members. Luttrell has lively Imagination,
and deals with large figures as if b had been
accustomed TO putting gold mics on the
market.-Sprinafeld Republican
The editor of the Cincinnati inquirer is at
Washington, and writes livehletters to his
paper. His historical allusioDsand quotations
from foreign languages are 4ittle wild, how
ever. For instance, he say: "It wont take
much to grease the PRESENTS wheels and
enable him to realize the fcce of Dante's OBJ
servation: Fdcilis est dscenSus Auerni."
We wish to remark, and or language is plain,
that Dante was Hard-Dney Democrat, and
that the observation in Question, being pure
Hebrew, was made y St. Matthew Of GER
tain pigs more obstipte than any ever bred
in Cincinnati, abop running down steep
places into the sea.,-N. Y. World.
The South hs not trod the wine press
alone for nothig. With an aptitude for af-
fairs, with tremendously disenchanting expe-
riences, wib an intelligence in the principles
and arts a politics that was never brighter,
and witt an indomtable heart, that disaster
only strengthened and could not break, the
Sortb of to-day has all the mobility, unity,
coberence and energy of the South of the
days that are no more; she has also none of
the disturbing questions, none of the separat-
ing ambitions, and none of the anomalous
lets under which the politics of former times
was waged.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Democrats in Congress continue to
play into the hands of their adversaries. Like
the Bourbons, whom they are so often named
after, they "never learn anything and never
forget anything" For example, Senator
Merrimon of No rth Carolina very quietly in
troduced bill on Monday, to repeal section
47l6 of the revised statutes. Those who
were curious enough to refer to this para
graph found that it was section of the pen
sion law which provides that "no money on
account of pensions shall be paid to any per-
son or to the widows, children or heirs OF any
deceased person who, in any manner, volun-
tarily engaged in or aided or abetted the late
rebellion against the authority of the United
States" The introduction of this bill is, about
on par with. if it is not good deal worse
than the blunder of the Louisiana resolution.
The Democrats have put their foot in it twice
within a single week.-N. Y. Herald.