The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-27

Doubtless malicious people will undertake to
excite sympathy for the Indians on this ac-
count. They do not deserve it. The only
apprehension we have is that it will give the
savages new idea Of the refinement of cru
city, and that hereafter, instead of scalpiDg
their captves, they will set them up and read
poems at them. We do hope that DIR. Cox
will not so far forget what 10 due to humani-
ty as to give them copy of that poem.-N.
Y. Tribune.
The st. Louis GLobe-D Democrat Of the 22d
says: "Mr. George Alfred Townsend has ac-
cepted the editorship OF the Times, of this
city, and will begin to preach Bourbon De-
mocracy to lost and ruined party on Mon
day next"
We feel authorized to say that the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury, in his efforts to break up
the fraudulent practices of the whiskey ring
and in his determination to prosecute and
punish to the full extent of the law all those
found guilty, especially the officers of the
revenue, will have the cordial approval and
unlimited support OF President Grant. Any
guilty person who puts any hope Of escape
from legal prosecution upon the Presidents
interference with the execution of the law
by the Secretary of the Treasury, is certain
TO be disappointed. There will be no such
be urged by persons who, in ordinary politi-
cal matters are regarded as friends OF the Ad-
ministration.-Ch Chicago Tribune.
Our Democratic friends have happy knaek
of doing the most unwise things for the sake
of Insignificant and temporary advantages,
and this New Hampshire affair is a sample Of
futuous wrong-doing. 1t is not matter of
great consequence to the country, or to eth
er party, which controls this one New Eng
land state for year, but the iniquity and
chlcanery involved will be nosed abroad, and
do the Democratic party more harm in the
estimation of voters who are considering
which organization offers the best security
for honest and wise government than the pos
session of New Hampshire for century
could do it good.-Baltimore Americ1n.
A CORRESPONDENT the Chicago Tribune,
writing from Mississippi, says that he finds
that the fire eaters constitute the active agen.
cy in white politics; that, whether numeri-
cally the superior force or not, morally they
are the controlling element.
Senator Morton is very much pleased with
the Republican triumph in indianapolis. He
thinks ii has shown beyond doubt that the
electoral vote of Indiana next year will be
cast for the Republican candidate for the
Presidency. He is also confident that the
Liberals and Independents who have not act
ed with the Republicans fer several years will
return to the fold now, and all will be lovely.
Four months before the presidential election
of 1872, everything looked dark along the
political horizon. The Republican party was
to be buried under the tidal wave of Democ-
racy. The politicians mistook the sentiments
of the people. The tidal wave turned out
mere ripple, and the old party of liberty and
union loomed up grander than ever. So it
will be in 1876. The time will never come
when the party that favored the overthrow
OF the government will control its affairs
Washington Chronicle.
The Nashua Telegraph says that when
Gen. Gordon, the ex-rebel who stumped New
Hampshire for the Democrats last winter, re-
turned to Washington, he said to prominent
senator with whom he engaged in conversa-
ton relative to affairs in that state: SIT is Of
no use for you to talk any longer about the
disloyalty of Georgia. have found more
disloJalty in New Hampshire than you can
find in all Georgia" Gen. Gordon's associ-
ates in New Hampshire were almost wholly
from the class who have recently perpetrated
the senatorial outrage, which seems to justify
his remark.