The Portland daily press., 1875-07-09
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

The Hartford Courant thinks that Mr..
Nordhoff attributes to the Washington Rep,tb-
Hcan an Importance it does not possess. 1t
says that the Republican "ls not the central
and chief organ of the Republican party"
never has been, and in all probability never
will be, certainly not in the near future. 1t
is extremely improbable that Mr.. Edmunds
is, even remotely, responsible for the opinions
of the Republican, and he probably opened.
his eyes in astonishment upon the receipt of
Mr.. Nordhoff's letter, with its comical threat
that the writer will hold the Republican party
responsible because newspaper has called
him vile uames."
1t is never good policy to force the debtor
into corner. The men who are demanding
specie payment and forcing the Government
to pay the bondholder are impovershing the
people, and causing the awful shadow of re-
pubiation to fall upon the land. Deal lenient-
ly with overburdened people, Messrs. Task
masters.-Cincinnati Inquirer.
The New York Tribune continues to be
very severe upon the Ohio Democracy for its
rag-money mistake. An Ohio correspondent
OF that paper says that the convention was a
bowling mob. Gov. Allen, it was asserted,
would not accept nomination on any other
platform.
The Albany Journal thinks that the Re-
publicans may be able to redeem that state
this fall il they make good nominations, or
ganize thoroughly, and, above all. adopt a
wide and liberal policy and appeal to the best
sentiment Of the state.
The celebration of Independence Day was
more general this year than for many years.
Among the more noteworthy features were
the exercises at the South, which included
grand union celebration at Atlanta at which
the governor of Georgia presided and a pat
riotic address was delivered by the Hon. Al
exander H. Stephens; military parade at
Augusta; and barbecue at Memphis at
which General Forrest was presented bou-
Quet by the colored people and made pleas
ant response.
1t looks now as if the demons of imitation
and repudiation had been cast out of the Re-
publican party and and had entered into the
Ohio heg-o-cracy, and that the herd of dab
oized swine are running violently down a
steep place into the lake, where they are GO
ing to be choked; and thus the scriptures
will be fulfilled.-St. Paul Pioneer-Press
(Ind.)
There are several Republican papers in
Washington, but none of them are recog-
nized as "organs," or much of anything ex-
cept the recipients of public advertisements,
which are mainly dispensed by the Interior
Department. There is no official Republican
organ in this country, and the expressions of
Republican editors are merely the views of
the papers in which they are printed.-Cin-
cinnati Gazette.
Judge Edmunds, Secretary Of the National
Republican Committee has replied to the let
ter addressed to him by Mr.. Nordhof, saying
that the Washington Republican is not under
the control of that Committee or in any way
its organ.
And now it is Toombs to the front. He
could not be silent when Davis and Beaure-
guard and Preston and Semmes have made
their regular summer display of tomfoolery.
he would not be alone, and he attacks the
Fourth of July. He will have none of it, not
as it is celebrated now with ocr profusion of
fire-crackers, beer and patriotic orations. If
he could get back an old style Fourth of July,
when he could command the flag and guns OF
of the nation under the shadows of Bunker
Hill to return the shivering fugitive slave to
servitude and under which he boasted that
he hoped one day 10 be able to call the roll of
his slaves on Boston Common, he wouldn't
object to taking little of it along with the
rest; but what is Fourth of July to Toombs
with no chattels -PhiladelphiaTimes.
The charge against the Democratic candi-
date for Governor of Maine il, that he re-
signed from the Union army because he SYM
pathized with the rebellion. We know that
he did resign after the second battle of Bull
Run; that he was in good health at the
time; and that his resignation was most re-
luctantly accepted. His Republican COM
pstitor literally stumps the state on crutches,
having served through the war, and risen
from the ranks to brigadier-generaship
he was severely wounded in battle.-Chicago
Tribune