The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-03-09
Current Notes.

Tee worst scandals that have been brought
on the Republican party have been the work
of ex-Democrats like Belknap.
John Cochrane, the leader OF Greeleyism in
New York, has had enough of Democracy
and returns to the Republican fold.
Belknap, though scamp, is not murder
er, as the Democratic papers have tried to
make him out. The news from Maine proves
that he did not kill the Repu blican party.
Springfield Union. q
The Hartford Cowant remarks that the
exposure of Gen. Belknap's iniquity is evil
dently regarded by the Democratic press and
party leaders as the greatest windfall the
party has had since the first battle of Bull
Run.
In the remonstrances against picking out
an obscure secretary it will be well to mingle
remembrances Of BEistow. Only few months
ago everybody had to ask who he was, now
they are much more anxious to know what
he will be.
How can the Democrats have national
convention when they deny that there is any
nation in this country? The only proper
name for the Democrats to adopt is the
democratic convention of the Confederate
states. s."-Bridgeport Standard.
When Union general faltered or failed in
the field, did we go over to the rebel lines to
ask them to name new commander? Nay.
verify; the boys in blue were all right. And
so to-day are the Republican party who will
punish their own sinners and find among
themselves the leaders who will not stain the
cause, nor handle the unclean thing.-ChicG-
go Tribune.
There is a species of snake-the black
snake, we believe-that takes to the grass
| and runs away when attacked, but turns a.
bout and pursues its enemy if it discovers
any signs OF fear; it runs away if pursued;
it pursues if run away from. Mr.. Henry G.
Bowen, ofBrooklyn, seems to have some such
nature as the black nake,-ChicGgo Tribune.
The people of the United States are paying
interest to-day on bonds stolen by Buchan-
ans secretary of the interior, amounting in
value to over eight hundred thousand dollars.
Yet the Democrats in congress and on the
press declare with ridiculous solemnity that
Belknap's crime is unprecedented in the his
tory of this or any other country.
Post.
Only one thing is worse than such fall as
Belknap's. 1t is that exaltation of vice
which protests that virtue does not exist 1t
is that jubilation over crime which represents
it as everywhere dominant. Such fall
should teach every man to look into his own
heart and life, and guard against every temp
tation. 1t should warn men of the mischief
and ruin of wrong doing; of the utter mad
ness of seeking money by base means, and of
the worthlessness of wealth so won. Bel
knap has sold himself for the pettiest PRICE
Utica Herald.
The difference between the two parties is
in nothing more marked than in the fact
that the Republicans fight iniquity whether
| inside their ranks or out, while the Demo-
| Gratis were never known to refuse to shield
their own party sinners. The rotten Fer
nand Wood is the foremost leader of the
Democratic House. Ifit were possible to
find among prominent Republicans any apol-
ogists for men like Belknap, then there
would be a show of reason in the Democratic
attempt to make capital out of his exposure.
Hartford Courant.
| Real estate in so many of the large cities is
SO temptingly down, that people who have
money and who have found that the panic
has, after all, not taken it all away, are be-
| ginning to drop quietly into the market and
Pick up the exceptionally good bargains. BY
report, this is going on all the way from
Chicago to New York; and, if true, it means
that the undercurrent of cheerfulness in busi-
ness circles is beginning to be strong enough
to be felt. When the ball once starts every
body will turn TO and help roll it, but they
do first want to see it move.-Hartord Couy-
ant.
| When Mr.. Hester Clymer improved the
melancholy occasion by declaring solemnly