The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-01-26
Current Notes.

AT present we regard ex-Speaker Blaine as
decidedly the strongest man in the field
Pittsburg (PG.) Gazette.
Six weeks in scuession, fourteen hundred
bills introduced, and yet no legislation thus
far by the House. What does the country
think OF Democratic tidal waves now?-N.
7. Commercial Aduertiser.
The President-makers who are so sure Mr..
Blaine is dead. had best not be in haste about
burying him. He will be found at Cincin.
natl animated with an amount of liveliness
which would be simply preposterous in a
corpse.-N. Y. Tribune.
A Michigan ex-soldier writes to the Grand
Rapids Eagle that it was pretty hard to be an
Andersonvlle prisoner, but that in his Wild
est dreams it never occurred to him that the
men who ruled his prison would one day be
defending their Infamous conduct in the very
halls of the nation he was suffering to save.
Is it beginning to dawn dmly upon our re-
forming Democratic statesman that it is one
thing to criticise the expenditures of a very
big. and very expensive government in gen.
eral way on the stump, and quite another
thing to deal with the "demnition particu-
lars'' in the committee.room? -Sprinfeld
Republican.
II we remember rightly, illusions were
made to tearing open the old wounds OF the
war, stirring up sectiona s ife, eynich
hatred, and other figures of spec reward
have now come to be the inv siue VI tne
OF anyone who defends th~oo De"socToe'
late struggle.-St. LcInajority in Congress,
If the condr,eccept,d as the average capa-
so fan the party for th'exercise of power, we
Can't think of any one srainst whom we are
suficiently spiteiul to wnt him on the Dem
ocratic ticket for .-4tilqdelphiG Times.
independently
Huzza for Maine! Any up north, a
neighbor to Labrador, ye she pays every
obligation of the State on deand her inter-
est account is settled to do,a sinking fund
provided for future needs; ives $5OO,OOO
YEARLY for support OF her s1ols; levies a
| tax of only four mills on 0ar, and has
about $4,000 ready money inar treasury.
Huzza for Maine !-Cincinndh ar.
1t must be manifest now that ne country
has gone to the verge of dangeIn helping
the Democrats into power, and 1t it is the
duty of the people to reverse thectories of
1874, and reinstate the Republica party in
control of all departments of th govern
ment. This, we feel assured will the re-
suit of the elections to be held in 18i Che
people in this Centennial year will Mt Mss
the opportunity to make safe the reslts
the war, and to turn out of power inCoL
gress the party that used its first success t.
expose its continued dlsloyalty and unrelia
bility.-Cincinnat Gazette
The feeling in the South, according to thu
Tennessee correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, is that the Democrats have sui
tered immensely in Ben Hills speeches. III
rushed to the defence of Andersonville, say
the correspondent, and that was the capita
blunder-the blunder that will cost the Dem
ocracy tens of thousands of votes. The est
mate is not too high. Let any moderat
man measure the effect upon himself, an
then estimate the number likely to be a
fected, even very slightly, the same way
Perhaps there are half a million of men /
the United States today balancing betwee
the two pacties, but they would prefer to G
body and breeches over to the Republica
lines than to be classed among the defendre
| of the atrocities of Andersonyille