The Portland daily press., 1876-02-09
Current Notes,

The financial questi on cannot be elimina
ted from the coming season. Speaker Kerr's
letter is only one of many indications that
the Democracy will drift more and more to
the soft-money platform.-UticG Herald.
The imitation Democrats in Congress come
nearer than any other class to pure idiocy.
They are innocent both of craftsmanship and
political sagacty. They don't know Democ-
racy or common sense. They are foolish
without excuse, and would go across the
street to make mistake when they conld be
correct by remaining ON the same side.
Boston Herald
The Congressional proceedings are getting
intolerably dull. Things will not 90 off brisk
ly again unless Sam Cox gets up in his seat
and calls some Republican member shock
headed, tin-eared, hump.backed, slab-sided.
snag-toothed, foul-mouthed, patent-leather-
ribbed, bottle-nosed, blear-eyed, handy. legged,
lantern-jawed, log-eared, pigeon-toed, SPAWN
yolnted, knock-kneed, pug-nosed, cross-eyed,
blue-bellied, splay-footed, son of sawbuck.
These Congressman had better get down to
their work, instead of squandering their time
in committee reports Chicago Times.
1t ought to be said to the credit of almost
all Republicans who are worthy the name of
leaders that they are ever ready to consider
the welfare of their party first, and their own
interests afterward. Most of these men have
already made great sacrifices for their party
have worked for it when there was no hope
of preferment, have stood by it when their
own advancement was entirely out of the
question. They are quite capable Of showing
the same devotion again-auiH show it as soon
as the necessity arises.-Ne,o York Times.
1t was Gen. James w. Nye, then dele
gate from New York to the Chicago Repub-
lican convention of 1860, who, after Mr..
Stewards defeat in the convention remarked,
in the course of a lively dialogue with Penn
sylvania delegate, which was somewhat spat-
tered with interjections taken at random
from the prayer. book, that he had been in a
great many national conventions of a great
many different parties, 'but,' said he, with
an emphasis that came near breaking tum.
bier, II never was in one yet when Pennsyl-
vany want waiting to be 'seen.'-Nep York
Tribune.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis must needs write let
ter to somebody in vindication of himself
from the charges made by Mr.. Blaine. As
vindication his letter is conspicuously weak.
The Andersonyle prison pen is an ugly fact,
which all the explanations and all the ex-
cuses of the parties responsible for it, and
their descendants to the latest generation,
cannot obliterate. We know that the South
was impoverished, and the gravemen of criti-
cism is not that the South did not treat pris-
oners SO well as it might if it had been rich
er, but that it treated them with needless
and malignant cruelty. That is a matter of
indisputable record. We don't mean that
n obody will ever dispute it, but that it will
never be successfully controyerted.-Bost
Aduertiser.
Like Christian man, Mr.. Jefferson Davis
returns good for evil. Mr.. Blaine having
tried to fasten on him the responsibility for
the atrocities at Andersonvlle, he does all
in his power toward making Mr.. Blaine the
next President of the United States. Mr..
Davis has always had the happy faculty of
being more dangerous to his friends than to
his enemies, and advancing age does not
seem to impair it. What he says in his own
defense against the charge of cold-blooded
inhumanity is interesting; if any evidence is
produced in confirmation, we of the North
owe 1t to ourselves to give that evidence
patient and candid examination. But Mr..
Davis's views on general constitutional and
political questions have ceased to interest.
They are now merely the impertinent gibber-
ing of restless ghost.-SprinQfeld Repub-