The Portland daily press., 1877-06-21
Current Comment.

Sammy Tilden to Miss Columbia-"Boo-
hoo! Ruthy Hayes's got my presidency and
won't give it to ."-Rochester Democrat.
The silver agitators are trying to bulldoze
Secretary Sherman into submission or
resignation. Their weapons are those Of the
Observation-Disclosures and threats.
Senator Jones denies that he is in favor OF
a paper money amendmentsto the Constitu-
ton. All he wants is plenty of silver. From
which it would appear that Mr. Jones does
not own stock in paper mill.
The silver movement is to-day the worst
disturbing element in the business situation,
and the further it goes the worse it becomes.
1t is plain that, unless it receives the un-
faltering opposition OF oil friends of sound
finance, it is yet to make great deal of
trouble.-N. Y. Times.
The Mississippi editors met last week and
solemnly resolved to discourage and deprecate
all independent party movements, and to
oppose all candidates of such movements.
What does this mean? If the South is so
tremendously solid, why this perpetual
guarding against ruptures?
On the outgoing steamers conversation is
often of cosmopolitan nature. A Boston
merchant on recent trip was considerably
impressed by the earnestness of Germ an
passenger. "America," said the returning
Teuton, sis der best country in der world.
hafe lived dere more as den years, ard failed
vive dimes, and now goes home to lif NIT
fortuns and my family v'-Boston CONNER
cial Bulletin.
or course John Kelly loves Mr.. Tilden
just as fondly as he did when he went to st.
Louis to nominate some other man, and of
course such paragraphs as this in The
E1ening EIpTess are meant to be brimful of
kindness for the late leader of the fraud"
party: "Three years in advance, when men
have reached three-score years, is an unsolved
problem in the chances Of human life, and
the youngest aspirant cannot anticipate the
revelations of time. Just as the aged
monarch dies and the new king reigns, so
the Democratic party will have its chieftains,
and they will have their followers. 1t does
not trouble US now who will bear the
standard in 1880, nor who will live nor who
will die before 1880. Some Moses will lead
the way to the promised land, and because
Gov. Tilden beheld it in 1876, but did not
possess it, let it be remembered that there
was successor to Moses who both saw and
held the coveted country, In good time
some Joshua will lead the way"
The world will regard the rejection by the
people Of Minnesota on Tuesday by an over
whelming vote of proposition to pay
public debt, resting on a constitutional
pledge OF their faith and credit, at the rate of
fifty cents on the dollar, as an act of square,
deliberate, and fagrant repudiation, and the
State will take rank accordingly in the
estimation of the civilized world. But
though the public judgment abroad will not
be affected by anything which we could
plead here in mitigation of the odum we
must suffer from this cause, we all know
here that it was m Ainly sin of ignorance
and of circumstances. As a matter
of fact three-quarters of the people, having
been told by demagogues, or persons as i'll
informed as themselves, that the bonds were
a fraud and swindle and that any PROPOSE
tion for their payment, or for any reasonable
adjustment, is fraud and swindle, honestly
believe it. Nevertheless, hopeless
as the task may seen to convert the masses
of the people who voted on Tuesday, against
sure it can be done in time. We believe it
can be done within year or two at farthest
il its honest and disinterested advocates will
only keep pegging away.-Pioneer Press.
The quiet pushing of Mr.. Tilden to the
background and the persistent showing of
Mr.. Hendricks to the front continues in the
Democratic press. The editor of the Syra-
cuse Courier attended the Manhattan ban
quet, and he devotes long letter to the rela-
tive merits of the two candidates, every COM
parison resulting favorably to Mr., Hendricks.
He is evidently disciple of the ''dam clam''
school, for he tells us that 'Mr. Hendricks in
his social makeup is the antipode of Mr..
Tilden. Mr.. Tilden is bloodless, frigid, re-
pellant. Mr.. Hendricks's veins fairly burst
with warm, coursiDg blood, the sunshine sits
on his forehead, geniality is enthroned in his
eye, he attracts you irresistiby toward him,
and it is inevitably case of love at first
sight" Again: "Intellect occupies the
throne in Mr.. Tilden's composition. Soul is
the king with Mr.. Hendricks" After this
subtle metaphysical analysis of the two states
men, the editor passes to the question of Mr..
Tilden's health and remarks that he looks
"very much worn and wan," that "Mr. Til
den, it is too evident, stands sadly in need of
rest and recuperation." Was ever man
showed more tenderly toward political OBJ
livion?