The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-21
a Washington, the boldness of jackson,
the firmness of Lincoln; may cry,

the firmness of Lincoln may cry,
There would be an inestimable gain to as
Economical science if some Of the Democratic
editors who are patiently searching for
breach in the Republican party could be in
duced to use their powerful "vision' in search
OF an inter-mercurial planet, or in solving
some other sidereal problem.
Somebody guesses that the President is
biting his nails and cogitating over the fol-
lowing appointments to foreign missions:
England. Hamilton Fish; Vienna, George
VIM. Curtis and James Russell Lowell;
Belgium, Henry S. Sanford and Gen. Bur
bridge; Russia, ex-senator Frelinghuysen
and George Fl. Boxer.
The temper of the Northern Democrats on
appropriations for public improvements in
the South is likely to be put to test as soon
as the extra session begins. Mr.. Randall
Gibson is said to have resolution ready to
offer in the Democratic House Caucus. de-
claring in favor of extending governmental
aid to the building OF the levees and the
Southern Pacific Railroad. Democratic can
didates for the Speakership will please hasten
to define their positions.
ooh! for three weeks of Crommle an the Lord
but what practical, luminous suggestions can
any man make, pointing to a way out of this
labyrinthine and murky complication. n
Yet, after all, and through all, have faith in
the earnest, honest and unselfish patriotic
motives of President Hayes. 1 never doubt
that his heartfelt desire is to "do justly, to
love mercy, and to walk humbly before God''
and the American people.-Grdce Green
luood in the N. Y. Times.
New Orleans Republican: The Mississippi
authorities will do just as much to appre-
hend the Kemper county murderers as Gov
ernor Nichols did to bring to bring to justice
the assassins of Weber, the leading white
Republican of West Felciana, who was MUIR
dered sixty days ago under circumstances
which lett no doubt as to the identity of the
assassins. The punishment of Southern
Democrat for killing Republican is thing
unheard Of
1t is currently reported in the North Caro-
lima papers that General ]. M. Leach, of
Davidson County, a leader of the Democrats,
who was successful leader of the old Whig
party, is about to declare for the Hayes poll
cy, and that he will be candidate for Con-
gress next year in the Greensboro district in
opposition to the Democratic nominee. Dem
ocratic papers have denied this, but General
Leach has not done so over his own name.
The people of this state appear to be ripe for
revolt against the arrogance aud intolerance
of the Democratic leaders.
An interesting revelation in Mr.. Blaine's
letter is the part certain "independent" jour
nalists are attempting to play in politics, and
so far without success. Prating about their
independence and sneering at organs, they
are attempting to revive the personal journal
ism of thirty years ago, when the elder Blair
and Thurlow Weed were political powers and
managed parties. 1t is an attempt to substi-
tute the power Of small clique for that of a
party, and SO far it has not succeeded nor is
it likely to succeed.-Ne,o Hauen Palladium
For the honor of the President and the
good of the country, it is to be hoped that
the reports currentin the South and South.
west imputing to the administration a will
ingness to sustain various schemes of inter-
nal improvement, are either inventions pure
and simple, or such gross exaggerations as to
be essentially untrue. We repeat that, for
the Presidents own sake, we trust these
stories do him injustice. They convey too
distinctly the idea OF bargaining and buying
to be reconcilable with purity of the admins
tration or the position which its chief should
occupy in public estimation.-N. Y. Times.