The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-20
Current Comment.

Ia solemn conversation with World Re-
porter, Mr.. Tilden remarks; SIN govern
ment like ours fraudulent practices sooner or
later must come to light, and the guilty par
ties, with their practices, must be made
KNOWN" And then he thought of Cronin
and the "Gobble" dispatch. and wiped with
his coat tail tear from his left eye.
Gen. Garfield seems to one Of the few Re-
publicans in Ohio who have the backbone to
stand by their convictions. He says frankly
that the party has always been successful in
the state when it has been faithful to its hard
money principle, and has been defeated when
were educated on the financial question by
the campaign of 1875, and he is in favor of
trusting to the same course again. He op-
poses all effort to repeal the Resumption Act,
and ridcules the idea OF the United States
attempting to remonetize silver, when all the
other nations refuse to do it.
An eminent and honored Republican. of
long experience in the South, and thorough
ly familiar with the Southern spirit, writes
us private letter from which we take the
liberty of making the following extract;
Every man may to-day look to see the
South move steadily forward to the control
OF this government with as much certainty
as he looks for sInrise to-morrow-unless all
the logical and actual results of Hayes's con-
duct can be overcome or nullifed. ."-ALbdny
Journal.
The first elections of the year will be held
on the 9th of August in Kentucky and Ala
bama to choose legislators. California and
Vermont will vote on the 5th of September,
and Maine on the 10th, for members of the
Legislature and State officers. Colorado will
hold an annual election for members of the
Legislature on tae I'd of October, and Ohio
and Iowa for State officers and members of
the Legislature on the 9th of October. On
the 9th of November Massachusetts, New
York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisi-
ana, Mississippi, Texas, Wisconsin, Minneso-
ia and Nevada will hold elections. In nine
of these Governors are to be chosen, and
members of the Legislature In all.
The Russians in their advances toward
Constantinople have started up flock of
new names among the Balkans, and it will
take few days to get accustomed TO them.
If there is considerable variety in the spelling
of these names among the various newspa-
pers, it must be remembered that the people
of the country themselves do not know how
to spell. They send along the same name
with more or less letters in it, apparently ac-
cordng to their caprice or the time they may
have for putting in certain superfuous letters.
j, l and Y are freely interchanged in many
words too; V and W relieve each other from
time to time in the porticos of some of the
long names, aud DIS are sort of fancy at
tachment to be used or not according to
pathological prejudice or the nationality of
the speller.-Sprinafeld Republican
We don't know how the Federal officials
intend TO treat that 'order,' which, like so
many other utterances of the Administration,
seems to have required a good deal of expla-
nation, and is susceptible of several different
and conflicting meanings adapted for various
localities. But we do know what some
pretty staunch Republicans in Federal offices
are going to do about it-and what, as we
should think, all independent and sef.respect-
ing men to whom the order may refer would
do-and that is, pay no attention to it what
ever, so far as obeying it could hamper their
individual political action. That portion OF
the order which forbids the levying of poiti-
cal assessments upon civil servants OF the
Government is right and just. But toe rest
of it, that portion which seems to demand
that Federal officials shall regard themselves
as so many political pariahs, ought to be
treated by them with silent contempt, as If it
were dead letter, sort of brutena fulmen,
as indeed it was probably intended TO be."-
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.