The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-14
Current Comment.

Mr.. Clerk Adams, whose fame has been
shrouded in baleful eclipse for month or so
once more emerges into the blessedness of
seeing his name in the Washington dis
patches
Ex-Gov. Hendricks now discloses the fact
that Memory presides in his BRAIN" It has
long been suspected that Reason was not the
de tdct0 presiding officer in that organism,
and it would now be interesting to learn
whether or no Memory was counted in by an
Electoral Tribunal.
Thus far no Republican journal has shown
uneasiness at the possibility of Mr.. Hendricks
leading the Democratic column in 1880. 1t
may be trife early to. begin to boost him
into position, but every Republican who has
the good of his own party at heart will lend
prompt and powerful hand.
Secretary Sherman is still brandishing his
scalping knife in the Treasury Department.
and the next class of clerks marked for dis
mlssal Is composed of those who have any
other business or income than their clerk
ship.
Judge Lee, the United States District At
torney for the Mississippi district in which
the Chsolm massacre occurred, has COM
menced an investigation into that tragedy.
He has gone to Meridian, and has had inter-
views with NJ. j. Wells and Mrs. Chisolm.
Mr.. Wells is fully acquainted with all the
facts OF the massacre, having been present
with the Chisolm family from the time of the
tragedy to the death of Miss Chisolm.
Gen. Ewing's friends are working vigorous
ly to secure him the Democratic nomination
for Governor of Ohio. If he gets it the party
will have pleasant time of it trying to keep
him on an exclusively silver platform. Sena.
| tor Thurman would also have pleasant time
stumping the State for him.
Judge Black is said to be preparing
scalping review of the Electoral Commission
and Its decisions in favor OF President. The
Judge seems to enjoy wrestle with dead
issues. 1t is only short time since he gave
the Pilgrim Fathers such drubbing that
their bones have been quakiug ever since.
The Hon. D. W. VOORHEES, made two
speeches at the Hendricks banquet in Indian
opalis last week, and was as noisy and as
empty in his rattle as seventeen-year locust.
He said he had "been down in gloom, in
darkness, in bitterness, and almost DEATH"
and weary country gasps out: "Why in
thunder didn't you stay therep
Secretary Sherman's view, as expressed by
him in his Marietta speech in the last cam
paign, and frequently repeated in conversa-
tion of late, is that the silver dollar should be
made legal tender for all currency contracts
but should only be issued by the government
in exchange for United States notes and frac-
tional currency. This he believes, is the safe
middle ground between the extreme opinions
entertained by the Western silver men and
the timd views of Eastern capitalists. He
thinks it is the platform on which the Repub-
lican party ought to stand, and upon which
it can win in the coming canvass in Ohio.
Secretary Sherman holds that law making
the silver dollar of 412t grains legal tender
for all currency contracts will be decided
help to resumption, because for every dollar
of silver issued agreenback must be retired
from circulation. About $100,000,000 of sill
yer will be needed for the change, and the
amount that will go into circulation in excess
OF the requirements of trade for subsidiary
coinage will not. it is estimated, exceed twen-
ty or thirty millions. The Secretary's opin-
ion appears to be that all friends of resump-
tion should stand together in favor of this
partial reconciliation of the silver dollar In
order to resist the schemes of the Western
silver bullion infationists. Washington
Special.
1t might facilitate the placing of the per
cent. bonds in the free and unconventional
West il the Government would reserve the
right to pay them off in silver coin whenever
that commodity CHANGED to be 10 or Is per
cent cheaper than gold.
Ex-Gov. Powers of Mississippi is very bitter
upon the Kemper murderers, and very warm
| in defense of Judge Chisolm's character, but
| he thinks Gov. Stone has done the best he
| could to secure justice, and gives him credit
for sincerity in his efforts. If this is so Gov.
Stone probably overestimated his own abili-
ties when he wrote to Attorney General
Taft last October: 81 am more than willing
and have been able, to execute the laws In
Mississippi, and conserve the public peace.
The perpetrators of wrongs are responsible to
state authorities and 1 am able to bring all
such to justice, and am determined to do so.'
Those are valiant sentiments, and the author
of them ought to be able to devise some
method of standing by them.