The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-12-31
Current Comment.


SO the daddies surreptitiousIY retired their
own dollar! Well, well!
The thing for Halstead to do is to call
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison "gold
bugs"
The Solid South votes steadily for repuda-
tion, and charges every person who calls at
tentlon to the fact with shaking the bloody
shirt. Why "bleody?" The Southern en-
sign at present seems to be black flag.
really desire to address a press associ; ,tion,
because there is no power in this con, airy
capable OF doing so much good, and re- Sly
DONG SO much evil, as the press of this da y.
Ben Hill.
General Butler will be made chairman O I
the House Committee on Ventilation, and
VIII be the only Republican chairman in the
oody. The position is no sinecure in a Dem
ocratic House.
scotland, no larger than Maine, possesses
wealth in 100000 sheep. There is no reason
why the thousands of s'run outn farms In
Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine NAV
not only be restored by sheep husbandry. but
maze prohtable and sustain large ponula.
tion.-BoSton Journal.
The development of the daily and weekly
journals, and their control of the most capa-
BILE writer's in the country, their greater near
ness to passing events, their cheanness and
thelr varied contents, have made it hard for
monthly magazines to succeed, The proba-
olllty Is that tor some time to come publish
ers will be very shy of putting their money
IN new ventures of this sort.-N. Y. Sun.
There is palpable Democratic effort to
encourage the President to continue his con-
test with the Senate. The hint is given out
lhat II ne Will send in again the same names
tor tne new York offices the Democrats will
vote solidly for confirmation. Even so serene
a man as the President must perceive that
the old spiders hospitality is too profuse to
be genuine.
General Sam Gary emerges from obscurlty
long enough to say that Pendleton is too
much of hard money man to suit him for
Senator. He thinks he will be elected, how
ever, and that the Money Power will rejoice
at his success. If the inhatonists 60 on
talking in this way about Pendeton they
WIN give MIN 100 good reputation to allow
him to stay in the Democratic party,
The silver advocates ideas of logic are pc
cullar. Here is Mr.. Halstead, for inst ance,
trying to refute charge that all the worst
oemagogues In the country are at the he; ,d OF
tne silver movement by saying that in Ohio
onO Aoh WIZ lave Deen Jne most earnest t0T
silver are the same ones who formerly op-
posed William Allen because he was an in
tiationist. If this proves anything, it is that
those old-tlme opponents have succumbed aud
become allies, for William Allen stands pre-
clsely where he stood before, and he favors
silver precisely as every other intiatonist does.
because 1t Is cheap. Allen, Ewing and Cary
are all Ohio men, and are all silver. If they
are not demagogues, the country hasn't any.
Gen. Butler echoes the opinion which may
be heard almost everywhere when he attrlb
utes the Presidents weakness and yacillation
to the absence of fixed ideas as to his duty
and TO an oyer-amiable desire to stand well
with both parties. He is not prepared to
quarrel with Republicans, but he adheres to
methods which repel them and render abso-
lutte confidence impossibles He cultivates
democratic favor while holding aioot from the
Democracy, and thus compromises himself
without obtaining any corresponding adyan-
tage. This state of things cannot last through
The Presidential term. Nine months OF un-
certainty are little too much. Gen. Butler
gives expression to the feeling of multitude
when he politely asks the President to take
| position and stick to it.-Neto York Times.