The Portland daily press., 1877-08-23
Current Comment.

Senator Morton belongs, it is said, to par
alytic family. His father and his uncle died
of paralysis; an aunt is ill with it now. and
a brother has been more or less affected.
The Albany Journal thinks that the pro.
cess of 'squelching Mr.. Stanley Matthew'S"
which was begun by the Ohio Republican
platform, has been finished by Secretary
Sherman and Judge West.
1t is announced that Senator Thurman
will break his silence on Ohio politics within
three or four days.
The belief is gaining ground in Georgia
that the new constitution will be defeated by
coalition OF its opponents.
Left to itself and bereft of the organic
blowpipts that have Systematically misrepre-
sented public sentiment for the last six
months, the policy bubble would colapse
more suddenly than Johnsonism did.-Bos-
ton Traveller.
Ex-Governor Throckmorton of Texas has
declared himself supporter of Mr.. Randall
for the Speakership. He has the Texas Pa
cific railroad in his eye, and, like Mr.. Waiter
son, ig believer in 'material issues"
The Indianapolis Sentinel, the leading
Democratic organ in that city and State,
makes conspicuous exhibition of outrageous
brutality in an article headed "Will he Die
Soon" In which it speculates on Senator
Morton's health and the Democrat who might
succeed him in case of his death.
RandalPs eagerness to subscribe the test
oath of the Southwestern Congressman will
have an excellent effect in discouraging the
Stanley Matthews clique who have been in
triguing to commit the administration to
Southern subsidy policy as bribe for South
ern votes to elect an administration Speaker
Randalps prompt accession to Southern de-
mands at least lessons the danger of any such
disgraceful and unnatural bargain. Spring
field Union.
Whether the Presidents action in South
Carolina and Louisiana was right or wrong is
a question upon which Republicans differ.
That action Is past it does not affect the vi,
Republican creed; Republicans can differ up-
on it without sacrificing ther Republicanism;
and the Republicans of Maine very properly
deemed it unnecessary to make any express
sion on the subject. But whether Republi-
cans accept or reject the Presidents action,
they agree upon the rightful claim of their
party to the contested states and upon the
dangers of a united South welded as solid
political power by the old masters of that
section. And this is just what the Republi-
cans of Maine declared. ed.-Albany Evening
Journal.
Everything doesn't always 60 smoothly on
the same side in war. There are occasional
drawbacks. The $1,000 Hayes Republicans
that the chairman OF our Democratic state
committee had yaried out for Williams, have
been fanked by Blaine and cut off from the
main body of the great Democratic army.
Still the skies are bright and there is no rea.
son for encouragement. Those 10000 Pro-
hibition Republicans that Bro. Pillsbury also
had yarded out for Williams are, we believe,
beyond the reach of Blaine's strategy The
communications between them and the left
wing of our army are still perfect. Blaine
can use Mr.. Hayes for cutting Off the great
Hayes auxilliaries on our right, but we don't
believe that he can interpose Mrs. Hayes be-
tween our noble army Of Democrats and our
steadfast Prohibition allies on our left.-
Bangor Commercial.