The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-03-02
Political Notes.

David Dudley Fields new oath is "Gra
cious seven.n
1t will be hard to make up a cabinet of
members not already mentioned"
The trouble is that Mr.. Barnum only Or
dered secen mules for Hewitt.
lts good advice for Governor Hayes:
Pas de lieu,
Rhone que nous.
The New York Enpress wants the people to
resist and not resist" and to ''protest, pro-
test, protest."
Mr.. Hayes cabinet must be nearly filled by
this time, through the gratuitous contribu-
tions of editors and correspondents.
Give portion to seven, and also to eight
for thou knOwest not what evil shall be upon
the erth.-Eccles. 1i., 2.
II is astonishing and lamentable-the stub
born obstinacy of seven intelligent men in
sticking to party through thick and thin. in
spite OF the law and OF the facts.
An old Hunker Democrat of Boston thinks
it righteous retribution for the nomination
of Hendricks. That comes of having hard
views on the soft-money weakness.
Says the Atlanta, Ca, Constitution, the
Democrats on the Grand Commission NAV
well exclaim, in the language of the little
orphan girl in one of Wordsworth's poems:
"Kind sir, we are but sevenr'
Twenty years is long time to wait be-
tween drinks. Democrats who manifest
symptoms of dissatisfaction are to be excused.
1t would be strong test of Christian resig-
nation.-Ciac,nnGt Commercial.
Mr. David Dudlev Fald st;1l 6rbts ~, ILL.,
the head of the swapping turtle, which snaps
vlciously long afterit has been kicked away
from the dlsmembered body, We may not
admire the discretion, but such calm ignor.
ance of death is worthy of attention. -
Senator Morton is reported as looking ten
years younger than he did last week, and
asserts that the decision of the Commission is
in strict conformity to the Constitution. He.
however, deeply regrets the partisanship dis
played by the Democratic members of the
Commission.
Is Mr.. Tilden sane? A letter to the Spring
field Republican says: I cannot discover the
least confirmation of the rumor that Mr..
Tilden has advised obstructive measures or a
factious opposition to the count. When his
friends talk politics to him, he answers mara."
L OlhdPo AC IClOlo W tuc W61fkuOWn aQaUe.
money makes the mare go,"and answers,as
it were, in cipher.
The Washington correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer (fIe-eater) takes a rather
gloomy view of the Democratic situation since
the certainty of Hayes election is decided.
He says in his despatch that evidence is ac-
cumulating that the cussed Republican move
ment to draw over old Southern Wings to the
Republicans is going on vigorously, and that
it is easy to be seen that many of them are
quite willing to be taken in, and to divide the
spois with the Republicans.
The Democrats are now convinced that
they have been victimized by some Republi-
can conspiracy in this Tribunal matter. The
country has heard of that gentleman who
succeeded, during the progress of square
game of old sledge, in tucking all four jacks
up his coat sleeve; and it will be remem-
bered that, when his adversary went out on a
jack which he placidly turned
up, the former attracted much sympathy by
bis bold avowaf that there had been cheating
somewhere around that board.
Mr.. M. D. Conway says that he heard Mr..
James SPEEDING, the biographer of Bacon
who was an attache of the English Embassy
at Washington under Lord Ashburton-say
that during the high party excitements of
those times he observed enough to establish
his faith that the solid sense of the American
people would never fail in any emergency
they should have to encounter. "Mr. Froude
returned from his tour across the Atlantic
with similar faith, which he has not failed
10 express on various occasions; and the
opinions of such men are these of the most
class. If another rebellion were
to occur In the South, the number of sympa-
thizers with it in educated circles here would
be extremely limited''
Round 2.-When time was called and Hew
lit toed the scratch he looked little groggy:
and although his bottle-holder had sponged
away the claret from his conk, he was puffy
about the goggles, and showed that he was
suffering from the Websterian punishment
which had been administered to him in the |
first round. Hoar smiled mischief as he ad-
vanced from his corner. The representative
Of iron and glre began to force the fighting,
and shot out a Louisiana love tap for the
Tribunals brain canister. But the Yankee
neatly stopped him, and got in with heavy
tu quoQue left-hander on the mule dealers
nozzle. (Nine to one on Faneuil Hall, with
no takers Then came some cautious spar
ring and countering, Democracy's snorer
meanwhile swelling like war-claim, until il
ooked as big as Cooper's Institute. Finally
New York Invaded Massachusetts with a
Belknap rib-roaster, when the Pilgrim Fathers
appealed from Philip drunk and suddenly
landed a vicious bunch of fives plumb on
Abrams Grafton trap, and the Proclamation
factory dropped to grass in very limpsy and