The Portland daily press., 1877-02-14
Political Notes.

Tennessee has voted-both branches of its
legislature-to stop paying the coupons on its
state debt. Further south they vote that
there isn't any debt.
The Philadelphia Times, though hot for
Tilden, stands by the electoral Commission
''even if it shall make President on tech
nical point"
1t is now extremely probable that the par
tisan trickery which prompted the Democrats
to support the commission will simply result
in giving new strength to their adversaries,
and they need hardly be disappointed
if the common sense OF the country refuses to
see anT but the ludicrouS side of their dsap-
pointment.-N. Y. Times.
The New York Tribune puts the Louisiana
case powerfully in two sentences: "Plain
people of honest instincts will ask, not what
the board had technical right to find out,
but what were the actual facts. As to these,
we must either believe the thousands who
swear to what they saw and suffered, or the
thousands who swear that they did not see
and did not suffer-"
A word to the disappointed at Washington.
The party which fillibusters is lost. Tue
people will not tolerate any attempt to defeat
the findings of commission founded on a
compromise and finally accepted bv both
parties, and will not soon forgive the party
which prolOpgs by single unnecessary day
the uncertainty of business. Dispatch your
business, gentlemen !-Neao York Tribune.
If the electoral commission had been COM
posed of fifteen eminent doctors of divinity,
eight of whom were ardent Republicans, and
seven were ardent Democrats; if the ques-
tions involved had been thoroughly argued |;
and the commission had then prayed
over them for week. does anybody doubt
that. at the close of the exercises, every i'm
portant question would have been decided by
a vote of eight to seven? Such is political
human nature.-New York Sun.
The Democratic editors continue to give
forth oracular predictions about the compost
tion OF President Hayes's Cabinet, and do not
have word to say about Presiden: Tilden's
Cabinet. Ii there is no longer any doubt
about which of the gentlemen is ever going to
need Cabinet, and the same authorities tell
us Mr.. Tiden is sure to be inaugurated, this
speculation about Mr.. Hayes's plans seems to
be waste of space as we'll as useless slaught-
er of truth.
We say there was no fraud about it-that
the louisiana Returning Board obeyed the
law, and that the law was good one, con-
structed to interfere with assassination as a
political agency. The Louisiana law was
drawn to prevent murderers from realizing
political power by shedding the blood of the
innocent That law bas been executed. The
intmidated parishes were thrown out. The
law required and justice demanded that they
should be thrown out.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial.
1t does not seem possible that these Demo-
cratic tactics can be carried so far as to
threaten failure to reach result before
March A. But it is safe to say that if the
Democrats in the House are faithless enough
to attempt by fillbustering to nuilify the work
of the commission, and their attempt seems
likely to succeed, then Mr.. Vice President
Ferry will proceed to count the remaining
votes, and declare the result, and Mr.. HAYES
will be inaugurated in spite of all fllbusters.
Hartford Cotrant.
The partisan vote in the Senate and the
factious refusal of the House Saturday, to
proceed to act upon the report on Florida,
must be regarded with much concern BY
patriots and tair minded men of every party
Ii the Democratic party is determined to rule
or ruin the nation-to inaugurate Tilden or
to introduce anarchy and bloodshed that
intention will soon be made manifest. We
invite the attention of the people of every
clas, who are just beginning to feel the i'm
petus of reviviug prosperity, to the ruinous
| course marked out BY the leaders of the Til
den party in Washington.-Prooidence