The Portland daily press., 1877-10-12
Current Comment.

California did vote for constitutional con-
vention after all-but only by the slender
majority of 430 votes.
The Indiana Democrats are sure that New
York will demand Hendricks for Presiden.
tial candidate in 1880.
Tammany has struck already for new ex.
else law. The glorious Democracy willis
under scarcity of rum.
The quicker the New York Republicans
stop growing and get to work the better
chance will they have of defeating the ring
ticket.
"The most costly way to get rid of debt
Is to repudiate IT." says General Walker,
whose moral science seems to be as sound as
his political economy. Virginia does not de-
serve to be disgraced by readjustment so long
as she rears men of such quality.
With $4,000 Democratic majority in Ohio
the fuss over those hundred clerks going
home to vote does seem little absurd now.
1t Tilden loses the political rens in New
York to day and Mcclellan carries New Jer-
sey by 10, 900 or so in November, how about
1SS0?-PhiladeLphiG Times
Tilden has lost, Mcclellan will be trium-
phant in November. AS TO 1880 the Demo-
Hampton, if the Republicans don't get the
start OF them by nominating Hampton and
Hayes Chicago Times.
Ex-Governor Warmoth's comment on the
New York Democratic Convention, on hear
ing the news on his arrival from Europe, was
brief and to the point: "That cooks Tilden's
goose"
The keepers of General Mcclellan, who
are exhibiting him throughout New Jersey
at the agricultural fairs, complain that he
doesn't prove successful as a show, The
General ought to remember that in order to
compete with such attractions as prize poul-
try and trials of speed he must warm up and
enthuse more spontaneity. The sad fate of
Mr.. Tilden ought to be warning TO clammy
candidates.
The President omitted to say to the noble
red man that he fought for bis convictions
and we for ours; that he believed he was
right, and so did we, and that this was an
era of reconciliation. Boston Traveller.
Among the peculiar exploits of the whirli-
gig of time is the Democratic nomination in
New York of Allen c. Beach, President of
the Canal Board which made Tilden's great
reform necessary in that State, to succeed
DA5SsO"t NAoiAhda VI 1uO NOLuLulSSlOn LndE
made the investigations which unearthed
the frauds. The Democrats Of New York
seem to be guided by men who knew not
Samuel.
They have news in Washington that Mr..
Conkling turns up his nose at the opposition
of the Union League Club, ridicules the idea
OF opposing him because he has attacked the
administration, when he has made no such at
tack, and intimates his belief that Mr.. Gree
ley was pretty near right when he alluded
to the members of the Club as marrow
minded blockheads". Perhaps Mr.. Conkling
said this, and perhaps he didn't. But he
probably thought it.
The public are generally aware that George
B. Mcclellan of Pennsylvania, Maryland,
New York, New Jersey and several other
states and territories, successor to Napoleon
Bonaparte, and ex-major general of volun-
teers, professional engineer, intrencher, mas
terly retreater, ETC., etc., is the Democratic
candidate for the gubernational chair of New
jersey, an apple-growing province contiguous
to the United States, and bounded on tiles
east by the soft-shell crabs and the beach at
Long Branch lChicago hter-Ocean.
The Graphic sees every prospect of re.
Vival OF business 1t remarks: "The ex-
tent to which business has revived had not
been anticipated by the railroad companies.
They have permitted themselves accordingly
to be caught mapping, as it were. Not one of
the roads leading into Chicago has enough
of cars TO receive the freight which offers,
and even the roads leading to the East are
found to be deficient in carrying facilities
This IS certainly an encouraging sign.
Tho Ind; n; II L
extreme school of Democratic politicians in
Indiana have determined to bounce Senator
Mcdonald, using his interview with Senator
Morton as pretext The Journal adds son
three distinct occasions Senator Mcdonald
has stood as breakwater to prevent the In
diana Democrats from going to the devil,
where they belong, and now they want to
be let loose"
At the close of the present Congress. in
1879, twenty-four Senators will 90 out of
whom eighteen are Republicans and six Dem
ocrats. They are as follows, including the
late senator Bogy, whose place will be filed
by Democrat: Spencer, (Rep.) Alabama;
Dorsey, (Rep.l Arkansas; Sargent (Rep.)
California, Chafee, (Rep.) Colorado; Barnum
(Dem.) Connecticut; Conoyer (Rep. J, Flori-
da; Gordon (Dem), Georgia; Oglesby, (Rep.)
Illinois; Morton, (RepJ Indiana; Allison
lRep.) Iowa; ingalls,, (Rep.) Kansas; Nc
CIeary (Dem.) Kentucky; Dennis, (Dem.)
Maryland; Bogy, (Dem.) Missouri; Jones,
(Rep.) Nevada; Wadleigh (Rep. New Hamp
shire; Conkling. (Rep.) New York; Merri.
mon (Dem.) North Carolina; Matthews
(Rep. Ohio; Mitchell, (Rep.l Oregon; Cam
eron (Rep. Pennsylvania; Patterson, (Rep.)
South Carolina; Morrill,, (Rep.) Vermont.
Howe (Rep) Wisconsin. Spencer, Dorsey
Sargent, Conover, Patterson and Matthews
will be succeeded by Democrats.