The Portland daily press., 1877-07-19
Current Comment.

A fresh candidate for the vacancy on the
Supreme bench. Rumor promises the seat
to Judge Hunt of Louisiana, native of that
state and Republican in politics.
The financial strength of this country
matches much greater task than the de.
struction of dwindling premium of per
cent. on gold. Compared with the work to
be done the power of doing is transcendent.
-Bostcn Herald.
We see no reason why Republicans of any
stripe should question the Presidents sim
convictions as Republican; but we see no
wisdom in Ignoring the disagreement of in
dividual judgments as to the propriety of
particular steps taken by him.-Detroit
Tribune.
The New York World thus advertises
forthcoming book: A Boston novelist, fired
with emulation of the fame of Dickens, is
writing a romance of low life, or. as he calls
it, "Novel of Absence of Culture" The
villains name is William Fl. Psyches, the
heroine Is schoolmistress with spectacles,
who vainly endeavors to bring him to
knowledge of the truth as it is in Emerson.
and there is hero who talks about the Un-
movable so sweetly and bewilderingly that
the preparation of the book for publication
has been marked by long line of demented
proot-readers.
Ofpointed, square-toed civil-service reform
deliverance we have had enough and TO spare
from the president and most of the cabinet.
We have had official and semi-official utter
ances from Hayes himself; we haye.had god.
en- speech and brilliant epistles from cabinet
ministers, and struggling fragments of flying
reform meteors from the outside managers
who assume to speak for the government;
but when the people look around to see what
has been the harvest of all this ostentatious
sowing and watering of civil-service reform,
their hearts are filled with Disappointment
Philadelphia Times.
The Portland PRESS of Tuesday last con-
tans an excellent article on the large liberty
exercised by the Republican party in criti.
cising the acts of its own party in power,
and very properly argues the benefits to be
derived from it, and that it is no sign be-
cause there is severe criticism of the admin
istration by Republicans, it does by no means
argue breach in the party. 1t declares that
it Is life and health giving principle. We
firmly believe it. We have not the smallest
shadow Of faith in any beneficial results
from the course which has been pursued in
Southern matters, and we have the best of
reasons for believing that nine tenths of the
Republicans of the entire nation are of the
same opinion; yet we do not believe there
exists the smallest determination in the
breasts Of Republicans to forsake the party
on that account. There are always few
making changes from one to the other. We
do not have doubt but the attitude of the
South towards the administration will cause
a more determined effort on the part of Re-
publicans to consolidate the entire strength
of the party in proper direction. In two
years. time the confession will be general
among the members of the party, that it is
folly to trust the professions of Southern pol
iticisns; and by the time it is necessary to put
another standard bearer in the field, il will
not be man who deals in experiments"
when the life of the nation is at stake.-Ma-
cbids RepubicQn,