The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-10-03
Current Comment.

Inc plaGlOIn adopted at ROcneSter eX~
presses Republican sentiment temperately
and reasonably upon all the salient questions
now before the country. It lays down prin-
ciples and rules of action which meet the
highest demands of the friends of good gov
ernment, and will commend itself to them as
being not only sound but practical. albany
Journal.
Doesn't the Southern taxpayer contribute
his portion of the money to pay pensions to
Northern soldiers and their widows and or
phans, while the Confederate soldiers and
their widows and orphans are neglected? {?
Southern members of Congress believe ss
firmly in the justice Of the Confederate cause
as the Northern members believe in the jus-
tice of theVUnion, and they sink their man
hood and t dirt when they vo:e appropria-
tions to pension Federal soldiers and their
widows and orphans to the exclusion of the
Confederate. te.-Meridian (lfisS.) Mercury.
All Asia appreciates silver highly. Europe
has tendency to gold. In America, between
Europe and Asia, we want both gold and sill
yer. Gin. Commercial In other words, we
are to be more enlightened than Asia, but not
as much so as Europe.-Boston Post.
To an unprejudiced spectator up tree, one
who never had any of the pork, there is seme-
thing inexplicable about this Tweed business.
Everybody is prepared to swear that Tweed
obtained his charter by corrupt means, and
that millions of dollars were stolen and squan-
dered, but when Tweed undertakes to show
where the money went to, no one will admit
that he received any of it. Tweed paid, but
nobody received. There was bribery, but no
one was bribed. We can't understand this.
but perhaps it was the cat. Happy thought
it was the cat! Seat ! MiaOu !-euergbodv !
Chicago Tribune.
Governor Young, of Ohio, is confident that
the Republicans will carry that state by from
5000 to 10000 majority. The workingmen
are claiming great deal, and he did not know
but that they might succeed in gaining the
balance ofpower in the Legislature, so that
they could dictate the election of United
States Senator. If they could elect ten mem
bers, that would be enough. As for the
Beatty movement, the Governor tells a cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
that it does not amount to anything. 1t
might keep few hundred Republicans from
the polls, but that was all. It doesn't scare
anybody, though Beatty is tremendously in
odIutSu1 duu TuHS DedIGy bureau WIFI great
vigor. " In fact" added the Governor,
"Beatty is agood deal of bureau himself.'
A favorite argument of the greenback ad-
vocates turns up in little printed slip head
ed "Greenback document, No. l." which is
freely distributed in this State. The argu.
ment is put thus interogatively: fsIf green
backs carried on our war successfully and
proved the best money in that terrible emer-
gency, why are they not still the best mon
eyP" We will not say that greenbacks were
a terribly expensive money with which to
carry on the war and were used es an una
voidable expedient in a desperate strait, be-
cause that would be somewhat hackneyed,
but we will present parallel argument. If
RATS carried off the crew Of vessel shattered
by storm in mid-ocean successfully and
proved the best means of escape in that terri
BILE emergency, why are they not still the best
means of navigating the seas ?-BoSton
Globe.
Backus, of the California Ministries, offers a
reward of $1,000 for joke which will make
an audience laugh two minutes by the watch.
The late Pillsbury- Williams campaign in this
State ought to fill the bill.-B0nGor Commer-
ciGl.
General Walker, Of Virginia, is said to have
been SO alarmed by the clamor of the ''read-
justers' that he has swallowed his manly
words in defence of the honor and credit of
his State. The movement to run another
candidate for Lieutenant-G Governor was so
serious he hastens to say he has been misun-
derstood. This is at once pitiable exhib-
tion of lack of moral courage, and strik-
ing proof of the overwhelming public senti-
ment in Virginia in favor of incipent repudi-
alton.
The Wisconsin Democrats have made the
election of the Republican ticket almost a
certainty by nominating for Governor the
father of the imitation party in the State. He
has always been the most coppery sort of
Democrat, and of late has been rabid for the
most extreme imitation measures. The Re-
publicans have bad platform, but an excel
lent ticket. There ought to be no doubt of
their defeating party with worse platform
and worthless ticket.
Dana, coming into the Sun Office: II see
that Wade Hampton, unmindful of his obli-
cations to me, salutes De Facto Hayes as
'our Constitutional President. Mashallah
speak! He is thereby read out Of the party
Office boy: "But yer Hi ghness Ben Hill says
the same thingw Dana: ''The traitorl Of
with his headl Put in the baagw Office boy:
"But, Celestial Brother of the Sun and Moon
Mcclellan and all the Democrats in the
United States except you, say the same
thing" Dana: $50 much the worse for
them Read 'em out of the party. OFF with
their head Poot it in de baag."