The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-06
Current Comment.

Political capital is dreadfully scarce in
Ohio. 1t is only silver dollar and each par
y IS very much afraid the other will use il
first.-Philadelphia Times.
hendricks is to have high time in New
York before his departure for Europe. He is
to be entertained by Governor Tilden, and to
be dlned and wined by the Manhattan. He
sails on the 18th.
The Boston Post says Minister Noyes has
good, honest way of pronouncing French
he emphasizes the silent letters instead of
skipping over them in the frivolous way that
native Frenchman would do.
A Paris journalist had been sentenced to
fine and Imprisonment for insulting the Pres.
ident. The enforcement of such law in
this country would fill the prisons and sup.
press the papers. 1t is only in the United
States that nothing is respected
The latest discovery is that there are six or
eight Congressman, counted as Democrats,
who are in favor of liberal candidate for
Speaker, and the talk about electing Repub.
ilcan to that place is revived once more. The
legs OF the rumor are too feeble yet to enable
it to stand alone.
If the New York Times and the Tribune
don't look sharp they will be drawn into the
same political line by their vivacious female
correspondents, who are going for the ad-
minist ration with their war paint on. Why
do the "braves' linger in the lodges 9-Hart-
ford Courant.
Gen. Grant is the first American to have
'the freedom Of the city of London" ten
dered to him. In its acceptance he will ap.
pear before the city chamberlain, take the
oath of fidelity, and sign his name in a big
book. Some of the city officers will sign with
him, and make themselves responsible for his
good citizenship.
If the animus of the Democratic party to-
ward the negro, and towards the financial
obligations of the country, was honestly set
out in their national platforms, nothing kept
back and no lies told they would not carry
northern state in hundred years. The work
of the next campaign will be to observe the
distinction between pledges and performan-
ces.-H. Y. Redfeld.
The oustipg Of Judge Carpenter bears off
the palm among Democratic outrages in
South Carolina. He was elected to the Co
lumbia Circuits by unanimous vote of the
Democrats and Republicans in each branch of
the Legislature, which preceded the last
Chamberlain Legislature. There is no posi-
BILE flaw in his title. The reason for unseat-
ing him is to obtain Democratic Judge for
the district in which the capital is.
W. P. Dallas, an Arkansas youth, while
travelling on a railroad one day last week, got
drunk and avowed his determination to
"shoot niger" before he reached Little
Rock. Finding no other game handy, he
popped away at colored brakeman, causing
him to fall from the train and ipjuring him
very badly. These conciliated people must
be permitted to have their little amusements.
West Point has seventy-six students in its
graduating class-the largest number in sew
eral years. In their ranks are the sons Of
two Confederate generals, son of the Hon.
John Bigelow, Secretary of State of New
York, a son of General Benjamin F. Butler
son of General F. P. Blair, who, by the
way, odd as it may seem, are room-mates and
high friends; and colored cadet named
Flipper. Of the Board of Visitors this year
are Senator Blaine and General T. w. Hyde
of this state.
The unhappiness among Indiana Demo-
Gratis about Gov. Williams is increasing. He
who was formerly fondly termed "Uncle
Jimmy Blue Jeans" is now stigmatized as a
traitor to his party, and misguided old man.
He is said to 'have turned upon his own peo-
ple," to have "given up his pretensions Of
economy and REFORM" to have 'become part
and parcel of corrupt movement" and To
have 'sgone back upon the history of his
loved blue jeans, too2 Those were all the
'shistory" the country ever heard anything
about.
The pronunciamento of the Presbyterian
Assembly against Sunday papers draws from
the Chicago Post (which doesn't print on
Sunday the statement that strictly orthodox
clergymen are in the habit of calling on Sat
urday in person upon managing editors Of
newspapers to inform them that Irregular
sugar-stick" will be proclaimed from their
desks on Sunday, and soliciting the presence
of reporter, knowing that the matter has to
be "set up" on Sunday for the Monday pa
per. In view of such things the Post con.
cludes that the Sunday question is complicat.
ed, and "that there are about as many NOTES
in the religious worlds eyes as there are
beams in unbelievers' eyes, concerning it,"
Congressman Gibson is ahead of Mr.. Ran.
dali on the ''extended commercial relations"
with Spanish America. He has called upon
Secretary Evarts and urged such a policy, and
points to bills he has offered in Con gress au-
thorizing the President to appoint commits
sions composed of three persons to meet SIM
liar commissions appointed by Mexico, Brazil
and Central America, to consider the rela-
tions of the United States, commercial and
political, with those countries, and to frame
arrangements to secure a more extended in
tercourse. This is good deal more efica.
cious than writing letter which nobody can
understand. Besides Mr.. Gibson is in favor
of the Texas Pacific subsidy.