The Portland daily press., 1878-05-09
Current Comment.

All OF the Democratic attempts to get up
campaign thunder have failed, and if the Re
publican party acts with enthusiasm and
unanimity next autumn it can reclaim the
House of Representatives, es.-Philadelphia In.
Quirer.
The disgusting obstinacy of business, in
not reviving under recent legislative treat
ment, seems to call for heroic remedies still,
and we would suggest the penitentiary for
any business man who does not ssreviye''
after certain quantity of silver is shown by
the Treasury reports to be actually afoat,-
The Nation.
General Dabney II. Maury contributes to
the Southern Historical Society Papers" a
review of President Grant, in which he cred
its him with having made, managed and won
his own campaigns, but he thinks his civil
life failure and that his European trip will
end in Americas cursing him. Perhaps,
however the nation may be persuaded though
Maury doesn't suggest it, to amnesty the
''old man."
If the Democratic party wishes to enter
the Fall campaign yelling fraud, and at the
same time accusing Mr.. TlIden of cowardice
in not fighting for the Presidency, no Repub-
lican will have the least objection. 1t will
be stupid, but that will not be anything new
in the Democratic policy. Mr.. Tilden never
did more .praiseworthy thing than to ac-
quiesce in the decision OF the Electoral Tri-
bunal, and his enemies only hurt themselves
and their party in blaming him for doing it.
IN. Y. Tribune.
Springer is dancing about once more, un-
commonly happy to be again in the public
eye. He is bound to have an investigation
all by himself, and to discover nothing but
Republican trausgresslons. He is going to
confine himself solely to Florida and Louisi-
ana and is confident that he will be able to
show that the vote of both States was stolen.
and that there was no bulldozing except
what was done by negroes to prevent other
from voting the Democratic ticket. Springer
is animated by the sole purpose of making
campaign material. He undoubtedly will do
it-for the Republican side.
I have often wished that l had gone TO
Florida and posted myself as thoroughly as
in Louisiana, that might have the satisfac-
tion OF knowing the exact truth of the mat
ter, even if couldn't convince anybody else.
or the Louisiana case there Is not doubt
in my mind-not a shadow of a doubt but
what Hayes was as fairly entitled to the
electoral vote Of that State as to the vote of
Ohio. I reached that conclusion after thor
ough and patient investigation, and no
amount of confessions" from Wells and
Anderson, for instance, could drive me from
the conclusion, for my belief is founded on
facts and figures that are out of their power
to cloud or alter at this late day, even ii they
were disposed.-H. Y. Redfeld.
Randolph Tucker seems to have been one
of the constitutional lawyers at Washington
who has opened the eyes of the Democracy
concerning the folly of trying to oust the
President. He informed them of several
things which seem to have been overlooked,
and among them this fact, that if they sue
ceeded in proving beyond doubt that Mr..
Hayes had not been elected legally, and the
evidence should be so clear that he would re-
sign, the result would be to throw the election
on the present House, on the ground that
there had been no election and no valid inau-
guration. In that case he told them that a
vote would be taken by States, that the Re-
publicans, having majority in the States,
would elect,their President, and that Sin the
present attitude Of events, and the peculiar
position in which the Republican party has
been placed by the relations between the
present executive and the party leaders. the
choice would inevitably fall upon General
Grant or Senator Baine." Whether this
construction of the law is accurate or not,
the Democrats did not stop to inquire. The
awful possibilities were enough to scare them
into an abandonment of all attempts to un-
seat the Administration.