The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-04-01
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Eight to seven, the Cincinnati ENQUIRER il
willing to bet that S. J. Tilden pays the in
come tax. "When will the persecution of
that good old men cease?"
The Georgia Republicans have been so ef.
fectually stamped out that they are not likely
to make any congressional nominations this
year, and the contest will be between the reg
ular democratic candidates and the s'lnde-
pendent nominees.
When South Sea Islander wants to show
his religious zeal, he grabs knife, and jumps
in and kills missionary or two. When a
Democratic Congress is suddenly attacked
with frenzy of reform, it siezes the pruning
knife OF economy, massacres a few hundred
over-vorked clerks, and presto-the coun-
try's saved. Com. Aduertiser.
Among other charters recorded at the office
of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts is
that of the Republican company of Springfield,
whose business is the publication of the paper
Of that pane: The capital of the company
is fixed at $50 900, and the corporation are
the estate of Samuel Bowles by Samuel
Bowles and Charles Allen, Samuel Bowles,
Geo. 5. Lewis, Jr., and f. b. Sanborn.
General Mcclellan may be candidate but
will certainly be defeated. He was so badly
"stoye up' in the race of 1864 that he is only
fit to enter short races for small purses. The
Democracy will take nag whose record is
good, whose wind is perfect, and who has
never been beaten.-Augusta (Gd Chronicle
and ConstitutionGliSt.
The spectacle is thus presented of the Ad-
minstration being bitterly denounced almost
daily in one or the other branches OF Con.
gress, without one defender. The cause Of
all this may be Slammed up in the significant
remark of prominent Ohio congressman.
who, on being asked why this was so, turned
and said, swell. what can you say in its de-
fence Washington Special to CleceIand
Leader.
1t Gortschakoff's dream Of aunihilating
England rests in any degree upon the hope Of
an alliance With the United States, which
shall put the British possessions in America
in peril, he had better get that bee out of bis
nat as soon as possible. 1t is evident that he
doesn't comprehend the situation over here
just now. The truth is-aud we whisper it
TO him with unfeigned sorrow Our govern
ment does not appear in condition to put any
thing in peril at present, except few poor
negroes at the South, some Republican ofic-
ials here aud there, aud our good name aud
credit with the nations OF Europe.-Troy
Times.
Mr.. Field owes his defeat to Mr.. B. f. But
Ter, the honor of whose enmity he enjoys, and
to the narrow aud unprecedented partisan ac-
tion of Speaker Randall. 1t is worth noting
that Gen. Gordon, the "cheoalier sans peur
ct sans reproche," as the local press dubs
him. who is the administration senator from
Georgia, came down to the house to try to
persuade Mr.. Hartridge of that state to stul-
tify himself by reversing the vote which he
gave on Wednesday for Field. 1t is to Mr..
Hartridge's credit that the senator failed.
Senator Armstrong performed similar mis-
sionary labor with Representative Rea, of
Missouri, likewise without success. The
Democrats have had narrow escape from
doing a decent thing, but it is an escape
which, however narrow, they may be always
depended on to make.-N. Y. Times.