The Portland daily press., 1878-01-21
Current Comment.

Why not make the next Democratic ticket
Tilden and Voorhees,, ON platform of Fraud
and Wind?-N. Y. Tribune.
Garibaldi's request to King Humbert that
he will "follow in his fathers foetsteps'' is
disagreeably dubious when we reflect that it
is only last week that the father in question
died. Com. Ado.
Why do you put woman, Minerva, the
goddess Of wisdom, up on top of your capitol
here at Washington? My souli why don't
you put the woman downstairs in the legisIa-
tive halls, where she is needed ?-IsabeUG
Beecher Hooker.
a Representative Hewitt of New York has re-
ceived a letter from South Carolina man
who wants to run him as a candidate for
the presidency on the platform of s'Doub-
ing the tax on whisky, issuing $1,000, 100000
OF greenbacks, 'refunding' the national debt,
and stopping the lavish expenditure and dis
play by Americans travelling in Europe"
A man who recently made an unsuccessful
attempt to get position in Reformer
Schurz's department at Washington as
watchman, says that the first question asked
him was TIE distance of the earth from the
sun and how he would calculate the velocity
OF light. There is nothing like accurate sci
entlnc information on the part of men who
are to watch interior department. property.
The Democracy has another imitation re-
cruit in General Williams, from Kentucky.
He will be as bad Senator as VOORHEES,. for
there is no financial heresy he has not pro-
fessed. He Is the very worst man of the
whole lot OF candidates, and is suspected of
being the person Mr.. Watterson had in his
minds eye when he spoke of threatened
loosing of the devil.
No man can be elected dog-pelter or fence
viewer who parts his hair in the middle. That
is the sin which cannot be forgiven. Since
Henry Ward Beccher expressed his disbelief
in a hell, one may venture to doubt the exis-
tence OF everlasting birthstone, and be re-
turned to Congress. But let such or any one
part his hair as Christ or Fremont did, and
ne IS gone. believe that did more to defeat
the Pathhnder in his race for the presidency
than aught else.-Don Piqtt.
Speaker Randall recently discharged House
OF Representatives door keeper from Massachu-
sets named O'Leary, whereupon Mr.. Leo
pold Morse, the Boston clothing dealer who
represents the Fourth Massachusetts district.
lntlmated to Mr.. Randall that if he wanted
himself and Frank Jones to continue their
large contributions for Democratic campaign
expenses at Philadelphia and elsewhere n
would be as well!t reinstate Mr.. O'Leary, aud
Mr.. Randall did so.
The friends OF ex-Congressman Payne, of
Cleveland, are more sure than ever that he
is going to be the next Democratic candidate
fer the Presidency. Their idea seems to be
that his chances are improved by the failure
to elect him to the Senate. They say candi-
dates are almost never taken from the Sen.
ate. That may be so, but there are lots of
men VINO were never Senators who failed TO
become Presidents. The Presidential light
ming is jerky striker at best, and the bottle
which contains the Democratic portion of It
is at present stored in Gramercy Park.
Mr.. Tilden's sorrow at being unable TO
attend Governor McClellan's Inauguration
was carefully packed in ice and forwarded in
this tremendously courteous form: ST re-
ceived your note to join your party tomorrow
TO attend the Inauguration of General Nc.
Clellan. 1t found me, as it did Mr.. Cooper,
SO absorbed by pressing engagements, which
will continue for some days, that l am COM
PEELED to forego the pleasure you promised to
me: May ask you to convey to the Gem
era! my congratulations and assurances of nv
high regard? ~
Mr.. Zachariah Chandler was In Washing
ton recently, and vigorous effort was made
to pump him on the question of Civil Service
Reform. He remarked, with a far away
look in his eye, that the first year of his ex-
perience as farmer was test of the poodern
Civil Service theory. He had for an over
seer man who had received an agricultural
education and had shone in many examina-
tons. The result was a loss Of $4,000.
The next year he dropped his scientific di-
rector and adopted the machine system, and
has been making money ever since.
The Worcester Spy says of George II. Pen.
deton, just elected Senator from Ohio, that
"he was one of the worst and most virulent
dlsunionists while the Union was in danger;
he was discreditably connected with the
prosec ution of doubtful claims against the
United States; his personal habits when in
Congress before were not above reproach:
and he has advocated the widest measures
OF imitation, and in remarks lately made TO
influence the Democrats of the Legislature
in his favor he declared himself in favor of
the full restoration of the dollar of the
tathers' as proposed in the Bland bill, the in
definite postponement of resumption, the
substitution of greenbacks for national bank
notes, and great increase in the volume of
irredeemable paper money"