The Portland daily press., 1878-01-17
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Current Comment.

General Banks Is said by the Worcester
Press to be so profound that he doesn't look
silly when he wants to sneeZe and can't.
1t is pretty we'll understood now that a
Democratic investigating crusade means sim
ply an appropriation for the benefit OF impe-
cunious "reform" statesmen.
Stanley Matthews thinks he has done the
Republican party ''more good than it seems
willing to bear" Perhaps if the quality had
been better it could have stood the burden
more calmly.
The Indiana Republicans are consolidating
in favor of honest finance, and If the present
indications are verified the next campaign in
the State will be fought on the right basis,
that is of Republicanism and the public faith
against Democracy and repudiation.
An enthusiastic Ohio editor throws to the
Democratic breeze the name of Allen G. Thur
man for President, subject to the decision of
the national convention in 1880. Mr.. Thur
man could carry New York for the Republi-
can ticket easier than almost anybody else.
The notorious dark-eyed little Jewess,
Georgia Lee. was again arraigned before JUS
tice Bixby.-Neso York Telegram. And at
about the same time the notorious bue-eyed
little Christian, Owen Murphy, stole $4,000
from the Excise Office and absconded.-
Jewish Times.
Is it not a curious fact that the fellows who
are shouting for "the dollar OF our fathers"
do not want the dollar of the fathers, after
all? For that dollar was worth 100 cents on
the dollar; and If the fathers could come to
life again, they would blush at the imputa-
tion that they would try to pay their debts
with 80 cents of silver TO the dollar OF debit
Burlington Hdlokeye.
1t is one of the curiositles of American DO
litical history that George B. Mcclellan and
George Ell. Pendleton, who were so badly beat.
en- In the Presidential canvass of 1854, should
both re-enter public life now at the same
time, the former having been inaugurated
as Governor OF New Jersey, and the lat
ter having been elected United States Sena-
tor from Ohio.
A new series of -Esoplan philosophy has
been started in the New York World. Here
is fragment: san Oyster. being compelled
by sudden Decline to close Its Shells, by
pothecated its Customers Securities and de-
parted with the Proceeds. The Startish, be-
ing appointed Receiver, was by the Court
allowed the Oyster as his Fees, and told a
ISepOTIeT IudL u0 was WORKING lay and Might
| at the Books and thought that ultimately the
Creditors might count upon receiving Diyi-
| dend of the Shells. Moral-The Way Of the
| Investor is Hard"
Mr.. Horace White steps into the silver dis
cussion with this not at all unlikely predic-
ton OF its future: SIN conclusion, 1 do not
believe that the Bland bill will ever be law
of the United States. I do not believe that
the President will ever sign it, and / ex-
pect that when the final tug comes the whole
silver movement will fiat OUT being bot
toned upon nothing in the wide world but
dispute as to which metal duties on imports
shall be paid in." The "1atting out'' has
| already begun. The main thing to be wished
for now is that some of the demagogues will
be crushed in the fall.
General Harrison, the most prominent
candidate for Senator Morton's seat, and one
| of the men best fitted to fill 1t acceptably,
proposes to take the stump shortly and to
speak out squarely against unlimited silver
and in In favor of resumption. The party
press is uniting on the same ground. The
| Democrats, on the other hand, are going
from bad to worse. They will make their
campaign for the reelection of Voorhees, to
the Senate, and that will make Voorhees's
principles the basis of the canvass, It will
be most interesting fight to witness. and If
the Republicans do not win they will deserve
to, and that is good deal more desirable.