The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-01-07
Current Comment.

The country will receive with great COM
pacency any lawful and just conclusion which
shall remand General NJ. G. Bntler to the OBJ
scurity of private life.
Virginia is waking up at last to fnll reali-
cation of what repudiation means. The hon
est people have discovered that it is impossi
bic to quiet repudiator with soft words.
The rife clubs of South Carolina, having
suppressed the Republican majority in the
State, are now encouraged to attack the
United States authorities, Hartford COur-
ant.
The Boston Herald with lively recollec-
ion of Tammany's capabilities and achieve
ments says: "Gov. Robinson of New York
laments the plunder which has devastated
the Southern States during the last dozen
years. He needn't have gone outside OF his
State If he wanted examples of pluDder.
Judge Kelley was sure in 1878 that silVer
and gold could lot circulate side by side with
the silver dollar worth 81 cents more than
the geld dollar; yet he is in favor of irving to
make silver dollar worth 90 cents Circulate
side by side with a gold dollar worth 100
cents.
When the rebellion ragged for four years
Texas managed to have no trouble on the
Rio Grande; but the moment that the Union
was resstless, the old Texan dodge of trouble
With Mexico is revived. 1t is now time that
it was stopped. Philadelphia North Ameri-
can.
When the organs of gush and surrender
say that the stalwart leaders of the Republl-
can party cherish feeling of hatred toward
the South they lie in their teeth aud they
know it. There was never time NOT even
when the land was rent by civil war-when
the people OF the North cherished such a feel
ing. All that is demanded is that there shall
be the same equality of rights in the South as
in the North, and the same obedience to the
organic law. - Concord Monitor.
An effort is under way in Iowa to defeat the
re election of Senator Allison on account of
his position in favor of the Bland bill. Until he
took this position there was no opposition
worth mentioning, and his reelection was re-
garded as certain. Now, however, that he has
put himself in direct autagonism with the
sentiment of his party in the State, with all the
leading newspapers of the party, and with the
majority Of the whole people of the State, there
IS good deal OF talk about leaving him at home
for man who will mora completely represent
the always loyal attitude of Iowa toward The
nation and the public credit
1t will be curious to see if the twaddle about
the surreptitious demonetization of silver will
still go on in the face of the overwhelming
proof OF its falsty. 1t was .preposterous
charge in the beginning, and has been exposed
repeatedly during the past three months; but
its originators go calmly on repeating it as it
nothing had happened They have been i'm
mensely delighted by an admission of General
Garfield, that he was SO busy when the bill
passed that he has forgotten now whether he
noticed it or not. Judge Kelly's remarks
have been repeatedly called to their
attention, but they have been unable
10 attach any Importance to them
There never was poor cause boil
stored up with such ridiculously false argu-
ments aud statements as this Silver infatua-
ton. Its sentiment, its facts, and its morality
1 are all equally false and foolish.