The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-08-24
National Notes.

A Greenback orator shouts, ''Give us green
backs ere we starveW Waiter, pass the
watermelon this way; the wild-eyed son of
toll wants ourishment.-TuTners Falls Re-
porter.
1t seems rather strange that the working
men, in their protest against both the old
parties, have picked up for their leaders the
scallawags and rascals the old parties have
crowded ont, if they have not kicked out
N, Y. Express.
Roger Q. Mills, who has just been nomin-
ated for reelection to Congress by the Demo-
Gratis of the Fourth District of Texas, is repre-
sented to be strongly infected with Green
backism, and many Democrats of the Dis
trict opposed him on that account.
The New Albany LEDGER Standard, by
odds the ablest and most constant Democrat
ic paper in Indiana 1--WE quote the indianapolis
Journdl), sneers at Voorhees, as "a soft
money man." and says if the campaign is TO
be conducted for his benefit "the Democracy
might as we'll make preparations for an in
glorious defeat"
The Secretary of the National Committee
of Pennsylvania has been arrested for various
acts of burglary in times past, when he was
making ''war on the bloated bondholder" in
more energetic fashion than his present
one. He is more in earnest about an equal
division of property than he is about an equi-
table distribution OF justice.
Kearney when asked what the s'issues" are
declines to tell. He reminds US Of Sias Wegg
when Mr.. Boffiu suddenly asked him the diff
ference between the Roman Empire and the
h,t
cleared himself by declaring that he could not
be induced to explain in the presence of Mrs.
Boffin, and Boffiu blushed with the thought
that he had asked an improper question:
Boston Herald.
The Boston Herald is giving its Demo-
cratic and other readers some sound sense on
financial questions. 1t closes brief article
with: cit would not do to tax Government
bonds. The effect would be to raise the rate
| of interest, or prevent the reduction, more
than the tax levied, which would require
more revenue and more machinery to collect
| it. Depend upon it, the man who demands
that Government bonds be taxed is either
very ignorant or very dishonest"
The Cincinnati Enquirer editorially criti-
cises at great length and very severely Gen.
Durbin Wards ''hard-money, specie-payment
| Speech" las he calls it), and says that in the
one idea to which he processes to devote his
| address, 3" the question is between the green
back and the national bank-note," he is es
sentially and absolutely hostile to the Ohio
| Democratic platform. But it heads its re.
port of the speech Swords OF Wlsdom'' in
| the biggest letters at Its command.
Leo Miller, the great free love expounder,
has found his place down in Maine, and is
there advocating the Greenback party. When
once the Greenback party gets mixed up with
| communism, ,trampismiand dfree-love,vagrancy,
| it will soon fall of its own dead weight ol
corruption. Only give Miller chance at
! every other mans wife, plenty to eat and
| everybody to wait upon him, and feed his
children, plenty of money without earning
| it, with the privilege of robbing everybody
that has got more than he has, tEen his par
| adise will be inaugurated, and greenbacks
will be as cheap as the Workingman's Adro-
cate.-Farnaingto (Minn.l Press.
Senator Thurman will find political text
book just published by the Republican Con-
gressional Committee, uncommonly interest
ing reading. In it is published his last
speech, so arranged in parallel columns with
his hard money speeches that the effec. is a
good deal like the Chinese puzzle. Mr.. Thur
man remarked with becoming emotion in one
of his Senate speeches for hard money that
every man should take his stand on that side
of the financial question which his conscience
approved and then have no fear of the result.
He seems to have determined to make a
sure thing of it by getting on both sides, but
unless his conscience is as good a straddler as
he is they must have lost sight of each other
saVpral timpa