The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-04
Current Comment.

The Courier Journal reports the following
passage In convention: The Chairman
The Chair will not dispute the point with Mr..
Carter" Mr.. Carter-"The Chair had bet
ter not unless he takes his coat off,"
( Mr.. s. s. Cox, when year ago he was
writing to Mr.. Hayes to secure an Office for
one Of his friends, did not address Mr. Hayes
we believe, as ''fraud." We advise him to
appeal from Cox one time 10 Cox another
time.-N. Y. World.
Anything as to what Mr.. Hayes is going to
do Is as as authentic as anything else is on
that subject. The difference between Grant
and Hayes is that Grant never talked while
Hayes never says anything Washington
Post.
Can't fool Chinese laundryman with the
dollar Of your daddes. A Hartford man
undertook to pay for his washing with trade
dollar; bat John inquired: "Readee pa.
pers?" "Oh yesw "Readee papers. Alice
samee say silver dolce only ninety-five cents.
Can't play silver dolce on mel Readee pa
per; lind outee. He no goodee," responded
the smoking celestial. Aud the bill had to be
settled with a greenback.
Greece must feel very much like the Bur-
lington man who got up one night to kick his
hired girls young man out of the kitchen
because he thought he was staying rather
late, and, on reaching the base of operations,
found himself confronted by four burglars,
with clubs, revovers. dark lanterns and guam
tum SUIT. of chloroform. He almost wished
be hadn't made up his mind to interfere
Burlington Hogkeye.
The way libel suits are rolling In is convinc-
ing that the Cincinnati Commercial is a live
ly newspaper. A few years ago we had at
one time suits pending to the amount of one
hundred and forty-ive thousand dollars, and
the amount of judgments rendered against
US on the lot was one per cent. After all the
exertions OF great criminal lawyer there are
only five suits against us this time, and it is
our impression that they do not figure up
quite one hundred thousand dollars Hail
Columbia, happy land.-Cin. Commercial.
According to the Washington correspond
ents design has already been prepared for
the new silver dollar. On the diverse side is
Liberty with the inscription ''E Purbus
Unum," and on the reverse side, an Eagle
and the inscription, "In God we Trust"
Considering that the dollar in qustion is de-
signing dollar, it strikes US that this inscrip-
ton could be improved upon. The diverse
might bear the picture of Mr.. Barrabas and
the legend $40 times is 1902; and the re-
verse, the picture of Vulture, and the invi.
tation ''Let us prey."-Albany Journal.
DR.. 81. V. Redield, writing from Washing
ton in anticipation Of the silver bill, says
Gas for the Secretary of the Treasury be
will not dole out silver with stinted hand.
Quite the reverse his policy will be to give
the country all he can under the law, subject
only to the capacity of the mints.
The Secretary is not an original silver man
far from it-but he will give those who do
want it enough to fully test the experiment.
Mark that. People have knocked their skulls
together over this question until there is no
way to settle it but by actual experiment.
The Secretary will aid the country 10 a con-
cIusion by giving them what silver he can un-
der the law. Now for silver and plenty of it. !"
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Times is growing more and more de-
spondent. In his opinion "Mr. Hayes has
less influence with Congress than any one of
the score or more of Senators and representa-
tives. He has, in Washington at least, no
party. He is utterly without party follow
ing" "The present occupant of the White
House has less power in the nation than any
OF the men who have gone before him."
''He has absolutely no influence with Con-
gress," and it is ''probabe that he will be as
powerless to effect good as he will be to do
further harm" "He is President without
party, without a warm, personal friend
among the Congressional leaders of the Or
ganization that elected him. Those leaders
have little sympathy for him, no regard for
his wishes; he never consults them, and they
act independently of him" ''Even with the
few men who claimed to represent him in tine
dark days after the settlement OF the electoral
dispute, and who now profess TO be the ardent
supporters of his Administration, he is OBJ
viously without influence"