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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01
Our Candidate.

The nomination for Mayor made by the
Republican caucus last night will com mand
the united and enthusiastic support OF the
Republicans of Portland. Mr.. William Sen.
ter is a gentleman of long and successful
business experience, of sound judgment, of
quick perception, of high and unblemished
character, aud possesses an intimate acquaip.
tance with municipal affairs and that knowl-
edge of the practical workings of the. city
government which comes OF long service. He
has already served to general acceptance in
the city council where his record was of the
best. In word he is substantial citizen,
used to our ways, familiar with our wants,
feeling pride in the prosperity and good
government of the city, with which his ca.
reer has been identified, and having sub
stantial interest in the most economical ad.
ministration. He possesses those qualities
which we naturally and wisely look for in
the chief executive officer OF the city-sound
business capacity, careful judgment, good rep
utation, and courteous bearing. The city
can make no better choice, and we conf
IDENTIFY look to see the Republican nomination
ratified at the polls.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01


Yesterdays argus is sprnkled all over
WIN calls upon the people of Portland to
unlte IN an eHort- to enhieYe "retrenchment
and reform" in city affairs. But II rar,s To
point out one solitary instance of extrava-
CANT expenditure by the city government or
to indicate where the pruning knife, if it be
needed, should be applied. If we are paying
for unnecessary things, if we are indulging in
extrayagant expenditures, if we are living be-
yond our means, let us stay our course. The
heavy Republican taxpayers of this city, and
they are many, are certainly as much con-
cerned as any of their fellow citizens in Sc
curing economical government and low taxes.
They have as yet found no reason to lose
confidence in the Republican municipal ad-
ministration ;-on the contrary that conf
dence has increased and strengthened. In
fact the wise, frugal and in all ways praise
worthy conduct of city affairs by the Repub-
licans has commanded the respect and sup
port of the heaviest taxpayers in the city
and we have faith to believe that support
will be continued. If further retrenchment
is necessary those who are to profit by it will
prefer to entrust the task to the party that
has accomplished so much. The allusion
made by the argus to State retrenchment is
most unhappy. The people of this city with
the memory of the disposition of the bids tor
the State printing fresh in their minds will
devoutly wish to escape that method of cut
ting down expenses.
The truth is the movement which the
Argus is making is not for retrenchment
and reform-it is for the offices. The com.
bioation wishes to capture the city in order
to provide places for the hungry politicians
to whom it has so long promised comfortable
official positions. From Mayor and Treasur-
er down TO policemen, the places have already
been assigned to members of the corrupt
coalition. The pretext that gave the State
House to the Democrats and Greenbackers
last Fall is advanced now in hope it will sue.
ceed with the people Of Portland. Power
and place, not retrenchment nor wise ad
ministration, are the objects aimed at.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01
The Teller Committee.

The report of the Teller Committee is of
special interest in view of the action just
taken by the Democratic House concerning
Federal Supervisors of elections. The report
takes the ground that the time has come
when Congress should exercise the power it
clearly possesses of providing by law for the
fair and free election of members of Con-
gress, and holds that that power nee
essarily implies power to provide for the
punishment of violations of the law. II will
scarcely be contended, certainly it cannot be
fairly claimed, that the National government
is compelled to rely for punishment of Of
fences against its own laws upon the laws
of the several States.
It is shown by great mass of evidence
that In Louisiana and South Carolina
the elections, state and county as well
as congressional, were not free, that
thousands of citizens were deprived of the
elective franchise, and that fraud and intimi-
dation abounded. The laws were shame
fully violated, but the States where the
wrong-doings occurred have instituted no
prosecutions against the violators, and no
effort has been made to punish the men who
thus wantonly outraged citizens; and when
the United States courts have been resolted
to for the purpose of Furnishing the outrages
on the ballot, the complainant has, in many
instances, been arrested, clearly in violation
OF the law, by the State authorities, on
charges OF perjury and committed to jail, un-
less he gave bail. Citizens are threatened
that if they attempt to punish the offenders
in the United States courts the witnesses
will be punished in the State courts. Thus
the State not only declines to punish these
criminals, but refuses to ALLOW it to be done
in the United States courts. The State gov
ernment is a white government. No colored
men are represented in it, and so far no man
connected with it has had the honesty, cour-
age or humanity to attempt to redress the
outrages of these unfortunate men of color.
The laws of South Carolina and Louisiana
are undoubtedly sufficient for the protection
OF all their citizens, but there has been la
mentabe failure to execute them. Thous-
ands of persons in the States controlled by
the political party profiting by these outrages
condemn them, but they lack the independ-
ence and courage to make themselves heard
in opposition to them.
No: yet satisfied with the facilities for
fraud the Democrats are now seeking TO ov-
erthrow the last remaining Safeguards
thrown by the Federal Government over the
purity OF congressional elections. They de-
sire that ballot-box stufing shall be made as
easy and safe in New York as in Charleston.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01
Y0rick's Drawer.

-"Consistency,"-a jewel certainly; Yor-
lex can tell that by the handwriting g-says
she has noticed in the PRESS much ridlcule
of punning, and has also "been panied to OBJ
serve that my favorlte paper INDUCES in
puns sometimes" Does Consistency" re-
member the words of the Autocrat concern
ing the vile habit? ''Do not plead my ex-
ample. If Ihave used any such, it has been
only as Spartan father would show up a
drunken helot." The essayist goes on TO
quote the following warning from the histori-
an:
The Puritans hated puns. The Bishops
were VIGOROUSLY addicted to them. The
Lords Temporal carried them to the verge of
license. 'Ye be bully, my Lord of Burleigh,'
said Queen Elizabeth, but ye shall make less
stir in our realm than my Lord OF Leicester.
The gravest wisdom and the highest breed
ing lent their sanction to the practice. Lord
Bacon playfully declared himself descend
ant of 'Og, the King of Bashan. Sir Philip
Sidney, with his last breath, reproached the
soldier who brought him water, for wasting a
casque full upon dying man. couItier,
who saw Othello performed at the Globe
Theatre, remarked that the blackamoor was
brute, and not man. Thou hast reason,
replied great Lord, according to Plato his
saying; for this be two-legged animal 2cith
feathers The fatal habit became universal.
The language was corrupted. The infection
spread to the national conscience. Political
double dealings naturally grew out of verbal
double meanings. The teeth of the new
dragon were sown by the Cadmus who intro
duced the alphabet of equiyocatioH. What
was levity in the time of the Tudors grew TO
raninido opd rouo1ntinr in tho of 10
Stuarts.
Macaulay in this quotation uses puns as
fearful examples. When Consistency" sees
plays upon words in these columns, let her
charitably think that it is but humble imita-
tion OF the English author.
That delightful extravaganza Her Majes-
ty's Ship Pinatore has astonished some more
or leas critical critics into speaking it as
something like Napoleon without a model
or shadow, a successful burlesque free from
indelicacy or 'French smut"-the differ
ence between French and English "smut" is
that one shines like stove-polish, while the
other is as d:rtily disagreeable as mud; both
soil the hands that touch them, but the mud
is easy to wash off, while the other sticks
and SHINES. 1t seems to Y orick that the
handsome run made by that clean-built
craft, the Pinafore, is anything but pheno-
menal. The success of the burlesque is owing
TO Its wit, its pretty music, and attractive
theme. And these are the reasons why the
French opera-boutfe succeeds. The French
work is popular not on account of its indel-
lcacy but in spite oi it. 1t has wit enough to
keep It sweet. The assertion that the French
play or burlesque is popula, here because of
its nastlness, is most unjust slur upon the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

In 'appropriating" the World editorial
paragraph concerning Washington, rebel
brigadiers, and Grant, the argus has not
improved it by speaking Of General Grant as
now dead-headiDg on the Richmond. The
World would not make that mistake.
The Argus should be careful how it strikes
out and tries to be original. Little boys
who do not know how to swim ought to
avoid deep water. General Grant did some
dead heading about Richmond some fifteen
years ago it is true. But the argus ought
to drop that question. 1t abused him
enough at the time for the way he made
dead-heads,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

SPEAKER RANDALL knows how it is him
self. He found it necessary to rise in the
House Thursday and deny charges brought
against biz integrity. We have every reason
tobelieve that the charges are false. 1t will be
seen by the Congressional reports that many
Republican members expressed their conf
dence in his honesty. Their conduct in the
case is in marked contrast with the conduct of
Democrats under similar circumstances, who
have not hesitated to lend their aid to the cir
culation of the most atrocious calumnies.
Once before a Democratic Speaker has been
forced to call upon political opponents for an
expression Of confidence in his integrity. No
Democrat seems capable Of such magnanim-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

The silver-mounted ebony distaff of Queen
Marie Antoinette, which figured at the late
Paris Exhibition, has been handed back to
its owners, the Imperial fan.i,y of Austria.
Quite an interesting story is connected With
this relic of the past. 1t is the same distaff
with which the unfortunate Queen beguiled
the long hours of her captivity, and after her
execution 1t was given as a memento to one
OF the ladies in attendance. 1t thence passed
into the family Of, 3rassy- -Raincn, the last
representative of which, Madame la Descair-
iere de Raincin, has just died. The spindle
is of ivory, and the hemp still on it is that
from which the unhappy Queen spun during
the last days of her life. By the decease of
Madame de Raincin the relic passed into the
hands of a Hungarian lady, to whom it was
bequeathed by the late owner, who was
aware of the religious respect that lady enter
tained for the memory of Frances Inflated
Queen.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

.ArH- NoRpHoFF, the Washington CORES
pondent OF tne NEW IUrK usTutu, rcPrv-
sents the Greenbackers as arguing that "lf
we can destroy the national banks we can
always demand larger issue of greenbacks."
There is the trouble. If the power of the
Government to make paper money is once
conceded we expose ourselves to the danger
of unlmfted issues.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

IT is to be presumed that the Senate fully
considered the nomination of Mr.. Stone for
collector of Bangor before it took action.
There is no instance on record where the
Senate has ever unanimously rejected nom
ination iu every way fit to be made. The OBJ
jeetion 10 this case does not seem to have
been to the nominee but to the removal of
faithful public servant.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01
The Next Semi-Annual Convention of
REFORM CLUBS
FOR THE STATE. OF MAINE
Brunswick, on the 9Th and 9Th of March

Each Club is requested to send Delegates, and it is
earnestly hoped they viii be present the first day,
so that all Clubs may be reported it ia desirous to
know what is being done all over the State in this
great work.
Tbe reduction of fares for the round trip are fol-
,oWs Maine Central, one and one thiri fare; Grand
trunk, one fare 10 iaIm mte Juncton; Portland y
Rochester fare to Maine Central Junction; Port
land q Ogdensburg, one fare Delegates on M G. r.
will cali Tor retufn tickets at stations; on p q o.
X r. ickets will be furnished by the Secretary
Free enter tainment will be furnished delegates at
Brunswick.
F. KENRICK, President.
A. H. GEM, Secretary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

The Argus as usual misrepresents. The
Republicans of Portland are not opposed to
retrenchment. II they were they would be-
lie their OVID record. They are the party of
years. admins tration in this city shows.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

The argus has developed a sudden and
suspicious zeal for Ietrenchment in city af
fairs. 1t took mighty good care not to sus-
tain Mayor Buffers hands when he was cut
ting down expenses by thousands Of dollars.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

THE spectacle of the Democratic and
Greenback leaders raking the slums of the
city with fine-tooth comb for recruits to
the cause of "retrenchment and reform" is
an ediIying one and worthy the grave atten-
tion of all respectable citizens.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

WE feel it our duty TO say that this city is
threatened by military despotism. A dy-
nasty of Colonels menaces our liberties.
There is danger we may be trodden under
the armed heel. We do not wish to incite
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

The Colonels meet again tonight. not in
conclave but in open session at City Hall,
where they will instruct Taxpayers a, to
their duties in the coming election.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

IT appears by the researches of special
correspondent of the Boston Advertiser that
the theory of Mr.. Barron's death by suicide
had its origin in the massive brain of the
present cashier of the Dexter Bank, Mr..
Barron's successor. The story OF the cores
pondent shows the utter absurdity of the
base accusation. The nature of the attempt
to destroy the good name of dead man is
clearly shown up.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01
THE PRESS
SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 1,
ELECTION MONDAY, MARtH 3.
FOR MAYOR,
WILLIAM SENTER.

we do not read anonymous letters and communt
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
cut as a guaranty OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve con-
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

EVERY regular attache OF the PRESS is furnishso
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor All railway, steamboat ana hotel
managers viii confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials Of every person claiming to represent o
Ournal,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

IT is intimated that the Greenback city
committee are about to publish card assai-
ing the authenticity of the Arabian Nights.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

II the Union was worth figh,ing for il is
worth paying for.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

discharge that duty are Indifferent about the
etymology. They may be all wrong, but they
have the justification Of success at least.
The language is full of errors. Look into
Brewster's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
about as ill-arranged book, by the way, as
was ever compiled, for 1t Is rather binder
than cipher despatch-one ought to get
Ariadne on the string before attempting to
make way in it-look at Brewster, and we find
over sixty examples of absurd misuses of
words. 'Acid" is misDomer, he tells us,
for sourness is only an accidental quality of
the chemical bodies which lear the name;
Irish stew" is worse than an Irish BUILT
is never found in Ireland; "rice-paper" Is not
made from rice, but from the pth of the
tung'tsau; Burgundy pitch" is not pitch,
nor Is 1t manufactured in nor exported from
Burgundy; 'Kepsington Palace'' Is not In
Kenslngton; "catgut" is not the gut Of cats,
but OF sheep; 'sealing-wax" Is not wax at
all; "Turkish baths" are not of Turkish ORR
gin; "Gothic architecture is not Gothic;
the trees Of Vallambrosa are not decduous.
and consequently the brooks are not strewn
with autumnal leaves-and so on through
five columns that read like magazine article
by Richard Grant White.
The old story, the telling Of which "crea-
tlon's dawn beheld," appears, II Yorick may
judge by the following lines that come to him
from an Constitution of learning in the
eastern part Of the State, to be in no dagger
OF neglect through altered fashions OF the
times. Its perusal Is pursued with rdor,
and though !! ought to come by nature and
not by learning, 1t seems, although not
deemed worthy of mention in the curriculum
given in the catalogues, to be considered
necessary study by those fitting themselves
for teachers:
Hearts were made to break;
Hands were made to squeeze;
Eyes were made to rove about,
And make men do as you please.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

Hearts were made to break;
Hands were made to squeeze;
Eyes were made to rove about,
And make men do as you please.
Ears were made to burn;
Feei were made 10 snow;
Girls were made to f1irt with men,
Bnt men with the giIls-ob, mo-!
Waists were made to hug;
Tongues were made to tune;
Arms were made 10 circle the girls,
And lovers were made to Spoon"
Eyelids were made to droop;
Cheeks were made to blush;
Hair was nsae to curl and friz,
And lips were maus-.
M,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-01

pressions have been permitted to die out, to
the injury Of language, and that many words
we could well dispense with have been intro
duced. But the world fancies it has need of
the new words and clings to them. Some
words meet temporary need and are dis
carded after their term of service is over.
Whenever strong, picturesque word Is suf-
fered to fall into disuse or words of slightly
differing Specification are confused and so the
expression of delicate shades of meaning
blurred, Or when the meaning of word is
perverted, the result is to be deprecated.
Doubtless newspapers are guilty of doing
these things. So are books. There is, too,
rules in the formation OF new words; but
people will not do it. After all, the harm is
not great. Webster may have been doing
wise and scholarly thing in writing "bride-
goom," but all the kings oxen and all the
kings men cannot set it up again, and Eng
lish people will use bridegroom" until the
crack of doom-or as long as the EOglish
language lasts. There is an excellent taker
Of photographs in this city who correctly
calls himself photographer. He has no
companions, and it is safe to predict he will
have no successor. The men OF bis trade
will continue to call themselves photograph
ere. Nor will the English language be mauled
beyond all recognition by their obstinate
ignorance. 1t will be found pretty SER
viceable tongue, even by purists.
Those who object to new words unless they
are folmed according to strict e,ymological
rules are like the Austrian generals of 1896
or thereabouts, who objected to Napoleon be-
cause he didn't win battles according to the
rules of war-they said his tactics were un-
sound and ridiculous. He had an idea that
the use of soldiers was to gain victories, and
he didn't care whether his battalions formed
thems, Ives after the model of the great Fred
eric or not. Our neologists believe the use
of words is to express ideas and il the words
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-09-17
W0man's Trick.

1t used to be said in the early time.
in Denver, when free aud easy life
Of pioneer days was thought necessi-
ty, that ladies sometimes masdueraded
in male attire--especially at night
inst to see what it was that detained
their husbands down town so
late. One in particular had very
attractive husband, and woman-like,
she was very fond Of him. i seemed
to her that so precious a possession
should be guarded zealously, and she
did her best to keep him in view.
But his incomings and outgoings
we're frequent. Like tho lrishman 8
flea he was anywhere but the place
at which be was expected to be found.
Nevertheless she buckled bravely
down to her mission, and few were
his escapades that failed to come under
her personal observation. One night
she traced him to dance hall, and
lust as lie was about leading one Of the
reigning bellies of the place to form
set in a cotilioD, handsomely dressed
boy interposed between them.
II beg pardon sir. but / have a
weakness for this girl myself" remark
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-09-17

The Maine election is over and IS
claimed as republican victory, which
It is. But when we remember the big
uaiorities the party used to troll up
IN that State, aud then have it fail Tor
two years in succession to elect gov
ernor, we can't resist scme strange
thinking. The reduced republican
,najofilies in Maine cannot be charged
40 southern buldozipg, or democratic
tyranny. 1t Is occasioned because
original republicans will not vote their
party ticket. Never before did the
party expend SO much money, talent
in public speakers, and effort as in this
eanvass and then not elect its COVER
nor, Did you ever hear OF that po'
,ticul disease known as "Grantism'
or Blaineism or Conklingism! it hal
put the party in the line OF defeat ii
Maine, may be in New York and else
where. 1t is fatal disease, gentle
men. Ludlow Gazette.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-09-17

The democrat party made the
best investment ofa lifetime ut Sya-
cuse Thursday. The denomination OF
Gov. Robinson is u deserved tribute
to honesty and independence in public
life and retrcnchment aud reform in
government, and it shows that the fact
that a man is not thief will not neces
sarily shut him out OF politics, even at
John Kelly's 1ictation. The Tam
manyi,es withdrew from the conven'
ton and it il to lie hoped that measure
will he taken to forever shut them out
of the party, where they have always
been murde.ous loid, The nom'n'
alton OF Kelly by tho boilers indicates
that there is a bargain with the Conk-
ling-C Cornell republican machine, which
represents all that Is desirable in pol
itics. Tilden believes that though
Robinson loses $4,000 democratic
votes in Nsy YORK cliy,I the republic
can farmers in rural districts who be-
lieye in the kind of Governor Robin
son is, will rally to his support and re-
elect him.