Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-12-20
POLITICAL.

Senator Frye has introduced two new
bills for the distribution Of the balance Of
the Geneva Award.
The Democratic papers In Maine ar,
busy attacking the Court and exalting the
Executive above the Judicial. We are
| sorry to see gentlemen who for so many
years have been troubled with the night
mare OF GENERALIZATION, busy themselves &c
Iealously In efforts to imperialize our State
government.-Leeiston Journal.
1t Is reported that Secretary Blaine
will retire from the State Department on
Thursday OF next week. and Mr.. Freling-
huysen will walk In. The latter Is gen
tleman OF experience and ability, but there
will be deep and general regret at Mr..
Blaine's retirement from position which
he so admirably filed during the brief time
he occupied it.
There is a suspicion Ia Maine that Flu.
sion Governor Plaisted meditates abolish
ing the Supreme Court OF the State because
IL has given decision against his plan for
abolishing his Executive Council. Gsrce-
Ion tried to steal the State. Plaisted 10
from the contest in a similar condition TO
that Of the Indian who lassoed locomo-
tive.-N y. Tribune.
1t Is no child's play to suppress IL
lIcit distilling in the United States Com
missioner Raum reports twenty-eight rev.
enue officers have been killed in the ser
vice during the lust I've years. He recon-
mends the pensioning OF their widows and
orphans. 1t Is good suggestion. These
men have lost their lives in the service
OF the country Just as much as the volun-
teers who were shot on Southern battle
fields.
The Aroostook Republican SAYS OF the
newly organized Republican State Com.
mittee: 1.-The makeup or the Committee
will be recognized a. able and efficient and
calculated for work. Every member OF the
Executive Committee is host In himself,
and will bring to- the discharge OF his du.
ties a zeal and knowledge which justify
the opposition In their assertion that the
Republican party intends 10 make the next
campaign hot, one
SHANE on the party" says the Utica
OJSerrer, "that made GuIteau possible ;
10 which the Boston Herald responds: "To
be sure, but which party does the Observer
refer to? II memory Is not at fault, II was
fear OF Democratic supremacy which In
spirei' the taking OF OF President Car
field" But in fact, there is no more rea-
son for holding a party responsible for the
acts OF every Individual crank or half Id
lot, than for holding community respon-
sible for the crimes OF defaulters, COM
mon thieves and other criminals In their
midst.
The Belfast Journal declines 10 engage
In a discussion Of the financial question
with the Calais Times on the ground that,
The game is not worth the powder" We
aud ,ha, Hard Money papers generally
manage TO avoid such discussions with
well Informed Greenbackers on one pre-
tence aud another, but we take leave 10
doubt IL contemp, for the game Is the real
reason OF their disinclination 10 meet Their
opponents In fair argument We suspect
that the actual fact Is that they haven't got
the powder. "-RookidHd Opinion.
The Opinion labors under serious mis-
take. The Magazines OF the hard money
papers are well supplied, but II Is a poor
sportsman who wastes his ammunition on
dead game. The fiat money fallacy Is dead
IS door nail II Is no longer living Is
sue. Its advocates have proved as futile
and as foolish as those OF Mother Shipton.
Resumption, which was, in the opinion OF
these ill-starred prophets, to ruin the coun-
try has brought uuexampled prosperity.
Every trade and industry Is aourishing and
In the face ofthese facts 1t is idle TO engage
in the discussion ofexploded fallacies such
as are put forth by the Calais ii"es.-Be!-
fast Journal.