The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23
Current Comment.

Ex-Congressman Amos Townsend, of
| Cleveland, Ohio, says that Judge Foraker is
| doing splendidly. On the stump he is clean
| cut, meaning just what he says. No am
biguity about Foraker. He is doing well,
and the Republicans are beginning to see
the wisdom manifested by his selection"
How do the people Of Massachusetts like
this sort of thing? Here is advertisement
in display type, occupying portion of two
columns on the first page of the Boston
| Globe:
Important features of the Tewksbury investiga-
tion fully illustrated in the Police News, published
to-day, August Is: Leather manufacture from hu-
mani ides Al the erhi6itS IN the State house in
vesttgatson sPecialtg pAospse not engraved,
from the originals for this paper.
Thus Gov. Butler lets out "al the exhibits,
to be specially photographed in order to
reach his party through the Police News,
the paper which panders to the taste OF the
criminal class by illustrating the repulsive,
the vile and the lewd features OF low life.
What use has he for other organs of public
opinion when these are open to him?--
Springfield Republican.
The feminine element and influence are
slowly but surely making themselves felt In
political circles. At the State Convention
of the National party in New Jersey, the
other day, platform was presented for
adoption. Objections being raised to the
clause favoring women suffrage, Miss Marie
Rowland arose as if to speak in its favor,
but, with great sagacity and presence Of
mind, burst into tears and sat down. This
unanswerable argument closed the discus
sion, and the suffrage plank was unani-
mously adopted.-Indianapol Journal.
The truth is that the business of telegraph
ing properly belongs to women, and any
sympathy the public has to spare in the
matter is due to the women whom these
young fellows keep out of it, or to the
women now in it, whose wages their compe-
tition keeps down. In England the women
in the government service are rapidly taking
hold of the telegraph Offices. For all but
the great Offices, where the pressure of long
dispatches is severe, they are amply quali-
fled for the work.-New York Evening Post.
The Catholic Review of Boston attributes
the great popularity of Sullivan the prize
fighter and rum-seller, to New England
culture which is fast learning TO iguore the
supernatural and despise the ideal of the
angelic Christian virtues" and in which
s'the brute instincts of human nature are
fast coming to the surface and being stimu-
latedlto an unnatural degree" 1t is proba-
Bile that the editor of the Review does not
appreciate with what bad grace this insult to
New England comes from an organ of Sulli-
vans own creed and race-a creed and race
which have not yet fully learned to appreci-
ate the blessings of liberty and law.-Buffa-
| 10 Express.
We cannot bnt regard this decisionl in the
| case of the Chinaman landed at BostODl as
unfortunate. 1t puts a special interpreta-
\ ton upon words which do not require it, for
| the expression "from any foreign port CT
| place. shows that Congress intended to
| cover all the points whence Chinese came
TO this country. AS a matter of fact, most
of our Chinese immigrants came from Hong
Kong and to admit them will entirely de-
stroy the force of the present act, which is
| a wise and reasonable effort to protect this
| country from an Asatic immigration. The
| only references to the treaty in the act are
| made in Justification of those sections which
require those Chinese residents, now here,
| who desire to visit the old country to take
out passports and which require those Chi
nese who are not laborers to bring pass
| ports with them. These references do not
| seem to reqRire-the limitation Which our
| judges have applied to The scope OF The
| whole act The decision will be taken, we
| apprehend, on the Pacific coast as an ex-
preston of Massachusetts hostility to the
act, and of the determination of eastern
| judges to nullify its proyisions.-Spring-
| field Republican.
We areinclined to think that the most sug-
| gestive of Mr.. Kelly's features is his back.
We venture contraryito custom, to speak of
| it as a feature because it reveals so much of
| his character. Viewed under favoring cir
| cumstances of costume-for example, when
/ there is dress coat on it-that massive and
tremendous back, broad as the brogue of
| Tipperary and immovable as the pyramids of
| Egypt, proclaims the quality Of stubborn
resistance which has Emade Mr.. Kelly the
| great obstacle of contemporary politics. 1t
| is back of the sort which no man likes to
see before him in a crowded doorway =
| indeed, among backs of that sort it is the
| ideal back; and many an anxious candidate,
beholding it in blank majesty at the official
| portal, has gone home in low spirits and an
nounced that he is out of politics." At
| present this stupendous back is turned full
in the face of the Hon. Mr. Tilden. That
| gentlemen has shown recent indications of a
readiness to come out of the retirement
wherein he is said to have rejuvenated him.
self by course of athletics, and some of his
friends have been cautiously pushing people
this way and that to make room for him;
but the back remains. 1t has confronted
MIR. Tilden, so to speak, for good
while, and he knows too much to SHOVE
against 1t. Everybody is now watching the
manoeuvers with curiosity, and one OF the
most interesting questions OF the pohtlcal
season is, Will Mr.. John Kelly turn aroundf
Mr.. Kelly has said that he will not; Dut tne
purposes of ststesmen are controueu Dy tne
progress of events.-N. Y. Tribune.