The Portland daily press., 1883-07-17
Political Fact AMI Chat.

Regarding the speakership the preference
of the New York Democrats in Congress, it
the World knows it, will be for Mr.. Cox
Mr.. Carlisle being their second choice, and
they will oppose Mr.. Randall under all cir
cumstances. OF course the World does mo-
mean under the circumstances of his receiv-
ing the caucus nomination.
Senator VOORHEES, told a reporter that Mr.
Hendricks was not a candidate for the Pres
idental nomination. Mr.. Hendricks then
told another reporter that Senator VOORHEES,
had no authority for making such state
ment Senator Voorhees, retorts that his
reason for thinking Mt. Hendricks was not
a candidate was that Mr.. Hendricks him
self told him SO. Senator Voorhees, should
be more careful.
81 think the State Democratic convention
will do about as it chooses. They generally
do, so | am content to attend strictly to my
own work. j have no candidates, and no
desire or intention to look after the conven-
ton or its ticket. Gov. Cleveland OF New
York.
II think it would be better to place pro-
hibitory duty on the articles We want pro-
the treasury raised by the tariff. 1t is the
function OF State to raise just enough of
money to pay its legitimate expenses, an
this is particularly so with our national gov
ernment: neither has any business with a
redundant treasury Hoyt Of Penn
sylvapia.
Mr.. Tilden was very much better Ameri-
can and much wiser man than Mr.. John
Kelly. He knew that revolution, however
justifable under certain circumstances, is
| not Justifable when based upon the al
legged results of an intimidated election.
He knew that however great Republican
election offenses might be, Democratic cleo
ton crimes were as perfectly well known.
The forms of law, the spirit of law, and the
moral probabilities were all against him, and
his mentor Jefferson had taught him too
we'll the grounds upon which alone revolu-
tion can hopefully appeal to the judgment
| OF mankind to permit him to do as Mr..
| Kelly thinks that he ought to have done.
Mr.. Kelly objects to Mr.. Tilden that he did
not plunge the country into bloody civil
contest in which the republic would have
perished In making such an objection Mr..
Kelly gives his own measure but moth
| ing more. Even he does not venture to say
that the country would have been to-day
| more peaceful, prosperous, freer, and more
| promising If Mr. Tilden had invoked civil
war instead of yielding to lawful decision.
| A party in which Mr.. Kelly is powerful
leader is a good party to keep out of power.
| --Harper's Weekly.
In their eulogies on Thomas Jefferson
Senator Pendeton and Judge Hoady omit
| ted 10 mention, in enumerating the various
| things of which he was the writer, the cele.
brated Resolutions of '9S, which were the
corner stone of secession in 1S6O-6l. .Jeifer.
son was as proud of them as the old Democ-
racy used to be.-Cincinnati Commercial
| Gazette.
But the Governor, constituting the organic
law very literally, felt obliged to reconvene
theLegislature. The North American re-
marked at the time that his Excellency
would probably learn something to his adj
vantage within ten dass after he summoned
| the Legislature to reconvene. He perhaps
wiser now, and if he had the business tc
transact again, would probably think twice
before he transacted it in the same way Ex-
| ira sessions, like scant learning, are danger
Gus things. He has the satisfaction of see.
ing quarter of a million of public moneys
wasted, and he has learned that the reform
wing of his party does not number corpo-
rails guard. If he had intended to expose
the hollowness of Democratic demands fol
reform, be could not have hit upon better
way.-Philadelphia North American.