The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-09-10
Current Comment.

Ii Mr.. Pendleton's reported sayings about
he rebellion against the Johnny Mclean,
Cincinnati EHquirer) ticket are fairy stat
ed he answers TO the description of the dead
who do not kick. He surely should kick
little to show that he Is alive.-Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
If the Democrats in Congress elect Mr..
Randall speaker, sit will be taken as evil
dence," says the Charleston News and Cou-
rier, that the Democratic party intends to
straddle the fence on the tariff question, as
was don in $780,"
The spectacle presented at the Democrat
ic national convention of 1890, as the editor
of the Louisville Courier-Journal recalls it,
was that of "a pusilanlmous and ignorant
rabble of time-servers, looking for a cheap
and easy candidate" The editor adds that
they found one in General Hancock, and
under him marched to a defeat scored in
advance"
Editor Watterson, of the Louisville Cou-
rier- Journal, and other Democrats OF his Pc
culiar type will be kind enough to nole it
down just now, before forgetting it, that
Uncle Randall will wailop his competitors
Ia the speakership fight SO completely that
they won't know whether they have gone
through an Italian earthquake or been
worsted in joint debate with a threshing
machine. All this means that the ''only''
school of statesmen will feed very prOfusely
on crow pie next winter, and that there will
be oceans of fun for the minority. -Phila-
delphia Press.
1t has been the sentiment of the nation
that sthe negro should have chance" IL
he throws away his opportunity it will be
his great misfortune. There are intelligent
and patriotic negroes who can guide their
people safely, but they complain already
that their influence is weak There has
been too much Boosting on the part of col
ored leaders, and they are doing incalcula-
be harm. There has been already severe
friction between the blacks and whites of
the South. The danger to be apprehended
is another friction between the blacks and
whites of the North. Those who are devot-
ing themselves to negro education see this.
and are pressing schemes of education which
may prevent it.-Hampton Southern Work
man.
Under the circumstances we do not be-
lieye that patriotic man like Mr.. Henry L.
Pierce can refuse to heed the call of duty
He is not only the apparent choice of clear
majority of the Republican party, but be is
acceptable to the independent voters with
whom probably rests the balance of power,
and is as obviously unwelcome to Governor
Butler and his hackers All this constitutes a
demand for service such as seldom comes to
any man. Since his release from public SER
vice Mr.. Pierce has keenly enjoyed life, ac-
cumulating stock of health and philosophy
and he is physically and mentally equipped
for this new work.-Springfield Republican.
Democratic harmony in Ohio and New
York Is nearly as abundant as snakes in Ire
land.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Ohio Democrats tried to straddle
every questio in which the voters of the
the state had any direct interest, from the
duty on wool to the Scott liquor law. They
tried to disguise their poverty of principle
by the parrot-like iteration of the demand
for a change, and they sought TO compose
the bitter personal feuds of the faction lead
ers of their party by sacrificing everything to
the petty and selfish interests of as narrow
minded a set of politicians as the country
can produce. If the Democratic managers
of Ohio have earned nothing but contempt
and ridicule by their attempts to carry
great state by the most transparent sham
and pretense, they have merely demonstrate
ed on limited scale what the party at large
is preparing 10 accomplish in the field of
national politics in 18S4-Broooklyn Union.