The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-07
Political Notes.

pathy with free trade notions.
The joke of nominating General Crook for
President appears to be taken seriously. A
number of newspapers have commenced TO
abuse the gentleman as If he were pick
pocket.-New Orleans Picayune.
Personal: To Hoadly, Ohio, sometimes
known as The Judge. Get off the ticket
and all will be forgiven. Affectionately
yours, THE ONO DEMOCRACY.
IN. T. Tribune.
As for the Times, it hates Republican
thief rather worse than Democratic thief,
because IL believes that man must be by
nature monstrous villain who becomes COR
rupt and steals, as Dorsey did, while in such
honest company.-New York Times.
The strike is held responsible for the fun
ny mistake by which Senator Butler of
South Carolina was made to say in public
speech that he wanted to see 100000 "Mor-
mons" settle in that State. He said Ger
mans.
The Atlanta Constitution remarks with
point and pertinency: ''The Democratic
party of Cincinnati seems to be in considera-
BILE trouble. Too many able editors is the
disease with which the Cincinnati party is
afflicted
The leading Democratic paper in Column
bia, s. G., the Journal, says the nomination
| of Gov. Butler by the Democrats for the
| Presidency would drive the whole South in
to the Republican party if 1t offered an ac-
ceptable man for President. No it wouldn't
The South wonld take to the woods.-Mo-
bile tAla.) Register.
We have no doubt Mr.. Blaine is honest in
this determination, which he has consistent
~ and persistenty expressed since his de
feat in 1880. At the Same time, if in a great
outburst of pQrNlar enthusiasm such as was
witnessed when Garfield was struck with
| Presidential lightning, the national conven-
| ton should place him in nomination, no one
| seriously believes that he would persist in
declining To do so would be very much
| unlike any man who ever had Presidential
| aspirations. -Biidgten News.
| Mr. Arthur is the first Republican Presi-
dent of whom i. eonld be fairly said that he
| governed united Republic. His messages
| are the first written by Republican execu-
| tive in which no reference to the South as a
| section is to be found. The is as much the
| President in Florida or Arkansas as he is in
Ohio. The notion that his Office represents
something alien and hostile to them has
faded from the minds of Southern people.
Of course much OF this is due to the natural
healing influences of time But quite as
much is due to the Presidents own good
sense and self-restraint.-Al Albany Journal.
The reporter said he had been sent on to
ask Mi. Reid concerning Mr.. Dorsey's state
ment about an alleged bargain which Dorsey
| said Mr.. Reid probably knew about. for the
| appointment Of Stanley Matthews to the Su-
preme bench. Mr.. Reid replied: II never
| made any such bargain with Gen. Garfield.
| directly or indirectly, and have no reason to
! think that any such bargain was made by
| anybody else. never even asked him for
the appointment of Stanley Matthews, nor
| did know that AIR. Matthews was 10 be re-
| appointed after his rejection bv toe Senate
under Hayes. n--Chicage Herald.
Senator Edmands has been eonfisnad by
| the strike iii his view &c the Importance of
! the establishments Of q postal ielesr ph, He
| does not advocate the purchase of existing
| lines, but the construction OF new aud indie
| pendent lines, first between the larger cities
| and afterward TO smaller places as the de-
mand for extension should be made. He be-
| levss it is the duty aud prerogative of Con-
| gress TO provide for the transmission of in
| teligence by electricity as it is by steam Or
| post routes. Senator Edmunds will proba
| bly, introduce bill for postal telegraph at
the coming session.-Springfeld Republican.
Not many years ago 1 was deeply panied
to read, as coming from the lips of Sen. Gar
| field, the statement that the opinions of
| Alexander Hamilton were gaining and those
| of Jefferson losing force in our country
| panied because it was then true panied be-
cause it was said by Garfield. Let us now
| thank God and take courage that this ten
dency no longer exists, and trust that the
increase of the spirit and hope of democracy.
which we see all around us, is not eyanes-
| cent and short-lived, because it is based on
and accompanied with deeper as well as
more lively devotion to the principles which
were illustrated in the life and taught in the
| precepts of Thomas Jefferson.-Judoe
Hoadly, Democratic candidate for Governor
| of Ohio.
/ Compare the positions before the public of
the two men Curtis and Conkling to-day, the
| former with a constantly broadening future
before him, and the latter shut up to feed
upon his own insufferable selishness and
egotism, with little if any hope of being
again considered one of the men who shape
| political opinions. There is no place for
| him, or politicians of his stripe, while the
mass OF Americans are intent upon such i'm
| provement Of the civil service as will place
1t upon permanent footing, beyond the
| reach of merceDary wire-pullers Under
| existing conditions of the public mind
George William Curtis looms up as a far
more powerful Republican leader than Conk-
ling was in his palmiest days-Boston
Transcript.
Several prominent gentlemen, whose rec
concentrations usually have weight with the
Republicans of this State, are intent upon
having adopted at our coming State Con-
vention resolution similar to that adopted
at Harrisburg the other day, favoring the
permanent establishment of the system of
collecting more revenue than the Federal
OoVernment needs, and dividing the surplus
a nm fhQ Gtnfn X
enue, for distribution among the States. is a
cock that won't fight on New York soil. A
party which chose to enter a canvass for the
SURFACES OF the citizens If this State COM
mitted to such proposition would be beat
en- out of sight before the delegates got away
from the Convention hall.-Albany Journal.
(Rep.)
1t may be said that the Republicans of
New Hampshire, in this remarkable con-
test, have shown great pa fence and deter
inination. The multiplicity of candidates.
while it evinces certain temporary discour-
agement, may also be taken as token of
the determination Of the Republican men,
bers OF the Legislature 70 fight s'the ma
chine" on that line if it took all summer
l. must also be said that Mr. Rollins has ex-
hibited more political acumen than Mr.
| Chandler Neither of these men is in ac-
| cord with the freshest currents of political
thought. Both cling to the old-fashioned
and obsolete methods. Neither sympathizes
with that form Of political organization
| which chooses the best men for positions of
power and trust But mr.. Rollins had
| sense enough to gee when he was beaten
He got out OF the way and nursed his wrath
in silence. Mr.. Chandler, who began with
small figures and large expectations, never
rose over those figures, and neve. realized
those expectations. His clumsy attempt to
identify Pike, the snccessful candidate, with
his own fortunes may temporarily enbar-
rass the Senator-eleci. IL cannot gid with
one ray the ignominous defeat of the Secre-
tary of the Navy. Y. Times
The long Senatorial contest in Now Hamp-
shire, which has just ended so fortunately,
did not mean the decentralization of the Re-
publican party in that State, nor the general
disintegrat,on of the party, nor any of the
things which the Democratic newspapers are
GLIB in prophesying Of it. II was Simply one
| more sign of the growth Of the Republican
party away from machine methods, and an
apparent indication, also, OF the decay of
the Senatorial caucus That tme-honored
piece of party machinery has been subjected
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