The Portland daily press., 1884-05-14
Political Notes.

A boom for Andrew ID. White of Cornell Univer-
sity, has been started in New York 1t is small but
clearly, robust and brainy to a degree By taking
care Of itself ard avoiding the frosts it may yet
grow up 10 useful greatness. philadelphia Press.
This is what the opposition to the Morrison bill
means-tsx the people to death on the neeessaries
OF life to make whiskey and tobacco cheap. Where
is there need of the repeal Of the internal revenue
taxes on whiskey and tobacco, wnen every man can
repeal them for himself by a. staining from drink
Ing, and from smoking and chewing tobacco?-Char-
lesion News and Courier.
Our advice to the Tribune and Mr.. Phelps both
is to draw out Of the Blaine enterprise early as
possible. They have nothing to gain and much to-
lose by sticking TO it too long. The whole story OF
Mr. Baines operations is not yet told. but Is ready
worst should come, they would be very sorry they
had not left sooner.-N. Y. Evening Post.
To all editors engaged in figuring out results Of
ballots at Chicago: Dearly Beloved BrethreR-From
January to June, 1850, We nominated Grant on the
first ballot at Chicago evory day with nearly so
out that there was blunder somewhere. Moral
lie counts best who counts last.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Let 1t come TO be understood as the law of Ameri
can politics that when President is to be chosen
the leaders who have commended themselves to
their party and the country must stand aside aud
make room for second rate or unknown men, and a
serious blow will have been struck at system of
popular government. No country can perman-
emily thrive that goes about selecting Its chief mag
strate the theory of the revival OF the unttest
New York Tribune.
If the State of New York Is to be the battle
ground in the coming campaign, the Republican
party can do no better than to nominate Senator
Edmunds for the Presidency. The fear In which
he is held by the Democratic party is clearly shown
by the venom with which the newspapers Of that
party are assailing him. Senator Edmunds is proof
against newspaper attacks, whether made by Re-
publican or Democratic papers: We do not say he
Is the only candidate who would carry New York
State, but we do say thar he is the only man whose
inherent strength in New York is unquestioned and
Observation-Disclosures journal.
Prof. Sumner of Yale predicts ''that the Repub-
licans will next winter make a great reduction IN
the tariff, just in 1877 after bloody shirt CAM
psign, their first step was to withdraw the troops
from the South" Quite like enough and just as the
withdrawal of the troops due not to any convc-
ton that the political outrages at the South had
ceased, but rather to belief that the troops aggra-
waited the trouble, so Republican tariff reduction
will not grow out of hostility to protection az The
Morrison bill did, but out of a we'll founded juda-
ment that the heavy taxation Of raw msterialsis
nullng the protective operation of the tariff as a
whole. The free list will not be sacrificed to anti
protectionism, but anti-protectionism will have to
get its satisfaction out of a free hst-SpriDgde!d
Union.
high-soundng ways and means committee was
selected, and the members thereof Immediately be-
gan the work of reforming the tariff. The first egg
to hatch from this would-be tariff reform nest was
bill to extend the time on bonded whiskey. Every
man who had been clamorous for the party to assert
its tariff reform principles at the beginning Of the
session. was strong for this bill. Morrison was Its
champi-n. The next egg to hatch nom the ways
AID means committee was the Morrison bill. 1t was
intended, so far as could be gathered from the
clamorous confusion of its champions to be sort
of vehicle for setting forth Democratic principles
a gilt-edged programme embodying Democratic
policy. We were told that it was a compromise
measure mot what its champions wanted. but they
hoped to get it through, and thus place the onas
Of its defeat on the epublicans.-Atlanta Consti.
tntinn.