The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-12-30

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not an office of great power or responsibility,
and the election of President Grevy was
foregone conclusion whenever the assembly
should proceed to ballot Nevertheless the
telegraph tells us the election was attended
with much confusion and many narrow es-
capes from personal encounters. All which
goes to show how impulsiye is the French
nature, and how little provocation is needed
to start big row in French legislative
body.
The American method of interviewing leg
islators to get their opinion on public meas
ures in advance, has been adopted by the
London Press Association to discover how
the Liberals stand on the question of Home
rule. OF sixty Liberals interviewed, nine
give unconditional support to Home rule;
nine give support with the condition that it
shall not jeopardize the union; fifteen are
non-committal; twelve will support local
boards, but not more; eight think the sub
iect does not call for immediate considera-
ton.
Mr.. Gledhill senior says he thinks his in
situations in regard to his sons books being
tempered with are correct, and if he had
money to employ detectives and counsel
should certainly have his son come back and
prove his innocence" Mr.. Gledhill's lack of
money ought not to stand in his way. We
have not the slightest doubt that if a sub
scription paper is circulated among the
members of the Citizens Relief Society all
the funds that Mr.. Gledhill needs can be OBJ
tanned, provided he will guarantee to bring
his son back.
Speaker Carlisle is still laboring to discover
some way to dispose of the great silver states
man, Representative Bland of Missouri, that
shall be satisfactory both to Bland and the
country He has been trying to get the silver
champion to exchange the Craftsmanship Of
the coinage committee for some other equal
ly prominent, but the champion wants his
old place or none. Another proposition is to
place Bland at the head of the committee on
coinage, and then put enough anti-silyer
men on to control it. But the silver men
protest, arguing that as they have the major
ity of the House, they are entitled to ma
jority of this committee.
N. Pasteur is gentleman, a scholar and
statesman, as well as a good chemist and an
= excellent judge of hydrophobia. AT re-
cent reception of a political character he
drew contrast between the kinds of democ-
racy in the following terse language:
A true democracy is that which permits each
individual to employ all his abilities. A chemists
Ss sapan rg ~ woTd V 81
Why, beside this true democracy Is there another
sterile and dangerous democracy, which, under
the pretext OF chlmercal equality, dreams OF
absorbing and annihilating the Individual in the
state? That false democracy has taste for, and,
am bold enough to say, worships, mediocrity.
1t distrusts everything that is superior.
This is Mormon tribute to the East from
the columns of the Ogden utah News. 1t
is an excellent specimen of the petulancy of
the Mormon press;
If there is one thing more disgusting than anoth-
er to>ai4estern man. 1t is the upstart air, the
percilious bearing and egotlstic words of the ef-
fete eastern people Slckly in body; rapidly de-
generating in intellectual strength; hugging the
memories of the past as passports to merit in the
You'd their pent-up territory, to the manifest evil
dences OF thrift, growth and greatness, visible all
through this mighty West, whose teemlng millions
are erecting empires, each one of which could
swallow up half-doZens of their worn and thread
bare commonwealths, these conceited pensioners
upon the bounty Of the dead learn nothing new
and receive no exalted inspiration from the NIGH
ty progress OF their common country; but, gath
ering their skirts with ''l-am-holier-than thou"
air, settle themselves back In their narrow sphere
and thank God they are not like other men. Poor,
narrow, conceited cyclists. viii it never occur to
you how many "other men" are thanking their
God they are not like you?
Ex-Minister Francis says that the religion
of Keiley's wife was not the real reason
Austrias refusal to receive him. Count
Kalnoky mentioned that confidentially
to Baron Scheffer in the hope that
Kelley might take the hint and resign,
and by so doing relieve the Austrian
government of the necessity of openly OBJ.
iecting to him. 1t appears that the Hebrew
papers of Vienna without exception opposed
Mr.. Kelley, which they certainly would not
have donei if the religion of his wife had been
understood to be the real objection to him.
Mr.. Francis says Austria objected to him
for the same reason that Italy objected to
him, namely, on account of his attack on
Victor Emmanuel, Austria's idea being that
it would be an affront to Italy, with which
she was on friendly terms, to accept him UNI
der the circumstances