The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-19
CURRENT COMMENT.


REcAIsE SHE ALREADY HAS IT.
Nashville American.
The South does not ask for much.
WITH THE NlUGwUNIPs' KIND PERMISSION
IT shall.
NY SUI.
Because the Mugwump idea lies moulder-
ing, shall not the world move on?
NEW VERSION.
Macon Telegraph.
Prodigal Mugwump-Father, have sinned
- Yes, you have, and now you are going
to catch it,
BOURBON SPIRITS WAS ALWAYS THEIR
WEAKNESS.
Nasty in Toledo Blade.
The COST NV Boss Tweed kin evoke more
enthoosiasm in Dimekratic mind than bat
TALON nv Clevelands in the flesh.
HOW?
NY. Sun.
Three weeks from to-day the Congress
meets which will either make possible or i'm
possible the election of a Democratic success
sOF to President Cleveland.
THIS WAS EXPECTED.
From resolutions by Sterling's friends.
The Mugwump President, the vacillating
Secretary of the Treasury and the weak
minded Collector Hedden.
THE THIEF OF TINE.
Philadelphia Press.
The rascal who stole Brother Beecher's
Waterbury watch is still unidentified, but
we suspect it was old man ProcraStlnatlon.
HOW ABOUT THE KENDUsKEAG.
Boston Record
A Bangor visitor to Europe declares that
the Danube is mot as pretty. as the Kendus-
keag," stream that runs through Bangor.
This will make the Danube blue.
Massey TAKES HEART.
Toledo Blade.
/ am eneurridged When SIGH men ez
Dave Hill kin be electid Their IL hope fur me.
l shell shortly emerge from the gloom that
hez enveloped me and walk erect before my
fellow men with billed shirt on.
A GOOD REMEDY.
Boston Globe.
viii clumsy executions never cease? The
hangman who cannot select rope so strong
that it will not break, or adjust anoose so
that it shall not slip the knot under the chin,
ought to be soundly logged. But why not
perform executions by electricity and re-
move all possibility of scenes like that wit
messed in Chicago Saturday?
THE WHOLE THING IN A NUTSHELL.
Philadelphia Press.
Louis Riel was British subject by neces-
ty. He was patriot by instinct He was
a victim of the gallows by the force of a gov
ernmental system which has no root, no
heart, no sincere loyal following in the Yves
tern World. He may trust to the future for
vindication more confidently than those who
hanged him may trust to the past for justi-
iicatlOn.
DIR. LoRIMER SHOULD ACCEPT.
Philadelphia Press.
The Baptists of Chicago are trying to save
their university, and have invited the Rev.
DR.. Lorimer to lead in the task by accepting
the vacant presidency. Dr. Lorimer hesi-
tates naturally about assuming so onerous a
burden until he knows what support he is to
receive. An unfortunate debt, contracted
some years ago and increased by the unpaid
interest, must be settled soon or the property
Of the university will be sacrificed. Even if
this should prove unavoidable, the charter
will not be surrendered, but the institution
will be removed and carried on elsewhere.
1t is desirable for several reasons, however,
that the present location should be saved if
possible. 1t was a gift to the college from
Senator Stephen A. Douglass and many as
sociations cluster about it which it would
prove hard to surrender Under the energet-
ic leadership of DR.. Lorimer and with the
cooperation of the Baptists of the North
west the university could, no doubt, soon
find way out of its difficulties