The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-10

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The MugwImps seem to be in doubt
whether John Sherman or George F. Hoar is
the wickedest man in the Republican party.
They have both committed the objectionable
offense of waving the bloody shirt"
Ex-Gov. st, John denies vehemently that
the Democrats tried to buy him. We are in
clined to think he tells the truth. Neither
Democrats nor anybody else are accustomed
to purchase services that they can get for
nothing.
The Autobiography League of New York
State has adopted resolution condemning
the civil service reform law As that law
prevents monopoly of the offices by either
party it would seem that an anti-monopoly
league ought to approve it.
Ferdinand Ward owns up that his bank was
run on precisely the same system as Mrs.
Howe's women's bank in Boston Peter was
robbed to pay Paul. In other words the big
interest which the bank paid came from the
depositors. The bank never had any con-
tracts with the government, or anybody else.
Admiral Jouett entertained on board his
ship certain distinguished men and charged
the expense $400-to the United States.
The second comptroller says the expense
must be deducted from the admiraPs salary.
Such specimens of reform as this will serve
to make as laughing stock in the eyes of
the world.
The German Emperor, if the dispatches
are to be believed, moved by compassion at
the desperate flight of his old friend Alfonso,
has concluded to evacuate zap and leave the
sovereignty of the Caroline Islands in the
hands of Spain By this decision the veneer
able emperor has probably saved his young
friends crown and perhaps his head.
If the Salt Lake Herald is to be credited,
Gen. Mcclellan, who is now in Utah, is try
ing to make himself solid with the Mormons.
He has been praising the late Brigham
Young, and telling the Saints that as DEM
ocrat he thinks ''all people should have their
rights and the equitable protection of the
law without regard to religion, politics,
color, previous condition or anything else.'
A correspondent of the PRESS who lives in
Wesley, Washington county, writes that on
August 26, Sam Day of his town, killed
large bear, making the two-hundreth he has
captured since April, 1866. He is the champi-
on bear killer of the country and our cores
pondent would like to know if he is not also
the champion of the State? Let the bear
killers bring forth their records.
Parnell has evidently got to make his fight
for Homerule alone. The Radicals from
whom he would get assistance, if from
anybody declare through their mouth piece
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, that they will fight
Homerule tooth and nail. But with so to 100
Irish members behind him Mr.. Parnell can
make the next session of Parliament very
uncomfortable one for the English members
A Portland correspondent of the Boston
Post intimates that Col. Morton is going to
withdraw. If what Secretary Endicott is re-
ported to have said be true, he might as well.
But when Col. Morton withdraws will any
other Democrat come forward and seek the
office in the face of Gen. Plaisted's declara-
ton that no Democrat who does so can live
in Maine? Wait and see.
Most of the Territories have reported the
statistics of their quinquennial census. The
result shows an exceedingly large increase
in population. Several of them have more
than the population necessary to give them
Congressional representation on the basis of
the last apportionment. Still there is no hope
of the admission of any, for at least four
years. AS a rule they give Republican ma
jorities.
1t seems that Secretary Lamar at first OBJ
jected to the appointment of Faulkner to the
head of the record division of the pension
office because he could not spell, but Senator
Voorhees, quickly disposed of that objection
by reminding the Secretary that if he was
going to draw the line on spelling he would
debar most Of the Democratic party from Of
hce That argument was unanswerable, and
Faulkner was appointed.
The refusal of Sir Richard Sutton of the
Genesta to take advantage of the Puritan's
foul, which he might have done with perfect
propriety under the rules, was a piece of
magnanimity for which the Englishman is
entitled to high praise If the cup is des-
tined to go out of our possession it will be
some consolation to know that it will go into
hands which refused it until it was fair
ly and squarely Won
Senator Sherman appears not to have been
seriously dismayed by the criticism of the
Mugwump and Democratic press upon his
opening speech in Ohio. He still persists in
calling attention to the fact that the colored
vote of the South is habitually suppressed,
and that in this way the Southern white has
acquired political power that does not belong
to him. Mr.. Sherman is of the opinion that
agitation should not cease until this state Of
affairs is corrected.
The Warner plan of getting rid of the SIS
cent dollar is a compromise which is expect
ed to catch the votes of the bonanza men. 1t
provides that the Treasury shall buy all the
silver bullion offered it at market rates and
issue silver certificates founded upon it. Its
chief merit, indeed its only one, is that it
stops the coinage of the Bland dollar. If the
choice comes between its adoption and the
retention of the present law it had better be
adopted, but it is by no means the ideal
measure.
The kidnapping of Brainerd, the st. AL
bans bank defaulter, will probably become
the subject of diplomatic correspondence be-
tween this country and Great Britain The
United States apparently has no case what
ever, and if England demands Brainerd's sur
render our government will have to yield
One report says that England has decided to
ignore the matter, but that is not John Bulls
usual way of doing things, and we may be
pretty sure that it will not be his way in this
case.
A recent burst of confidence on the part of
Chicago Socialist is worth noting. On last
Sunday at an open air meeting one of them
frankly termed himself and his associates
''the cutthroats of society,"" and then proceed
ed to intimate that they were not the oppo-
nents ofcapital on the contrary they were so
fond of capital that they proposed to murder
its present holders for the sake of possessing
it themselves 1t was a very remarkable
speech for Socialist, for the very reason
that it contained considerable amount of
truth.
DR.. Watson, Secretary of the New Hamp-
shire board of health, who has been in Mon
treal investigating the small pox epidemic,
tells Boston Globe reporter that the situa-