The Portland daily press., 1885-07-03
CURRENT COMM EMIT.
ONE PARTY WHILE THE SHOT GUN LASTS
Vicksburg Posr,

ONE PARTY WHILE THE SHOT GUN LASTS
Vicksburg Posr.
In Mississippi, where we have only one
political party, the convention may not need
to be so very particular as to how the nomin-
ton is made for the first place on the ticket
TO THE vIcToRs BELONG THE sPoILs.
Secretary Manning.
Under the present administration matters
were to be conducted on a business-like ba-
Sis, and as the Democratic party was to be
held responsible for the acts of its officials, it
was but just that its own people should hold
the positions.
AMERICAN WOMEN AND DIPLOMACY.
Calcutta Mirror.
Lord Dufferin is of opinion that the di-
plomacy of the world will soon be in the
hands of the Americans. Nearly every men,
Der of the diplomatic corps who gets to
Washington, he says, tries to bring home an
American wife. The wives, in most cases,
become ambassadresseS. Result: No diplo-
matte secrets any more and war and peace at
the will of the. wives, and all wives American.
GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE WANTED.
Boston Traveller.
1t was not so long ago that Senator Voor-
hees was consulting the map of the United
States to find out if there was such State as
Indiana, and only last week Vice President
Hendricks was abiding to New Haven as
the capital of Connecticut, and Yale College
as one of '..the great colleges of Massachu-
SETS" 1t is evident that geography is not a
strong hold with Indiana statesmen.
MR.. DANA ON GEN. LoGAN's IDEAS.
N. Y. Sun.
For a sensible, honest, straightforward
Democratic theory of removals from Office,
commend us to the Hon. John A. Logan.
He stated it before the Norfolk Club in Bos-
ton:
81 pray that instead of trumping up frivolous
charges against Republican incumbents asa JUS
LITIGATION for their removal, that they will an
nounce that they are to be turned out because
they are Republicans, and their successors APP
pointed because they are Democrats"
Logan is right, and there is much essential.
Democracy and no CANNON about Black
Jack
A NEWSPAPER SALUTATORY.
Miss Hatchett in the Henderson, N. c., Southern
Woman.
A callow birding nestles among you, its
unfledged wings eager for fight, eager to
penetrate the mysteries of the bright far off
canopy of blue and reyel amid the dreamed
of beauties of the wide, wide world. Whis-
pering faith and hope in each vocal breath,
what shall be its fate? Shall it mingle its
joyous carol with the spicy odors of its ma
tive groves? Or will you cast it out to seek
refuge in some alien woodland, there to war
BILE out its early death lay, unloyed, forgotten
and alone.
THE ''HEIR-APPARENT's" CIVIL SERVICE
IDEAS.
Washington Post.
We infer that Mr.. Hendricks would oblit-
crate the Civil Service Commission; do away
with competitive examinations and make the
appointment of clerks, experts and all the
army of subordinates dependent on the ca
price of the individuals who happened for
the moment to be chiefs of the bureaux. Mr.
Hendricks argues his point cleverly and with
that shrewd mixture of pleasantly peculiar
to his style of oratory; but that he has no
confidence in or patience with the civil ser
vice reform theories entertained by Mr..
Cleveland and cherished by the people who
elected him need hardly be said
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED TO THE N. Y.
POST.
Philadelphia Press.
The New York evening organ which did
not stop at Mugwumpery, but went clean
over to Democracy, has been trying to prove
of late that the old border slave states furn-
ished a remarkable number of soldiers to the
Union army. If this is the case, it has been
asked why Mr.. Cleveland does not honor
some of these ex-Union soldiers with office,
but grants all his favorS to ex-rebels in the
S0utherS States. The more pertinent cues
ton might be asked of the New York organ
why the Administration finds it necessary in
the Northern States even to pass by thous-
ands of Union soldiers and appoint to office
an ex-Confederate guard of Libby prison, as
has just been done in Edwardsville, ILL., A
number of the Union prisoners who were
confined in Libby reside in the same town,
but there appears to be no disposition to give
them any offices. Can the New York organ
solve the conundrum?