, 1873-09-11
NOTES AND OPINION,

Election-returns from Ohio and Pennsylvania
will not onthuse the Democracy any. In Ohio
Gov. NoyeB' election is already promised by
80, 900, and in Pennsylvania the Harrisburg Pa
t'iot comedies to the Republicans oil they want.
Thus carly the democratic revival" provos to
havo boen paid for only to koop tho Crodit Mo-
bi1ler organization from bursting asunler.
-JaokBon County, in Southern Illinois, is
John A. Logan's own. 1t gavo Fremont lin 1860
Il votes out OF !, 400, and last year gave Grant
$50 majority. OF tho presont situation, tho Mur-
physboro Ar9us Bays:
The farmers Of jackson County hAvo already unfur1-
ed their banners to tho breeze and will bo tho best
gantzed county in tho State, by who will prove by
longer be born in submlssion. Thoy will no longer
submit to the tyranny Of railroad monopoies salary
grabs and political inayerY, whose presence in the
famonB acts hitherto.
-OgleRby was invited to attend tho late Har-
vast-Homo Picnic at Clinton, but ho declined
the invitation. saying, it IL said, that "Iho Ro-
publican party s good enough for him." We
fear a. Gov Dick is still Wooded to his IDOLS
Decatur (lA.) Magnet.
Dick can now AFFORD to tako no hood to invi-
tationa from farmers, for ho has beon elected
Senator, to sorvo si1 years, and he doesn't lose
single trick by such courHo. MonopolicB of
oil kinds will applaud him. and mako up for all
lossos he may suatain.- SuAiuan (lu) Progress.
Tho victory Of tho opponents OF tho high
handed oppression Of tho Coutral Pacific KaiI-
road in California, at the recent election for
members OF tho Legislature in that State, Is do
cfsive and overwhelming. Even In Sun Francis
90, whore it was thought this railroad powor was
somnipotent, It had been slgnally defeatod. :.
Now lot other railroad companies disposed to
press tho people to the wall, take warming
R0ck Island (IN1 Union,
-rhe Central Pacific Railroad corporation haa
been we'll described al - the strongest tho most
compact, tho boat organized, aud tho most ably
directed combination Of capitalists now exiating
on the continent Compared with this small di-
rectorY Of milliona!rcs owning tho Central Pa
eifo Railroad, the Bank Of California, md vast
corporate interests In San Francisco aud
elsewhere throughout tho State, and viold-
great power over tic polls, the Pennsylvania
Gcatral ring Is an infant in politics.
Tho Significance of tho California election result
Is very plain. II conclusiyoy shows how uniyer-
sal IL tho relaxation OF pafty tios aud low ready
the. people arc to deal monopoly and corruption
ica Byatom it Ia healthy ono, for 1t is wol that
all Interested should understand that the num-
bor Of votora who will not tamoly submit to to
prostitution OF party machinery to rotten ends
Ia already unc0mfortabiy largo, aud Ia steadily
growing.-Detroit Tribune
--TLoro eau 10 no question that the anti-mo.
nopply sontmont is constantly gaining in
strength, aud whonoYer 1t becomes iii issue in a
gonoral election, tho fight which now takos tho
form Of mhss.moeting protests TO party plat
torms, will be waged moro dociaively by our na,
tioual 1aw-maaora., 4 Congress elecied by Tic
people for te specific tuor1: cannot Bhirl tho duty
thuH impoaod; tho members will be forced ia
take tho railroads In hand and exercise tho power
giyon them Ivy tho Constitution to regulate CON-
morce betweon tho States. In this way olly liz q
yindication Of popular rights possiblo.--Erit
{Pa.) Dispatch.
-0allfornia Republican journals called tue
Autl- Monopoly ticket tho "bo!ly yarden." Iowa
tioEet The @Potato-nug W ricSot." The "boli5
Yardena" OF California, with two opposition
tickets In the field, fought and won against pow
orfui combinations Of capital. VIII tho Iowa
Potat -nugs,' with one opposition tickot allow
themselves to DO oyerpowered 2-F0r& Dodyt
(Io,oa) Times.
lilo present Ralload law OF Illinois, and the
action OF tho railroad companies under 1t, has
boon 40 often pointed at a Illustration of the
etroot Of tho pooplo trying to dictate railroad
legislation. that we foel callod upon to eutel