The Portland daily press., 1875-06-24
Current Notes.

The Democratic as well as the non-partisan
criticism upon the Ohio Democratic platform
still continues. The Utica Observer has
sense enough to see and courage enough to
say that the 'resoutions on finance are
short-sghted and unwise." True and it will
be more apparent next fall than now, anc
next year than next fall.
The Democratic party is divided against
itself, beyond question and without remedy,
on the vital, unavoidable question of the day.
There is, therefore, no possibility that it can
win the next Presidential election. 1t must
be broken over the money question in the
next National Convention, as certainly and
cruelty as it,was fractured at Charleston and
Baltimore in 1860 on the question of Slavery
IN the Territories. .-Ciscinnati Commercial
(Ind.)
The Republican party has not always ex-
hibited the highest wisdom, but we do not re-
member an occasion when it it has proved so
utterly idiotic as the initiation Democrats of
Ohio .-Prooidence Journal
Gov. Allen, of Ohio, has long been known
as a hard-money Democrat, and Gen. Sam.
Cary spent quarter of century in de-
nouncing the whiskey-trafic and all who
dared to make or sell liquor. And now we
behold Allen and Cary ON a rag-and whiskey
platform, which, as the Cincinnati CONNER
ctdt remarks, surpasses in the grotesque any
thing heretofore seen in Ohio.
1t isa matter for serious public concern, in
view of the fact that the Democracy have
the control of the lower House of Congress,
that the Democracy of so large and influen-
tial State as Ohio, have deliberately ranged
themselves on the side of imitation, and in
opposition to the only measures which can
bring about resumption at the time fixed by
law.-DetrOit Tribune.
This phase of the political situation in Ohio
lends additional interest and importance to
the pending election in that state. There as
elsewhere the Democratic party shows itself
to be utterly unworthy of the peoples conf
dence, and furnishes evidence that its acces-
sion to the control OF tbs national government
would be national misfortune. Syracuse
Journal.
This Democratic scheme to degrade the
legal tender and to destroy its purchasing
value is in fact proposition to confscate so
much of this property as is represented by
the further depreciation in the value of the
currency. This accomplished, if this party
attain power, it will find itself unable to
maintain government with money worth
but one-half its face value; having banished
specie, it will meet the difficulty of paying the
interest and principal of the debt in coin by
paying the principal in paper, and then, as
was done with the old Continental mouey
and the Confederate states money, repudiate
the paper.-Chicago Tribune.
The Ohio Democracy have attacked the
elementary principles of fair dealing which
have lifted such races as the English and
German above the populations of Guatemala
and Paraguay. Credit, both public and pri-
vate. sacredy maintained; confidence in the
faithful performance of contracts, with its
resulting sense OF security; respect for moral
o0llgatlons; the sacrifice required from each
individual, to suffer the consequences of his
own blunders-these are some OF the condi-
tions of national prosperity, and they have
their roots in religion and morality. 1t is be-
cause these virtues have been outraged, be-
cause confidence has been disturbed credit
shaken, reputation threatened, and the
spirit of the scoundrel nakedly revealed, that
the business of the country now languishes,
and the laborer lacks employment. But once
let the policy of the Ohio Democracy be
adopted as the settled policy of the govern
ment, and the disease we may now hope
with confidence to recover from, by simply
acting with common honesty and common
sense, will strike into our life blood and Grip
pie us, weaken us, and make US infamous for
centuries to come.-Ne1c York Tribune.