The Portland daily press., 1875-08-30
Current Notes

Pitsfield correspondent writes that the
factions of the Republican party in that
town have bulied the hatchet and united for
victory.
Piscataqus county promises 10 10 her best
this year The Republican candidate for
senator, S. o. Brown. Esq, of Dover, is one
of the most capable and euterprising men of
the state, being the proprietor and manager
of the extensive woolen mills at that
place.
The Nation suggests, as additions to the
platform of the new (Banks and Lanar) par
ty, the following :-'True happiness is only
to be found in the practice of virtue; the
longest way round is the shortest way home;
many little makes mucke; it's an i'll wind
that blows nobody good; the pro )f of the pud-
ding is in the eating; and money makes the
mare CO."
There has not been day since the 17th
of June that the result of The high debate in
Ohio has not been against the financiers of
falsehood and the artificers of bankruptcy,
who are responsible for the departure from
Democratic principles in this State, with
which it is sought to identify and with which,
indeed, for time, Is identified, The Demo-
cratic party. Tne rag baby crowd In Ohio Is
beaten.-Cincinna6 Commercial. (Iad,)
Ifa man is either so ignorant or so reckless
as to say that permanently deprecated eur.
rency is desirable, he is beyond hope OF con-
version. From our standpoint we should say
that the harm of never returning to specie
payments-that is, Of never bringing our pa
per currency to par with gold-,1ould be the
perpetual robbery Of honest labor, the demor-
alization OF business, the debauchmeut of the
public conscience, national bankruptcy ie-
pudation and disgrace. Indianapolis Jour.
nal.( Rep.)
Ex-Secretary j. D. Cox is also on the side
of Hayes and hard-money in Ohio. In let
ter regretting his inability TO take part in the
campaign, he says: II sincerely regret this,
for The issues have taken such shape in
Ohio that 1t would be real pleasure and
work in which should enter with zeal and
earnestDess to sustain the Republican plat.
form (on the stump. As TO Gov. Hayes, for
personal as well as public reasons, should
be most glad to give him any aid in my pow
er"
The scholar, as such, has no more place in
politics than the tramp has; and, If he ven
lures in, in any clais capacity, he will newt
ably meet with mortifying failure. The fact
that he can read two languages gives him no
advantage and entities him to no preference
Nevertheless it Is good plan to know how to
READ. Other things being equal, candidate
who knows one language from another is 10
be preferred to an idiot; as one who will
neither steal himself, nor let any one steal
under him, is preferable to thief-Bostoa
Advertiser.
There is a new turn In the Ohio campaign.
Judge Taf's speech at Cleveland on Monday
night was occupied solely with the presenta.
tion of his views on the school question.
This increased the popular interest In the
subject, and many of the Republican news
papers followed in the discussion This speech
and the comments upon it, together with the
| publication of letter in the Tribune on tie
| same subject, the Cincinnati Enquirer de-
| nounces in double lead as a flank movement
by the Republicans, who foresee defeat on the
money issue, and seek to save themselves by
appeals to religious prejudices. This and
other rlg-money journals announce their firm
~pupose of holding the campaign to the money
issue-whch is probably good deal like the
Irishman in battle who couldn't leave his
prisoner because his prisoner wouldn't let
him 60.