The Portland daily press., 1875-07-29
Respectfully Submitted.

The forced interpi citation which the argus
puts upon the Ohio Democratic platform
does not obtain favor with those journals of
its party which have too much self-respect to
stultify themselves FOR the purpose of excus-
ing the foolish and criminal conduct of the
Western infationists. We purpose to quote
this morning from two Democratic journals
OF the highest respectability and influence.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, a paper
which has the courage of its opinions. sees
IL the Ohio Democratic platform that Split
OF communism the existence of which the
Argus doubts and rdicules. 1t saws the
platform "aot in words, but by inference, is
an Invitation, which the adventurer, the
charlatan, and the blatherskite are never
slow to seize and appropriate, for the knave
and fool to associate themselves with the bet
ter classes of political society,"" Further on
in the same article it says:
"!ti is, in short an appeal to passions which
might better have be- n left to cool; a turning
of the head down instead of up. aud backward
instead of forward; revival'of issues on which
the Democrats have been repeatedly beaten:
an lnferjection of unlucky phrases into a cam
paign that should have abouuded in liSht and
life, expressed in fresh vigorous soul stir
ring Idiom of national and popular patriotism,
high-toned, hope giving, all-embracing; lns
stinct with the traditions of that happy time
when money meant
something that jingled as you WENT
prophetic of the future when, under restored
and chastened Democracy, the spirits of Old
HICKORY and Old Bullion, speaking from the
grave, shall declare d)llar to be dollar. re-
fusing TO lower the credit or the ensign of the
Kepu6lic, and crying from the Capitol at
washington and from the house-tops all over
the land, II any man equivocate as to the ma
tlonal debt shoot him on the spot
In the New York World in the very same
issue in which appears the article which the
argus hashed up for its editorial of yester-
day, appears the following:
Mr.. George III. Pendleton lately stood mn he
fore an audience of grown people in Ohio on
wednesday, and said that he was opposed to
rushing ruthlessly back to specie payments
but that he wanted currency redeemable at
par in every article of utility, necessity, luxu-
ry or desire, whether gold or food or clothing,
debts and taxes" If specie payments" be
not the redemption of the currency Sat par in
gold, what are Specie payments and what
In the world was Mr.. George Fl. Pendeton
mean; or didn't he mean what he meant?
OO"N ehO uebSl aOoulully duu luCOUSlSU-
ency of Mr. Pendleton's position, endorsed
by the argus, be better shown? That paper
may find matter worth reading in Tuesdays
World, an issue which it had not seen when
its editorial appeared. The World thus ex-
poses Mr.. Pendleton's fallacies which have
imposed upon the Argus:
Mr. Pendleton demands impossbilities He
takes the Ohio resolutions like Mrs. PartIngton's
broom, to mop up the ocean withal. He wants
to stay the contraction of currency by appre-
citation of industries, when industries are con-
tractIng and millions of redundant money
already lying idle in the bank vaults of pau.
pered cincinnati. How are we going to get
currency equal TO the wants of trade, when we
have currency that is already redundant and
are to be forbidden to contract it. What sort
OF hy0rld prosperity is this which Mr.. Pendle-
ton proposes to engender by crossing Mr. Bout
welfs donkey theory of growing up'' upon
Mr.. Pendleton's own mule theory Of goino
backwards?
In the same issue the World shows its I'm
of Mr.. Pendeton's position thus:
MIR. Peddleton is hard-money man. he
The only difference between him and more
practical Democrats is that he is not willing
TO have his faith tested by his works. He
realizes in his person the old Latin phrase.
radeo meItord prologue; Sequor deteriora"
his currency views resemble those good ir
fentions with which Satans summer nalace ;s
said to be paved.
The Louisville and New York Democratic
organs correctly apprehend that Mr.. Pendle-
Ton, despite his statement that he is a hard
money man, is an infasionist of the imitation
Sts. Inc Portland Democratic organ is mis-
ed by his ingenious sophistries, and endorses
nose views which confound the minted dol.
ar with the printed evidence of debt. which
lemand the payment of customs in paper
oppose contraction and call for the postpone-
nent OF resumption. 1t had been supposed |
mat The Democrats of Maine were honest in |
heir advocacy Of hard-money, that they |
favored resumption. But it SCENE to be the
purpose of their organs to prove that hard
money Democracy in Maine is the same as
Democracy in Ohio. The Argus
las been laboring for week to convince its |
'eaders that Mr.. Pendeton is hard. money
nan in the same sense that the Democrats
'i Maine are hard-money men. If this be true
hen the Maine Democracy must be hard.
money in the same sense that Mr.. Pendleton