The Portland daily press., 1875-05-10
Current Notes.

What the Republican party must have, in
order to win, is positive, definite, honest,
and patriotic policy, by which it means to
stanG, come victory or defeat. To adopt such
a policy is to omit Gen. But!er.-St. Louis
Democrat, (Rep.)
Instead of opposing Gov. Tilden the Repub-
licans have generously and Justly sustained
him. The only effective support he has had
from any organized body at all has been from
the Republican party. His own party has
been divided and split up into factions. lie
has had individual Democrats with him, but
the party representatives have been separated
into two discordant camps and the declared
opponents of the governor have all been
Democratic leaders. This fact is patent to
all who have watched the contest, and had it
not been for Republican support the COVER
nor's demonstration would have failed from
the first.-Albany Journal.
We think we have shown it to be sufficient
ly clear that the Republican party is opposed
to third-term nomination, that President
Grant has not given any reason for US to be-
lieve thai he is working for it, that in case he
is working for it he will be unsuccessful, and
that, in short, the whole agitation concerning
it is uncaled for and simply piece OF low
demogogical trickery.-MiltoGukee Sentinel,
(Adm Rep.)
The Nation very cleverly replies to Judge
Kelley's theory that all the South needs is
more paper money, by saying: But in Cali
fornia they have no currency at all. The
benighted population have steadily declined
for fifteen years TO allow the use of green
backs as currency, and have on the contrary
stuck TO gold and silver. The hopeless con-
dition to which the state is now reduced, is
shown by some statistics as to mining, agri-
culture, and immigration now going the
rounds of the newspapers. For the first
three months OF this year the earnings OF
the Central Pacific railroad were twenty per
cent. above those of the corresponding pc
riod of 1874 The Western movement of
passengers in 1874 for this period was 1899;
for 1875, 1920; and the rush OF immigra-
ton is now so great that the Central railroad
is taxed to its utmost to supply rolling stock.
The yield of wool, wine, grain and tobacco
promises to be enormous, and mining was
never more profitably carried on than at
present. California is, in fact, now the most
prosperous part of the country. What it
might have become with really good, elias
tic currency, probably only MIR. Henry G.
Carey could tell US.
1t is rumored in Washington that Senator
Pratt accepted the Office of Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue with the understanding
that the precedent set in Mr.. Delano's case
will be followed in his (Pratt'sl case, and
that he will be promoted before great while
to be Secretary of the Interior.
Harpers Weekly says that whenever, on
account of the shortcomings Of his party,
Republican has occasion to ask "Where am
to 90 ?' no one who loves liberty and Ameri-
ca will answer "To the Democratic party"
"For that is the one thing which every intel
ligent man in this country knows through
and through, and through and through it is
hostile to freedom"
The Lansing Republican, commenting on
the attempt made by the Illinois legislature
to repeal the registry law, says: Every
where this check on election frauds seems to
worry the Democracy, and they strike at it
the first thing after gaining power"