The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10
Current Notes.

The Baltimore Gazette now that election
is over, announces to its fellow Democrats
that there is pressing need of ''reform within
the party"
"You would say it was absurd" said Mr..
Moody in his sermon last Sunday, ''for DR..
Talmage 10 ride around on horse, blowing a
rams horn" Absurd-yes-but not suprs-
ing.-Chicago Tribune.
The result of the November election in four
OF the great northern commonwealths, makes
another stage in the progress of the inevitable
extinction OF that efiete political superstition
which goes by the name Of the Democratic
party.-Chicago Times.
In view of what the President has written
on the subject, it would be an insult to ac-
cuse him of third-term aspirations. The OBJ
ject of the opposition is to keep up the absurd
talk in order that they may be able to attri-
butte everything the President may do in the
discharge of his duties to personal motives
Cincinnati Gazette.
Senator Gordon thinks the currency ques-
tion defeated the Democracy, and is satisfied
the party will make serious mistake if it
takes that issue into the National canvass.
MIR. Gordon has evidently seen light since
ne called Carl SchurZ's hard-money arguments
"oracular bombast," and declared that the
only hope for the country was to be found in
the adoption of the 3.65 bond scheme.
Republican newspapers which do not like
some of the candidates elected by their party
alliance in New York, nevertheless find great
comfort in the defeat of Tammany. The Prov
idence Journal puts it cleverly: ''We feel like
the UOOd old Cuokor xvbap ha ael-a1 n
subscribe to new Methodist church, to be
erected on the site of the old one. He could
not consclentiously give money for the ad-
vancement of faith In which he did not be-
eve. But after short struggle between his
religious consistency and his natural generos-
ity, he decided to give 800 towards the cost
of tearing down the old church."
Charles Nordhoff, in letter from Cincin-
natl, under date of October 25, to the New
York Herald, says:-''What strikes me here
most forcibly is the absolute necessity of COM
ing to some conclusion soon about the cur
rency. Everything waits for that. and what
is the least endurable is this waiting. Even
the inflationists with whom have talked are
ready to have something done; they prefer
imitation, but they will hail specie payments,
1t they cannot carry their own measure. The
present condition is one of stagnation; dry
rot affects everything; and this is SO exasper-
ating in country which has all the materials
for lively prosperity that my own belief is
that if the hard money men do not hasten
specie payments it is among the possibilities
that the whole West may be swept by inia-
ton, not because the people are rascas, as
my Democratic friend thought, but because
there is a general and growing demand for
some measure or change which shall move
the wheels of business and enterprise. Against
uch demand it is useless to argue. The
nan is sick and he wants a doctor to cure
him. He will take skillful doctor if one
presents himself, but he will accept quack
rather than have none. This is foolish, but
it is natural. Nothing has impressed me
more strongly here than that the friends of
specie payments have great opportunity, if
they can use it, but that the opportunity will
not last very long.