The Portland daily press., 1875-08-17
Current Notes

Ex Gen. Scott of South Carolina. whom
the Democratic papers have abused ia times
past, has now gone over 10 the Democracy,
and in a recent speech in Ohio advoc tted the
payment of the Southern shareholders for
their emancpated slaves.
Attorney General Pierrepont says that
Grant would not accept a denomination for
the Presidency, if rendered him.
In Democratic nominating convention
for municipal offices at Wilmington, Dele
ware, last Saturday the Catholic and Protes-
tant elements Of the party were pitted against
each other, the contest resulting in the tri
umph of the latter by large majority.
The Mississippi Democrats abandoned the
''color-line" with considerable ostentation at
their late convention, but the editor OF the
Columbus Inder (Democratc) announces that
a color-line club has been organized in that
city, of which he is proud to be a member.
The organization is secret and oath bound.
The Richmond Enquirer talks this way
about reconstruction; eff anything can be a
success which is conceived in sin and execu-
ted through hate, malice and all uncharita-
bleness, then reconstruction can be regarded
a success. Its whole history is marked by
usurpation and oppression. In the sacred
name of liberty its ministers plundered; in
the sacred name of truth they lied; in the
sacred name OF justice they sanctfied crime
and elevated wrong doers into political and
legislative prominence"
The Cincinnati Enquirer gets letter Of
loud cheer from New York. Its CORES pond
ent exclaims: "Good people of Ohio, we in
New York will sustain you heartily, and
when you hear from us, as you soon will,
you will be more determined than ever to put
down the bullionist conspiracy, and carry
Ohio by over forty thousand majority"
This same cheerful man announces the pro-
gramme of the infationists in New York,
and boasts thus Of their great leader: "rhe
Hon. Richard Schell is a host in bimself,
and is leader OF immense influence with
the masses. He was elected last fall to Con-
gress in his district by over six thousand ma
jority, though We'll known to be IN favor of
the Ohio platform. i Stand on the Ohio
PLATFORM he would growl out, 'snd amt
afraid OF nobody, either-you know me-"
So far as specie payments are to be brought
back by resolutions to resume, the Democrat
ic party will be able TO serve us as effectually
as the other; but it is easy to see that the
Democrats are throwing away their power
before they have enjoyed it, while the Re
pubicans are confidently and coolly playi"g
the game which. by the folly of their adVer.
saries, has twice brought them easy and
sweeping victories, and presdige OF invinci-
blity, which was, indeed, shaken by their
late defeat, but is fast regaining its hold on
mems minds. -Lynchburg Virginian (Dem).
That the Republican party is substantially
an absolute unit on the solid currency ques-
| tion, is pretty evident from Senator Morton's
utterances on the subject in his very elabor-
ate and carefully prepared speech. the first
which he has made in the Ohio campaign
Elizabeth Journal.
Then, again, here are the Democrats in
Ohio demanding initiation; the Democratic
Governor of Kentucky proposing to pay the
bonds in greenbacks; Democrats all over the
country proposing all sorts Of rdulous paper
money schemes. Of course they will not
succeed. Tue country is honest; and ne
who appeals to American farmers aud me-
chanics to cheat their creditors is pretty sure
of defeat. But, meantime, all this alarms
capital. If it were probable that sucn peo-
pie as Allen and Pendleton could succeed In
1876 every man who has a hundred dollars
ahead would do well to buy gold at once and
stick it behind the chimney; and capital
ist would be fool 10 engage in any enter
prise whatever. whether of commerce, manu-
featuring or building N. Y. Herald