The Portland daily press., 1875-11-25
Current Notes.

Senator Robertson OF South Carolina saws
President Grant told bim he cordially sympa-
thizes with Gov. CbamberIain's efforts for re-
form, and considers him the ''best Governor
in the South"
With Mr.. Sam Randall or any Democratic
statesman of his type in the chair, this win.
ter, it is pretty safe prediction that there
won't be any great amount of investigating to
find out done. Randall is very tender
hearted gentleman. Besides, he knows how
it is himself.-Sprinafeld Republican.
The Milwaukee Herald (German) in COM
menting on Kelley's speech, says substantial
ly that when human governments are as es-
sentially unalterable, enduring, and indie
structible as gold, then, and then only, can
governments promise to pay be as good as
gold ia hand to carry through the ages.
Though gold in itself possesses extraordinary
capacity for expansion, yet it does not deteri-
crate in value. Nor has that stone been
found to convert an ounce OF granite into an
ounce of gold, if the one has that can con-
vert an ounce of rags into ten pounds of gold.
The New York World has sent CORES
pondent west to study what he calls "the
gnashing elements" in the Democratic party.
He says: According to my lights land
have taken great pains to converse with
men the most eminent and best informed)
should popular vote be had in the South
and West tomorrow on the question of a
reckless initiation of the currency, the YER
diet would be slightly in favor of such an in-
faticn." He also reports Gov. Hayes of Ohio
as recently saying in conversation: II owe
my election to hard-money Democrats, who
came over for hard-money reasons to the sup
port Of our ticket"
The soft-money Democrats base their hope
of controlling the next Democratic national
convention on the rule which requires two
thirds vote to secure nomination. If they
can't get the desired number of votes for an
infationist, they feel sure of preventing the
hard-money faction from doing it, and hope,
thereby to force compromise upon some
one of the fence .Sitters. The Louisville
Courier. Journal sees this evidently, for it
calls the two-thirds rule the 'evil genius of
adversely, the spirit of rule or ruin, first to
distract and then to Destroy" and demands
its abandonment because SIT has had mis-
cheif enough" 1t adds: ''Shall we never
learn anything? Shall we always go on null
tiplying errors and pursuing humbugs in an
endless circuit of laundering disaster2 Are
we hopelessly debauched and incapable of all
wholesome selfinspection
The woman question is no American ques-
ton, no national question; it is question
for the whole world, and the best men of
every country and of every age have held one
view upon it, and the worst men have nat
urally held the other view. 1t is not ques.
tion of mere taxation; it is question of
thorough humanity; a question not of mere
geographical limitation, not of America, not
of England, not Of France, not of Italy,
not of Spain; but were it question in any
of these countries, woman would stand up
TO show you that woman can do woman's
work of making man truer and purer-and
there is no age of the world that you cannot
find some woman who has shone out in the
darkness of night to show you that, though
other stars were obscured, she could still
shine; and whenever woman suffrage is de-
bated, my voice is at their service, for the
grander woman is made, the purer man will
be.-ChdrleS Brddlaugh.