The Portland daily press., 1875-09-17
Current Notes.

The change in the Maine figures will be re-
| new the warning to Republican leaders that
they have great battle to fight, next year.
Hartford Post.
This is certainly not as good result as we
had hoped for, but the majority is large
enough to show that Republicanism is still
dominant in Maine, and the state may safely
De counted on for one of the old-fashioned
maJoTitles, next year, when the broader ma
tIohai issue VIII be put before the people, and
tne Two parties will stand, each on its own
merits, with little regard to merely local oues-
tions.-BOSt0n journal.
Large majorites for series of years are
pretty sure to get party out of condition to
fight, and our Maine brethren needed to know
something of the possibilities of the foe, as an
admonition for the centennial
journal.
Mr.. Frank W. Bird, the leading Massachu-
sets independent" is indignant with the
Springfield Republican for calling hin ''full-
blown Democrat" after his recent letter, al
though the Republicans inference was tar
one. Mr.. Bird tones down trifie, and init
mates that if he was IN Ohio he would vote
against the rag money party.
Another argument for cremation-the Gui.
bord case. And so if that poor unburied Gui-
bord gets into his grave and is once snug and
comfortable there, they will remove the con-
secratlon from the ground. The only hone
lor MIN lies, therefore, in the faint probabi-
ty that this may not change the ground
much.-N. Y. Herald.
Hon. Galusha A. Grow has abandoned
Texas and returned to Pennsylvania. He is
in excellent health and, and is reported will
take the stumpfor Hartranft and hard money.
So far as the result in Maine throws any
light on the probable course of elections in
other states this Fall, or next year, it may be
said to show that the disgraceful and danger
GUS policy of the Democrats in Ohio and
Pennsylvania has not yet disgusted the party
elsewhere, and that the decent portion of the
party does not despair OF getting the upper
hand of the knaves and fools. In that feeling,
we are sorry to say, we believe they are
doomed to disappointment. The Maine elec
tion SHOWS IN the same way that the Republi-
cans OF the state are not yet aroused to clear
understanding of the grave responsibility
which rests upon them, and of the fearful
dangers by which the country is threatened
and which Republicans must meet.-N. Y.
Times.
Senator Sherman made his second speech
of campaign in New-Market, Ohio, on
the 11th inst. He made an earnest plea in
behalf of national good faith, and significant
ly asked: ''If the vast imitation of 1873 re-
suited in SO disastrous panic, how can
greater imitation restore cOnfdence?
Gen. Thomas Ewing writes to friend in
Washington that in his opinion Allen will be
reelected Governor of Ohio by majority of
not less than 10000, and that these figures
would have been increased to 10000 had the
school question not been brought into the
campaign. Such majorities are not unprece-
dented-before elections.
With more warmth than seems necessary,
the Harrisburg Telegraph denies that Judge
Pershing, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, supported the Govern
ment during the war. 1t asserts that while
in the Legislature he aided his party to OBJ
struct and delay the passage of the law to
enable Pennsylvania soldiers to vote in the
field, and that he voted for patch of copper
head resolutions denouncing nearly eyery
measure undertaken by the Federal Govern
ment to suppress the rebellion, and notably
censuring Abraham Lincoln for issuing the
Proclamation of Emancipation.
The Cincinnati Gazette tersely sums up the
reason why confidence is not restored TO
trade, as foows:-"The panic of 1857 was
sharp, but confidence was quickly rescored.
The panic of 1873 was sharp, but confidence
does not rally. Now, two yeaas after, its
effects largely remain. What made the diff
erence? In the first case the basis remained
undisturbed. No one proposed TO tear up