The Portland daily press., 1875-08-10
Current Notes

Somebody is going to be ruined in the
prophet business by the Ohio election. Both
sides are indulging in the most confident pre-
dctions of victory. Thus the Cincinnati
Commercial says: "The defeat of Allen will
be overwhelming if there should not be an
unexpected force in the appeals that are be-
ing made to those who have not saved any
thing to hate those who have something, and
therefore to vote the Democratic ticket and
get some of the more money promised,
when the perennial paper mills shall hum
and green ink shall shine over the happy
land" The Enquirer is more emphatic in
its expressions, declaring: "From the begin
ming OF this canvass we can say to our friends
at distance, there has not been the slight
est doubt of the election of Gov. Allen. 1t
was never doubted by any intelligent person.
Since 1.-THE financial question has been made
the only issue it is conceded his majority will
reach high up into the tens of thousands.
Gov. Hayes has as much chance of being
elected governor for a third term as he has
of being struck with lightning"
The prospect of having Mr.. Randall Speak
er of the next House of Representatives
does not please the Utica Observer. It calls
him an ''infationist, Protectionist, back
payster and salary grabber," and says: "He
is not only out of accord with the great body
of the Democracy on issues of vital import
ance, but he lacks the essential qualification
for leadership While that misera-
BILE scheme was in progress for robblng the
taxpayers of $4,000, ,0O0and dividing it among
Congressman in the name of back-pay, Mr..
Randall made himself extensively prominent.
On one occasion he provoked the thieves to
lquOhtor nv fQllinO fhop1 hat ho MOI aar1
OF but one man who refused to take all the
salary that he could get, and that man was
left at home by his disgusted constituents
Many Democratic paper which has been
loud in its demaud for sound currency is
trimming its sails for the breeze which is
looked for from Ohio. Thus we find the
Albany argus saying: "The Democracy do
not propose to do this (equalize the value of
paper and gold) by such processes as to pros.
trate industry and ruin business A policy
moving t0aoard specie payments by steady
steps, without recoil-that is, toward the
equalization of the two currencies in value
is the policy Of the Democracy, as it is of the
people,"
The Baltimore Gazette Democrat) says
that the fault with many Democratic jour
nails, particularly in the South is thatlthey ig-
more the Importance of the financial issue of
the day in their devotion to the idea of abol-
ishing "Grantism." "Gve us return
to constitutional government" they say,
''and then We can discuss the money ques.
tion." For itself, it contends that ''the So
luton of the money problem involves the
settlement Of the other evils, for the reason
that there can be no return to constitutional
law so long as we tolerate an unconstiu-
tional financial system"
Senator Morton, in speech at Urbana
Ohio, on Saturday evening, denounces Pen
dletonism, without qualification, as repudia-
ton; declares that the passage of the act of
1864 settles forever the question Of the use of
greenbacks to pay the five-twenties, and takes
occasion to deny that he himselfnever favored
the use of them for that purpose unless they
had previously been made equal to gold at
par. While he at one time believed that
the effect of the panic might be mitigated by
the increase of currency, he no longer thinks
that any such result can be obtained in that
way. The period has gone by, he says, when
any increase of currency would do any good
in checking the panic, and he believes that it
must run its course until times are relieved
by economy, industry and the operation of
general causes
In contrasting the progress which Missouri
made under five years of Republican rule di-
rectly after the war, with the five years Of
stand-still since that time under Demo-
cratic rule, the st. Louis Globe-D Democrat
says: In other words, while the Republican
rule means peace, order, prosperity and
growth, five years of Democratic rule are
Just as bad as five years of war;