The Portland daily press., 1875-09-22
Current Notes.

The Louisville Courier-Jounal announ-
ces its determination to sit upon the fence
on the currency question until after the Ohio
election, and then alight ON one side or the
other, according as Allen is defeated or elect
ed. 1t says: eff Ohio goes for Allen by a
large majority, Allen will be the Democratic
nominee, or at least his counterpart in opin-
ions. If he is beaten the complexion of the
campaign will be changed, and Tilden will
rule the roost upon conservative, non-com-
initial platform. The issue, precipitated in
Ohio, will not wait for next year. 1t is un-
dergoing its ordeal noav."
Governor Seymour, in a speech to the Ar
my of the Cumberland, made very happy
statement of bis own military qualities when
he said, General Grant will admit that in a
little contest had with him he ran great
deal faster and further than did,
The infationists are already calculating on
what they will do for soft money in the next
Congress. The Richmond Whig thus spurs
them up to their duty :"The Western men and
the Southern men must be made unit on
the currency question in the next Congress if
possible. And if the Ohio canvass shall close
in blaze of glory, as we believe it will, they
will all see that as representatives of the
people they are called upon to turn their
backs upon the money kings, and to stand
together in defense and offense for the cur
rency cause, in which the South and the
west are unitedly eplStod.'
The Ne,o York Herald is inclined to doubt
whether the Maine election signifies the
downfall of the Republican party, and asks:
.If the Democratic tidal wave were still
cuoar,inO N and IF 10
same influences which carried New York and
Ohio into the Democracy by large majority,
should not Maine have gone Democratic?
Does not the fact that the State has been
saved for the party, even by reduced ma
jority. show that perhaps because OF the in
fation follies of OHIO and Pennsylvania, the
tidal wave is beginning to go the other way"
Moralizing on the results of the Maine
election, the st. Paul Pioneer Press (Ind.),
says: cit is not at all mpossible-indeed it is
quite probable-.that the reaction which set
in two pears ago in Ohio has already culmi.
mated, and that the desire for change being
satisfied, and the expectation of millennium
disappointed, the tide is now setting back in
favor of the opposite party. The same is
true of Wisconsin and some other States"
Here's your Democratic candidate for
President, just come to hand, safe, sound and
flexible. That spineless child born at East
Haven is the exact article required Itslungs
are all right, and it takes to the bottle like an
eighteenth warder. Slight this golden cp-
portunity for the right person in the right
place, our Democratic friends, and you never
need expect any more fayors from nature
Chicago Inter- Ocean.
A letter by Baron De Kalb, written just be-
fore his defeat by CORVALLIS, records the fact
that he had just paid at hostelry for supper
and nights lodging for himself and three
friends the sum of $3.50. The landady told
him she had made no charge for the room,
but thought $400 would be an appropriate
figure for it. This was in the good old Con-
tlnental days, when the people reveled in pa
per money and "grasping bullionlsts" were
unknown.
The Richmond Whig (Dem) has discovered
new argument for imitation. It is very
good one-for the latitude of Virginia. 1t is,
briefly, that if the tax upon tobacco should be
abolished the National Government could
make up any deficiency in revenue by an is
sue of legal tenders. This method of making
up deficiencies in revenue by issuing prom
ises to pay Is not unfamiliar to delinquent
debtors, but as theory for regulating Ma
tional finances it is certainly unique.