The Portland daily press., 1875-10-28
Current Notes.

There are signs Of reaction in favor of
Secretary Chandler on the part of the public,
and disposition is beginning to be shown to
give him at least a stair chance" 1t is Ger
tainly unfair to PREJUDICE his case; and, not
withstanding the prejudice against him, he
may turn out to be an excellent executive Of
fcer. -Nep HdUen Journal and Courier.
The Utica Herald insists that Reformer
Tilden is using the canal commission for
selfish partisan purposes, and that very much
of his supposed interest in reform is sham.
And it does look little that way.
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Journal says: "The statement put
in circulation that General Bristow and Mr.
Jewell had made active opposition to the
nomination of Chandler has no truthful
foundation, and the same is true of the re-
port that he had threatened 20 dismiss all
clerks who had failed to contribute to eec-
tion funds"
The good character of the Reform party in
Maryland is vouched for by correspondent
who has carefully studied the movement.
1t is so wherever the Republicans take hold
of reform. They strike at the root of evils
and secure genuine and lasting results. The
Maryland Republicans are doing noble work
in leading reform in that old Democratic
state where 1t has been sadly needed for
years.
Under the new Registry law in Pennsyl-
vania about fourteen hundred and fifty
fraudulent names were struck from the lists
in Philadelphia on Monday. A similar
average throughout that city would insure
fifteen thousand bogus names in the voting
precincts, and that would be about 1900
more votes than the Democrats would need
to carry the state. Last year they carried
the state by 4,679, but they would make
assurance doubly sure by providing for
$1,000 votes. The Tilden circular OF 1868
continues to bear prolific crops of Demo
cratic frauds and attempted frauds upon the
ballot.
General Woodford, who has just arrived in
Washington from his brilliant stumping tour
in Ohio, is reported as saying that initiation is
by no means dead. It's friends are as sincere
as were the Southerners of slavery and dis
union, and they will fight to the bitter end.
The recent election shows their strength
aud they will do their best to capture the
National Democratic Convention and elect
an imitation President.
Gov. Hendricks handled the currency ques-
tion with great caution in his Philadelphia
| speech. on Friday evening. He praised the
| legal tenders as the "active and faithful SER
| wants OF the people," but was careful not to
express himself in favor of putting more ser
| wants of that kind at work. The burden OF
| his remarks consisted in an attack on the
Resumption Act of 1874 He would be glad,
| he said, if greenbacks were equal in value
| with gold, but he did not believe it was with
in the power of Congress to make them so.
| Only the laws of trade and commerce could
| give them that value. What would the Gov
| ernor think of an individual who should re-
| fuse to pay his notes or to secure them be-
| cause he was waiting for the laws of trade
| and commerce to bring them up to par?
A truce to the elimination and recrimina-
ton between the Western and Northern
Democrat newspapers over the Ohio election.
| Unless they want to give up the country next
| year, let them stop this quarrel. The North
ern Democrats had the same right to shout
] their ''hard money! and "honest money
slogan as the Western men to deliver them
selves of the stupendous folly of ''infation."
Ohio began it and is most to blame.-Macon
Telegraph and Messenger.
General Bristow's reform seems more effect
i've than that of the Democrats. He has got
| $500, 600, Tweed's prosecutors have not got a
| cent, and Tilden has only secured about $12,-
| 600. Bristow, too, had to confront more
powerful influence than either O'Conor OIL
| Tilden. The Democrats do not seem TO be
cut out for reformers.
| Democratic "reform' means stealing planks
| from Republican platforms for use previou,
to eections.-Worcester Spy.
| The Democratic State Committee of Indi
ana thinks it has hit upon the sure receip
for Democratic success next year. Its plar
Is to sit on the fence on the money question
As the Indianapolis Sentinel interprets it The
proposal is to adopt the ''position assumed BY
Mr. Hendricks in his first Ohio speech,o anc
everybody knows that was the most exact
straddle ever made on the question. "Tht
position," the Sentinel adds, sis safe one
and not inconsistent with the Democratic
record. There are evident signs that the
Democracy will stand together oD this issue,
at least so closely that they will not suffer the
opportunity of the present to overthrow a
corrupt Administration to be SACRIFICED by In
ternal divisions and dissensions."
Zach Chandler has accepted, and in few
days i6 will be one of the commonest sight;
in Washington 10 see newspaper correspond
ents skuiklng behind dry goods boxes anC
climbing up the telegraph poes while tn,
Secretary Of the Interior goes by.-Chicagt
Times.