The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-29
SEPTEMBER %, 1917.


SEPTEMBER 70, 1917.
OXFORD Co., MAINE, Sept. I6, 1917.
Mr.. EDITOR Our election has closed, and
IFS result is doubtless, ere this is received, well
known Maine sis joned to her IDOLS" bui
we toiH not "let her alone" Monday was a We
ry iuauspcious day. A violent storm commcDc-
ed in the morning, and continued all day with
out any inIermssiou. AS a natural conse-
1nence, many, very many Wings, as well as
Democrats, stayed away from the polls, and the
official count wllshuw the lightcst vote tbathas
been thrown III this state for the last ten years
There can be little doubt Of the election of Dana,
the Loco candidate. for governor, and the pres
ent incumbent. The plurality law" recent
ly passed by our Legislature. has secured the
election Of locofocos in the four vacant Con,
gressional Districts. We had strong hopes Of
elecling Freeman H. Morse, in this district,
and should have done SO without doubt, had it
not been for the conduct oi the Abolilionisls,
alias Liberty party" Most Of them are
seceders from the Wing ranks, aud upon al
most all important questions Of public policy,
entertain opinions identical with thuse of the
Wing party.
As is natural 10 suppose, many Of them PIE
fer to witness The success of the Wings, rath.
er than the loco focos.. Butheir noodle, are so
full OF tile one idea Of opposition 10 slauery, that
there is lille room for anything else. Besides
that portion Of them who, if let alone, would
think aud act for themselves, are hunbuged in
to the support Of Liberty" candidates, when
there is not the least prospect Of their success,
and thus throw their votes entirely away. The
editor Of the !" Liberty Standard" graceess
demagogue, with sanctimonous phis, acts as
dictator to the party--nominates candidates for
office, in the different counties, Or, a, any rate,
rejects those who have been nominated by his
own party, sunless they viii place themselves
in subserviency TO his will, and obey his nod
The Wings, too, have done themselves serious
injury for two or three years past, by uniting
In some instances with them in the nomination
OF candidates, endeayoring to compromise for
the purpose Of securing the defeat Of the com.
mon enemy, Loco focois,n.
This course, while il has added TO and
strengthened the ranks Of the abollllonisls, has
been most disastrous in It's influence upon the
Wings. We trus, that a large majority OF
them have now become satisfied Of this, and
that hencelorth they will work shoulder TO
shoulder, and with "a long pull, a strong pull,
and pull altogether" will leave these idle en-
beavers 10 concilia,e stiff necked and fanatical
clique of narrow,indcd bigots, who, under
pre,ence Of abolishing an evil. over which they
have no control, are in reality playing directly
into the hands of the Locoiocos, and conribu
ting to the supper, of the great Polkocrat, who
now encnmbers the White House at Washing
ton. But i, is useless 10 repine over what
is already past LIE, us learn wisdom for the
future, from the misfortunes of the past.
The friends of Gen. Taylor in Maine, are
not idle, at the proper time, which is not far
distant, the Wings Of this State will speak ou
in his behalf, in voice which will be heard
from the ST. Croix TO the Rio Grand. The
leaven is silently at work, and the result may
be easily predicted. The rote Of Maine wh be
ripen for Gen. Taylor III 1913. The man who
has the foolhardiness 10 pfesen, himself as an
opposing candidate can only be compared 10
the farmers bull. The old gentleman who re-
lated this anecdote, observed that he was, walk
ing in his pasture one day, just at the time that
a ,ran Of cars were passing at full speed.
young bullock, who had been placed there for
the first time. tina, day, placed himself upon
The track, fronting tue engiue, in an attitude OF
defence. With tremendous plunge, he leap
ed towards il, and was thrown some hundred
feet liecss upon the ground. Said The old
gentleman, Gas watched the fellow, couldn't
help admiring his courage but d--n his j"dg>
nent. More anon.
Our Correspondents condemnation OF
the policy Of the Wings acting with the
Aboli,ionists, in patty view Of the ques.
ton, is just, but his effort to place the de-
fea, of Mr.. Morse to the account Of the rain
and the boiling of the Abolition Wings out
Of their party into the Liberty Party, while
ills worthy Of commentator for its inge-
nui,y, docs not, 10 our mind, sufficiently