New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-07
REJECTED ADDREssERs.


The recent Maine "Straight Wing Conven-
ton was addressed by various gentlemen who
have suffered political cramps and rheumstisms
and loert tic attacks within the last few years to
degree which has quite thrown them out of
the ranks of the healthy party organizations OF
that State The members generally, SO far as
we have heard of them, have been afflicted in
similar manner Indeed, the Convention was
quite generally composed of men who have come
to an vntimely end. TOey are the old stage
horses of the Wing team in Maine, who have
bteu ucontnently turned out to grass by the
people of that State Their temperance now
cannot but call up a vivid vision of a stable fall
of broken winded, spawned, foundered old nags
who cid good service in their day a2d genera
ticp. but who have passed out of use and who
are hardly worth even the expense of shoeng
for sny good that can be got out of them.
First IN the list is George Evans, gentle
man of some parts, who got very angry because
he did not get into Gen. TayIor's Cabinet in l9i9.
This statesman subsequently distinguished HIM
self By serving on the Mexican Commission
which allowed the famous Gardiner Claim,
and politically ended himself by hitting at
others, very much after the fashion of the Paddy
in Sir Jonah BarringtOns story, who cut his
ou n head off with his scythe by striking at a
fish with its handle. George was sent 10 the
Senate from Maine in l9i0 and wanted to 20
back but couldn't. Last year Pitt Fessenden
was chosen Senator over his head, and Evans
has been terribly disOrdered ever since-but
without the least real Cause for he had Loaf all
his political strength in the State, and could make
no show in opposition TO anybody. Last year
he bolttd, ana supported the whole LocO-FOcO
Nebraska ticket-so we are credby informed.
The IDEA of such q genius as this leading of now
in straight Whg" State Convention is lit
tie too ludcrOus. 1t is like a certain sO0ty
parsonage who is Represented in prints trying
TO pull on a boot over a cloyen foot in order to
pass for gentleman.
Another rejected addresser of the Convention
was the Hon. Wilder Farley, late representative
from one OF the Congressional districts in Maine.
Farley is an ardent and mpulsive Hunker-Whig,
who belongs to a commercial district which deals
largely in shipping AMI cotton freigbts, aud
which, accordingly, never could see any use in
agitating the Slavery question. Farley was run
down at the last election by Fusion candidate,
and so his head got very sore. 1t is difficult to
censure man so circumstanced for becoming
member and an addresser of Convention of
discOntents. OF course in so doing he stands
up for principle.
Mr. Bronson of Kennebec, the President Of the
= IL, 4 h.
peaIed in support of " straight" Whggery
Bronson as well as Farley was one of the tenders
of Evans in his day. Evans got him the Col
lectOrshp at Bath under Taylor But Bronson
went out when Pierce came in, and the Morrill,
or Fusion dynasty having never recognised his
merits since his retirement, he has been out in
the cold in consequence; and from the fact
that he never considered himself kindly treated
excepting when he was in office d candidate for
Office, it is no wonder he was found at this Croak-
er's Convention at Portland, in favor of a new
shuttle and deal of the political cards. When
he is out be reckOns il his first and bOunden ddty
to pitch into the ms. We presume he did it the
best be knew how, which however could MT
amount 10 much.
SdIDOlD Vi tutDeCOl IL dhOtDeE name Wlicl
appears among the yirtuous crowd Of out Of
Office patriots who assembled at this same Con-
ventiOn. SaIborn has always been trying but
never got an! where nor came to anything. His
voice in the hest Of the disconnected is therefore
feeble in it, tones He is simply a lost chicken
" O can't make himself heard far lie has been ia
times past one who held on to Evans's skirts and
wanted TO get the Cole ctor's berth a. Bangor
under Taylor, and felt unhappy because he didn't.
lie wanted to run for Congress,
but ISRAEL Washburn, the present popular and
Efficient representative from the PenobscOt Dis
trict, ate HIM out of house and home, and his two
successive denominations have distressed San
born to death. SanbOrn therefore reekOns he
might just as well bolt and be executed therefor
as to die linge ring natural DEATH Perhaps San
born is right. What s the use of belonging
to party if a man can't get into office By il!
Fusion did not take up sanborn and so Sanborn
lays down Fusion. illusion would have elevated
Sanborn, saDborn would have magnifed Fusion
in bis small way, and if it was not large way
SaLborn is not to blame.
Cochran Of WsldOborO was the spokesman Of