The Portland daily press., 1866-09-29
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
Saturday Morning, September 20, 1862



tions for CONGRESS a week from next Tuesday
Pennsylvania is the one upon which all eyes
are intent Iowa sends six representatives,
Indiana eleven, Ohio nineteen, and Pennsyl-
yauia twenty-four.s 1T is' Het'merely the nu-
merical superiority Of her representation,
which gives to the Pennsylvania election. its
especial interest. In the present Congress
Pennsylvania has eight Democratic members
while Ohio and Indiana have only two apiece
and Iowa has none. In Pennsylvania the |
two parties ARE more equally balanced, and 1
the result of the election win indicate more /
nicely the tendency of popular sentiment. |
For the same reason that the election in Name
was mole significant than the Vermontieiec-
ton, the vote of Pennsylvania is of far great
er'importance than the combined vote 10 pc
cast by three, other States upon the same
day., 20; ~ ~
OF the result of the vote for governor, there
is of course no doubt. party which two
wears ago carried sixteen out OF the twenty
four Congressional districts of the State could
only fail to elect its candidate for governor byi
the greatest mismanagemert, and the mis-
Gen. Geary, the Republican candidate, is al
tried and true man, identified with the cause
of the Union in many ways from the very be- !
ginning of the conflict which now opproacl csI
settlement. The Democrats have commit
ted the same blunder which they have re-
heated in Maine and New York. Months ago
t;,ey nominated man whose political record
during the war is most offensive a Copper
head of the MOST venomous species, a peace
man of the noisiest and most quarrelsome
kind. We have just buried one Of these crea-
lures under popular majority of nearly &c.
600. Thurlow Weed has just assured the
President that Hoffman cannot be elected in
New York. In less than two weeks Hester
Clymer will be the most thoroughly beaten
man in Pennsylvania. tits an insult, as Gen.
Grant said the other day, to ask soldier to
support any man who was not on the right
side in 1861, and the soldiers of Pennsylvania
did not need to be told so. Neither they nor
their friends have forgotten Mr.. Cymer's good
Offices.
The Congressional canvass was less premis-
ing at the outset, but is equally satisfactory
now. The two conventions which have been
held in Philadelphia have in different ways
worked to tine advantage OF the Republicans.
The polite and suspicious silence of the
officeseekers needed only the foil of the un-
calculating, outspoken frankness OF the South
ern loyalists, to set its meanness in the fullest
relief The subsequent maneuyers of its MEM
bers have completed the disclosure of the pal
try motives by which they were actuated.-
The powerful influence of the great assembly
of soldiers and sailors at Pittsburg has greatly
strengthened the hands of the Republicans.
More than all other men the President has
contributed to the defeat OF his own policy,
The office-seekers' convention ought not in
deed to be spoken of as an independent body I;
it was only manifestation of Mr.. johnson.
The resolutions were drafted by bis own hand !;
the address was inspired by his theories; the
INSCRIPTIONS abuse of the executive patron
age inaugurated by and with the advice and
consent OF members of that convention, origii
mated with Andrew johnson. His open at
tempt to control the country by corruping it.,
has reacted against him. All that was want
ing to complete the measure of his unpopular
ity was the unhappy exhibition which he has
made through the length and breadth of the
State 1t is reported that the tavern bills ofthe
Presidents party ppese left unpaid at Spring
field. in Illinois. The least evidence which
the Republicans of Pennsylvania should give
of their appreciation ofMr. Johnsen's invalu-
able services on the stump, would be to send
on the money at once and stop the clamor OF
that indiscIeet Springfield landlord.
But enough of causes. Let us come to the
results. Early i'm the canvass, the Third, Fifth,
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Sixteenth, Seven
teenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-frst and Twenty
fourth districts were considered debatsble by
the Presidents friends, and there was great
cause to fear, in the unsettled state OF the pub
lie mind at that time, that two of the nine,
the Fifth and Fourteenth, might be lost. The
Fifth had given in 1854 a Republican majority
of only 278 and the Fourteenth of but 527.-
The Fourteenth is now out of danger and an
exciting contest for the Republican nomina-
ton which has just terminated equivalent to
an election in favor Of Mr.. Miller, the present
member. Six of the remaining eight districts
are given up by the Administration. In the
Fifth Mr.. Caleb N. Taylor, new man, has been
nominated by the Republicans, against Mr.
Henry P. Ross, who like our Mr.. Sweat, enjoys
the prestige of having been beaten in 1884 In
the Twenty-frst, John Coyode whose four
terms in Congress are well remembered, is run
ming against Mr. Hugh w. Blair, Democratic
lawyer who has rather an awkward case on his
hands just at present The Twenty-irst dis
'triet elected Mr.. Dawson, the present member.
bya Democratic majority of 1926. PIG, ~
We have stated thus far only the present
expectations of the Johnson Democratic alli-
ance. 1t will be seen that while they claim
the Fifth district as doubtful they also concede
thai the Twenty first is doubtful and have
Abandoned the expectation of increasing their
strength in the next Congress. The Re-
.pubicans confidently expect to carry
not only these two, but. the. Tenth
and 'le Twelfth, without losing dis
uicE. The Tenth gave a Democratic majority
of475 and the Twelfth of 5l5, in 1864. In the
Tenth district, Gen. Ell. L. Cake is running
.wsni against DR.. Glonninger, whose patients
are not likely to be deprived of his valuable
services. In the Twelfth, Mr.. Jarvis Archi-
bald isgipitted against the present member.
Mn Dennison, with a good prospect of beat
ing him. The johnson men derive az much
advantage from the alliance in PENNSYLVANIA
aS. elsewhere. Three of them have been HON
oEed with complimentary nominations in
strong Republican districts. Mr.. Kelley's on
7 p0iIent philadelphia is one of these men
!, Ar4i'Welsh who was sutler during the war
and arnassed fortune. g -. ! - -
az In brief, the prospect in PennsvIvani, ii
that the Republicans win elect the cova,nas
by an increased majority and sunrise MI
johnson by sending to the Fortieth Conores.
i I 1, staunch representatives instead of
/ the fourteen he expected to see. =. =