The Portland daily press., 1867-10-21

The Argus complained the other day tlat
we had misrepresented the Democratic party
by saying that il was committed to the tinan-
cial policy of Pendleton, Smart Vallandig-
ham. III. CLAW Dean and Brick Pomeroy. We
find in the Bangor Democrat an elaborate dis
cussion of Pendleton's "plan," prefaced by the
modest statement that it is the only feasible
nlan .to rescue the laboring classes from ever
lastins slavery to the moneyed aristocracy."-.
This article we find copied in full into the An
SON Advocate, another Democratic paper, and
commended for careful perusal. We find in
the New York Day-Book the declaration that
"bondholders will yet be very glad to get even
Rreenbacks for them" The World has opposed
the suicidal course Of the party on this oues.
ton, and IS consequence Is a mark for the
sharpest fiings of such papers as the Day.
Book, the New Haven Register and the Hart.
ford Times. The Day-Book says the World
fcane into the ranks of the party as a hire
ling" and the Times agrees that sits position
is not what the friends of constitutional gov
ernment in this crisis have right to expect
in Democratic Journal" The more cautious
opposition OF the Argus to the chimerical and
fatal financial dogmas which the party is dis
posed to take up, is producing similar dissatis-
faction among the minor Democratic journals
in Maine.
THE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION was lost by
heavy falling off of the Republican vote in
Philadelphia; elsewhere, throughout the State
there was no serious loss. Two causes are as
signed for the Philadelphia disaster. One is
Andrew Johnson's miserable perversion of Ex-
ecutive patronage for political purposes. That
evil will be corrected by the passage of Mr..
Jencks' civil service bill, requiring candidates
for Office to pass competitive examination.
The second cause was the overweening conf
dence and miserable management of Republ-
can politicians. The only remedy for that evil
is the one the peopls have applied The follow
ing statement of the case is taken from the
Philadelphia correspondence of the New York
Tribune: q t4sra sslf
The majority Of Republican voters are cor
rectly of the opinion that the two great causes
of our defeat are the Ring" which fixed up
unpopular nominations, and the influence OF
Andrew johnson, exerted through the Navy
Yard and the Custom House. Beyond cues
ton the Republican ticket was, on the whole
weak one, and some of the nominations We're
lad. Men who had done nothing for years but
engineer tc get nominations, had succeeded
against the wishes of respectable citizens and
respectable citizens, and responsibility would
not vote for them. The Democrats had the
good sense to run soldiers for the offices of
Sheriff. Register, aud Commissioners of
Highways, and Gen. Lyle, Gen. Leech, and
Gen. Balier, are all popular men. That money
was freely spent by the Democrats is certain
their secret circular to County Chairmen has
already been published and is plain confess
sion that votes were bought in plenty The
Republicans claim that they prove that 1900
illegal Democratic votes were polltd in the
lower wards and upon this ground it is under
stood that the State Central Committee is pre-
pairing to contest the election of Sharswood.--
OF course If fraud is established in the case OF
| one candidate, all the Others on the ticket will
fall with him; but / do not think that
| the Republicans will get the CITY
| offices, or that Judge Williams will succeed
Mr.. Justice Woodward in the Supreme Court
it Is not asy to upset the balot-box, even if il
is stuffed. In addition to the notorious cor.
fuption OF the .Ring'-not 50 bad as yours, but
Still disgraceful and powerful combination
and the bribery of the Administration, the Re
publican party had to bear the responsibility
OF the Sunday laws and the Excise laws The
neople of Philadelphia, a larger city in area
than New York, demand that the street cars
shall run on Sunday, and are indignant that
the Legislature last winter refused to permit the
| question to be submitted to local VOTE The
Germans were equally enraged at the attempt
to deprive them Of their lager beer on Sunday
and the Republican party was held RESPONSE
BILE for what the Legislature had done. L do
not say that the Excise law was wrong bu1
that it was certainly one of the main elements
OF our defeat, and you know that in New York
the weight Of the whole liquor interest will be
thrown against you in November. Philadel.
| phia is truly city which has prosecuted her
coored citizens; yet, writing for a New York
| journal, l am too good a PhiIadelphian to all.
init that hatred of impartial suffrage was one Of
the principal reasons of the Republican over
throw. tH 5f5; sss.5lt5,1s ~.