The Portland daily press., 1867-09-19
Political Items.


Senator Morton of Indiana, as we'll as
Speaker Colfax, denies that he is the author
of the famous Sixteen reasons why Grant
should not be President"
Woman suffrage meetings are now held in
all parts of Kansas. The question is to be SUBJ
mitted to the people, and Governor Crawford,
Senators Pomroy and Ross, Congressman
Clark, Ex-Governor Robinson, and others of
note, arc said to favor the proposed extension
of the franchise
1t having been stated that Senator Grimes
OF Iowa refused to take part in the campaign
In that State, because he did not agree with
majority of his party on the subject of the
tariff, he has written letter in which he de-
clares that that question is not now before the
people. He is, however, strongly opposed to
the present high tariff. =.
President Lincoln said the severest thing
about Fifz-John Porter that he ever uttered
against any public officer. When the SEN
tence ofcourt martial was placed before him
for his approval he signed it with alacrily, and
remarked: II wish the court martial had order
ed him to be shot,"
The Argus attempts to explain the Augusta
vote by saying that two or three hundred Re-
puhlicans voters were imported to make up
for the deficiency. t would be more
plausible If it were not shown by the returns
all over the State that the Democratic vote
has been but Slightly increased over last wear
while in Augusta there is an increase 1927 to
account for. If looks suspicious.
The election in New Haven: Ct. of a BOARD
OF Education, on Monday, resulted in the
choice
Roman Catholics, and, as the Palladium saws
elected as such" - " 49,
Inc washington correspondent of the Bos-
toh journal says that Gen. Grant was not in
vited to go to Antietam. ' ''f
ooihe khave having circulated story, which
mas Travelled extensively in the papers. to the
efect that Chief Justice Chase favored the re.
moval of Bickles, an authorized sta,ament TO
the contrary has appeared The Ch;ef Ju..;oo
denies that he has written to the pr.s;5a.
sustaining the course of the civil antbor;,;oss
in North Carolina and approving of the ra-
moval of Gen. Sickles.
Edward MCPHERSON Clerk of the House Of
Representatives, has made known his opin-
ions on impeachment He thinks the Presi-
dent will not be impeached because there is so
great difference ofopirion among the Repub-
mean members. Mr.. Mcpherson is wrong.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax in recent letter to
Hon. John L. Thomas, of Maryland, takes the
advanced Republican ground on the suffrage
question, maintaining the right Of the Fed
eral Government to regulate the franchise
within the States,-at least to that daaroo
which will permit of no distinction on account
OF race, color, or previous condition
The Burlington Times has returns from al,
Out thlrty-twO towns in Vermont, from which
IL appears that the Republican majority will
oe iull twenty thousand. The last the Argus
heard from this election, through some chan
mel Recommendation open only to itself there
was Republican loss of some ten thonsapd,-
of course it will never learn that ;ts intel,;-
gence was not reliable.
We learn from the Argus, which as everv.
body knows is the organ of the Rad;c., r.,
perance men, that Gen. Neal Dow hos -,
sent for "post haste" by the "Ramrods" IT,
Argus does not yet publish the entire nro-
grsmme of the Temperance party, but promis-
es it by and by, having as it asserts "the best
sources of information touching all these mat
ters."