Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-26

AmG ScRtcmDoE GaeCthOuo.
Two State Elections will be held in Sep
tember-in Vermont on the 1st; in Maine
on the 14th. Vermont elects q Governor,
some State officers and three Congressmen.
Maine elects Governor, some State Off
GERS and five members of Congress.
Vermont is hopelessly Republican. The
Republican majority therein last year was
201s4. and it is not likely to vary much from
that, on the 1st. The Democrats do not
seem to be making much of q fight.
Maine, however, is looked to as fore
shadowing the result of Presidential
election, OF. the result OF elections gener-
ally throughout the country, with the ac-
curacy that a true barometer foretells the
weather. Speaking with reference to the
September election in that State, the Gin
cinrdti Times (Republican) says: @Ts- 80
ssAlthough the election of the Republic
can ticket is conceded by both parties, yet
the real point of the result soil be as to the ma
jority, the Democratic struggle being TO reduce
the Union majority of last year as much as pos
sibse. Should they do so to any extent it aoiu
hare q great effect, for it toiU shoto chat the
result of the great contest for President, in
November, will be involved in great doubt,
with the chances in fdvor of Seymour and
Blair" -ssrsyT Turs~
The New York Herald "a GRANT paper),
in its issue of the 23d,, says:
1.-THE news from Maine,' In the Presi-
Dental year, has been watched and waited
for with the deepest interest by all parties.
Three weeks intervene to that election, and
already the canvass in the State approaches
the white heat of the Presidential contest.
We shall undoubtedly, Therefore, have In
the result of this coming Maine election
some definite Indication of the general drift
of the popular tide on the Presidential con-
fiict.s Nor shall we be surprised TO find that
indication In favor of Seymour, for we are
still in the midst of a revolutionary epoch.p
In the Herald of the same dates we find
the following dispatch, dated Portland,
Maine, August 22d, which shows that the
Democrats are fully alive totheir duty and
to the Importance of the contest: .sssle s.i -, 2
"Never did a campaign in Maine open
more spiritedly on the part of the Democ-
racy. The ball was opened here tonight by
an immense gathering; s;, Inc city Is taken a0s
sons from rural towns who have been
pouring in all day by excursion trains from
fifty miles around to hear Pendleton's last
speech. He is now addressing four thou
sand enthusiastic Democrats crammed
close as sardines in the City Hall, while
and Tarbox, Of Lawrence, are addressing
the anxious thousands outside, who are
chatting because they cannot get into the
hall. The people are thoroughly aroused
and alarmed at the suicidal policy
of the radicals and = are desert
ing their ploughs, ship yards, lumber RATS
and fishing smacks and gathering at the
centres of the canvass to hear the discus
sion of the issues. All local issues pale be-
fore national ones, and cries of = Down
with the taxes!n - TAX the bondholersl"
lone, currencyl" Immediate admission
of Southern States!"s s.Abolish the ma
tionai bank swindlei" etc., come up from
the pine forests, valleys and seaside. Hun
dreds wso never before voted the Demo-
cratic ticket declare that the crisis has
come, and that the radicals must be driven
from power or the comntry sink under the
effects of Congressional spoliation. The
contest will be close both parties are con-
fident, but the Democratic masses are en-
thusiastic and sanguine of a small major
ity.W Pendleton's name draws thousands
of Democrats to listen to his exposition Of
financial questions, and he has brought
hundreds to the penitential bench con-
vineed of the necessity for change. He
enters the contest at Hartford, Conn.,, on
Tuesday next, and will be followed here by
General Ewing and other soldier orators.
The Republicans are well organized, but
their meetings are slimly attended and the
enthusiasm is abaring. ~ rff.e