The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-15
FOR GovERNoR.
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN,
OF BRUNswICK.


I'm search for the Jew.I.
The Copperheads have seized upon the
idea that the uses Of adversely are sweet and
that toad-like, II has jewel as a eompensa-
tory fixture. They have the next thing TO
scripture as an authority tor the eonceit, and
it excites not our special wonder to see them
searching Tor the batrachan Jewel that shall
reconcile them to the woiul adversely that
beiel them when Gen. Ulysses ). Grant was
nominated for the Presidency by the Repub-
lican party.
metropolitan journal was the first to cry
eureka! Mr.. Manton Marble OF the New
York World, a man who seems to enjoy a
monopoly of brains among Democratic edi-
tors as complete as Vanderbilt's monopoly of
stock among railroad men, thought he had
hit upon it at the very outset, and thereGpon
set up mad cachinnation in which he still
persists. His idea was that bv constant
dwelling upon the fact-the discovery OF
which was due to the concentration OF the
rays of his genius upon the biographical
sketches written by the elder Grant for the
Ledger-that the Christian name by which
the Republican candidate is commonly
known differs from his baptismal name and
from that by which he was registered at West
Point, and that, to the still further complica-
ton OF the matter, he once had nickname,
all the popular effect of his great deeds and
the splendor OF his public services would be
completely neutralized. There was certain
UpppntiVa Dlancih ifu oh +Lo
quite turned poor Marbles head. For what
can be more edifying to the profound student
OF affairs of state and the workings of the
machinery OF great government than to
observe the queer combinations that may be
made OF the Christian names, Ulysses, Hi
ram and Simpson, and the nickname, Sam?
Charades, anagrams, rebusses and such stale
trivialties are mere vanity relatively But it
must be confessed that even Marbles pretty
efforts to please become in time the reverse
OF amusing. To the surprise of every one it
has been found that such is the inherent de-
pravity OF the human heart that at the tenth
repetition even the tremendous force of the
grand combination Hiram Ulysses Simpson
Sam" is measurably exhausted, and that a
nations gratitude to its principal defender
cannot be appreeiably weakened by that for
mua of words.
But there be other geniuses in the country
than Mr.. Manton Marble, though of less emf
nence; and besides, political as well as relig-
ious truth is sometimes hidden from the wise
and prudent and revealed unto babes. 1t
was unto babe, probably, that it was reveal
ed that the weak point in the Republican
ticket is the fact that Grant is unable to
make speech. 1t escaped the recollection
OF the political sucking who first proclaimed
the truth, that Grant was not singular in his
reticence, and that Washington and other
men OF like historical Importance were as
speechess as he. Poor baby, he hadn't
found the jewel, after all. The people don't
care fig for speeches, but show them a man
that will act, honestly, bravely, wisely, and
you shall see how they will take him to their
hearts and thrust upon him honor and power.
And so the search went on. The Knights
of the Golden Circle were all out as eager as
the Round Table braves for the Holy Grael'
C9lebs for wife, Japhet for his father, or,
10 revive legend still fresh in the memory
of this generation, Douglas for his mother in
1860. As bad luck would have it Donelson,
Vicksburg, Chattanooga and Appomattox
afforded good ans wer to the allegation OF
Hiram Ulysses Simpson SAM" ana the re-
joineder of speechleesness was promptly and
successfully met by the unanswerable sur-re-
joinder OF Grants eminently wise, efficient
and economical administration of the War
Department. .
But nevertheless the jewel is found. 1t
happened i'll this way; Grant is now rusticat-
ing in the West, recruiting his health and
strength for the arduous duties which his
country will require of him for a term of at
least four years from the 4th of March, 1869.
A select association of whiskey ringers in the
Suise OF newspaper correspondents follow
him. The other day he visited Georgetown,
Ohio, where the elder Grant formerly had a
tannery, and to Georgetown went one of his
escort. These fellows apply theirj journalistic
microscopes to the mnutest incidents of
Grants tour, and fearful ly rack their journal
istic brains in the vain hope that something
in the political capital way may be made of
them. Arrived at Georgetown, the enter
prising young man bethought him that the
paternal Grant had once clearly and palpabIy
snubbed him. He at once determined to
investigate the "old man." Peradventure
here might be the Jewell He at once subiec-
ted all the old men and women in George
town tO a rioornus ayamin alton -ond fo,,,,I
the prize! The fact is the Republicans have
made a mistake in nominating the son, for
according to the traditions of Georgetown
senility the father used to hare some enemies
in that.obscure burgh. A living witness testi
fed that Jesse had bad habit OF writing for
the papers. The same deponent even went
so far as to affirm that jesse had written po-
etry! Another ancient citizen, whose phra-
seology is of itself sufficient guaranty for his
! intelligence and veracity, said "he was the
clussest old Gus / ever see." But the climax
is yet to come; the last witness deposes as fol-
lows: "Wal, there was another fellow out
here in the country: He's dead no,v, but he
! could a told ye heap about old Jess; hated
ham wdSS'n pizen, he did" Dead !-and with
all that information about sold jess" buried
with him in the tomb! Well, well, tits enough,
without the cumulative testimony of the de-
ceased and lamented "other fellow" We
must give up Grant.
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton, writing of
the Woman's Club in New York, says it is pro-
posed to admit gentlemen to the galleries to