The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-14

There is every probability that the Republi-
can party will be largely reinforced during the
present political campaign. When the New
York Convention assembled it was expected
that the wisdom of lis action would be such as
to enable the Democracy to command the
votes of many Republicans. AT the conclu-
sion of that body's proceedings it became GER
tain that nothing but the "simon pure" Dem
ocratlc vote could be obtained. And now,
Judging from the expressions fpublic opinion
on the platform AMI nominations, it becomes,
quite sure that many votes that hitherto lave
never been diverted from the straight Demo-
cratic ticket will be thrown for Grant and
Colfax. The hard money New Workers are Sc
riously disaffected. They freely acknowledge
that the platform means reputation. The at
titude of the New York Journal of Commerce
we have heretofore adverted to. The New
York Herald, quick to catch, and reflect the
predominant feeling of the hour, declares that
the Democracy have dug their own grave. 1t
says:
Seymour against Grant will bring all the
Republicans into line, and the result will be
another political reaction, which will give
New York TO Grant by twenty, thirty, or forty
thousand majority.
Grant and Colfax against such a ticket will
sweep the country from the Atlantic to the
Pacific.
This is the nineteenth century, The fact is
pretty obvious but the Democracy have for
gotten it. On the issues presented by the
party, the people have expressed an opinion
again and again. They have trodden them un-
der loot, spurned them, spit upon them and
treated them with every imaginable species Of
contumely, as often as they have had chance
TO get at them. As well submit to them
Draco's Bloody Code" or the barbarous laws
OF Lycurgus for endorsement, as the white
mans government, the revolutionary opinions
and the reputation of the Democratic plat
form.
Who has heard of Republican that has
been attracted to the Democracy by the names
of Seymour and Blair? Who has heard of
Democrat whose allegiance to the Copperhead
party has been strengthened by that ticket?
The fact is that the Grant and Colfax ticket
has bound even wavering Republicans to his
organization by bonds of "perdurabe
toughness." The New York Evening Post, a
paper which is so exceedingly conservative
that we have often felt compelled to class it
with opposition sheets, is constrained to say:
For the present it viii suffice to say that in
our opinion there can be no doubt, as between
the candidates or the platforms, on what sid }
those who love liberty, and regard their coun-
try's honor, the safety of our institutions and
the perpetuity of free government, should
range themselves. Between Grant, the plain
spoken, Supplemented, unassuming soldier,
whose only desire, in every situation in life
has been to do his duty-and Seymour the
adroit. oth-tongued, ambitious politician
SO eager for place that he does not scruple to
stand upon platform directly opposed, in an
important matter, to his protested opinions.
between these two it is easy for every citizen
to choose.
On the other hand, we have his comment from
the New York journal of Commerce, Dem
ocratc paper. Speaking of the platform, it
says:
This is out-and-out reputation of solem
obligation, as we understand it, to all the
bonded debt in gold.
The Democrats are boldly committed to the
baser alternative and will reap the main adj
vantage where this heresy is fondly cherished.
There is no excnse for such proposition. 1t
Is both wicked and disgTaceful. The authors
know very well that the money was borrowed
with the express understanding that it was to
be repaid in coin, and that anything short of
this is reputation of a solemn covenant
Governor Seymour has always warmly in
sisted on the obligation to pay the bonds in
gold. The platform is thus the very opposite
of his well known views. How the two are to
be reconciled it is not for us to decide.