The Portland daily press., 1868-09-23


A leading Democratic politician of this city,
in speaking yesterday-o OF the result Of our
State election, said that if it had occurred four
weeks ago the Democracy would have carried |
the State. To close observers of the drift of |
public opinion, and the "signs of the times" |
this statement will not appear exaggerated |
For many mouths prior 10 the election the
Democracy had been engaged most indus ri
ously and Systematically in circulating their
party organs, and in the gratuitous distribute
ing 81 anonymous papers aud tracts, such as
the |Workingman's Advocate" and 'The Poor
Mans Eract." These. papers, filled with the
most false, exaggerated, and perverted stlte-
ments of the public debt and the pubhc eX-
peuGitures and With tables showing the IN
creased cost of all the neceSsarics OF life as
compared with war prices; the increase /
of taxation; the inequality OF lis distribution;
and the injustice Of paying one class OF public
creditors in paper, and another class in specie;
and with the most artful demagogue appeals
to the preiudces of the laboring men of the
community; were scattered thick as sAutumn
leaves" through the State. The Democracy
relying upon this secret mode of conducting
carrying two Congressional Districts, the
First and Fifth and reducing the Republican
majority in the State to five or six thousand
The work OF the Republican party during
the last four weeks has beento drag these mis-.
cradle lying publications and their miserable
lying authors into the light, expose them. and
hold them up TO public condemnation. The
State was filled with public speakers by the
Republicans, which compelled the Democracy
to adopt the same course and this settled the
election in favor of the Republicans. With
four weeks more of discussion, the Republican
majority in the State would have been forty
thousand. The best evidence of the effects of
the secret mode OF electioneering adopted by
the Democracy when. left unexposed is fur
nished by the vote of tine Islands in Casco bay,
which having neither Post offices, newspapers,
nor public meetings, made large Democratic
gains while all other parts of the State havr
ing these instruments of enlightenment made
large Republican gains. Let our Republican
brethren in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio
and Indiana use the same means, and work as
vigorously az have the Republicans of Maine
and they will secure the same glorious results.
4u Political N otes. GU '''iio' 'ii
RS The Nation well says Of the election in this
State. sit was model American political
contest-plenty of frank discussion ind INTEL
ligent comprehension of the questions involved
at least sufficiency of enthusiasm, and, at the
end, a peaceable submission to the result. The
effect of this election will beg great. We sup
pose it makes Pennsylvania safe for the Re-
publicans in October; and though the loss of
that State then would not ipjure Grant, the
carrying it would make the November election
a mere formality." ~ --@ sIsAii3 4ufH atii
The Atlanta Era, of the 18th, says: Gloomy
letters are being daily received ein this city
from the North Several We're received last
week by Democrats, saying that Seymour did
not stand the shadow Of a chance, and that the
election of Grant was reduced to positive
certainty" ,,-.. .,.:.,....-...--- ''
The Petersburg Index is still yexed about
Maine, aud vents its i'll humor upon the State
and its n"igabors. 1t says Of the New Eng
land States that they have always been drag
on the true progress of the nation 1t is era
ciously pleased to except Connecticut from
this general Judgment, and this it says is the
only one of the six which the Democrats ever
had the remotest chance of carrying. rr. -.
Senator Wilson made a rousing speech to
crowded meeting in Washington Monday
night He said he spent q lew weeks in Maine
and worked hard and faithfully, hut he believ-
ed the great victory there was. due as much to
Mr.. Pendleton's efforts as his own He hoped
for the good of the Republican cause that Pen
dleton may be continued on the stump. q
The following from the Newburyport Herald
a johnson organ is significant as coming from
such a source: stgE g4,.t ,Hoie 6-so 9rT3 r, III
10 Three of the seven Senators who voted
against peaehment-Fessenden Van Win
kle and Henderson, are on the stump for
Grant. Trumbuil would be, but for domes tic,
affection; and probably every one of them but
Grimes viii seek full fellowship with the Rad.
icals in the future. The Democrats felt so
strong at New York that they could do with
out them. They believed in reaction that
was to sweep the country; whatever reaction
there was before they did their best to check
by counter reaction of their own. They did
the same in 1864; ana after they have played
that card a few times more they will learn bet
ter than to depend upon it. - -1,s ..-lt
Sunset Cox says the Democratic party dur
ing the war commended its sons. TO the field
with melancholy pride Yes, Horatio Sey-
did the commencing the gentlemen who
burned oryhan asylums were the "sons''-.the
streets of New York were the ''fields' alluded
to, and the bodies of negroes hung TO lamp
posts were the trophies they looked upon with
''melancholy pride. i 1888 - Il AK br1o
"a faint-hearted Ohio Democrat writes to
the Louisville Journals: "Evep if we elect
Seymour, his hands will be tied by an exces.
sively partisan Senate 70 whom the Jour
nal puts the pregnant question:: when the
PhliIstines bound Sampson with xithes, what
happened" Very neatly turned, but the Ohio
man might retort q man is not q Sampson
simply because he has "the jaw bone of an
ass. i'll, --. ...,-..,..
The RIOTS IN GEORGIA. The outrageous
conduct of the white people of Georgia toward +,