The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-06-24

1t is reported from Washington that the
radical Democrats insist upon having a total
clean out of Republican clerks, aud they want
the handling of Government bonds and gold
to pay campaign expenses with.
The Herald says; available Democratic
presidential timber, Northern maple, Western
hickory, or Southern yellow pine, is very
scarce. The war has made it So"
The Concord Monitor of Monday say S that,
at the last State election "instead of MAORI
ty of 1868, Gov. Hartman, if only the honest
vote of the State had been cast, would have
had clear majority of more than 5000. The
evidence is at hand that three Thousand fraud
ulent votes were cast for John G. Sinclair.
The returns in the Secretary's office show that
in the 102 Democratic towns in the State, they
returned seven hundred more votes than they
had ratable polls, while in the 12O Republican
towns, the number of votes returned was 2127
less than the number Of ratable polls!"
The veto of the omnibus reconstruction bill
is daily expected and will perhaps appear in
our telegraphic columns. Still another veto
will be that of the bill to regulate actions upon
the late election in the District of Columbia
Hon. Samuel Hooper of Massachusetts de-
clinss denomination for Congress.
The Galveston Republican gives the follow
ing in defence of the carpet baggers." "They
find fault with the carpet baggers," said a col
ored man the other day in our hearing. "We
like them very well. 1t was the carpet bag
gers who freed us; they carried their carpet
bags on their backs and guns on their should
ers."
The New York World of Monday says in re-
gard to the prospects of the nomination of
Hancock, Pendleton, Hendricks, Mcclellan,
or any of the other candidates, nothing new
has transpired. Hendricks has, however, by
far more strength in this district than Pendle-
ton, and is the second choice of nearly every
body here. There are those who profess to be-
heve that the Convention will finally settle
down on Henry Stanbery, but this class are
not very numerous.
The Conservative Soldiers"-Apollo, what
a paradox!-invited Gen. Selden Conner of
KendalPs Mills to preside over their delibera-
tons at Augusta yesterday, but he replied
hat he was in favor of Grant and Colfax.
The Hon. William HI. Wadsworth of NAYS
vile was in 1861 chosen to Congress from
Kentucky as Unionist, having 1870 votes
to $3.50 for Williams, estate Rights" He was
reelected in 1868 by 6,63S to 567. He went
for Mcclellan, with majority of the Union
lists of Kentcky, and has hitherto been &C
counted Conservative" He has now taken
his stand with the Republican Union party,
and advocates the election of Grant and Col
fax.
Howell Cobb speaks most encouragingly of
the prospects of the Democratic party in
Georgia, and is confident tnat the Democracy
will carry the State by large majority.
Carrot Davis has just strength enough left
to move thus: 81 predict that the electoral
votes of these negroized States will NOT he
counted in the Presidential election. The
candidate who gets majority of the white
men of the United States will be constitution
ally elected de jure and the whites will see to
1t that it is made de fdcto
The New York Tribune well says: Maintain
the enfranchisement of the blacks, and nearly
or quite every State will be ruled by men who
exuted over the fall of Richmond or the sur
render OF Appomattox. We are fighting out
the war of the rebellion in its civil phase and
Andrew johnson now holds therein the blend
ed position of Jefferson Davis and Robert f..
Lee"
The Boston Posts Washington special saws:
"A number of prominent New York nolitcians
now here say that Gov. Seymour. who is a dele
gate at large from New York, will be nominat-
ed for President of the National Convention
and it is anticipated that he will be chosen
without opposition"
Senator Van Wrinkle pronounces for Grant
and Colfax.
Daniel d. Pratt, the Republican nominee
for Congress in the Eigth District of Indiana,
is six feet six inches in height, and his weight
about four hundred pounds.