The Portland daily press., 1868-11-06
6ieefi0d OiiapOdrida.

The Argus says that now the Radicals have
triufnphed in the election they must take the
responsibility of administering the govern
ment The Radicals are "willin."
Among the persons arrested for illegal vot-
ing in New York was Abraham Lincoln. he
was released on bail for the double reason that
he was insane and a Democrat.
The New York World excuses the large
number OF "repeaters" who were arrested in
that city Tuesday, by saying that they were so
drunk as to be irresponsible. ..
E. o. Perrin,-who having once seen could
forget him?-has made speech since election,
in which he said that "the Democratic party
had been licked before and could take lick
ing again." Truer than anything you said in
Maine, o Perrin!
The first sentence OF Gen. Buffers speech IN
Faneuil Hall, Tuesday night, was; Let the
dead bury their dead" BenJamln meant some
thing naughty and personal, but applying his
mot 10 the Democracy of this State, what
vast cemetery Kinsfeld will be, and what an
army of ghosty grave-dggers will assemble
there!
With fair election and only legal voters
polled, Grant would have carried every State
except Marylsnd, Delaware New Jersey and
Kentucky. Fraud and violence carried all the
rest of Seymour's States
A friend remarks after reading the returns,
that California seems "a little shaky." Who
wonders?
All there is left of the Democratic party in
Maine at this present writing is the youthful,
indomtable" e. X. Smart.
| Why is the White House like dead mans
eye? Because it will never open to see-more.
| "Why is it?" cried the eloquent David Cod
| dineton four years ago-and his words are as
! applicable now as they were then-"why is it
| that every East wind drizzles upon us a Dem
ocratic defeat? Why is it that every Northern
blast whirls down upon us Republican ma
jority? Why is it that the West, to which we
| are told to look for clear skies and fair wealth
er, the West is black with popular fury against
the so-called Democracy" 1t is because the
party has been false to the country and its flag
false to its honor and its name, false to the
ideas off its own history and life.
Although we have lost several Congressman
in the different States, we have still nearly il
| not quite two thirds of the HI ouse. The loss OF
| Van Wick in the 18th New York district is a
national calamity, since he is death" on frauds
and is the great investigator of the House,. Tt
is said that he will contest the seat.
Some of the Democratic papers are endeav.
orng to throw the whole responsibility of de-
feat August Belmont, Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee.
The Boston Post gives sample rooster and
says that it has eight of the same kind thai
have never crowed but once and are as good az
new, for sale.
But the Conservative men of Washington
are the jolliest. A dispatch to o Boston paper
says: "The Conservative men of Washington
yield gracefully to their overwhelming defeat
confident in the belief that had Grant not beer
nominated by the Radicals he would have
been chosen by the Democrats, and that his
antecedents have all been Conservative
Many predict that he will be impeached by the
Radicals in less than twelve months from the
date of his inauguration" Where is MARI
Tapley now? But there is a difference of opin
ion among the exultant individuals after all
as appears from the following dispatch:
/ The Democrats are completely disguised al
the completeness of our victory, and are trying
to console themselves with the idea that Grant
will follow in the steps of Tyler and johnson
At the rooms where they received returns
Wednesday night, speeches were made by
nine persons, five of whom expressed the belief
that he would turn out to be good Democrat.
One thought he would prove Cromwell and
another said he would probably be Caesar
| Colonel Cavanagh, delegate in Congress from
Montana believed there would never be an
| other election in the country. re