The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-19

The Albany Evening Journal has "the first
gun for Griswold." A special election was
held on the 10th to elect supervisor in the
town of Grafton, Rensselaer, county, and the
Republican candidate received Sc majority.
The town is Democratic
Gen. Devins, Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, in 1862, is out for Grant
and Colfax. f1
The Rebel flag surmounts Seymour and
Blair in Mississippi daily.
EWade Hampton says the workingmen of
the South must vote the Democratic ticket or
starve. There's the crack of the old slave
drivers whip for you. Do you hear it, work.
ingmen of the North? t --E
The Athens, Greece, Phos Hight), a daily
paper published within stones throw of the
Acropolis, devotes long editorial to the Pres
idential campaign in the United States, and
expresses the fervent hope that Grant and
Colfax may be elected.
Horace Greeley says that 5000 Grant Clubs
have been organized already. He wants 3d.
600.
One Democratic exaggeratfon is, that it has
required an army of $4,000 men and cost $780,
100000 annually to enforce the reconstruction
acts. The truth is, that but 1886 troops have
been employed in the Southern States at a
cost of less than $145OO 900 annually.
In the Fourth Missouri District, j. j. GRAY
ely, the present member of Congress- has
been defeated for denomination in the Repub-
hcan Convention. The opposition to him was
based on the fact that he voted in the House
In favor OF the resolution taxing the Govern
ment bonds, and the vote stood 48 against him
to 10 in favor
Additional names of prominent Democrats
who bolt Seymour and support Grant are
Judge Lindsey of Iowa, Democratic candidate
for Presidential Elector; Hon. Dennis McCar-
thy of New York; Gen. David S. Wilson of
Iowa, and Major-General Gordon of Indiana.
Its reported that Collector Smythe of New |
York will soon declare for Grant.
The Chicago Times most truly saws: aft
Democrats vote as they fought, they will vote |
Tor Seymour, against the infamy of reconstruc-
ton, and against Grant" Never spoke the |
Times more truly or more honestly!
William D. Washburne of MinneanoIis ia |
nkely 10 get the Republican nomination for |
congress In the Second Minnesota District |
over 1gnatius Donnelly, who is the present |
member
Some of the seditious Southerners delare If |
Seymour is not elected they will leave the
country. That is one of the strongest argu-
ments for the election of Grant
George Wilkes tells in the Spirit of the
Times how he brought about reconciliation
between Gems. Grant and Butler.
United States Senator Abbott, of North
Carolina, says that over $1O,OOO,OOO of North
ern money has been invested in that State
since the war. Carpet-baggers are not all
beggars. then, it seems.
A correspondent of the New York Times.
who is watching the political campaign in In
dlana writes as follows of the Republican pros
poets in that State:
very many influential gentlemen who, for
with the w mon vi enree years, have been acting
, ,sh1 OF Grant and Colfax. There is in the
. state of Indiana not q Republican ,nho
S as ent President johnson in 1866 and aoho
ic nomn asr'' turned ms back IN the most ephat-
Tb mu'amer on he Democratic party. General
Hon. nUna 4, N; Stillwell, Hon. David Kilgore.
diana nnred hllgore, Garland D. Rose of In.
General S,Ool. K. FL. Hudson, of Terre Haute,
lis, Esq, C COZ q Hon JJhn Purdue, W. R. Ell
ieaolng men, who, two YEAS ,,o Us ~ otnet
utmost energv fo are now battling with the
at Chicago: If the Repubiicaaa nominated
aid carried Indiana two years wlthout their
majority, how can the Democraaigso DIV $4,000
me conservative and Radical RepubNlocwsn that
thoroughly united and fighting the cona, are
zoe with the utmost enthusiasm, expect n anon
State?" Uoe"' III this
b." Our Democratic friends 90 in strong for
economy. They think all the millions that
have been spent in prosecuting the war have
been wasted. Imagine pickpocket contem
plating policeman with the mournful remark
An! this is what aoe're taxed for, just to keep
this fellow in idleness."