The Portland daily press., 1869-09-20
POYjffcnl Meter.

The Buckeye Blacksmith Mr.. Baer, who
did good service in this State last fall, is
stumping Pennsylvania for John w. Geary.
Hon. J. B. Grinuel is to Join ohm Gillaspy,
the Democratic candidate for Governor of
Iowa, In debate during the remainder of the
canvass, it the latter consents
COMMISSIONER Delano and Hon. John Allis-
on, Register of the Treasury, will take the
stump in Pennsylvania during the closing
weeks of the campaign.
A Democratic stump speaker in the recent
California canvass immortalized himself by as
sorting that the ''Republican party is pledged
to give negro suffrage to the African"
THE friends of Mr.. Crcswell and Judge
Bond are said to have settled their differences.
This will assure united Republican party in
Maryland.
Two representatives elect to our State Leg
islature bear the name Of j. @. Adams. Both
are Democrats. One is from Biddeford and
the other from Mayfeld
Ihere Is rumor, probably false, that the
Know Nothing party is being revived in Mas
sachusetts and that the Boston lodges already
contain several hundred members.
RUMoR is quite current in circles claiming
TO be posted, that Dom j. Cameron, son Of
Senator Cameron, will succeed to the War
Department portfolio.
j. Kinds, Republican, is going to contest the
seat of Sherrod, Democratic Congressman in
the Sixth Alabama District, on the ground
that 1000 negroes were prevented by violence
from voting.
THE Maine Democratic papers congratulate
themselves that the late election fight was q
hopeless one, and that they "came out solely
on principle" We hardly know what sort of
principle that was-unless if was the principle
OF the thimble-rigger, "the more you put down
the less you take up"
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has written lettt
to the New York Sun, in which he says that
he is "dyiDg" to be General Grants successor,
and, moreover, that he is going to the White
House in spite Of church or party, friend or
kindred, society or club. Five things, he says,
make President: Locality, Availability, Or
ganizatioD, Money and Brains, and all of these
he can command. He will soon take tho stump
in his own behalf and speak every night until
1879.
THR extent to which the idea of reputation
has entered into the Democratic faith is illus
trated by the following extract from the Sails
bury IN. CO. Enquirer:
Reputation means liberty to tho masses.
liquidation means freedom from the enor-
nous taxes imposed by most infamous and
accursed radical legislation.
Reputation means the best remedy against
tyranny and oppression.
Reconciliation, ,,ooo,
swIndhng of the people.
Reputation means protection against a
moneyed ariStocracy, against govern ment
frauds and usurpations.
The people all know the so-calsd national
war debt is a swindle. They know that it is a
child of usurpation- begotten ontside of the
Constitution, to carry on an unholy and I'M
godly war against the unoffending and much
wronged people of sovereign States.
Gen. Butterfield, of New York, is striving to
make Gen. Rufus Ingalls,, late Quartermaster
to the Army of the Potomac, Secretary of
War, and to credit his appointment to Oregon,
where Gen. Ingals formerly lived. This is
urged on the ground that the Pacific coast ha .
no Cabinet officers, and it is knSno" at the
President intends to appoint .,st-so,.
der. Gen. G. NJ. DodgsE54so was Gen. Raw
llQs eeihUc6 f0r his Successor is confined to his
room in bis home in Council Bluffs, suffering
under one of the wounds which he received in
the late war; A piece Of shell, which has
never been extracted from his side, at times
gives him most excruciating pain, and contin-
ually threatens his life. As Chief Engineer Of
the Union Pacific railroad he receives higher
pay than he would as Secretary Of War. He
gave up his seat in Congress because his
health has suffered by residence in Washing
ton.