The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-09-02
Political NOteF.

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OLD Rosy never struck the rebels harder
blow than he did their friends in his late letter
in favor of freedom and the public faith.
Ex-PREsIDENT JOHNSON is at Red Sulphur
Springs. Recent accounts from Tennessee in
licate that he will not 60 up Salt River this
season.
The old stock of Pendleton Portraits has
again been thrown on the market in ohio' ou'
the latest quotations are fiat with s'rons
downward tendency.
liz if is true that we should mot put our
trust in nrinces" it is also true that Demo
or,+s sbould not put their trust in Union SOL |
diers.
Tho New York Leader has an article entitled |
"Tbe World and the Democratic Party" in |
which it accuses that paper of insincerity in
its advocacy of Democratic principles.
The report that the Irish Republic, the New
York organ of the Irish Republicans, was
about to sell out to the Democracy is author
itatively denied.
it objects to Mr.. Grants absence from WASH
ington. Not bit of it. If the World had had
its way, Grant would never have been in
Washington at all.--Wortd.
No, nor in Richmond either.-C Commercial
Advertiser. .
JUDGE DENT left for Mississippi Tuesday
1t has come to light that the President has op-
posed him strenuopsly from the first, telling
Dent that the movement was simply a trick to
carry the State by the misuse of the name Re-
publican. .....
The New York Express says that fifty thous-
and workingmen of Massachusetts, have desert
ed the Republican party, and formed secret
societies preparatory to a movement for unit
ing with the Democratic party. The Massa-
chusetts papers haven't heard anything about
1t.
Letters from Cheyenne give the details of
the Democratic convention for the nomination
of a delegate to Congress. After twenty bal
lots had been taken, the names of the princi-
pal candidates were put in a hat, and after
shaking up the first one drawn was declared
to lie the choice of the convention.
"ADELBERT AMEs, commandant of the 4th
Military District, is Maine carpet-bagger, q
West Pointer of 81, and mere bucolic boy of
twenty-eight, who lords the lash over free
and sovereign commonwealth" So says the
New York World. There is one thing that the
World omits to say which is the true ground of
its hostility-Ames is trooly loil.'
THE Pittsburg Gazette, of Saturday, says the
political outlook in Pennsylvania never look
ed better than now. In Philadelphia we shall
carry Geary and Williams through an old
fashioned majority. In the anthracite coal re-
gons, where Mr.. Packer should have consider
able strength, he will fall behind the average
Democratic VOTE as he is by no means popular
| with the laboring people who go to make up
the opposition in that section. s ..
THE men who glory in the name of Cooper
head''-and there are thousands of such in the
Democratic party-who hate Union soldier
as honestly as they love rebeI-will have
good time reminding their Inundated breth-
| rem of Ohio tnat they ran after "a Federal
general and got snubbed for their pains. No
doubt they say-"Served you right. Why did
| you not do as the Pennsylvania Copperheads
| have done-take one you can trust; one who
never srid a word for the war; never gave
dollar to it, and never concealed his sympathy
with the South? Democrats like Packer are
not weddings like Rosecrans, and never 60
back on their friends" ....... -....s
On the 7th of Sept. will occur the general
election in Vermont for State officers and
members of the Legislature. 1t is not be ex-
pected that the full votes and splendid MAORI
ties of last year, when tie Green Mountain
State gave TO Governor Page the largest ma
ority ever given to Governor of Vermont,
and rolled up the tremendous majority of 49,
000-almost four to one-for Gen. Grant, can
be repeated; but the Republicans will doubt
less give good account of themselves, and
elect their candidates by satisfactory MAORI
ties. The candidates of the two parties for the
principal State offices, are:
Peter T. washburn. Homer W. Heaton.
Lieutenant Governor.
Geo. W. Hendee. Morillo Noyes.
EJohn Page. John M. Weeks
THE Maryland Democrats are dividing into
factions to an extent which alarms the old
party leaders, and may even restore the Repub-
licans to power in that State. Within the
Democratic organization, and constituting al
most one-half its strength, is party known
as Progressive Democrats, who come very near
the sscent- profession Of faith by hosecrans,
| and who are beginning to make themselves
felt in the inside workings of the party. 1t is
well understood in Maryland that one of the
most prominent and trusted Democrats in the
State is but waiting favorable opportunity to
come out in favor of the Fifteenth Constitu-
tional Amendment, and that he has by 10
means an Insignificant portion of the Democ-
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made which will be found to be of considerable
Importance by and by, and which in their re-
suits will be as far from what the Blairs ex-
pected politically last July twelve months as it
is possible to imagine. f...... F.s-.. /