The Portland daily press., 1869-09-03
Political Meter.

THE New York Democratic State Committee
will assemble at Syracuse, Sept I'D.
GALUsHA A. GROW declines to be candi-
date for any Office.
F. E. WEBB, Esq, of Winthrop declines the
Republican nomination for county attorney
and accepts that of Mr.. Hchborn's supporters
for Senator.
A :Iocosr Western editor suggests that as
| Rosecr.ns has undertaken to build railroad
to-, ,Tox;co to Acapulco, Pendleten had bet
tar follow his example and make tracks too.
TIE N Y. World avows that if the Demo-
Gratis of New York succeed in November, the
ratification by that State of the 18th amend
ment is to be nullified. the blacks to be perpet-
ually DISTINGUISHED, and the subject of negro
suffrage again agitated.
THE letter OF Gen. Rosecrans, declining the
Ohio gubernatorial nomination, has this para.
graph:
whatsoever obtains votes by false pretences
is far greater knave than he who obtains
goods under false pretences, and, on account
of the greater difficulty of detecting and meas
uring the evil done, deserves severer punish
ment and reprobation."
IT is now announced from Tennessee that
the new Constitution destroys the power
Of the old Legislature to act on the 18th
Amendment by provision which entities the
Legislature elect to assume the duties of office
Immediately after election. The result of q
proclamation for an extra session would, I'M
der this construction, be the assembling of the
V,aU LOFT md e
ment.
CALIFORNIA ELEcTIoN.-A. San Francisco
dispatch of yesterday gives the following mea-
gre report of the California election:
Notwithstanding the suspension of business
the vote to-day was very light. Frank McCop-
pin, Democrat, is elected Mayor by about 1000
majority A portion of the Independent mu-
nicipal ticket is elected. Returns from the in.
terror are meagre, but the indications are that
the Democrats have secured a majority in the
| next Legislature. In this city the day was
quiet as Sunday, and there was but little inter-
est manifested in the election
GEN. CANDY is preparing a report Of the
election, and the condition of Virginia politi-
cally, socially and morally in which, it is said,
he will exhibit a state of affairs that will be
very preiudicial to the reconstruction of the
State, showing that more violence, abuse and
prescription have been exhibited by the peo-
pie of the State than ever before. What effect
the report will have remains to be seen, but it
is quite evident that under existing circum-
stances the policy of the ultra radicals, espec-
tally those in power, is TO have things remain
in statu quo.
GENERAL J. L. ALcoRN made q speech at
fernando, Miss, recently. One of his audi
tors asked him if Mrs. Alcorn ever entertained
negroes in her parlor. The General replied as
follows: Mrs. Alcorn is lady of culture and
education, and belongs to one of the Oldest and
most respectable families in Mississippi Pre-
vious to the war her father was possessed of
over five hundred negroes, and she occupied q
leading position in the best society of the
State In fact may say, that in point of po-
sition in society, Mrs. iAlcOrn stood much
higher than did when we were married, With
this explanation, can assure you that, not to
speak of negroes, it is not every white man
that can gain admttance to my wifcs parlor."
WHEN the unterrified Democracy were re-
turning from Harrisburg to Philadelphia, after
they had nominated Asa Packer for Governor
amurderous assault was made by a gang Of
them upon a gentleman connected with the
Pennsylvania Railroad. They forced them
selves into car in which were ladies, knocked
him down, and would have killed him outright
had not commanding voice arisen above the
noise of the rolling wheels of the cars and the
wild yells of the ruffians: "What yer bout
there? Stay that? Don't yer know that
Packers only nominated He's not lected net.
Yer haint forgot Jerry Eaton, have yer?
Geary's Gov'ner yet, and will hang every on e
of yer! Wait till Packers lected, and then
you can pitch inr'
TIE World has sometimes poked fun at the
Mayor Oakley Hall, but for long time failed
to extort rejOinder from that worthy official
At last, goaded to desperation he comes out
with settler, in the course of which he SAYS
1.-THE poll-boOks of the last election show that
eUery single prominent man connected Nth THF
WORLD ,cGs absent from the polls
If Oakley had announced that the World
-" feliers" had voted only five or six times al
the last election, it would have been consider.
ed by the New York Democracy as proof posi-
rive that they were not alive to the demands OF
the hour, but not to vote at all-that is the un-
pardonable sin, and the World must come un-
der the condemnation of that portion of the
democratic party who believe that the declara-
ton of independence asserts that call men
should vote early and often.''
WE commend to those Republicans of Maine
who thank God, that the past at least is Sc
cure" perusal of the following paragraph
from the N. Y. Tribune:
"Will you take warning, Republicans of
every State, that the ratification of the XVIII
Amendment is We: desperately contested and in
doubt? You have too long slumbered in a
FOOLS paradise in spite of our repeated warn.
ings, assuming without reason that the ratifi-
cation was virtually conceded. 1t is not con-
ceded-it wiN not be conceded-itis to be fought
to the bitter end. The gable about leaving
the matter to State action deceives no single
SOUL You know that they oppose this Amend
ment because it strikes q h-blow at gov
eminent by caste, and for no other reason on
earth. Rally, then, Republicans in generous,
ardent devotion to Right, Loyalty, and Uni
versal Freedom