The Portland daily press., 1869-01-15


PUBLIC OPINION IN FAVOR OF PRESERVING THE
INTEGRITY OF THE PARTY.
The movement for breaking up the Republic
can party, which was begun on Saturday last
at Augusta, makes but little progress The
,surdity of the claims put forward by the
supporters of Mr. Morrill, has been thoroughly
ventilated. The unplincpled nature Of the act
those gentlemen have contemplated, the odum
which persistence in their present course wonld
bring upon them and The State and the estab-
lishment of faithlessness and treachery as CAL
diual principles of political action by following
out the proposed line of conduct, all tehd 10
arouse the people to sense OF the aanSer
wiich threatens their dearest interests. FROM
nil narts of the State and indeed from all parts
oftbe countrv the expressions of disinterasted
and impartial opinion are to one eftect-"Ham-
lin is nominated fairly and must be elected"
Our Washington correspondent, a gentleman
the extent aud accuracy of whose information
would not suffer from compar son with hat OF
any other correspondent at the national capl-
tol aud whose relation with dublic men in that
city are Of the most satisfactory character, tells
the people 0! Maine how the matter is regard
ed among those with whom he ASSOCIATES.
We have to-day clipped from our ex
changes paragraph showing the state of pub
lie feeling in their respective localities. We
append an extract from the Boston Tran
script:
10 The Editor of the Transcript: People out
size OF he STATE OF Maine do not probably un
derstand the facts in reference to the Seoaio-
rial caucus in this State. BY the Consttu
tioa and statutes of Name, the bal lots must he
written or printed, and a blank cannot be
cooufed. In all conventions and cdllcuses here
t0fore held By oil parties in this State, this prn
e7le has been recognized and Observed IN prac'
ttee
At the recent Senatorial caucus blank was
deposited by Mr.. Perry Representative from
Aroostook. He cast this blank knowingly and
intentionally Before the balIoting he stated
that he should throw it, and since the caucus
he has stated that he did throw it. When the
committee for receiving and counting the
votes discovered this blauk, they did not know
how il would affect the result, but they unani
mously agreed that it should not be counted as
one OF the whole number of ballots. The
count discovered that there were 70 ballots for
Mr.. Hamliu, and "a votes for MIR. Morrill, and
the blank which, as has been seen, the com
mittee agreed should OF be counted. and
which, by the usages of all parties in caucuses
and conventions, in this State, could not be
counted
Before the question had been taken on a
motion to make the nomination unanimous,
the caucus adjourned without day. These are
the simple and exact facts. Mr. Hamlin was
as clearly and fairly nominated as if his ma
jority had been 20 or 30, and his election cannot
be defeated or prevented without destroying
the Republican party organization in Maine.
To eensent TO the election OF any other man
would be crime against the party. Mr..
Hainlin's friends in the Legislature will there
fore uote for him and nobody Else, until an cleo
tion shaU be made; and candid and reasonable
men who supported Mr.. Morrill, in the caucus
will not take the responsibility of nomina-
zion thus fairly made YORK.
The Albany, n. Y, Evening Journal, one of
the ablest journals OF the country and one
that must look at this matter impartally, hay
ing no conceivable interest to do otherwise,
says:
The proposition of a compromise candidate
after he has been successful, it does not seem,
can be seriously ma de. Under all the ubliga.
lions of party fealty, the Morrill, Republicans,
being i'll the minority, even though it is but
one, are in nouor bound to sustain Mr.. Ham
lin. For them to demand the withdrawal of
the latter is not only precedeuted, but es-
septialy wrong and destructive OF party unity
We have no preference. Mt Morrill, has
made an able Senator. He has been warmly
supported for reelection. But the ability of
Sena or Hhmlin, and the general eoish through
out the nation that Tepdrdtion nlight be made for
the cgregious blunder ochich four years ago set
him aside for Andreao Johnson hare given him
commanding strength. We believe the Repub-
licaus ut Maine will consult the Interests of
the party generally in the State. and grdtify
the radical masses throughout the country better,
by cedsing their anseemly contention, placing
Senator Han,tin ,chere he by right belongs, and
ssekiny the first favorable opportunity for ap-
Eropriate!y IGNORING Senator Morrill,.
The New York Tribune, a paper more ex-
tensively read and trusted in Maine than any
other that can be named, says:
With every desire to see full justice done to
Senator Morrill, OF Maine, we confess that we
cannot see the fairness of the complaint by
his friends, that Mr. HamIin was Tot regularly
dominated in the Republican caucus, One
hundred and forty-nlne votes were cast. of
which Mr.. Hamlin had seventy-tive. There
were one hundred and fifty members in the
caucus; but one blank ballot was put in the
box. aud he member who castit says IN card
that he did SO Intentionally Unless then a
blank piece OF paper, thrown by member
who did not care to exercise his right, is to
count as a vote, Mr.. Hamlin had a majority of
all tHe votes cast. We cDnnot believe that Mr..
Morrill, ,oiH lend his sanction to Increment In
defiance Of this decision. -
The following Is from paper that was
friendly to Morrill, before the nomination was
m lde-the Hartford Evening Post:
They (the Morrill, m-n) are agitating move
ment to bring forward third man as q caudi-
dAte, but Mr.. Hamu'S friends It'll claim that
he was clearly the choice of a majority # his
party, that he was fairly nominated, and that
if any member of his party refuse to vote foi
HIM he becomes. a boiler. Their position is evi-
IDENTIFY sustained By the facts in the case and
while the friends of Mr.. Morrill, can easily be
pardoned Tor feeling acgrievtd at the defeat OF
their canddate at is earnestly to be hoped that
they wW not carry their dissatisfaction to such
an unreasonable length as to defeat the election
Of the regular nominee.
The Kennebec Joui nal has another article
/ / which it deprecates disturbance and, as
we cannot help concluding, counselling SUBJ
mission to the will of the majority:
Our conf ,nce in the honor and Judgment
of the candidates and their friends has never
for moment been shaken. The tone of the
Democratic press has been so significant of the
danger of division that we felt its warning
would arouse our friends like fire bell at
night We trust for pacific settlement We
shall not discuss parliamentary law, usage or
handy personalities, or indulge in invective
over this matter, but we shall advise concilIa.
ton and traternal settlement, trusting in the
cool heads and honest hearts of the true men
On this side of the question.
The Bangor Wing at the close of long and
able article says:
The ouly hope of the Morrill, men must be
in an appeal to the Legislature, with the view
of success by the assistance of the Democratic
members we nave no Tear that any man
amorg the eminent leaders of this State will
endorse any such transaction for fhe sake of
the Senatorship. Mr. Morrill, certainly wiU not
lend himself to coalition that aoould rebound to
his lasting disgrace, and establish an evil prece-
dent. to the misfortune and injury of the great
party which has repeatedly hOn0red him aoith its
confidence. In our opinion, Mr.. Hamlln will,
in any event, go before the Legislature with
increased strength, and his election is as GER
tain as that the day of election arises. The
duty of our representatives at Augusta is so
clear that they cannot fail to sustain the Re-
publican party, so long and SO popularity gov
erning this State, in its unity and integrity
and to renew its prestige by electing Mr.. Ham
lin without dissenting voice.
From Oxford County, where the feeling has
been misrepresented in some of the papers we
have received letter from gentleman who
was present at the caucus. He says;
The only plea left to the disorganzers-that
it Is not nomination because Mr. Whiddep.
the chairman of the caucus, did not declare it
such"-has not the shadow OF shade to sus-
tain it.
II was Mr.. Whidden's duty to preside over
the deliberations of the convention and act as
LIS mouthpiece. He had no power or authors
ty beyond this. The convention by common
consent decided to nominate by ballot, and
that by majority vote. After the eau ,us had
voted, and Mr.. Hamlin had clear majority of
the votes cast, it then became the duty of the
chairman TO declare Mr.. Hamlin nominated
Inls ne declined to do, aud then In defiance of
al parliamentary rules and regulations, uD-
dertooS to lnterpose his veto to override iha
NTTrl SE fsns. ~ ~r..