The Portland daily press., 1869-08-02

POLITICAL 1tch8Hs
1t is a little remarkable that the opposing
candidates for Governor in Ohio were both in
one regiment at the beginning of the war.
Roseerans received the commission of CO.onel
in the Twenty third Ohio, while Hayes was
Lieutenant
Tha Democratic papers Of Maine have moth
ing to say about smith.or the 15th amendment,
or negro suffrage. Some Of them are feebly skir
mishing with the financial question, but they
treat it SO Charity that neither gods nor men
know what they mean.
The New York Times credits the report that
the President Is not in sympathy with the
President, in respect 10 Southern politics. But
the Times is apt to have impressions that are
not calculated to rebound 10 the interest of the
party.
The Chicago Journal well says: we look
to see Governor Senter elected in few days
over General Stokes, and it is about an even
chance that the Democrats will have major
ity in the Legislature, and it would not be at
all surprising if Senter should find himself a
shorn Samson in the tolls of the Philistines,
having gained a victory only to be made to
turn the crank of an administration subser-
Went to the rebel Democratic interest. If 80,
the warning will, we think, be most salutary
to the Republicans in the Southern States and
in that way the party in Tennessee will carry
on the Samsonian analogy, and, like the He
brew giant, accomplish more in death than in
life. Andrew Johusons State repudiated his
policy in toto once, but now it seems disposed
to meet him half way, only to meet as COM
monwealth, much the same fate as. he did in
dividually"
The Florida Legislature sat only three weeks
| in its late extra session. The members have
yearly salary, and not per diem pay, which
accounts for the milk in the cocoa-nut'
Chief Justice Chase and Attorney General
Hoar are claimed as advocates of woman SUI
frage.
The Gopperheads ridicu.e Grants bathing
at Long Branch. There is no Democratic pre-
cedent for bathing on record.
Mr., Speaker Thomson, of GAINESVILLE, Is pre-
sented by several Republican journals in Wis
consin as their first choice for Governor. IA
The sixteen Governors of Pennsylvania have
all been natives of the commonwealth. The
Democrats now want to try "Conneeticut
carpet bagger."
| Gen. Roseerans Democratic candidate for
| Governor OF Ohio, is in trouble again. The
charge against him this time is that he ID car
pet-bagger, and therefore not eligible to the
Office of Governor of his adopted State Cali
fornians contend that he il their fellow Itzen,
and that he must reside in Ohio for the time
prescribed by the laws of that State before he
can be eligible to Office there.
Postmaster General Creswell has written the
following letter to Mr.. Stokes, Radical candi-
date for Governor of Tennessee: t.s
Believing you to be the true rep. esentatiye
OF the Republican party of Tennessee, earn
estly advocate your election, and trust that
every sound hepubiican,in yonr State will ral-
| " enthusiastically to your support. The Prea-
ident is absent from the city, but / am conf
dsnt that declare hs opinion and desire.
The Republican campaign in Ohio will be
formally opened at Wilmington August IL.
with speeches from Governor Hayes and SEN
ator Morton Of Indiana
The Republican politicians of New, Orleans
| speak in The most favorable terms of General
Longstreet, and appear to be delighted with
his management of his department in that
city. His appointments are very much COM
mended and his popularity is on the incre ase.
The Copperheads ridicule. Grants bathing
at Long Branch. There is no Democratic
precedent for bathing ON record
4. A. r. Nelson, of East Tennessee, declines
to run for the State Senate m
Judge Dent will get no support from Presi-
dent Grant or his cabinet Gen. Ames goes
back to Mississippi, and there is no. doubt
that the regular nominee ofsfha Raeulliemn
| party in that Staae wil'slysc!!scted. 81 y -''
Senator Patterson. of New Hampshire, does
not want John p. Hale for his colleague after
1871
An effort is made to reconcile Horace Gree
| ley and Thurlow Weed.
The presence of Brick Romeroy at the Dem
ocratic Convention is Significant Here is the
4 man who before Lincoln's death called him a
gorilla, and afterwards insisted that sshis soul
had gone to hell, Il supporting Packer for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania. Respectable Demo
Gratis viii be graGfed with the character of
their allies. huadelphia Morning Post
Ex Senator r. M. I. Hunter has written to
the Conservative State Executive Committee
of Virginia urging, in any event, the postpone
ment of the, election of United States Sena-
tors until after the meeting OF Congress. when,
|. it is expected, all disabilities will be removed
The Welles men claim that, ii the iron-clad
oath is enforced, it will secure Radical Leg
islature, when DR.. A. X. Sharpe, the Presi-
dents brother-in-l law, and L. H. Chandler, of
Norfolk, will undoubtedly be sent to the SEN
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