The Portland daily press., 1869-09-15
Political Notes.

TIE Boston Transcript says it is apparent
that there will be many delegates IN the Wor-
cester Convention on the Odd inst, opposed to
the prohibitory law, but in favor of the renom-
ination of Gov. Clafiin.
SOMEBODY recently took night ride with
Senator Sprague of Rhode Island and reports
in the Providence Press the Senator'S talk.
1t is suggestive of the phrase, "All talk anu
no cider"
MODERN Democracy may be described, mo.o
regard than usual being had for exact 'ru'n-
fulnesss of statement as desperate agsres"
ton of miscellaneous fag ends anu
policies overruled by the people,
AMONG the candidates mentloneu ior .no
Roston ayoralty are the present mayor y
shnrtlef. Mr.. CASTOR, Alderman BALDWIN,
o.. Norcross. S. D. Crane, and Alderman
White.
TIE Nashville Press C Times devotes two
columns to o double-leaded article declaring
that it is the intention of the Democrats to re-
peal Tennessee's ratification of the Fourteenth
Amendment They might as well take action
upon last years almanac.
A State debt of forty millions was the lega
cy which the Democratic party bequeathed to
the people of Pennsylvania when it quilted
power. The Republican party have reduced
this debt more thon one-half, besides freeing
the people of the oppressive tax upon real es-
tate.
GILLAsPY, of Iowa, is the Falstaff of modern
Democracy. He is fearfully fat. He lards the
lean earth as he walks along. He thinks the
better part of valor is discretion. And he will
retire from the field carrying off the dead body
of Democracy on his huge shoulders in the
liveliest manner. But Gillaspy is not as witty
as Sir Jack, or, indeed, any other man.
THE Chicago Evening Post observes, that
the remarkably kind way in which the Cop
perhead journals speak of Rawlins and Fes-
sender, now that they are dead, shows one of
two things-either that they really respect our
Republican statesmen, and that their copious
condemnation of those living is false to their
convictions, or else that they are trying to in
duce all our public men to die off by holding
| out to them promise of a post norton apoth-
| eosis
| GEO 7. Curtis and Alex. II. Stephens, the
| twin literary porpoises of America, are trying
| to find out whether Daniel Webster ever con-
coded the right of secession. Mr.. Curtis on
the negative and Mr. Stephens on the affirma-
| tive. Their arguments and counter-argu-
ments fill whole pages in the New York pa
pers. And an unoffending public bears this
meekly, though it is far worse than the great
New England gale. The able but prolix an
tagonists are evidently trying to exhaust each
| other. Really the question is of little impor
lance. Mr.. Stephens ought to know what the
present generation thinks of secession.
THE Boston Advertiser says the threatened
| split in the ranks of the Wisconsin Democracy
was averted by the defeat and the complete
were the direst threats of INSTRUMENTATION il
case the madison regency succeeded in the
convention. That wing of the parry made
strong effort to retain power, but was over
thrown by the vigorous attack of the progress
sives. The candidate for Governor is more il
| advance of his party elsewhere than Genera
Rosecrans. He was editor of a Democratic
| paper which waged war more fercely agains
the Democrats of the Eldridge and "Brick'
Pomeroy stripe than against the Republicans
and during the rebellion voted the Republi
can ticket more than once. In the convention
and after the nomination, one speaker remark
ed that Mr.. Robinson had not always beer
true to the party, but he hoped he was al
right now. The Republican papers say tina
not only was he out of harmony with his par
| ty during the war, but that he is now political
ly on the fence, and they say that the rest o
the ticket is weak The principal resolution
of the platform, which has already been pub
lished, is little more than an attempt to ge
upon the ground occupied by the Republicans
but the candidates need exercise little hypoc
risy in endorsing it, whatever must be said o
| other leaders of the rank and file of the party