The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-09-16
RaIixicml Ncles.

IsHAM G. HARRIS is spoken of as a candi-
ate for United States Senator from Tennessee.
WHY not talk of the ghost of the late John
Bell?
THE Chicago Tribune declares that woman
is, undoubtedly, the coming man OF the pres
ept day." By the great powers OF chignohs
and paniers! "can such things becoming!
EMIL. Rom, heretofore prominent Dem
ocratic politician in Wisconsin, has gone TO |
Cincinnati, and assumed the editorship OF the
Volk$freand.
THE MARYLAND Democrats are making siren
uous efforts to extend and prclong their sup
remacy. It's believed that they will soon open
ly welcome the colored people into their ranks
THE Newburyport Herald says that the
result of the election in Maine, shows that the
Democracy is without organization ana utterly
demoralized.
The Petersburg (Va.) Express at last under
stands the Northern Democrats. In recent
issue it says; $50 far the Northern Democracy
have never rendered US the very slightest ser
vice, but they have been on the qua ere 10 ma
out how they could most advantageousiy use
us for their own interested purposes.
Mr.. Pendleton takes dismal view not only
ofcurrency, but of everything else. The Union
is not restored, the debts has been reduced,
the public expenditures have not been d.
minished, nobody prospers, nobody Is happy'
or at least has any business to be, and we all
are going to the dogs Mr. Pendleton enjoys
his misery so heartily that it would be a pity
to disturb it,
ASA PACKER, the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Pennsylvania, showed himself
friend of the workingmen from 1913 to 174S,
when he paid his employees in Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Companys script at par, and re-
deemed it at adiscount of 40 per cent, The
script was useless to laboring men. They
could not buy anything with it, and they were
compelled to submit to the shave in order 10
keep starvation from their doors.
A New York paper, lamentng over the de-
generacy of the age as shown in the decadence
of the democratic party, touchingly reverts to
the good "old democratic times when whisk-
ey was sold as low as fourteen cents gallon.
Should the country ever again come under
a democratic rule, we suppose it will be enact
ed that whiskey shall be forever sold at that
HAPPY price, anu tlltlt Tue SdllOu SuhiA
contain five quarts
The Chichago Times, which is as rankly
Democratic" as Western Copperhead news
paper can be, propounds to its friends and
fellows the following troublesome conundrum:
"If the Democracy of the North shall adhere
to the dead issues of the past, how can the
Democratic party remain q national organiza-
ton, since the whole body of the Southern
white people have abandoned the dead issues,
and accepted tie situation as it is?" Do you
give it up, gentlemen? If not, VIC wait with
impotence for the answer.
THE Augusta (Ga) Constitutionatist states
that the negroes as a general thing in Georgia
have abandoned the madness of political strife
and gone to work with commendable industry
and cheerfulness. This excellent ch-nge on
their part has met with ceras-'s- ospSi'sO
The same nane- las: Had II not been TOR
s.e arought employers and employed would
have had most comfortable provision laid
aside for Christmas, and even as times go there
will be many a planter whose purse will be
we'll filled this winter, and thousands of Geor-
gia negroes who will be able next season to
buy mules, land, bugges and whatever cash
can bring"
THE DISPATCHES to the New York World on
the morning after our election, were prefaced
with the following fattering announcements,
in large type: ''The Democrats gain the coun-
ties of Knox, Lincoln, York, Aroostook, and
probably Washington" "Chamberlain's cleo
ton in doubt--his majority, ii elected, not over
3,000"
The revulsion of feeling in TIE Copperhead
breast, now that the hopes raised by these dis
patches are "blarsted" must induce state of
mind favorable to singing
sPlunged in gulf OF dark despair
We wretched sinners lay
Without one cheerful raw of hope
Or gmmering spark of day."
The World will please give the "pitch."
Portland Argus and Bangor Democrat join in
the chorus. Ali ready-Do, me, sol, do.
THE nomination for Governor, of Colone]
Robinson, of thu Green Bay AdUocate, by the
Wisconsin Democrats, recalls a good story of
his early editorial career Before the days of
rapid travel the Colonel set out for business
journey, leaving his paper in charge of his
wife, shrewd, lively, independent and talent
ed Rhode Island woman, who had been edu-
Gated in the strictest faith of the Wings. No
sooner had her devoted lord got well on his
journey than she changed the politics of the
Advocdte to suit her own notions, very much
as John Phoenix did with Judge Ames San
Diego Herald, under like circumstances. For
three or four weeks, until, in those days of
slow travel the irate husband and editor could
get back, the Aduocate was the unblushing or
gan of the most downright whiggery, first to
the amazenent and then TO the anu sement of
its Democratic readers, who had sense enough
to take joke. So had the Colonel, but he
never heard the last of his wife's editorial
COUP and probably never will