The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-08-26
Political NOtek.


Walkers official majority in Virginia is
1884
THE New York SUMS reporter says the Re-
publicans of Ohio feel sure of carrying the
State.
The temperance party of Connecticut are to
run separate ticket and Mr.. Parker of Meri-
den, Conn, will be their candidate for Cover
nor.
IT is feared that the Tennessee Legislature
will not ratify the constitutional amendment,
Notwithstanding the pledges of Mr.. Senter and
his friends
THE Cincinnati Chronicle thinks Forrest of
Fort Pill low notoriety, would be the Senatorial
candidate OF the Tennessee Democracy if there
were no disabilities in the way.
THE proposition of Mr. Stokes, the defeated
candidate for Governor in Tennessee, to call
an extra session of Congress to deliberate on
the affairs of that State is not received with
much favor.
In one part of Iowa there are so many can
thinks it can afford, by wholesaleing the bust
ness of announcing them, to publish their
cards for o-cent postage stamp each.
THE Little Rock (Aik Gazette, Democrat
ic paper, says of the rebel armies: "The men
who compose them yet live. The truths which
animated them in the struggle still live, and
will continue to live as long as the Constitn-
ton of our Republic shall stand.''
| THE Republicans of Warren county, Ohio
are divided into two parties, the allopathisls
and the homeopathists, the physicians of the
former school defeating every candidate who
| has employed doctor of the latter practice.
| 1t has been suggested that each school ought
to be compelled to take its own medicines.
| THE Richmond papers deny, on the authori-
ty Of Hon. r. M. T. Hunter, the statement
that he has written a letter urging that no per
sons be elected to the United States Senate
from Virginia until after the disabilities O
those prescribed by the Fourteenth Amend
ment are removed.
A DEMOCRATIC paper in Ohio concludes it
leader on the new nomination with a s'hurral
for Pendleton" and the following origiHa
lines:
"We drop odd Rosy therefore,
| Without why or wherefore,
| lT Or continental care for"
AN exchange furnishes the following ques
tions for young Democrats in Pennsylvania
How did the candidate for Governor beg
life? AS a Packer. When did he do his frs
packing? When he packed his first carpet
bag and packed off from Connecticut to Penn
sylvana. When was his latest packing done
When he packed the Harrisburg Convention
The Democratic press is already at logger
heads on the subject of Chinese immigration
The World some time since came out in an a
ticle claiming that the Democratic press favo
, ed it, But scarcely was the ink dry on the a
ticle before the Albany argus denied it. Sine
f then tho Cincinnati Enquirer Endorsed the D,
stion of the argus. The Chicago Times side
with the World in the contest
THE Boston 7raueler, speaking OF the Ma
sachusetts Democratic Convention, says
while the Democratic Convention, yeste
day, acknowledged by cheap resolution til
courage and bravery of the men who defent
ed the flag of our country during the war, the
, were careful not to give any of them plat
on their State ticket. The soldiers will r.
| member this f-s -.ae
THE reporter of the New York Sun has oil
terviewed" Mr.. Clement L. Vallandighan
Mr.. Vallandigham declined to accord the r.
porter regular interview, expressing himse
as entirely ignorant of current political ma
tiers, and determined to keep aloof from a
participation in the present campaign
Ohio. He said, however, that he should or
vately support Mr.! Pendleton for Goyerno
He announced that his retirement from tt
political field was only temporary. He col
sidered the present transition period in pol
tics, and that the safest course is to keep qui,
and look on. OF Mr. John Quincy Adams /
remarked
} Some of his opinions meet my concurrence,
others 40 not-one especially does not. Fl
says that the Democratic party, in order to b
successful in the future, ought to drop such {
its old leaders as are "men of obsolete ideas.
That ~ what he calls them. If he means b
that those men who so strenuously battle
against the despotism of Lincoln, and VIII
stood stanch by the Democratic party in til
darkest hour of its history, he errs most eyre
giously. Those answering and tried adhe1
ents to Democratic faith ought not to be cas-
aside when the hour OF danger is over