The Portland daily press., 1869-08-24
Political llemn.

POLITICAL 1temos
The Massachusetts, Democratic State Con.
vention is to be held at Worcester to-day.
Advices from Wyoming say that among the
Democratic nominees to the legislature are
three ex-rebel soldiers.
The Boston Post recommends that the Dem
ocratic Convention, held in Worcester to-day
regard the adoption of the 18th amendment ID
foregone conclusion.
Attbo Damoorat;c caucuses held in Boston,
Friday night, Irshmen were electeu " p'"oe'
on the ward committees and as delesa'eS "
the various conventions, almost 10 'ne eAciu-
sion of native born citizens.
Alexander H. Stephens writes another long
letter on State Sovereignty, and in defence of
the rights of secession. He charged that q
majority of the people have been and are over
awed by the minority.
A Wisconsin dispatch says: eff half the re-
ports are true, there is a lively row in the camp
OF the Democracy in this State, involving Sc
rlous disagreements among the leaders as to
the course to be pursued, the place and time to
hold the State Convention, and other matters
The Boston Post is not unwilling that liber-
al Republicans should Join with the Democrats
this fall in voting the regular Democratic
ticket, and in order not to frighten the Liber-
ais too much, assures them that they can re-
turn to their own party when the election is
over. The "honey fugling'' of the Argus
seems to be catching.
The Tweed Democratic Association of the
18th Ward, New York city, last Saturday night
passed resolutions by reclamation, charging
Belmont with defeating Mcclellan in 1864, de-
nouncing his incompetence and Indifference
to the fate of the Democratic party, and de-
handing his resignation as Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee.
The Democrats do not like what they call
the pleasure-seeking, watering place horse
Jockey and lounger, now President of the
United States. Therefore, as the Detroit Pos,
remarks, they propose, by way of reform, Mr..
John 7. Hoffman for next President, who has
been lounging at Sara oga two or three weeks
watching the horse-races, in company with
Governor Bowie, Of Maryland, one of the
Judges at the race and owner of a race horse,
stable; Senator Bayard of Delaware. another
horse man, and the ''Hon. John Morrissey
superintendent of the track.
Gen. Thomas s. Young, was Recorder of
Hamilton county Ohio the salary and fees If
which amounted TO $40, 900 per annum, which
place he resigned some time ago to accept the
position Of supervisor of Ohio, place which by
no honest possibility could be woith as much as
the Recordership. When his nomin nation was
before the Senate for confirmation, Senator
EaSSanda, oil ,Io cd 70 g.,
ton of the corruption of The times But Gen
Schenck and other members of the Ohio dele
cation endorsed him. the viii skey ring did not
oppose him, and he was confirmed. As might
be expected il is now understood that he is
deeply implicated in whiskey frauds in the
Cincinnati and Dayton districts, said to be the
most stupendous of anything yet perpetrated
in this country. 1t will crafty honest people
to know that the government is doing its duty
in the provinces and that the guilty parties
will be brought to punishment
The Providence Journal Senator Anthony,
in referring to Senator Sprague's charge that
those Senators who voted against impeach-
ment were treated any differently therefor by
their colleagues, says: "Mr. Trumbull was,
when ne gave his vote, Chairman of the Com
mittee on the Judiciary. He was reelected to
that important place without a dissenting
voice. Mr.. Grimes was Chairman of the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs and, although on ac-
count of i'll health he declined reelection,
the Senators would not listen to his earnest
wish for retirement but compelled him to re-
main in that responsible position. When Mr.
Morrill,, who had been Chairman of the Com
mittee on Appropriations, left the Senate, Mr.
Fessendsn wasselected for his successor Mr.
Henderson was retained at the head of the
Committee on Indian Affairs, ana Mr.. Van
Wrinkle as Chairman of the Committee on
Pensions. None of the Republicans who vot-
ed for acquittal we're ostracised or made to feel
that tbey had forfeited the confidence of the
body, because, in matter upon which every
man must judge for himself, they had differed
from the majority
The New York Herald pitches into Andy
johnson and the platform laid down in his re-
cent Knoxville speech with great energy and
vim. Andy johnson has planted himself upon
rotten platform upon which no honest man
should over expect to be elected to the United
States Senate. He has evoked the skeleton of
regal empire based upon our national debt,
and he exclaims, ''preserve the republic; let
the debt CO." This is reputation in its worst
FORM 1t is treason to the credit and the honor
of the republic. As the ex-President declared
more than once during his Presidency that
treason should be made odious and traitors
punished, 80 now respectable citizens will de-
mand that reputation DO made odious and
regulators punished-by being left severely
alone in the distribution of the honors and
emoluments of official station. Andy johnson
ought to have the gumption to know that the
true way to save the republic is for the repub-
lie to pay its debt To repudiate it is paving
the way to bankruptcy, anarchy and eventual
ruin. Then may fol. ow chaotic empire such
as a distempered Imagination might copjure
up, but not until then. And, thank the Lord
and the good temper Of our tax-paying citizens,
such An event is as remote as the sound of
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