The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-08-23

We notice that some papers ont of the
State treat the reorganization of parties in
Maine proposed by the Argus in a serious
way, as if it were something imminent and
something to be apprehended. No inteIil-
gent man in Maine takes this view of the
case. In previous article we have thor
oughly ventilated the matter, and given a
satisfactory explanation of the motives that
prompted the Argus to attempt the mischief
in which it has signally failed. A manifesto
of "King Puffcheeks" of the frogs could not
be more completely brutums fulmen.
The only wonder to us is that the Democ-
racy of Maine do not seriouslu undertake
something in the line iDsincerely marked out
by the argus 1t would amount to nothing,
IL Is true, but modern Conservatism has seri-
ously entered upon many more hopeless ven
lures than this. There are in the State per-
haps five hundred men belonging to the DEM
ocratic party who for more than a decade
have been consumed by ali unquenchable
thirst for Office. How gaunt and lean they
are! With what hungry eyes they have stood
in the background, looking over the shoulders
of their more fortunate neighbors at the
Viands on the official table. MANY of them
are growing old. Hope deferred has made
the heart sick. Fifteen years of the purga-
torial pains of exclusion from office have
made them as wild and haggard as the
witches in Macbeth, without the wisdom and
the precedence of those highly respectable but
eCrpntrip fan,ofac rTbav
and finally abandoned The hope of at
tanning official position through the agency
OF tue party to which they have chung till il
Is dead and SO unpleasantly odorferous that
they feel constrained to bury it. But hold
there is hope yet! See what has come of a
combination of Democrats and Conservative
Republicans in Tennessee! There are no
doubt sore-heads in the Republican ranks of
Maine as well as of Tennessee. We can
form an alliance here aud repeat the strategic
movements of the Southwest. We can reap
the fruits of the victory here, as well as our
brethren can in the South. Protesting to act
In the interest of Chamberlain or Fessen-
denen, we can elect to the Senate some of our
Goulds, Emerys, Bradburys, Rices or Smiths.
AND what an interesting novelty Demo-
cratic Senator would be. A native of the
moon, walking the streets in the full lunar
costume Of the period would be relatively
stale. How he would be beseiged for minor
officers; what crowds of warm personal
friends would attend all his in-comines and
out-goings; how sleep would be driven from
bis pillow and appetite from his table. Nav
or.Pptasu of this municipality had a little
experience last spring that NOV ed even his
political foes, who appreciate the worth of
his private character, to tears of sympathy
and compassion. What if he should be Gov
ernor or Senator? 1.-The should conclude to
immediate himself on that altar for the good
OF his country, let him enter in good faith up-
on the new line of conduct, recommended
by the Argus, If he has not already done so.
Failure is certain, but he cannot be expected
to see It.
Hunger for Office leads men into mapy
strange combinations and into many disa.
greeable surroundings. As the Democrats
OF Maine are hungrier than any of that race
were ever known to be, they ought not to be
too fastidious to adopt any expedient that af.
ords even remote possibility of leading them
into the promised land.