The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-07-20
Pelfticai.

A letter addressed to the Pennsylvania Con-
gressmen. has been drawn up, andis being
numerously signed by the citizens of Phi'ad
phia, requesting them to support forthwith
Jenckes' bill, or something like it, that WIN
put an end to the disgraceful scramble for Oh
fee The Nation says: Nothing more disa-
greeable to the average Congressman than this
mode of ACTING ON him can we'll be imagined.
1t Won 90 to Washington, and request him to
aeschew corruption" and support the appoint
ment to Office of the pure and the good' he VIII
embrace YOU, invite you to take seat on the
Congressional sofa, and tell you that those have
been bis sentiments ever since he was boy in
a store; but if you say you want him to vote
for particular bill providing specifically for
the exclusion of raseals and ignoramuses from
Office; OF, if you ask him why he recommended
Brown, the notorious horse-thief, for United
States Marshalship, his countenance will as
sumo an distracted mathematical expression,
and he will probably have to rush off to listen
to Smiths great speech on the state of the
Union, in order to refuts that sophistical Cop
perhead's views on the coafguration of the
black mans skull and Sims. Nevertheless, it
is only by following him up steadily with
names, dates and circumstances, and specific,
demands, that he can ever be got to divest
himself OF the power of taking care of his
friends."sf sl5 . s.1-f, SIS q. s,i.lt a
1t is stated that Asa Packer, the Democrat
ic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, was
nominated solely because he is estimated to be
worth So 600 O00 Packer has nothing to rec
ommend him but his bank account. He is old
infirm, and past his usefulness. Governor
Geary the Republican candidate. has served
the country as statesman and a soldier. He
is energetic and progressive. The issue in the
canvass in Pennsylvania viii be dollars, age,
and imbeclity against brains, patriotism and
activity. rra ryfl3 ass ~ 3
The new Democratic war cry-Millions for
party votes; not one cent to pay off the ma
tioDal debt y Egl % k1ea
The Democracy are considerably given to
playing what may be called a political game of
ten-pins. They set up a good man for Office
and then knock him over with platform
Mcclellan was badly damaged in this way,
Notwithstanding he tried an epistolary specific
of his own. Rosecrans gets upon his legs with
a splendid war record, only to be bowled down
by platform of reputation. -frI h
The Chicago Tribune speaketh thusly of DO
litical affairs in Ohio: The nomination of Rose
Grams for Governor Of Ohio is regular wet
blanket on the Democracy. Poor Sam Cary is
mad 70 Vallandigham is mad; PendIeton is
mad; Judge Ranney is mad; and everything
unlovely all around. Old. Pap Thomas being
off on the Pacific coast with no intention of
returning, little Rosey will have to take the
soundest thrashing he ever got in his life, next
October, with nobody to save him from COM
plete humiliation. Rosey always gets whipped
on the first day, and the first day is all there
is Of an Ohio election. 81 5ss7s-De naai8 -
The Democracy Of Radical Iowa is exceed
ingly weak in point of numbers but it is
cplueky. Its delegates. few but undismayed,
met in State Convention at Des Moines, on
"Wednesday, to nominate ticket fort the Octo-
Der election. The following gentlemen were
successful: For Governor, George Gillespie;
Lieutenant Governor, A. 4 f. Richardson;
Judge of Supreme Court, w. f. Brannan;
Superintendent of Public instruction, Edward
Jaeger Ai8 e9idN isff ,sasmvof
The following concerning Pennsylvania pol
itics is from the N. z. Sun The platform is
particularly suited to the candidate It's like
an old-fashioned Democratic gun, BRASS
mounted and fint-locked. Ii recognizes moth
ing and assumes everything. 1t declares that
the Keystone State viii never give up self
government, stabs the Fifteenth Amendment,
insults the Democratic negroes Of Virginia by
scofing at universal suffrage, ,sneers at the re-
constructionpolicy, wants taxation abolished
and pats the workingmen, the veterans and
the Cuban patriots on the back. The lesson of
the Virginia election is yet to be learned by
these Pennsylvania Democrats. ~ q