The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-07-08
The New York Post ON the Presidential
.r- Election

The New York Post is as good represen-
tative of the class of thoughly d:safected Re
publicans as can be found IN the country.
The following extract from recent editorial
article in that paper shows that the Democ.
racy cannot rely even on this class of Repub-
means for the support of the new departure:
In Presidential election the question be-
fore the country is very simple, Every voter
asks himself to whom he would prefer to
trust his country's affairs and his own inter-
ests, Tor four years, Ii is a serious question ::
and while he may not be entirely satisfied
with the candidate o.. his own party, he will
not, therefore, fling himself into the arms of
the opposing party unless that has given the
surest guarantees of good conduct.
Inc democratic party has a bad record.
LIS IohV and lack OF public spirit brought on
oartlsanship and lack of patriot
the war; and since the peace
tie OF its efforts, ats misconduct
ed the spirit OF discomfort and
! the southern states. Not only
tnls; but wherever the democratic leaders
nave had power in the states and cities. thew
have cour5ed the lawless classes, have govern
ed corruptly, and have with a hateful reck
lessness debauched the public morals.
NOW, the men in the Republican party who
are dissatisfied with it are far more dissatisfi-
ed with the democratic party as it is, Thew
may not approve of all that General Grant
does; but they would rather a hundred times
trust themselves and the country to Grant
than to Tweed, Sweeney and the corrupt and
corruptlng Tammany ring, which rules TODAY
almost every democratic Presidential candi.
date, and which has succeeded even in coerc-
ing the World, brave and outspoken as it was
last year, into silence and submission
III republican votes are to defeat Gener,l
Grant, those who cast them will demand that
the democratic party shall turn out utterly
the corrupt and unprincipled political trick
sters VINO nave been SO long its managers.
And how is this to be done? What can he
the evidence that it is done?
There is but one way that we know of for
the democratic party to gain Republican votes
In the next presidential election. 1t is not
enough to adopt New Departure platform
u Is absolutely necessary for the democrats, if
tney court Republican votes, to nominate, for
sner Candidates in the next presidential can
r rSSs, irepuphcans. There are, as the World
oG,,sJ In all the northern States
demooratc 9a GiHuy Oh men, educated in the |
publican party" 1t is the votes Of ,he .ne
winch tle democrats court. Tbo"o 01o inen
cratic Republicans hold the balance 81 Delno-
In the next Presidential election, If tbpa uwer
man with the Republican party, whoeyer. t.
It's candidate will, we believe, be elected If
they vote for the democratic candidate thew
will elect him. 'n'y
Now, these men will not accept the candi-
dates OF Tweed, Sweeney aud the general |
democrat Ring They will not, no matter
what the platform may be, support any man
, VINO mas the faint of these corruption,sts on
MIN. 1hey will not vote for a nobody: or for |
any one VINO could by any possibility fall un
der the control and management-of the baser
part OF the democratic leaders. ''0 ''''i