The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-30
Political Notes.


AID old-line Democrat living in town in
Middlesex county, Conn.,, writes to the Hart
ford Courdnt that there are at least fifty Dem:
ocrats in his immediate neighborhood who
| will not vote for Greeley. iDc-s'l1 L
Hon. William Sirwell, distinguished and
influential Democrat of Armstrong county,
Pennsylvania, was recently nominated by the
Democrats of his county for Congress, sub
ject to the decision of the conference to whom
the selection of candidate ultimately falls.
Gen. Sirwell has published a card, however,
| in which he declines the nomination, and an
nounces that he intends to support Gen. Grant
| for President. l95J 4 naGlW I9df3nA
The Camden ALA Meas and Pacfacator,
a Democratic Journal, refuses to support
Greeley. 1t ys:-"Mr. Greeley has forced
the Democratic party, or large majority of
it, into his support. He has intimated that
unless he was nominated at Baltimore he
would withdraw, and give his support to the
man whom we desired to defeat. He has
effected his purpose, though at serious cost
to the South. We oppose him from principle.
We are conscientious in our opposition to
him. W. ~.
A gentleman in Augusta, says the Journal,
has one hundred dollars which he desires to
bet that the majority next September for
Hon, James G.. Blaine will be greater than
his majority in 1870. saG n aoL ,aa2
The Republican convention for the nominal
ton Of county officers for Kennebec, is to be
held in Augusta on the 10th of August.
Senator Hamlin and Hon. VIM. p. Frye
will speak al North Vassaboro', on Tuesday
evening of this week, and in Winthrop on
Wednesday evening.
There was rousing political meeting at
Lyceum Hall, Lewiston, Saturday evening, in
which Hons. W. P. Frye and N. Dingley, jr.,
were the speakers. The arguments of Kill
patrick and others were answered, and the
meeting was pronounced to be one Of the
very best. oi'L 7'3" -'if'i. 90 gu p ~
There is not SO much brag on the part of
the new converts to the Greeley Democracy
in Hallowell, as there was few days since.
Their courage and zeal is fast subsiding as one
after another comes out for Grant, refusing
to be parties to the ''bargain and sale y isays
the Journal. 5lsr-- sf.. tr7 1.G
The half dozen gentlemen who make .liber-
al candidates in the third district have at
length concluded not to give the nomination
to Mr.. Philbrick of Skowhegan but to honor
"Col." Lang with it. 1t had been otherwise
determined at first; but Mr.. Lang is the
greater martyr. ..,. Is, d.. All .-.I..,
As an illustration of the fact that the
Southern negroes understand the situation''
better than some give them credit for, and
have withal an element of the "Heathen
Chinee'' in their composition, we give the
following, which actually happened in New
Orleans in the campaign of 1885, az sdi
An ambitious steamboat agent, then roar
ing Democrat, now Warmoth s'Liberal
Republican," got up negro Blair-and-Sey-
mour Club. He furnished them with a uni
form, paid them dollar apiece every time
they turned out in procession (which was
generally twice a week., had fine band of
music for them and rode at their head. The
last turnout the evening before election,
there were some $50 in the ranks and he was
elevated by whiskey and his success with the
negro into state Of sublime enthusiasm;
but the next evening a more crest-fallen and
detected victim of misplaced confidence could
not have been found on the earth's surface,
for, to use his own expression, -''euery id
Niger had uoted for Grant" T., I..f..-...'
The Oil City PA. Bulletin, Democratic,
hoists the name of u. s. Grant for President
in preference to Greeley. The editor is only
doing what thousands of other Democrats
will do, all because Greeley instead of a DEM
ocrat is put upon them. -
The Wilmington DELI Commercial of the
Goth says Tin this State we have informal
ton daily of Democrats who will not vote for
Greeley. There are hundreds of them in
each county. On the other hand, there are
no additions to the bakers dozen of Liberal
Republicans. The attempt to demoralize the
Republican organization in Delaware is a
dead, total failure" E. ...lr5
1t is authoritatively declared from st. Pet
ersburg that ex-Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania,
is earnestly for Grant and opposed to Greeley.
The Portland Oregonidn says that not one
half the Democratic voters of Oregon will
vote for Greeley. The dickering politicians
will support him, but the great mass of the
voters will not.
The Burlington w.t. Free Press learns
that Hon. Timothy Hoyle, of Champlain, N.
| Y, an influential Democrat, who has repre-
sented Clinton county in the Assembly. has
declared he will not vote for Greeley under
any circumstances, but will vote for Grant.
Mr.. Hoyle has been Superintendent of the
Northern N. Y. R. R., and is the most infu-
entail Democrat in Northern New York.
The Buffalo Eoening Post, which has been
for twenty-five years Democratic paper,
with George J. Bryan as editor hoisted the
Grant and Wilson ticket, Friday afternoon,
accompanied by an editorial explaining the
reasons for doing so. ...f, l....a
George Becker has been, for twenty years,