The Portland daily press., 1872-10-15

All the anxieties and uncertainties of the
Presidential campaign are at an end, and the
only question at issue is the number of cleo
toral votes which can reasonably be counted
for Greeley. 1t is a safe prediction that he
will carry no Northern State The election
OF the entire Republican State ticket in Indi-
ana, with one exception, settles his case in
the West, for Indiana was the only doubtful
Western State. The latest indications from
the Pacific slope are dead against his chances
in Neyeda, California, or Oregon So he is left
to contend for showing of hands in the Dor
der and rebel States, with the odds in his ia
vor in Maryland, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennes-
see and Texas, about even in Delaware. the
two Virginias, and Missouri, and against him
in all the rest.
This collapse of the Greeley bubble is rem
dered the more laughable in consequence of
the tremendous brag with which 1t was set
afoat. There wasn't particle of modesty
about the eoaIItIonlsts. Tncy claimed every
thing. Mr.. Greeley's own paper was wont
to speak of the election as a thing already
pre-ordained to 60 in his favor and 10 pre-
dict what he would do avhen mot IN he en-
tered the Presidential chair. 1t carried this
little popularity down to its minor candidates
in all sections. As for example, when Gen.
Banks was nominated as the coalition candi-
date for Congress in the 9Th District of Massa-
chusetts it complacently remarked that he
would be a valuable addition to the next Con-
gress as if bis return thereto was quite matter
ofcourse. Now don't imagine Mr.. Greeley or
any OF his assistants are so ignorant of Mas
sachusetts politics as to suppose that Banks is
at all likely to win another Congressional
turn after his unfortunate summersault. It
Is only part of the Tfibune's little game to
affect confidence of success, however desper-
ate the prospects it. Ofcourse ''this sort of
thing has its drawbacks. The whole CORPS
OF editors of the Tribune, from Greeley down.
must have felt last Tuesday night the embar-
easements arising from too much previous
boastfulness. They had rung the changes
with such audacious postiveness on the GER
tainty OF carrying the October elections, that
when Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, all
three poured in their accamations of Repub-
llcan triumph, the dismal spirit which peryad-
ed the sanctum of the great liberal organ was
reflected in its columns next morning. The
very types seemed to have lost their jocuEd
nature and to partake of the heaviness of the
metal they were composed Of There have
been one or two feeble attempts to resume
he old tone since then and to declare that
here is chance yet for their Chiefs cleo
ion, but the effort is so grotesquely absurd
hat it only excites ridicule. @' Of
To the unfortunate stockholders of the
Tribune, this is serious affair, and some of
hem are casting about for means of saving
heir property from further depreciation. DR..
Eyer ofLowell is the owner of twenty-seyen
hares of the concern of the par value of
1000 each Within year lie was offered
10000 piece for his shares. He declined
he offer. The man who proposed that pur-
base declared since the memorable Stb of
ctober that he wouldn't buy those shares
DIV at half price. DR.. Aver himself has
lhered to the Republican party. He was a {
'mpetitor for congressional nomination !
Re other day in Massachusetts,. 1 don't : !
low whether the fact of his being part
yner in newspaper which is daily filled
it'll the most inscriptions falsehoods about I
aiding Republican Statesmen, prevented his +
curing the nomination, but it isn't likely !
at it helped him, and at all events his con- t
essonal aspirations were defeated. Now /
:. Aver loves money and although he DOS
sses it in superabundance he is not the
an to witness depreciation of so per cent i.
$4,000 of stock without making a fuss Il
out it. So what with the failure of his
lbltlon to gain seat in the National legis- 81
allure, and the immense shrinkage in the
ue of his newspaper property he is copsid- a
IDLY stirred up, and is resolved in doing his e.
vel best'' to work resolution in the Tri
&c establishment. One of his plans is to i'
lfer its editorial management on Vice Pres - e
MT Colfax, as soon as his term of Office ex- ~
es, throwing overheard both Greeley and CT
i'd OIL
his project has assumed sufficiently def
2 shape to be widely spoken of as thing ",
ich is to be accomplished. That some "
ng will be done to prevent further depre- ~
ion of the stock, after the November cleo
may be taken for granted. Share-hold- IA
are proverbially sensitive and great met De
oiitan newspaper is property that won't ia
+ TOO much trifing with. The Tribune ye
mad class of subscribers for years. of the 15t
st thoughtful, intelligent and reputable jul
racaer' They are Republicans from prin-
e, and have always been SO, heartily con- Six
emily and unselfshly. They are entirely hel
petent to judge Of the motives. which Gro
e prompted sudden revolution in every say
,rtment of the journal, whence they have ma
ing derived encouragement to persevere win
he wise political creed they have chosen. say