The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-26
Political Notes.

the Grant and Wilson meeting at Cooper
Institute was grand affair, both in numbers
and enthusiasm.
The World is not complimentary. 1t calls
Mr.. Greeley "misled and passive Protection
ist;;" and adds that on this subject he will be
gagged while President,
Seventy Democratic Irishmen, in st Paul,
have formed Grant club. They will have
nothing to do with the mongrel ticket, for
which their leaders ask them to vote. Similar
! revolts are occurring all over the country.
If the New York Tribune is no longer an
organ, an exchange says, it is at least very
noisy Reid instrument
cratic organ of Ohio, has concluded to be
neutral in this campaign.
The Waukesha wis., Republican,, an old
and influential Democratic paper, refuses to
support the Baltimore ticket.
The Liberal idea of paying pensions to
disabled Confederate soldiers as means of
bridging over the "bloody chasm,'' reminds
contemporary of the very obliging French
man who wished to have the supreme felicity
of running red hot poker into mans body
''Only one little inch,' cried he. ''No, you
rascal, not hundredth part" s'Then yon
will be so good as to pay me for heating the
poker" This paying for the poker is said to
be one of Greeley's plans to remove the
Treasury surplus.
The following is taken from a private let
ter from gentleman of this city who is max
ing business tour of the West "The most
there is doing now is to talk politics or the
prospect of the crops. I don't find many
Greeley men. All the business concerns I
have called on thus far that we deal with or
that | have talked with, with but one excep-
ton, are for Grant and Wilson and among all
the travelling men whom I have met since
left Boston, I have not found one for Greeley"
A gentleman writing from Skowhegan says
the Republican meeting Wednesday evening
was one of the largest ever held there, Co.
burn Hall being filled to its utmost. He says
that the report that there are many Greeley
Republicans there is lying device of the enc
my. "There are very few, and like wood
ehucks, they make for their holes when any
one goes for them.''
Judge David Davis expresses the opinion
that the election of Greeley would have a
very detrimental effect upon the business in
terests of the country.
Liberal Republican ratification meeting
was called for at Morristown, N. j., on Sat-
urday. Out of a population of between s.
600 and 1000, the meeting consisted of three
men, two reporters not included. ...
Col. John G. Lowe was the principal speak
er at Greeley-Democratic meeting in DAY.
ton, Ohio. Of him the Journal, of that city,
thus speaks: 1--WE believe it was Col. John
q. Lowe who, two or three years ago, made
speech at the Soldier Home, in which he
cheered the hearts of the veterans by encour-
aging them with hope that some of these
days the rebels who mutilated them would
become their comrades at the Home
"Toby Candor" says the Republican defec-
ton in Eastport has been reported at the
headquarters of the Liberal camp as number
ing thirty voters. A careful and painstaking
canvass shows that the number of recreants
will not exceed three-and they disappointed
office-holders and seekers. In Machias we
have information from a trustworthy source
that not one Greeley Republican can be found.
The same also in Lubec, Cutler and Perry.
The ELLSWORTH american, says the PRESS
was zone cause of the unhappy nomination
in that 1.-THE first) district about which there
is disaffection." Here are several conspicuous
inaccuracies. First, the Press wasn't
"cause," secondly the nomination is not Sun
happy and thirdly there is no classification"
Try again.
The Bath Times inclines us to believe that
the report Of the Democratic meeting as
gwen by the associated piess agent is little
too graphic. 1t was very fair old fashioned
Democratic meeting, the disgraced Gillian
minister abusing the President about as Hen
ry Clay Dean or "Gov." Pillsbury rallied at
President Lincoln in 1864. That's all.
b. M. Mitchell, Esq, of Newport, seeing
his name among the zebra Vice Presidents of
the Bangor meeting, requests the Whiq to
say that he don't eat crow.
The Boston Journal says that several Re
publicans, who few weeks ago favored the
Greeley movement, have since returned to
their old party allegiance after the sober sec
ond thought. This will be the case with all
except the uneasy political fortune seekers.
A statement having gone abroad that Ober-
lin College favored Greeley, canvass was
had with this result: Grant, 1850; Greeley,21.
Col Harry Gilmor, a confederate raider
during the late war, has been elected an off
Ger OF Greeley Club in Baltimore. Other
members of his raiding band are also either
officers or members of the club.
The Greeleyites of Gardiner threw ont a
banner Thursday evening, with music and
Democratic cheers.
The New York Evening Post, journal
that cannot be said to have a strong bias in
favor of the Administration, characterizes the
much Wanted St. Louis 4 speech of Carl
Schurz as "unusally weak in argument SO
much so that zone scarcely knows where to
begin or to end in pointing out its defects of
logic'
In recent speech at Mobile, Ala, Gala
bama" Semmes remarked: at is Horace
Greeley who has come to the Captain of the
Alabama, and not the Captain who has gone