The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-29
PaIitical Notes.

The Republicans of Fayette have nomi-
mated S. III. Sturtevant for Representative.
The Republicans of Rumford have nomi-
mated Augustus j. Knight, ESQ.,, of Rum
ford, as the candidate for representative to
the Legislature from that district.
Hon. John Y. Foster and Speaker Blaine
addressed the Republicans of Hallowell ON
Tuesday evening.
L. G. Cushman, ESQ.,, of North Paris, de-
clines the appointment to a position on the
Oxford county ''liberap' committee, simply be-
cause he is for Grant.
The Lewiston Journal is informed that
some of the workmen in the shoe manufAc-
tory of Messrs. Crafts & Co., Auburn, have
canvassed the Presidential preferences of the
employees of that establishment, with the
following results: For Grant, 35; for Gree
ley, 7; undecided, 8. This is about the rela-
tive political status of the workmen in the
Auburn shoe manufactures and in the Lew
iston mills and industrial establishments.
Our advices from Somerset county are most
cheering. In the up river towns quite
number of Democrats announce their inten-
ton to vote for the Republican ticket in Sep
TENDER, while one leading Democrat is enter
ing actively into the Republican canvass.
A Waltham correspondent writes that there
is not Greeley Republican in town and that
the rank and file of the Democracy don't
take to crow diet at all.
A reliable gentleman from New York in
forms us that Major Haggerty is not an Irish
man, as his name imports, but Scotch Pres
byterian.
The New York Times contains proposal
from well known New York merchant to
bet $1,000 on every State in the Union for
Grant and Wilson, not less than &c. 900 to be
deposited by each party in trust company
| to abide the result.
The Republicans of West Newfeld threw
out a fine flag bearing the names of Grant,
Wilson and Perham, last Saturday, when
| speeches were made by Hon. S. c. Adams,
DIR. Stephen Adams and Capt. Horace East
man. Then was good singing and plenty Of
cheers.
The New York Posts Washington cor
respondent says that prominent Republican
in Alabama writes to Attorney General Will.
liams that the political campaign in that
State is advancing favorably, and that Grant
will carry the State Ky majority of from
eight to twelve thousand. The letter says
that large number of democrats are dis
satisfied with their state ticket and will vote
with the Republicans. The Greeeyites have
met with an utter failure in trying to divide
the colored vote, and are very despon-
| dent
Judge Hamlin, recently the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Minnesota, comes
out for Grant and Wilson, because, as he
says, he ''prefers the government of a party
of principle to the tyranny of rapacious and
discordant organization, whose only claim to
support is loud-mouthed protestations oil
honesty, and whose only cohesive power must
be the hope of public plumber"
Blanton Duncan predicts that the Re-
publicans will, before November,b be compelled
to fight the nominees of the Louisville con-
vention, paying no attention to the Liberal
side show. As you please, gentlemen.
The Cinninnati Gazette says, referring to
Greeley's attempted denial that he offered
pledges to the south: "The question for Mr.
Greeley to have answered was this: will
you, if elected President, execute the Ku-
Klux law and other laws and other legislation
designed for the protection of the men of the
South?' If he answered this question in the
Affirmative he would not carry one Southern
State, and he knows it''
A reliable Washington county gentleman
writes that the county is looking better and
better every day for the Republicans. The
Pike men are not so sanguine as they were a
few weeks ago, of majority in Calais even.