The Portland daily press., 1872-08-12
Political Notes.

Some of the signatures on Liberal Lang's
proclamation were obtained by representing
that Judge Danforth was to be the candidate.
The argus undertakes to belttle the Re-
publican meeting at Bangor. Its man at
Kendali's mills saw five car loads. Our in
formant counted fifteen but adds that he may
be mistaken as the argus always did tell the
truth.
The Republicans of Skowhegan are wide
awake. They will soon turn out Tanners
club of one hundred. A private letter prom
ises handsome gain for Gov. Perham.
Hon. Lot M. Morrill, of Augusta, and Sena-
tor Edmunds of Vermont, on Tuesday even
ing last, spoke in St. Croix Hall in Calais.
The people turned out en- masse to hear them.
Some three hundred persons from Princeton,
Barring, Midtown and other places, came in
by the train and damned the hall full.
The Liberals of the Fourth district have
clasped hands "across the bloody chasm"
with Marcellus Emery and will support him.
After the Bull Run defeat in 1861, Emery
said :-"Lncoln's hirelings have met their
due fate. They find now the hospitable graves
to which the chivalrous sons of the South will
welcome the invaders of their homes"
Friend ]. d. Lang of Vassalboro, the father
of Hon. T. S. Lang, writes to the Kennebec
Journal in praise of Grants Indian policy.
A Hanover, Oxford county, correspondent
writes to the Lewiston Journal that every
Republican in that town is for Grant.
We can guess what made Banks come out
for Greeley. Dick Taylor wrote him love
letter couched in about these words: "My
dear old Quartermaster-Ify you don't help us
regain the Lost Cause by supporting old
Horace, I'll blow that Red River cotton speck
on you. Dust Yours Liberal Dick''-Ne,o
Orleans paper.
Ex-Secretary Seward is known to be strong
ly in favor of President Grant, notwithstand-
ing the stories that he supports Greeley.
Sangamon county, ILL.,, reports fifteen Re-
publicans who have gone over to Greeley and
four hundred Democrats who have declared
against him. ...
The Philadelphia Press says: "Pennsyl-
vania Republicans cling to Grant irrespective
of all the factions. Her devotion to him is
something like her devotion to Jackson.
More solid Democrats prefer Grant to Greeley
in this State, we believe, than in any other"
The N. Y. Tribune published a list of de-
faulters to the government the other day.
Three of them are dead, five are fugitives, and
the other thirteen are supporters of Greeley.
There is not a defaulter in the country but
favors Greeley's election. If there is one that
does not he is as great curiosity as white
elephant.
Under the head of"A Colossal Swindle, " the
New York Abend Zeitung says: 'sThe Tam
many people here intend to compel Tweed
to declare himself for Grant. 1t will be easily
understood that this will be only one of the
meanest campaign tricks ever perpetrated.
Its object is to trumpet through the entire
country, See of what elements the support
of Grant is composed; even the robber Tweed
has pronounced in his favor Were this
vancouver not so clumsy and stupid we might
feel inclined to call it SMART
"This result in North Carolina settles the
Presidential contest" -Hartford Times,
(Dem.)
"A Connecticut paper says that General
Banks's letter is a STARTER. Yes; but it is not
half so startling as the North Carolina cleo
tior. IN. Y. Sun, (Dem.)
"The result is glorious one, cheering the
hearts of all patriots and lovers of honest gov
eminent. Three cheers for North Carolina,
and let all the rest of the States wheel into
line p'-Boston Post, Dem.)
The sSpringfield Republican is the most
sensible Greeley organ in the country. Now
that North Carolina has gone Republican, it
says that the election ''settles no more than
ths-that the grand popular revolution in
IN favor OF Mr. Greeley has not yet begun"
Pray when will it set in?