The Portland daily press., 1872-05-28
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY %, 7s.
lot ms Have the Names.

cepting the leadership of one of the most
adroit politicians in the land, is pursuing an
admirably consistent course. The manner in
which the case is worked up in Maine is as
tonshing. From the first our good State,
which is just about as free from Greeley he
publicans as it is from Mahometans or Devil
Worshipers, has been paraded before the coun-
try as entering with great spirit into the Gin
cinnati movement. The people here at home
have hardly vet recovered from their aston
ishment at the conspicuous position given to
Maine in the Cincinnati Convention by half
a dozen gentlemen, all of them rather obscure,
and only two or three of them of even local
repute. Even as the great Maddox of Name
was the leading mind of the Apollo Hall Con-
vention, which nominated Mrs. Woodruff for
President, al thus gave to the world the i'm
preston that this is the great original Wood
hull and Douglass State, thoughevery County
had to be carefully examined with fine tooth
comb, before Maddox could be discovered, his
modesty being such that he has never before
been known outside of his own school district
so the selfselected, unsupported delegation to
Cincinnati, whose thin ranks New York so
kindly offered to fill, spoke for State which
knows it not.
But all that is past. If the fraud had ended
here, it might be dismissed with contempt.
But Maine is still made to walk in the Demo-
crato-Greeley procession, without its knowl-
edge or consent, by means of Geographic dis
frov, md
other towns, declaring that the Greeley ticket
''takes like wild-fire' among Republicans, that
a prominent Republican" has declared for
, Greeley, and that the Cincinnati nominations
are daily growing in favor with the Republican
masses. Now this isn't so. If the political
season were far enough advanced to begin nail
ing lies," this one would deserve immediate
attention, for it ought not to be endured with
patience that public opinion is created else
where, to react in turn an opinion here, by
reports which are so completely without foun-
dation. In one case, the prominent Repub-
licsn' who cleft Grant for Greeley" was
fund to be Mr.. MeCrillis of Bangor, who
hasn't been Republican these seven years,
having met with little disappointment in the
matter Of an Office, which made his former
political associations disagreeable toh him. This
is all the name we have heard. Now who are
the rest? If they exist they have names, and
it is not asking too much, we are sure, to re-
quire their production. Our theory is that
there is not a handful of Greeley Republicans
in Maine. When the news of the nomination
was first received, there was slight inclina-
ton on the part of few members of the in
evitable Tribune clubs to follow the man
whose ability as an editor, commanded their
respect in so high degree. But in week or
two the feelings of these gentlemen complete
ly changed. When they saw that Mr. Gree
ley's supporters were chiefly Democratic, that
the Tammany Democrats the ex-Rebels, and
the Ku-Klux Klans, were more enthusiastic
for him than any one else, and that the can
didate was making the most shameful sacrifice
of principle, for the sake of obtaining a
Democratic endorsement, they concluded not
to vote for Mr.. Greeley, and to abandon their
Tribune, when their subscription expires. In
towns where clubs Of twenty or thirty subscri-
bers for that paper have existed for years, it
will soon be without patrou, while the PRESS
and other Republican papers take its place.
Perhaps it would be good way to test Mr.
Greeley's Republican strength in Maine, to
call mass meeting of his supporters. 1t
would no doubt be large gathering, but it
would Enthusiastically be Democratic gather
ing. This was sufficiently obvious at Com
modore Churchill's recent flag-raising in this
city. And if meeting were to be called
here tomorrow, City Hall would be crammed
to its utmost capacity, by that same roaring,
screaming, bowling crowd, or as the argus
would say, something that filed every inch of
its space in 1865 to cheer for Seymour and
Blair-the same crowd that yelled out its APP
proval when those great Tammany reformers
O'Gorman and Fields, came down from New
York to tell us about Radical extravaganza
and corruption" when S. S. Cox, the Con-
gressional advocate of destroying the poor
remnant of American ship-building, discourse
ed OF the decay of American commerce."
and when Pendleton elaborated his greenback-
theory. II would be a large crowd, and it
would receive Mr.. Greeley very enthusiastic
ally if he should chance to be present But
the same men would receive Mr.. Greeley's
particular friend, Mr.. jefferson Davis, with
still greater favor. And if there were more
than dozen Republicans there, it would be
merely as spectators. 1t would be meeting
OF the Democratic party-a party that Horace
Greeley said one year ago was "Rebel to the
core'' a19.
In lieu OF other matters possibly at the sug-
gestion of the PROPRIETOR of the Sunday Star