The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-23

county Democrats held their County conven-
ton. The attendance was not large and no
speakers from abroad were present. Hon. S.
P. Morrill, addressed the convention in behalf
of the cause, charging the administration with
the grossest corruption. The convention made
the following nominations: Senator, Reuben
Cutler of Farmingtonr Attorney, S. Clifford
Belcher of Pennington; County Commission
er, Albert Pease; Register of Probate, John
G. Brown; Sheriff, Davis Howard; Treasurer,
John Willis
Our Pennington correspondent writes us
that GRAFT and Wilson club was formed in
that town Tuesday evening with the follow
ing officers President Col N. G. Goodenow :;
Vice President, Hon. Daniel Howes; Record
ing Secretary, A. II. S. Davis; Cor. Secreta-
ny, Capt. E. 1. Merrill; Treasurer, F. C. Per-
kins. Esq. The Club has on its rolls the
names of one hundred ahd fifty members.
Speeches were made by Gen. Swift and Gov.
Austin.
A Bridgton correspondent says of the zebra
club which the argus reports to have had
eighty names when organized, that it had
thirty names only fourteen of whom have
ever been regarded as Republicans which is
hardly the average number of boilers at party
elections.
Two ways of looking at it.: Gushing Gree
ley man-"Remember the parable of the
prodgal son, in the good book, and let us
show a spirit of compassion, as did
the father to the erring one." Practi-
cal Republican-"Oh, yes; remember that
| story perfectly -fhow the old man went
| out and met the erring one, and gave
him suit of clothes and ring, and a
veal supper, and then hop in the evening
but don't remember reading that the old
| gentleman asked him to take charge Of the
farm" o.
An Oxford county correspondent says the
Democrats are working with more zeal than
l ever knew them to in any year past to keep
up the Greeley movement among the old
stagers VIII, make wry faces when they are
asked to swallow Greeley. The leaders will
make it business to electioneer until after
election. We shall meet them man for man.
A vote taken among the operatives in Mar
gesson & Uptons boot and shoe mandatory
in Bangor the other day, resulted for Grant
and Wilson Is; for Greeley and Brown 8.
''Straws show which way the wind is blow
ing"
Our Phillips correspondent says that on
the 18th the Republicans of that village IN
| flrled to the breeze Grant and Wilson flag
The Republicans of the Northern part OF
Franklin county are awake and alive to the
Importance of the hour and will give good
account of themselves at the approaching
election.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says of the pros
pect in Indiana. ''The Liberal cause in In
diana shows signs of decentralization, and the
Liberals themselves give visible evidence of
their unhappy condition. They find that the
Republican meetings of all kinds are attended
better than theirs; and the Republican organ
ization is strong and working smoothly, while
theirs is decidedly loose: that many promi-
nent Democrats will not sell themselves out
to Greeleyism; that there is decided Dem
ocratic detection among the masses as well
as among leaders, and that the good pros
poets of a Republican victory in November
are growing better daily. Under these cir
cumstances, the Liberals will carry through
their campaign efforts with failing hearts,"