The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-28

The great change from 1855 to 1856 is prob
ably due to the distaste felt by the people of
Connecticut for the negro suffrage tenden-
cies of the Republican party, the State having
given majority of 6272 against that reform
in 1S65-the same year that it gave the Re-
publican ticket majority of over eleven
thousand. In 1868 Connecticut gave Grant
50,641 votes and Seymour only 47,6OO ma
jority of over three thousand for the former.
In the present Legislature the Republicans
have 26 majority on joint ballot.
The prospect for Monday is decidedly good,
though two independent candidates are in the
field who will draw off about 1900 votes from
Gov. Jewell, the Republican candidate. The
"Labor Reformers," who vote for Mr. Harri-
son, and the temperance men, who vote for
Francis Gillette, will really give their votes to
Mr.. Hubbard, whom the Democracy have
made their leader this year instead of James
e. English. But the temperance and 'La-
Dor Reform" vote is estimated at only about
two thousand in the aggregate, and it is prob
able that the part Of these factions which
comes from the Republican party will not re-
duce its majority below five hundred.
The Connecticut election is very important
on this account: its result will enable the
country to form somewhat accurate esti-
mate of what the Democracy can do when
they go the furthest possible towards profess
ing to accept the consequences of the war,
and toward adopting the humane and pro-
gressive political tenets of their adversarics
The Democratic platform is transcript of
that framed by the 'Liberal Republican"
Convention of Missourians, who issued the
call for the gathering of malcontents at Gin
cinnati on the first day of May. 1t accepts
. all the constitutional amendments, and de-
clares against the distinctive Democratic
proposition that the national debt ought to be
partially repudiated by paying it in paper cur
rency instead of coin. Accordingly, the De-
mocracy of Connecticut may reasonably ex-
pect to reap the utmost possible benefit from
pretended concession of all that their polit-
ical opponents have ever demanded. They
have adopted what is substantially Republi-
can platform. If by such tactics, they sue
coed in Connecticut, it is not impossible that
they may, by the same means, succeed in the
Presidential election. If, ON the other hand,
the people of Connecticut show by their con-
duct at the polls that they place proper esti-
mate on the death-bed repentance of the Con-
sentative party, and that they appreciate the
motives that lead to the pretended radical
change of opinion, it may be concluded at
once that ''the passive policy with the pas
sive attachment will prove signal failure
throughout the country. The election of Mr..
Hubbard and the choice of Legislature that
will send Democrat to the United States
Senate in place of Mr.. Ferry, would make it
necessary for the Republicans throughout the
country to put forth vigorous effort to pre-
vent a national defeat. But the election of
Gov. Jewell and the choice of Republican
Legislature will relieve much of the anxiety
that is felt by patriotic men concerning the
Presidential elacton s..-.