The Portland daily press., 1872-09-25
The Easiest Explanation the Most Salts
factory

The Easiest Explanation the Most Salts
factory.
The theories of the opposition party in re-
gard to the Republican victory in this State
are quite diverse. While Democrats outside
the State, taking their cue from Honest Hor-
ace, are giving each other the wink, and say
ing sour best way is to declare that we ex-
pectcd nothing from Maine," certain "Liber-
als'' who know that their very recent ex-
pressions of confidence in great Democratic
triumph cannot have been forgotten, and
whose personal vanity has been cruelty
wounded, are forced to account for the failure
of the tidal wave business by the hypothesis
of some great disturbing cause, that thwart-
ed the natural and spontaneous expression Of
the popular will We have seen how broth
er of the liberal Pike-an old moustache of
the Tribune's corps of contributors, who well
understands the Tribune tactics-accounts for
little majority of Ouer three thousand in the
fifth district by the hypothesis of bribery!
But that isn't the worst Of it. Now comes
the Congressional candidate in the fourth dis
trict, whom a few years ago the patriotic cit
liens of Bangor came near throwing into the
Penobscot after his disloyal press which al
ready reposed at the bottom. and accounts
for little majority of ooer Jiue thousand in
the same way! Thus the reductio dd absur-
dun is complete. Here we have over four
thousand Stree and enlightened citizens' in
a territory embracing only two-ffths of the
State, who are alleged to have accepted brides
for voting as they have always voted with the
difference that the opposition candidates,
whom they have defeated, were exceptionally
unworthy, dishonest, and consequently un-
popularl The organ of the liberal Lang
the most scurrilous and untruthful sheet ever
published in Maine-accounts for that worthy's
defeat by majority ofthirty-seoen hundred in
the same easy way. In short the local Dem
ocratc theory is that Maine was carried
against the party of slavery, retrogression and
free rum by fraud, over nine thousand voters
having received that modern equivalent for
"Britsh gold;" ''Zack Chambers money!
for voting as they usually have for the last
eventeen years.
But we caution our readers against accept
ing these extravagant theories with too
much confidence. An easier explanation is
that the people of Maine concluded to vote
right in accordance with well established
habit they have formed. 1t is to be observed
that none of our accusers are able to make
specific charges or to bring to justice one of
the nine thousand corrupt voters or of their
numerous seducers. 1t is certainly strange
that even the liberal Pike, who is most bla-
tant in his charges of fraud, is not able even
to initiate prosecution against single per-
son when brides are alleged to have been
"openly" offered and taken right under his
liberal nose. The entire Democratic argu-
ment proceeds priori, there being absolute
ly no induction of facts. Messrs. Pike,
Emery and Lang, adopting the absurd
premise that they are better men than Hale,
Hersey and Blaine, assume that there must
have been gross bribery or they would not
have been defeated. What inconceivable
stupidity! Take the districts in their order,
and see how natural the result seems to per-
sons not blinded by their own greed and van
ity. As if it were not reason enough to ac-
count for the defeat of Pike that the people
Of the fifth district preferred man of princi-
pie, who had never sold himself for Office,
who had never repudiated the most vital
principles of the Republican party, and who
had never shown himself to be mere polit-
ical adventurer, regardless of everything but
his own absurd pretensions and selfish inter-
ests, to man to whom this description ex-
actly applies preferred 4 representative
who has done something and is capable of
doing much more for his constituents and
the country, to one whose claim to the favor
able consideration of his neighbors seems to
rest chiefly on an autograph letter from Gen.
Schenck! AS if it were not sufficient ex-
PLANTATION of the defeat of Emery, that the
people of the fourth district declined to be
represented in Congress by gentleman who
did his little all to aid the Rebels in disrupt
ing this Union, and who has up to date never
uttered one word of repentance As if the
fact that one OF the foremost men in the
country was elected in the third district over
q person who once owned reputable stallion
needed any explanation In short, as if the
failure of corrupt bargain between few
ambitious and unprincipled Republicans and
the Democracy was not the most natural and
salutary thing in the world!
The editor of a Maine paper referring to
MS position as "a gentleman of neither sex''
In the present political canvass, saws:
so far as we, individually, are concerned
we oon know what to Slight about.'' We
are Gtree-trdder; we believe in the ono torn,
principle; in free men, and free sneecb that
the national government has authority 70 mt
down rebellion. '' " put
Any man who talks in that way, would talk
about "our wife, without a shudder or
groan. When the late lamented John Pbp-
nix took temporary charge of the San Diego
Herald, he made the following explanation:
1t will be perceived that have not avaiIed
myself of the editorial privilege of using the
plural pronoun in referring to myself This
Is simply because l consider it a ridiculous af-
recitation. am "a lone, lorn man" 1.-THE
Lord De thanked for his infinite mercy,) and
Chough blessed with consuming appetite
" Whlcn causes the keepers of the house where
! poaru 10 tremble, 1 do not think I hare a
.ope IeCrm; therefore have no claim to call
Du' rnoenlx used it with intensely conical
enect IN his oft-parodied descrintion Of hi.
COMBAT with the real editor of tho IT.,
when that gentleman returned and found
.nat DIS substitute had changed the politics Of
his paper. 1--WE held the Judge down ouon
the press by our nose (which we had ins.rtod