The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-14
Election N0fes.

Election Notes.
The Chicago Times thinks that the man
who discovered Florida ought to be hung.
'You can BET your bottom dollar on Lou.
isiana for Hayes" was Gov. Kellogg's salu.
tation to General Logan on Thursday.
The Boston Globe is signing for George
Washington in Florida, the man who could
not tell lie.
According to the New York Herald Gov.
Tilden thus expresses himself; 81 don't
want any damned row, but wish to go into
office quietly and peaceably."
The Boston Transcript is disgusted at the
announcement of Florida oranges on the
hucksters' stalls. What it wants from Flori-
da is returns, not oranges.
The New York Herald is so taken with the
wisdom of President Grants words to Gen.
Sherman that they appear in italic type con-
spicuously displayed several times on every
page Of that paper.
Gov. Tilden received more than his total
Connecticut majority in three wards of Hart
ford and three of New Haven, regions which
correspond in character with the famous, or
rather notorious sixth ward of New York.
Gen, Garfield says that the discredit or
doubt thrown over the results in South Caro-
lima, Louisiana and Florida is the work of
the New York gamblers, who, under cover of
it, have been hedging their bets on Tildep.
Horace Davis, the Republican Congress-
man-elect from the San Francisco district, is
son of the late ''Honest John" Davis of
Worcester, and recently married the only
daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Start
King.
An attempt was made Friday to get from
the telegraphic Office at Philadelphia the dss-
patches of President Grant relative to the
excitement in Louisiana and Florida by
forged order purporting to be signed by the
President himself. The Superintendent was
too vigilant however and the scheme failed
On Wednesday, the Democrats claimed Il-
nois in the face of an adverse majority of TO-
900. On Thursday they claimed Ohio with
about equal reason, and on Friday they
jumped for South Carolina and Louisiana.
To-day they will probably make dead set
far Rhode Island and Vermont.
When Mr.. Tilden was believed 10 be elect.
ed, the Republicans promptly acquiesced in
the result. The Democrats had better do
like thing should Hayes prove to be elected.
They may well initiate the behavior of Gov.
Hayes himself when he supposed that he was
deteated.-N. Y. Euening Post.
Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida are
all naturally Republican states. In all there
is clear majority of colored voters, and the
treatment of those voters by Democrats has
not been such as to win them to that party.
If either has been carried by Mr.. Tiden it
has been by methods which no honorable
Democrat ought to justify.-N. Y. Tribune
The candidate of four parties in Massachu-
sets seems to have been broken down under
the load of "principles'' he was trying to
carry. Mr.. Baker, who ran for Governor as
the candidate of the Prohibition, Woman
Suffrage, Labor Reform, and Greenback par
| ties, has total vote of only about $4,000,
instead Of the 10000 his heterogeneous friends
| claimed for him.
The Norwalk Gazette, with Jealous eye
to the interests of the travelling public, made
this ringing appeal to voters of Connecticut
| on election morning: "Our candidate for
| Senator is Oliver Hoyt, the patriot, the phil
| anthropist, the Christian gentleman. The
| Democratic candidate for Senator is George
| III. Hoyt, the retailer of 25 cent sandwiches
| at the Stamford depot.''
Now is the time for items respecting the
venerable voter, who, beginning by voting for
Washington or Adams, ended perhaps on
last Tuesday by voting for Hayes or Tilden.
Particular mention is due to Capt. Chester
| Bugbee of Wrentham, Mass, who, being 90
| years of age, in spite of the peltings of the
ptiless storm, walked five miles to vote for
| Hayes and Wheeler. 1t is not necessary to
say that there is no doubt about the returns
rom Wrentham.
The Chicago Times makes light of sacred
things in manner which would bring down
upon it the censure of the whole people, if it
were published in this neighborhood, hut
which in Chicago simply "makes people
laugh" On the moraing following the elec-
tion it headed its news "Glory to God;" the
next day. when the result appeared so much
in doubt, it was "Let us pray;" and the next
day, "Lord, we believe, help thou our unbe-
lief in the somewhat doubtful states"
1t is always safest to be sure of a corpse be.
fore appointing funeral. The Cincinnati
Enquirer announced on Wednesday morning
that the Republican party has been en-.
tombed for generation, if not forever" add
ing: "The Republican party is now bereft O
emoluments, without an errand in the world
Its mission ended, it has begun to sleep it.
last sleep. An ephemeral party, party
builded on a single impulse, party fallen in
to unworthy hands, without the elements O
permanence, it has apparently met its doom
Now let us take care of the country proper
ly." AT present the corpse is kicking vic
lently.
The news was so bad that John S. Thomp
son, chairman of the Democratic executive
committee OF Ohio, issued on Saturday thi
extraordinary proclamation:
The claim of leading Republican newspa
pers and committees to the effect that Hayes
is elected is without foundation, and con
spiracy to usurp the Government. 1t is an
archy. Iti revolution. 1t is the despera
ton of desperate men. 1t will all fail. The
people have declared by their ballots that Til
den is elected by 203 electoral votes and by
majority of 100000 of the popular vote, an,