The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-17
Election Notes.
This world is but a fieeting show,
For mans Elusive ways;
The smiles of joy, tlse tears of woe,
Uncertain shine, uncertain flow

There's nothing sure but Hayes.
''Who do you think is elected?" is getting
to be as exasperating as "What do you think
OF the Beecher case" used 10 be.
According to Democratic ethics it is right
and sweet and beautiful for Democrats to
claim doubtful states for Ti,den on meagre
and partisan testimony, but when Repub-
licans claim them for Hayes on much better
evidence, it is infamous fraud, radical ras-
cality, &c. Democrats are close reasoners..
Indianapolis Journal.
If you want really impartial man to
count your Louisiana votes, send Sam
Bowles. He is earnestly in favor of both
sides, and sits on the hay-mow and doesn't
care whether the bear or the dog comes out
ahead. If he can't elect either Hayes or
Tilden honestly he will put in the son of the
last of the Adamses Graphic.
If the Democratic editors who are working
themselves into such perspiration about an
imagined danger to the liberties and freedom
of the people will pause long enough to feel
the popular pulse for moment they will dis
cover that they are bowling in wilderness.
The people are perfectly calm, and in good
sense and cool judgment are far in advance
of the editorial demagogues.
Mr.. Watterson is a capital fellow, but he
has an enormous capacity for producing roor
backs. He discovered a few days before elec-
ton plot to withdraw Gov. Hayes and put
Gen. Grant in his place, and imagined all
sorts of despotic results from the change.
His dispatches from New Orleans should be
double discounted, and then double dis
counted again, and finally read as joke.
Sunday on his way to Florida. He didn't
seem to think he was going there to help elect
anybody by fraud, for one of his staff officers
said to a reporter of the Constitution, who
| asked if the General proposed to have any
thing to do with the ballots, "Nothing what
ever. He simply proposes to use the forces
| under his command to prevent any violence
| from any one. The people in both parties
are excited, and it is the object cf the troops
under his command to prevent any improper
| conduct
| The worst feeling man in the country seems
to be in the Office of the Baltimore Gazette.
He has vented himself in a column article in
which he imagines all sorts of outrages and
tumults in Louisiana, yells frantically to the
'Freemen of America" to rise up and take
| the occasion by the hair, and when he has got
his war well under way shouts, SIN Gods
name, let this unmanly strife be averted!'
As hint of what is the matter with him he
tells us, ''The spirit of Liberty is not yet dead
in our midstP It is clear case of green-ap
pie colic-in his midst.
Not single Republican journal has oh.
jected to the sending of men of both partie:
into Louisiana to secure fair count. All o
them are glad to have every precaution taker
to secure an honest result, and all of then
see in the sending of troops an addtiona
safeguard. There is no attempt to cover u
the real facts or to dodge the truth when
comes. The Democratic journals, on tn
other hand, do nothing but rail at every pre-
} caution as step in the interest OF fraud
They charge that the troops are sent there
protect fraud, when they have not the slight
} est proof of any such intent, and when the
? | are well aware that ii such an lnfamon
thing is attempted the prominent Democrat
there will detect and denounce it. What
the meaning of all this clamor? What is th
: meaning of the different attitudes OF tn
| two parties? Can there be any doubt whlc
side is more anxious for en- honest doubt?
The Southern correspondent of the CinciI
natl Commercial overheard the following tai
: in Atlanta the day after election, when it VIZ
), thought Gov Tilden was elected: "'Pll b'
Ben Hill will have place in the Cabinet
!, heard one of his friends say. And the rep
!, was, No doubt Hill will have it offered
q him, but he would rather go to the Senate
+ And the conversation went on: who do 70
s suppose will be the most influential l., man
% the South with the Administration ~ Il
is mar who next?' Ben HILL Don't yo
s believe both of these men will have place
whether they do or not they'll shape thin
! at this end of the line.' Yes, and Watterse
: of Kentucky will have a big finger in the pi
Of won't hep yes, he'll be Postmaster-Ge
a. eral.' but, say, if Tilden gives two plac
: in the Cabinet to Southern men we ought
% be satisfied. want Charles Francis Adar
j, in. anyway. He'll give the Administrati'
Iy weight and dignity that nobody else cam "