The Portland daily press., 1876-03-30
Political News.

lho DcuOCIdIlC OrSduS OUT west are De-
ginning to train their guns on Bristow.
That's significant.
Congressman Payne is held up to odium by
rag-money Ohio papers as bloated national
banker and seven-millionaire.
Four of the nine members of Congress
from Iowa decline to be candidates for re
election. They are Messrs. McCrary, Kasson,
McDil and Ainsworth.
The Concord Monitor prints the returns OF
the complete vote of New Hampshire for gov.
ernor at the late election. They show that
that Governor Cheney's plurality over Cap
tain Marcy is 1857, and that his majority
over all is 3,242. The total vote was SO,2SS,
the largest ever polled in the state.
The New York World says: Southern
Democrats are about as likely to vote to con-
firm Dana minister to Great Britain as to
elect Blaine president of the United States"
1t is nothing new to find Southern Democrats
and Ben Butler working together.
The Cincinnati soft-money organ has been
too mad thus far to say much about the
abandonment of the rag baby by the Penn
sylvania Democrats. 1t merely remarks in a
bitter way that they were "either terrible
liars last year, or they are terrible liars now."
The observation appears 10 have grain of
truth ip It."
A Democratic paper in Georgia reports
that the Republicans of that State will sup
port an Independent candidate for Governor,
and that they intend organizing for vigor
GUS campaign in the Presidential contest, and
have serious notions of making the fight hot
in many of the Congressional Districts, as
well as in counties and State Senatorial Dis.
tricts.
The Marysville (CaD appeal, one of the
ablest and most jealous of the Independent
organs for the last three years, has come out
explicitly in favor Of the Republican cause in
the approaching Presidential campaign. The
San Francisco Alta says that it is generally
understood that those who were formerly
members of the Republican party, will nearly
all return to their old associations ready to
do their best against the rule of the Democra-
cy with its attendant evils.
In recent leader, the New Orleans Re
publican remarks: The Republican party
has now to answer for the misdeeds of the
same mean and selfish class. They are all
heaped up and hawked about all over the
Union as a reason why Republican principles
| should be repealed. Is it right that grand
party, which has established the principles o.
| the government, should be driven from pub
| lie trust for the selfish and sensual profits OIL
the few who dishonor and destroy it? Dc
men remember that if the Republican party
is expelled, the Democratic party will take its
place? That defeat occasioned by the de
fault of a few bad men will be eli famed to
mean condemnation Of Republican princi.
pies are set aside, there must be another war,
either in or over the Union?
There is an unhappy Democratic editor in
Titusville, Penn. He has been standing Oh
the Democratic platform of last year and
yelling like hero for the rag baby. Sud
denly his party turns up in a convention as 8
hard-mcney organization, punches the petted
infant between the eyes, and declares for the
bloated aristocrat's gold and silver as the
''only true basis for the currency Of the Re-
public" The editor is astounded. "If it
were not wicked" he says, eve should swear
little;' desire entirely natural under the
circumstances. As for going back on the rag
baby, he will never do it. He will go back
on the party sooner. ''For quarter of a
century we have voted the Democratic
ticket" he proudly boasts, land have never
swerved in giving the party an unfaltering
support. Year after year we have consented
to be led like lamb to the slaughter, and so
long as the party remained true to its prin-
cipes we were never discouraged under de-
feat. But if there are any who expect US TO
stultify ourselves they will expect in vain"
1t must be monotonous to be 'led like a
lamb to the slaughter" every year for quar-
ter of century. Even Job himself would
feel like varying the proceedings with bolt
aftor an eynariapoa lilo that