The Portland daily press., 1876-12-13
Political Notes.

| Blue Jeans" Williams, the newly elected
| governor of Indiana, recently signed his
name "James D. Williams, Gov. of ingeana."
Tilden can't see why its any worse to steal
| the vote of Oregon for Tilden than it was to
steal tie vote of New York for Seymour. In
| the latter case he was working for a friend, in
| the former for himself.
Notwithstanding the gravity of the stua-
tion the Chicago Tribune has the temerity to
remark that the attempted theft of an electo-
raj vote in Oregon is sine Cronin infamy OF
| the Tilden relormers."
was attended by heavy delegation OF Demo-
cratic Senators, marshalled by Mr.. Bayard.
The ceremony, says the New York Hirdld,
ought to be called cremation, so completely
was the corpse used up.
Public confidence in the justice of the DEM
| ocratic case is not strengthened by the will.
ingness of many of the managers of that
party TO grab vote from states which are
unquestlonably Republican.-New York
Ecening Post.
The spectacle of party trying to steal one
President and impeach another at the same
time has been reserved for the Centennial
JOois 4uO ouSCOoo Vi tAC SApCtIuCuG Will
doubtably be so lamentable that a second
trial will not be made for another century
N. Y. Tribune.
What position the Democratic party oc-
cupies. 1t has endeavored by violence in the
South, by fraud in New York city. and by
the most unblushing chcanery in Oregon to
elect Tilden. 1t threatens by some of its
members, to inaugurate him anyhow. And
this violent, fraudulent, clustering party
marches under the banner of "feiorm."-
Providence Journal.
Mr.. Cronin, the Democratic elector in Ore
gon, who has burst into national prominence
In such loose and irregular manner, is
brother Of Mr.. Timothy c. Cronn of Brook
lyn, one of the Republican electors of New
York. The latter gentleman is lawyer in
good standing, but he has never been able to
absorb in all of his practice so much law as
his now distinguished brother laid hands on
and fractured in few hours.
In the earlier and better days of the Maine
Democracy it honored such men as Hannibal
Hamlin and Lot NJ. Morrill,, and would not
care to have it known that Gov. Grover Of
Oregon, who has defed the will of the major
ity, is native of that state. But things have
CuduStu duu OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES vi mdilc,
in commencing his act, will take nride in say
ing that the man was born and educated in
Maine and is true scion of Maine Democra-
cy.-BGs ston Journal.
"We shall not take" says Mr.. George F.
Hoar, "either horn OF the dilemma which Mr..
Hewitt and his party present to the Republi-
cans. There is no necessary choice between
the counting of the fraudulent Tilden vote in
Oregon and opening the questions as to the
validity of the electoral votes in the three
disputed States. The Republicans will not
admit that if they refuse to go behind the
certificates Tilden is elected, or that If they
consent to go behind the certificates that
Hayesmay lose some Southern vote"
The Republican party programme in Con-
gress, according to the New York Tribune,
is likely to include this: The President of the
Senate, whoever he may be, being apprised Of
the names of the messengers appointed by
the legally authorized Electors, will doubtless
refuse to receive as the electoral vote the GER
tificates forwarded by rival electors; when
the counting takes place, the President of the
Senate will open all the certificates, and he
will not count as certificates the pieces of pa
| per which are known to be fraudulent ;there is
| no debate in order pending this connt, nor is
| there any constitutional appeal from it.
If the dispute about Oregon is not settled
| till Congress makes the final count in Febru-
airy the order in which the states are taken
! up at that time will be of interest. If the Or
| der of previous years is followed, Florida,
Louisiana and South Carolina will be passed
upon before Oregon, for the custom has been
| to take the states in geographical order, be-
| ginning with Maine and going through the
| Eastern, Middle, Southern and Western di-
visions. If they are taken in alphabetical or
| der Oregon will still be behind Florida and
Louisiana, though ahead of South Carolina.
In Missouri the Democrats found two dis
qualified men among their number. Their
colleagues proceeded to fill the vacancies and
their act appears to be entirely legal, Ike that
of New jersey. Ex-Chancellor Williamson
was disqualified, resigned, and another gen.
tleman was assigned 10 his place. We do not
question the regularity of that action, but if,
as we are told, Missouri and New Jersey were
right, then Oregon was clearly wrong, and If
the vote of Oregon is accepted, then the DEM
ocrats should lose two votes in Missouri and
one in New Jersey. Any other conclusion is
imbecie e-or rascaly.-Newark Advertiser,
Rep.
Mr.. Cooke, the Attorney General of Flori-
| da, who has made so much noise recently as
Tilden reformer, was appointed TO the office
by Gov. Hart out of sympathy for his power
| ty. Before his death Gov. Hart requested
Cooke to tender his resignation. Cooke re-
| piled that he would do so if the Governor
would make his request in writing. The
/ Governor did so and then the fellow refused
| to keep his promise. When Lieutenant Gov
ernor Stearns became Governor, on the death
of Governor Hart, all of the heads OF depart
ments except Cooke rendered their resigna-
| tions as a matter of courtesy.
Both the new Senators from Colorado are
| natives of New York. Both are lawyers aud
| mine owners. Jerome B. Chaffee was born
in Niagara county, New York, and is now In
his ffty-frs. year. 81. M. Teller was born in
| Allegheny county, and is in his forty.seventh
| year. Mr.. Chaffee has had some Congress
sional experience, having served as delegate
| from Colorado in the forty-second and forty
| third Congresses. He was likewise designated
| for the United States senator by the territori-
| al legislature in 1860, when the first applca'
| ton was made for the admission OF the state.
Mr.. Teller does not appear to have had any
| legislative experience. His career in Colora-
do since 1860 has been most prominent as a
| awyer.
In the history of Congress the Speakership
has been geographically distributed as iol-
lows: 1t has been held by Pennsylvania
three times; by Connecticut once; by New
Jersey three times; by Maryland once, pro
tempore Speaker; by Massachusetts, si1
times; North Carolina three times, for thret
successive Congresses, and by one man, Ma
thanel Macon; by Kentucky eight times
Henry Clay being Speaker; by New Yori
twice; by Virginia seven times; by New
Hampshire once, pro temp0re; by Tenuesse'
three times, James K. Polk being twic,
Speaker; by Indiana five times, Schuyler Col
fax being Speaker three of these five times
by South Carolina once, and by Maine thre'
times.
1t has been shown by proceedings in caucus
and in Congress, and is still more apparen
from private conversations, that the troubl
about the election is made almost exclusivel
by little knot of New York politicians, VIII
have their hearts upon controlling the pat
ronage of the government and of takin
possession of the offices. But for doze
men from the North, mostly from New Yorl
the opposition to the Inauguration Of Coy
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