The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-18
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Political Notas

The Graphic notes the fact that silver. $50
long PROSTATE, rises to its feet in Congress
with a smile that is childlike and Bland,1
They've canYassed the whole State, but
they have thus far failed to find man in
Indiana with the pluck to say "Tilden and
Wheeler' to Governor Hendricks.
No sane man supposes that the President
OF the Senate will allow the votes of Mr.. Gro.
min asd his associates to be counted in Feb
ruary.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
We never had any doubt that the South
had more substantial and permanent benefit
to expect from the election of Hayes than It
mad from that OF fTilden.-Chicago T-ibuae.
The spectacle of a Presidential result con-
ceded to those who threaten mischief If it is
not yielded, suggests spectre indeed, a fut-
qre evi greater than any we have known.-
Brooklyn Union.
1t is horrible to imagine what might hap
pen TO this great and glorious country if the
Northern and Southern Democrats could de-
eide which OF them should fight and which
cry ''sp boyr
Whatever moral weight the Democratic po.
sition now has in the struggle over the vote
will be destroyed by any effort, even though
It be only piece of tactics, to use such per-
iormance as Cronin's as determining agen-
cy.-The Nation.
Says the Nation, SIT seems to us that the
only sound course now is to stop quibbng
and chopping logic, to accept the Southern
figures, however bedeviled, aud inaugurate
Hayes In the interest of peace and quiet, and
Tor the better preservation of constitutional
forms. Any other course is Mexican"
The candidates for the Republican nomina-
tion in the First New Hampshire Congress
sional District are Colonel Daniel Hall and
the Hon. 5. Al. Wheeler of Dover, the Hon.
D. +. Prescott of Epping, the Hon. John j.
Morrill, OF Guilford, the Hon. Alonzo Mute of
Farmington, General Gilman Marston of
Exeter, and the Hon. Jacob III. Ella OF Roch-
ester.
President-elect Hayes and Vice-P President
elect Wheeler will be inaugurated the 4th of
next March. 1t will be utterly useless for
any faction to try and prevent their Inaugural
ton, therefore it is to be hoped that the
Democratic leaders will take in the situation
calmly, and remember the fate of their politi-
cal predecessors in 1860, when they refused
to submit to the election cf Abraham Lin
coln.-Clereland Leader.
A source of great grief to the patriotic Dem
ocracy is the stolidity of the people, especially
CT the Republi can people. All attempts to
get up public protests against the inaugura-
tion OF Hayes are failures. 1t is hard and
weii-nigh impossible lesson for the 'sReform-
ers" TO learn that the public has a profound
mistrust of them and their methods, which
mistrust has not been lessened by the Oregon
performance.
The new epic "Deidre' is pronounced on
all sides to be fresh and charming poem,
but, seen through ultra Democratic eyes, it is
open to one grave objection. In the inven-
tory Of the trophies of a lively sea fight occur
these lines:
Great spears bedecked with many golden stud,
And helms and mail-shrts still unwashed of blood.
We need not point out to our Democratic
friends that 'mail-shirt still unwashed of
blood" is, rather obviously, bloody shirt.
We leave the author of Deirdre to make his
peace with those whose feelings he has thus
outraged, as best he can.-Albdny Journal.
Interesting facts continue to come to light
about that "solii' $1,000 Democratic MAORI
ty in Georgia. A New Englander who owns
a plantation in Southwestern Georgia. whom
the Boston Journal vouches for as favorably
known in its city, writes to friend:
I'm this part Of the country elections are
district there are at least two Re-
publicans to one Democrat, and yet the
Democratic candidate was elected by at
least two to one, Here in A--they had.
side by side, with two entrances, what they
called white mans box and negro box;
but any negro who would vote the Democrat
ic ticket was allowed to vote at the white
mans box without any questions being
asked, while at the negro polling place all sorts
| OF delays we're occasioned by the Democratic
officials in looking up tax receipts and going
off to offices to look up tax lists etc., so that
at night, what with one means of delay and
another, there were more than four hundred
voters in line who had not voted when the
polls were closed-besides large number
who had become discouraged and disgusted
before night aud gone home. This is the
way the thing is done here in one of the
most quiet and best portions of Georgia. A
few days since prominent Democrat said to
me that the Democratic majority here was
too large. He did not think it looked well.
| replied that / thought not, since we all
knew if the vote was allowed to be cast this
district would be Republican by more than
two to one."