The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-02-16
Political Notes.

''The American Warwick" is the way to
refer to Judge Bradley, nowadays.
1t is characteristic revenge which the
Democrats are wreaking on Judge Bradley.
They call him "Joe."
Happily for Richard Grant Whites nerves,
he is out of the country, for they do say there
are Congressman who call it the Electoral
Commission.
The Chicago greenbackers have resolved
that they "heartiy rejoice over the election
to the United States Senate of that honest
and able statesman, David Davis"
you can tell US of any way in which the
seven-spot can be made to take the eight,
we Democrats here will be confident too.-
Congressman Morri2on to HOpefuI st.
Louis Democrat.
The Democratic Representatives, who
voted to give the seat of Mr.. Patt of Virginia
to Mr.. Goode, fail to comprehend how it is
that an honest Tribunal can divide exactly
on the party line.
'1f can't whip you, know what l can
do; can make faces at your little BROTHER"
So the Democracy, having failed to convince
the Tribunal, are making faces at Justice
Bradley.
If the board of arbitration should declare
that Mr.. Tilden is not entitled to the Presi-
dency, there would be general feeling OF re-
lief even among the Democrats, and a CORES
ponding feeling of satisfaction that an honest,
digniied, incorruptble man had won the
prize.-Chicag0 Tribune.
With Representative Purman espoCsing
the Democratic side of the Florida case and
Matt Carpenter heroically endeavoring to
earn the fee Tilden is to pay him tor pleading
his cause in Louisiana, the Democrats bright
ened up bit. They are welcome to all the
consolation they can get that way.
Long after the question, Who shall be
President ceases TO be of any interest, long
after the candidates, the commissioners, the
Senators. the Representatives, and all per-
sons who are concerned in the present con-
troversy have disappeared from among men.
the decision in the Florida case will be re-
garded as wise avoidance of a grave consti-
tutonal danger.-New York Post.
1t is worth noting as suggestive historical
fact that the Republicans Of this day hold the
same views on the subject of the powers of
Congress over the counting of the electoral
vote as the Jeffersonian Republicans of 1900.
1901; while tie Democrats OF to-day are hold
ing positions taken and enforced by the most
lattitudinarian constructionists aud most
centralizing politicians of the same period.
The Republican counsel before the electo-
raj tribunal, have had their attention called
to two decisions, one by Judge Strong when
he was State Judge in California, both of
which have direct bearing on the Oregon
case. Both decisions are to the effect that the
English practice cannot be applied to our
system, and that an election in the United
States cannot be awarded to minority can
didale.
Senator-elect Hoar is the arbitrator whom
the Democrats expect now to ''rise above
party and prove the forlorn hope of their
cause. The Boston Posts Washington cor
respondent pats him on the back in neat
way, and thinks he NAV yet set an example
by ''rising." He says: "Mr. Hoar is now
generally regarded here as the fairest Re-
publican on the Commission, and an honest
judgment is looked for from him, more even
than from Bradley, in the Louisiana case,
with which he is personally more familiar
than any other member of the Commission"
Rogues seem to take to the Democratic
party as certainly as ducks to water. When.
ever man calling himself Republican COM
mits meanness and begins to hate himself,
he turns to the Democrats for consolation.
Misery finds plenty of company there. Thus
Littlefed. Maddox and the South Carolina
Moses family, having exhausted the patience
of ihe Republicans, 60 over to plague the en-
emy with their favor. And now Purman of
Florida, at the eleventh hour in the contro-
versy, when the Tilden case is so desperate
that the barl of money rattles round in the
hearing OF all who are "open to conviction"
reads speech to the admring ex-Confeder-
ates which bears evidence Of having been
prepared by the Tilden Bureau. The Demo-
cratic party serves as good system of drain
age for the Republican party.-Boston Trao-
eIler.
Many of our best men, even among the
leaders of public opinion. seem to have been
misled by their disgust at the abuses of car
pet-bag and negro rule, so far as to forget the
great and real issue, which is that the elec-
ton of free government must be guarded
against fraud and violence. Abuses there
have been-not to be forgotten or paliated.
Whatever responsibility belongs to the Re.
publican party for the misconduct of men
who have outraged its confidence in them, it
must bear. But we are now dealing with the
facts of this election, and the evidence of yio-
ence used to defeat the free expression of
the popular will must be taken account of by
those who have the responsibility of acting
upon the issues involved, and more especially
by those who are attempting to shape and
control the moral sentiment of the country
in regard to them.-B0ston Advertiser.
1t is hard to find a Democratic paper that
speaks in terms of respect of the Electoral
Tribunal since the decision in the Florida
case. The Raleigh IN. c. Observer is an
exception. 1t makes the following COM
ments: 'It is true that the Inauguration of
Mr.. Hayes will be a triumph of vilainy with
out a parallel in this country; but it does not
follow therefrom that the Electoral Commis-
sion is corrupt in refusing to expose it. They
having so sworn, vhen they shall decide,
even if it be against us, we do not intend to
impugn their motives. If,in their opinion,
they have no right to go back of the certifi-
Gates of the Electoral College, we shall not
charge them with being perjurers for not
having done so. This is not much, but in
these days of Democratic intolerance it is
something.
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