The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-01-10
Political Notes.

Republican Congressman Wallace of South
Carolina grows surer every day that he can
prove such gross democratic frauds in his dis
trict, including the importation of some 1900
Georgans and North Carolinans, that the
next House will refuse to let the democrat
have the seat.
The Bounding" Banning, in the course of
mis- war talk the other day, uttered several
beautiful thoughts about the purity of the
ballot box. The gifted orator undoubtedly
spoke with feeling, for so many of the voters
who gave him bis majority at the last election
have been sent to the Penitentiary for voting
too often that Judge Matthews has decided
to contest the seat.
1t is greatly to the credit of members of the
Senate that nearly all of them have preserved
so dignifed reticence on the vexed Presi-
dental questions that the country is ignorant
to-day Ct :heir precise attitude. 1t is emf
nently fitting that man who is to act as a
Judge shall not warp his mind beforehand by
wrangling over the question he is to decide
upon.
Ii, therefore, the electoral colleges have
given Mr.. Hayes prima facie right to the
presidential chair, the honor and conscience
of this nation should demand his Inaugural
ton with an emphasis that shall put con-
tempt on the miserable bluff game which is
plainly being attempted by Mr.. Tilden's
friends-in the hope of parayzng che timid
Republicans who would consent to sell out
the colored people of this nation for the hope
of business prosperity Christian Union.
If the two houses of Congress shall fail to
solve the existing complication in respect to
the next counting of the electoral votes, the
exigency of the case will compel the presi-
dent of the Senate to assert his own preroga-
tives in the matter. The votes must be
counted, and the result officially declared !;
and, whether the two houses can agree with
each other or not, he certainly can agree
with himself He has the power by the con-
stitution, and in the emergency supposed it
would be his duty to exercise it.-Ne,v York
Independent.
1t is an unwrtten law in New Hampshire
that no man shall be Governor for more than
two consecutive terms. In accordance with
this crstom, Gov. Cheney will not be renom-
mated by the Republicans this year, though
if ability and fitness were considered, he
would undoubtedly be renominated and re-
elected indefinitely. 1t is thought now that
the new candidate whom the Republicans
will select will be either Gen. Matt Head or
Mr.. B. F. Prescott. There are dozen or
more other aspirants who have hopes. The
Democrats are undecided whether to nomin-
ate Mr.. Daniel Marcy again or take up a
new candidate. The national interest in the
election will center upon the Congressional
Districts, owing to the small Democratic ma
jority in the next Congress. Congressman
Jones of the 1st District will be renominated
and the Republicans will put up the best
man they can find against him. Ex-
Congressman Pike has declined renomina-
tion in the I'd District, where he was de-
feated by Mr.. Bell in in 1875. There are
several candidates for the nomination of
each party and it is undecided who will be
selected by either. Congressman Blair will
be renominafed in the Sd District. and prob
ably reelected, The Republicans hope to
secure all three Districts, and the Demo
Gratis are in the same sanguine frame of
mind