The Portland daily press., 1877-10-12

NEW YORK, Oct 1.-The Times conde INNS
the resolutions OF last nights meeting with
faint praise and commends Mr. Curtis's sn eech
for its moderation and excellent taste of tenn
per- The Times says of the attitude of the Pres
ldent relative to the Ohio election: Comments
supplied from Washington only complioats the
folhes ard mysteries of the Ohio election. If the
result occasions no surprise in administration
circles why was principle sacrificed with view
of avoiding it? 1t is traced to causes which
have gradually acquired strength sufficient to
make it inevitable. Why did the RennhIican
managers add to foreordained defeat the dis
grace inv olved in wanton abandonment of
convictions previously cherished And if the
President is able to extract consolidation and
even encouragement from the fact tpat tho
policy condemned by the Republicans COM
meDds itself to the Democrats why should the
administration trouble itself to prevent Demo-
cratic successY If the administration looks
with complacency upon Democratic victory
in the state where the President and Sec
reretary of the Treasury WELD much personal
influence, how shall we hereafter estimate the
relationship of parties to the administration its
personnel and policy? Finally, are we to con-
clude that the country has entered upon
mooernlzed era OF good feeling, the President
caring more for the friendly professions of the
party that labored to keep him out of his Office
than for the party that struggled to place him
in it. and depending for his reward upon the
magnanimity of partisan opponents rather than
upon the Honest appreciation of long tried
friends? These are not irrelevant inquiries, as
at first glance they might seem to be- They
are closely connected with the history and mys-
terry of the contest just over in Ohio, and they
have an obvious bearing upon the future atti-
tude OF the Republican party toward the adj
ministration to which 1T gave existence. The
Times characterzes the course of Stanley Mat
thews and Judge West in the campaign as
ptitul demagoguism, and trues Republicans
oil nlt,la FA1ia
"Much Indifference among the Republicans
must be attributed to the Presidents Southern
policy. OF all influences which have contrib
uted to defeat this is the most potent The vet.
Grams OF the Western reserve feel rightly or
wrongly that the cause they cherished has
been betrayed, and the feeling is visible, more
or less distinctly, every where. 1t does not gre
dominate, but it is sufficiently strong to leave
mark ON election day. OF what avail is the
assurance that the Presidents policy extor is
praise from the Democracy? The fact remains
that the Southern people do not allow the con-
cilatory acts of the administration TO wean
them from their alliance with the Democratic
party, and that the Democrats, while hailiDg
the President as practical expounder of their
views, continue to vote for their own caodi-
dates. Considering the subject as one of prin-
clpe. the President may refuse to be swayed
by partisan predictions even though the party
be that to which he is indebted for the authori-
ty he exercises Ii the South evinced its sy M
pathy with him by sharing his non-partisan
ideas of duty, the sensitveness of Northern
Republicans would be materially abated. The
concessions. however, are as yet all on one side
and the Republicans are divided in couse-
queuce What the division may amout to a
few more debates will enable all of US to under
stand,
The Tribune says: Communism has carried
Ohio. This is one thing certain, whatever else
may be-conjectured. No doubt dislike of the
Presidents course toward the South cost some
Republican votes, but nearly all those who vot-
ed the Democratic ticket heartily approve that
course, as do a majority OF the Republicans.
Many votes we're lost in consequence of the in
activity of officials who have been n the habit
OF giving much time to campaign work or
through dislike of mistaken methods and to
palpable blunders of the administration
The World says of the Ohio election: "The
true national value OF the victory Monday con :
slsts in this, that 1t leaves the President with
out a party at his back, disposed, as we are
willing 10 believe, and compelled, as all men
who can STE anything now must clearly see to
administer the affairs Of the whole Union un-
der the supervision of the people of all sections
of the Union, and in hai mony with the rights,
the feelings, and the Interests of them ALL"