Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-10-07
POLITICAL NOTES.

When the Herald Is lecturing the Re.
publican papers for their unreliable cSti-
mates OF the vote In Maine IL should re-
member that the Republican estimate OF the
Republican vote was 10000, while the Her
lH estimate last July was $1,000. The
actual Republican vote was little over %,
900.
That Secretary Eyarts has learned
something in the past two years j. proved
by his statement of the Southern question
in the following pithy sentences: The
South went into the war and lost every
thing but honor. II went into Congress
and lost everything it had saved from the
war"
The Republican vote in Maine in 1871.
in round numbers. was 50. 600; in 1873, So
COO: In 1879, Is, 900. The Democratic vote
the same years respectively was $4,000,
- 600 and - 600. And yet there are sta
tisticianS of the Democratic persuasion
who really cipher out satisfactory footings
for the Democracy.
The Boston Post Dem ask. Mr..
PillSbury the following question :-"Will
surviving friends and relatives please com
fort many anxious hearts with information
sand democrats who made such splendid
show in the call for the convention which
nominated GOV. GarcelonE'
The Belfast Ige says the GreenbackerS
were able TO have only three or four
speakers from abroad Let Us see. There
were De La Matyr and Weaver and Harp
er and Boynton and Duncan and Sargent
and Hull and Miller and Trevellych
and McIntire and Straun and Stubs and
Call and Graifan. Here are fifteen and
there are Othcrs.-PortldHd Press.
The philadelphia Times, an independ-
snt newspaper, says that 1.-THE Republican
triumph in Maine is one which settles the
politics of Maine for years 10 come Hav-
ing fooled with the Greenback hereSy, the
Times further observes that the IDem-
ocratS of Maine must start like the inven-
tive gentleman who proposed TO have s
barrel built around a bunghoe."
Democratic press has just got well
under way in its abuse of Gen. Sherman
because he wrote the North Carolina Con-
federateS that he could see no good in
meetings OF Union and Confederate sol
dicrs. 1t is too bad that the man who
marched through Georgia from Atlanta
70 the sea" will not come TO believe that
there is no practical difference between the
Union and rebel soldier.
The Lewiston Journal says the
strength of fusion was much less on the
Senatorial and county tickets, on which a
union was attempted, than on the Guber
Material tickets. This is fair sample of
all such political engineering. If anybody
can tell an instance in which the Demo
cratic party has gained substantial strength
bv fusion, he will confer a favor by report
Ing it.-BoSt0H Post.
The STAR John Kelly'S paper, says
that "once for all let il be distinctly known
that Tammany Hall, in the name of the
true Democracy of the United States and
of this State, has utterly and finally repu-
dated and divorced itself from Tildensm.
The use of ciphers in our politics is a
plague-spot that must and shall be stamped
out The wrecking of railroads and the
employment OF Wall street syndicate meth
DDS shall no longer, if the Democrats of
Tammany and the whole Empire State can
prevent il, be cast into the teeth Of the
Democratic party as by-word and re-
proach."
The national treasury contains 3, OOO,-
600 pounds of silver cOin-l500 tons-of
which 1000, 900 pounds, or 1000 tons, are
dollars. Nobody wants this coin-it does
not enter into the circulation; but the
minis continue TO turn out the dollars and
the great pile increases. at does not
seem possible" says the Boston Herald,
"that a Congress composed of anything
else but idiots or lunatics could continue
this policy, which does nobody but the
owners of silver mines any good, while it
locks up a large amount of money that
neither earns interest nor helps TO make
the currency stable"