The Portland daily press., 1880-10-14
THE FUsroN1sTs.
How They Received the News from the
West.

Tuesday evening when the news from the
elections in Ohio and Indiana began to come
in it was noticed that there was sudden
thinning out of the crowd of "leaders" that
had collected around the Argus office and at
the Democratic headquarters. Col. LYMAN
went home to take look at his old commits
sion OF postmaster of Portland, Mr.. Joshua
Emery couldn't at midnight have risen to a
point Of order even if he had been attending
meeting of the Greenback city committee
and the entire party seemed completely de.
morallzed except Cap'n Chase who isn't the
man to give up until the last moment 1t is
reported that the Cap'n still holds out, insist.
ing that the votes in Indiana may be tabulated
SO as to show Democratic majority, and it is
understood that the Cap'n is still further
willing to volunteer himself, and to take Fogg
with him to serve on the board of tabulators.
But with yesterday morning the real trouble
commenced with the Fus ionists. The noise of
Captain Morrill's salute woke them up, but
they found consolation and hope in the Argus
Consolation that was turned into lamentation,
and hope that became despair when they
opened the Press extra edition and read the
returns that told the story of how the Republi-
can drive" had carried the Hancock ''boom'
away. The hardest shelled of all the hard
shell Democrats could see no reason of hope
The righteous have hope in death, but the
recollection of that fact did not help the feel.
ings of the Fusionists, as it was not that class
that had died. Cap'n Chase did what in him
lay to give hope and courage to the dis
couraged Fusionists and almost pounded his
hand off, hitting lamp-posts while trying to
impress on the minds of his friends that
"Well get Hancock in yet.''
A prominent Republican merchant while
coming down town yesterday morning ven
tured to ask another prominent business man,
who isa strong Democrat, how he liked the
news from Indiana. "You feel id we'll
don't you?" replied the Democrat, "apd think
you are smart, but I tell you that you got"
here he was interrupted by the firing of a
Republican national salute, and said with
more anger than before, "There it goes again,
Don't the id fools know that they are
firing the death knell of the Republican party?
tell you that this will work the Democrats
up all over the country"
The elections, of course, was the one SUBJ
lect OF conversation, and the disgust and dis
couragement of the Fusionists was everywhere
manifested. One man who had probably lost .
some money on the election in Indiana de-
clared that he would never, no never bet on
Democratic state again. and that he would
not credit the statement that Georgia is safe
for Hancock.
The late dreadful Frank NJ Fogg was in
town all day yesterday, getting ready to come
here to publish the Chronicle. Fogg could
not credit the news from Indiana, but stood
on the street corner and said that he proposed
to hold on for fuller returns, and true to his
tabulating instincts, said that nothing but an
official count would settle the question
The Argus Office was lonesome looking
place yesterday. The best was done that
could be considering that it didn't seem best to
tell the truth right out and own up that the
great states of the West had spoken and
not Tor Hancock. Bulletins were displayed
giving the information that the vote was very
heavy, and that returns were coming in very
slow, and the Democrats and Greenbackers as
well as the Republicans crowded in front of |
the PRESS office and read the returns giving
the new OF the glorious result of the struggle
in Ohio and Indiana that were received every |
fifteen minutes and displayed as soon as
received and itwas observed that as soon as
he had looked as the returns the average
Fusionist became interested in talking about
the weather.