The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1880-09-17


TUESDAY morning, when specia
dispatch to THE INTERIOR Journal
was displayed on our Bulletin Board
thai Maine had E5Hs D5mSoTaiiiic, ID,
surprise aud qualification it caused
was genuine and hearty, but as that
State bad been conceded to the Re
publioans by from 5000 to 10000
there were many doubling Thomases,
Mr. Jos. Severance, who was in Gin
cinnati, corroborated as follows:
Especial Dispatch to The Interior journal
CIScISSArI, o.. $40 A. M-Democrat,
in Maine elect Governor and three Con.
gressmen.
At2 O'Clock the daily papers ar
rived. confirming the above intelli'
gence, but as some Of the Republican
papers, in their agony Of despair, were
making contra claim to the State,
we asked the EVening Post, at Louis
vile, at 4 o'clock, for the very latest,
and received the following from Mr..
L. +. Madden. its bright and accom-.
plished young editor;
special Dispatch to The interior Journal.l
Louisville, KY, AS P. M-Democrat.
&c Union State ticket elected in Maine by
nearly three thousand Three out Of five
Congressman Democratic. Legislature in
doubt Blaine give. it mp. William II.
English telegraph- that the effect in In
diana is electric. Shake
And we did "shake" all over with
the raptures of delight. II was
enough to move the strongest heart
to hear that Maine, which for twenty
six years had gone against the Demo
cratic party, had been regenerated
aud redeemed; that State that
went 30, 900 Republican in 1872, and
10, 459 at the corresponding election
in 1876, had, Notwithstanding the
lavish expenditure of money by that
party aud the repetition of every cam
paign lie that could be devised,
been snaiched as a brand from the
burning and had come out for the
Democracy and honest government :
One of the chief beauties of the victory
is that it was made in the face of such
boosted confidence by the party which
had so long had every thing its own
way. BY general consent, the Re-
publican organs had agreed to treat
the result Of Maine US an index to the
Presidential struggle; but they now,
with one accord, change their tune
and say that it amounts TO nothing.
1t does amount to something. howev-
er, and that something is that it
is the precursor of grander and
more complete victory of the Democ.
racy in November-in wsrd, il
voices the certainty Ct the election of
Hancock and English.
Yesterdays reports were not quite
so favorable but doctor the returns as
the Republicans will, they can not
hide the fact that the Democracy has
won a most decided aud telling victo.
ry. To have reduced their boosted
majority at all would have been VIC
tory but to force them into a repetition
Of the Florida frauds of 1876, In or
Ter to break the force Of their defeat,
i proof positive that the victory is to
hem alarming indeed.
The following telegram was re.
,eived last night
special Dispatch to The interior Journal
LOUISVILLE, Sept. l6.-The returns are
lot all in, but New York Democrats claim
hat Paisted is elected by small msiori-
y. The plan Of the Republicans is to
Ioctor the returns in the back counties, 80
: 10 throw the election into the Legisla-
ure, which, being Republican, will elect
Republican Governor. They have elact-
d three Of the five Congressman. POsr.
The Louisville Evening Post has
purchased the Bowling Green Hteili.
eneer's presses, type and goodwill,
nd the Post will shortly boom as a
Forming daily. Hon. John {. I'm
erwood will be the business mana
er and Emmett G. Logan will join
less. Sears and Madden in the edito-
al work. We are sorry to give up
ne excellent LateIligeaeer, but are
lnfdent that the new move will be
lvantageous to all parties.
One Waldo took it into his head
rat the nearest road TO fame and glo-
: was to start a new weekly Repub-
can paper at Owensboro. lie issued
vo numbers, ran his face for all he I
'uld, and then liz out, leaving his
editors to mourn his loss. People
lould look with a careful eye ON the
zen who run around starting Repub-
can newspapers in Kentucky.
In Is REFRESHING TO know that one
the Arnolds at least, got his deserts
e murder. His name was Joshua,
cousin of jim. who was hung at |
exington, says the Transcript, about
Senty.three wears ago for the killing {
his wife. The gentleman who had
&c honor Of officiating at the enter
inment still lives and says the corpse
a. Hinef foo lovalv