The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-07-27
Political Fact AMI Chat.

The New Jersey Democratic State conven.
ton will be held September IS at Trenton.
Out in Indiana now they are talking about
Tilden and Mcdonald. Poor Hendricks!
OF the IS counties in Georgia As have pro-
nounced for local option.
Secretary Lincoln is Winding his own
business; but he is just as likely to be a
candidate for President as some people who
attend to nothing but politics.
All the rumselers in Ohio are helping
some of the pronibitionists to secure the re-
peal of the Scott law, and the rumsellers
know what they are about.
Commissioner Evans and First Assistant
Postmaster General Hatton are two of
kind. 1t is reported that the latter has late
ly reduced three $1,000 clerks to $1,000 places,
and given the $1,000 places TO his uncle, his
wife's uncle and personal friend. The de-
posed clerks were competent and had won
promotion from $1,000 places We should
not credit this report if Mr.. Hatton's career
afforded any reason for doubling it.
The Republican party must CO." The
demand was made in 1860. But the party
didn't go. The demand was repeated in
1864. But the party remained The demand
was encored in 1868. But the party STAYED.
The demand was again encored in 1872,
But the party was still there. The demand,
with a colossal appetite annex, was yet
again pressed in 1876 But the party re-
tanned it's place. The demand, gaming
voice, if not strength, from famished stom-
ach. was the vociferation that fatigued the
echoes OF 1850. But the party continued to
do business at The same old stand. The de-
mand is to be made again next year. The
party will continue not to go, by large ma
Jority. But, as usual, something will go.
As usual, it will be the Democratic party
New York Tribune.
The Democratic appeal to the country is
simply this: ''We waive our hideous pro
slavery record before the war, the betrayal
OF trust by the last Democratic administra-
ton, and our venomous copperhead attitude
during the war; and We say that the Demo-
cratic attempt to battle the peaceful presi-
dental decision of 1877, our endeavor to
starve and paralyze the government during
the extra session, our financial charlatanry,
and our general conduct in the city of New
York, and wherever we can control, ought
TO persuade the country to withdraw its con-
tidence from the Republican party and give
it to u.s." At present this is the only Demo-
cratic cry for 1884, and it is certainly worthy
of the career of the patty for the last gener-
ation.-Harper's Weekly.
If anybody supposes the Republican party
is to be managed by the cultivation of the
differences of four years ago, it is mistake
Ii anybody presumes that the feroclous SLAM
derers who have pursued Garfield into his
grave can intimidate the majority of the Re
publicans who nominated him and elected
him, and secure in the future the ascenden-
cy of the minority, who assumed that we
had but one man fit for the presidency, that
is mistake. If any one presumes that the
shotgun States and the Territories and a
State or two organized for the supremacy of
mInorities can contrive to control and drive
the Republican States and masses and ele-
vate themselves into ruling class and sa-
cred thing, that is a mistake The next Ma
tional Republican Convention will not be
held in a small hall and organized to record
the DEGREES of caucus committee, and we
do not think there will be resolutions passed
or action of any kind taken implying the
moral equality of Garfield and Guiteau
Those who are assuming that sort of thing
know very little of the people of the United
States.-Cincinnati Gazette.