Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1872 — The Maine Election. [ARTICLE]

The Maine Election.

publican triumph in Maine, the Augusta correspondent of the New York Times says : The one thing demonstrated beyond fill question by this campaign is that “Liberal Republicanism” does not, amount to a single unit in The vote of the ’two parries will show these astonishing facts—astonishing to those whojiave put faith in the boast of the Greeleyites and their organs—that the Democratic ticket has not polled, i& proportion to the aggregate, as many votes as ill 1868! andthat the Republicans, in properrion to the aggregate, fait little short of 1808. In other words, the so-called Liberal strength lias not added a solitary vote to the coalition side. Their presence is not discoverable in the returns. And if they are there, then it follows that for every vacancy they created in the Republican ranks a good Democratic recruit was furnished to fill it. This was findoUbtedly the fact. Scores of instances have come to light since tJlfi, election of Democrats who voted the tegular Republican ticket who were never suspected of such an intention in advance. And it only proves what some of tbejnore sagacious leaders on both sides have maintained, that this loosening of party discipline would operate quite as potently upon the Democrats as upon the Republicans. Perhaps in no respect is the futility of the “Liberal” movement more forcibly Hitts-' tratod than in the Third District Every one will remember with what a f arade Mr. Greeley came to Augusta, t was solely for the purpose of giving eclat to the mongrel Congressional Convention, which on that day put up Mr. Liberal Republican Lang to beat that “pertinacious young man,” Mr. Blaine. There was a great deal said at the time about the number of signers to the call, and it was attempted to make a great sensation of the alleged fact, that 408 votes were cast in convention for Mr. Lang's nomination. The votes were cast by anybody who chose to put a handful in the hat, which thing was actually done by boys and mischievous Republicans who were present. Invgjn do we look for those 408 at the polls. Not only doe# Mr. Blaine receive a larger majority than in 1876, but he goes several hundred better than in 1868, and in the entire District his vote will be found to bo nearly one hundred better than that of Governor. And right here I wish to call attention to the wonderful vote of this District. The couDties composing the Second, and Fourth not only did so well in 1868, but also in 1871, that it was hardly possible fOr them to show a greater improvment than they actually do. But the Third District, in which the majority at the Gubernatorialelection in 1868 was 3,846, and in 1871 Only 2,180, now Dot only outstrips last year, but gallantly goes ahead of even 1868 by nearly five hundred votes. And but for the county seat quarrel in Somerset and the cider question, both entirely local, the majority would. bave been a round four thousand, 8o much for Mr. Greeley's “pertinacious young man.” He . has "reported” again, in a manner not at all acceptable to his political opponents, and they will not “miss’’ him Until he ceases to handle Republican campaigns of Maine. , - A’jmaut point lace at -the Cincinnati Exposition cost $3,060,