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When Marshall Jewell henrd the news from Maine he was overheard to mutter something like "I dou't koer a continental for the State, but it's worse than rumatiz to sinkso ruuchgoodmoney in that bottomless bog." The Republicans will earry Iowa by a large majority. Duo notice having been given, we concede that point glit now. The Republicans need uot laim, on the morning aftcr the elecon, that they expected a Democratie ictory. - Oincinnati Enquirer. Colorado is called a Republiean tate, and there is moré outlawry withn its borders in proportion to the turn)er of its inhabitants than ever existed n any Southern State before, during r since the war. Tliis fact scems to ïave been overlooked by the outragc organs. "Upon what rcsls our chance of success?" inquires a Republifan exchange. Money. Your campaign of sbiuder and sectionalism does your cause far more harm than good, but if you can buy outright hatf a million votes, or such a matter, you may elect your man. John Sherman issues orders tor the Republicans to stop blowiag about what they are going to do in Indiana and go to work. The resnlt in Maine ought to give Indiana at least $250,000 more of circulating medium, if the poor Department A&du and scrub-women in Washington hold out. - -There is no disputing these facts, viz. : that a few years since every prominent Republiean paper pronounced General Garfield a dishonest man, who traded for money his oüioial influencie in Congress, and for which a Kepublican Convention in his own home district callcd upon him to resign. To tind tho amount of rebol claims to be paid whon Hancock and the other " traitors" ret hito power, take a figure at random and add eiphera until the line is full. Yon cannot get too many. This is the systom of arithmetic used by the New York Tiims and other rcliable Republican journals. There is this much to say about the projected count-out in Maine, to thcaccomplishmentof which Mr. Blaine is now devoting himself, tliat the mocracy can stand it if the Republieans ! can. The country will understand tho fraud and it will give new point and pertínency to all that is said about thc Presidential steal of 1876. It there was anything nceded to convince every one that the Electoral fraud cannot be safely condoned, a count-out ín Maine now will satisfv the most skeptical bevond a