Political

- B'aine's bloody shirt has been put to wash. - Poor, old Hannibal Ilamlin ! It is to be the distressing news won"t kül him. - J t was Roscoe Conkling who declared that no republican could be elected and inangurated but Gen. Gran t- Boston Post. -The lawn at Mentor would be an appropriate site for the monument that is to be erected to the memory of Oakes Ames. - Chicago Telegraph. - Cliciirtnan Barnum of the national democratie committee, ref uses the nomination forcongress in the Bridgeport, Conn., district, recently tendered him. - "We propose to buy it, by G d," was tlie reply of the saintly Logan, when asked at Augusta how the republi(.111 s propoM to carry Jlaine this year.- Portland Argns. -We have been shown apaperdrawn lip by OOlond citizens,audalready signed by thirty-fïve of them, express'mg their belief that the best interests of the people demand the election of llancook and English. - Toledo Times. - The organs are about agreed that General Hancock made a mistake in flghting While the war was going on. líe ought to have saved up bis energies so that he conld turu in witli theorgans and help to put down the rebellioa this year. - Philadelphia Times. - Among the curiosities of the campnign will le a " floppers' " meeting, to lie held in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Saturday niglit. under democratie ausplces. John W. Fomey, Benj. F. Butler and Daniel Dougherty will be the speakers, and one bundred "floppers" will serve as vice presidenta. -A tramp printer stnick the office of The Democrat, at Albia, Iowa, and was taken in out of the wet. After a while the editor got drunk and left Imvn. and his wife secured a divorce. The tramp braced up, edited the paper, and became a man among men. He lias jiist married the grass-widow. - Some of the republican managers at Columbus, O., had made arrangements with Senator Blaine for early dispatches on Monday night, giving an idea of the size of the republican majority in Maine. They haven't heard a word from Jim yet, and some anxiety is feit to know just what bas become of him. - While the republicans of Indiana are profoundly disappointed and alarmed by the news from Maine, they ref use to give up hope of success in October. The campaign will be conducted with renewed energy by both parties from this time forward. In democratie circles the election of Landers is predicted with a conüdence wbich nothing can shake. -The example and influence of the republican party has had a tendeney to introduce and establish corrupt and dangerous political methods. It is upon their money bags, and not upon their principies, that the republicans rely. The republican party bas systematically purchased several states for years. It has reached a point where it does not even attempt to conceal its practice of wholesale bribery, taking it for granted that it bas educated public sentiment down to its own vile level. - Boston Post.