Daily Kennebec Journal

Political Outlook in Maine.

The Boston Journal of yesterday has another letter from its Maine correspondent, dated Bangor the 25th, from which we take the following:

The defection among Republicans, when one has it reported to him from the lips of a Liberal especially, is so great that we almost wonder if there is any Republican party in Bangor left, or gone over to Brewer, which place some enterprising scribe, in telegraphing one of your staid Boston papers, says will this year go for Grant, unmindful of the four years ago went for Grant and not for the aforesaid Democratic purveyor of the latest news would indicate.

The wanderers from the Republican fold will not add over fifty to the Greeley vote thrown by the Democrats, so you see that somebody is being cheated. There is no man of any prominence in Bangor or Penobscot county who has left the republican party.

Nor are there any republican backsliders for Greeley in the majority of towns in this valley. There are but few if any in the towns of Burlington, Lee, Lowell, Enfield, Passadumkeag, Greenfield, Howland, Maxfield, Argyle, Oldtown, Orrington, and we might continue the list. The republican defection does not prevail in the country towns.

In the town of Lincoln, five Greeley republicans are reported, but as many democrats will go for Grant. In fact there are more democrats going for Grant than the old Bourbons suspect will desert their ranks.

"Greeley is a pill too bitter to swallow," is remarked, and as between two republicans, Grant is preferred. Some of the democrats feel elated because A. G. Lebroke of Piscataquis county has pronounced for Greeley, in consideration of whose sudden conversion it is slyly whispered that he has been promised the Congressional nomination next time. Lebroke has just left the republicans, and there is every reason to believe it a regular bargain and sale. The loss is not deplored, as he has been a dead weight to the Republicans ever since he deserted the democratic party, to whose embrace he so fondly returns.

The Greeley republicans, who are leading off in the new movement hereabouts, only serve to increase the number of disappointed place-hunters. A. D. Manson, violent free-trader and one of the self-constituted delegates to the Cincinnati convention, who was at first disgusted with the Greeley nomination because he wanted Adams to have it, leaves the republican party, to which he owes all the political honors he ever enjoyed, because he was not elected President of the State Senate a few years ago, at which time he was soured. Charles Peters who has been and is doing as much as any other man in working up the Greeley vote, was appointed Surveyor in the New York Custom House by Andy Johnson; but the Senate refusing to confirm him, he is now having sweet revenge.

Ex-Congressman Rice goes for Greeley because he failed to get the appointment of Collector of Bangor when Grant was first elected. Col. John F. Godfrey, who has been placed on the Liberal State Committee for this county, deserts the republicans and his comrades of the Grand Army, because he feels as if his war record has not received that recognition which is due him in the way of a lucrative office. He has now been promised a run for the Legislature. T. J. Stewart wants an office. Timothy Fuller of Lincoln, who has been State Senator a couple of terms, turns his coat because he wants to go again, and the Greeley traffickers have promised to send him. Besides, he don't like it because the control of office in his town was taken from his hands.

In Aroostook county there are three Greeley republicans, and all soreheads. William Small is a disappointed applicant for Deputy Collector at Fort Fairfield; Robert Outhouse of Hodgdon is a defeated aspirant for office of several years standing; while Asa Davis of Houlton is indignant because he didn't get the post office at that place.

But while the Republican Greeleyites are made up of such timber, there are scores of staunch and true republicans who are counted for the Tribune philosopher whose names are used without authority. S. D. Brown of Milford, B. M. Mitchell of Newport and Dr. Blaisdell of this city were not only surprised but annoyed to find their names included in the list of Vice Presidents at the Greeley demonstration a few days ago in this city, which was done without their knowledge and consent. These gentlemen, like hundreds of others who are counted for Greeley, intend to vote for Grant.