The Kentucky Gazette

Gen. Grant has formally declined to attend any Republican meetings. He is a shrewd man.

The Republican organs do not allude to that "15,000 Republican majority" in Maine. They don't even say it has been "shot away."

The Columbia Spectator says that some of the Kentucky negroes who went to Indiana are coming back. They were badly treated, and found no work.

The Cincinnati Gazette brought out its big eagle over the Maine election; but it isn't rejoicing now. The other fellows won in Maine.

Those Republican papers that displayed their eagles over the Maine vote, will have to stow them away now until there is a State election in Iowa or Kansas.

When Garfield and Arthur are defeated in November, as they are sure to be, Garfield will attribute the defeat to Arthur's bad record, and Arthur will attribute it to Garfield's bad record.

The colored folks held a big Garfield and Arthur meeting on the fair grounds at Glasgow, the other day, but many other colored people there failed to attend or to have anything to do with it.

Conkling and Beecher support Garfield. The law and order God and morality party are fitly represented by these scoffers at the Bible, the Constitution, and these slanderers of the South, and violators of domestic virtue.

The ground hog saw his shadow three times and crawled back to his hole. The Republican sneak thief coon seems to be trying to convert himself into a ground hog. The Commercial's coon performed the ground hog evolutions recently.

The Cleveland Plaindealer remarks: "Garfield is 15,000 votes weaker in Ohio to-day than he was on the day of the Maine election. The stragglers all jumped off the fence and rushed into the Hancock camp."

The Boston Advertiser thinks its party has been "worsted in one of the preliminary skirmishes of the impending contest." That is a pretty way of saying the Republican party has been badly beaten in one of its strongholds, in hotly contested battle, not skirmish.

Judge George M. Thomas, Republican candidate for Congress in the Maysville district, has already been twice defeated as a candidate for office this year—once for United States District Judge and once for Circuit Judge.

Every honest negro citizen ought to denounce the abuse and degradation put on his race by the Radical leaders who hire and bribe black men to become illegal voters in Indiana and thereby criminals.

The negroes imported into Indiana to help the Republican ticket, are beginning to be rather more trouble than advantage. They have several times taken possession of towns and behaved in such an outrageous manner that many good citizens will not vote with them.

The Boston Pilot, the acknowledged organ of the Irish race, says: "Gen. Garfield can not expect the Irish American voters to support him. On March 8, 1867, a resolution was offered expressing the sympathy of the United States to the suffering people of Ireland. Fourteen members, including Garfield, voted against the resolution."

Among the gentlemen spoken of as probable candidates in the next Gubernatorial race, are Hon. John C. Underwood, Judge W. M. Beckner, Senator Albert S. Berry, Judge J. M. Bigger, Hon. J. Stoddard Johnson, Judge Wm. Lindsay, Hon Z. F. Smith, and others, any one of whom would fill the position with dignity.

"What are you crowing over?" enquired a Republican of an old Democrat, "It's nothing but a Greenback victory in Maine, and not a Democratic success?" "Well, it is a radical defeat anyway," retorted the Democrat. "and opposition to the Devil, is holiness to the Lord."

The following true words are from the New York Herald: It is full time the Republicans were laying hold of some more substantial arguments than the silly twaddle that the Democrats purpose paying all the rebel debt and claims against the Government contracted during the war. Nothing is more absurd, and it is only the ignorant who are misled by such statements.
"The South," says the Philadelphia Bulletin, "has cheated the Federal Government out of about four million dollars in whisky taxes." If that is true (there is no evidence of it) it does not equal by a million of dollars what the Republican whisky ring, organized by Republican officials and Grant's private Secretary, stole from the government in about two years.

Blaine's own organ, the Kennebec Journal, in its published election returns Saturday, showed that Plaisted had a plurality of fourteen, and there were six towns and plantations to hear from, which gave 109 Democratic majority in 1880 and 199 opposition majority last year. There were too many watchful counters for Blaine, who could no doctor these latter returns, and the result is the election of Plaisted.

The Democrats and Greenbackers of Maine have arranged another fusion ticket for November. It is composed of three Democrats and four Greenbackers. The Republicans tried hard to make a split in the party, but utterly failed. The same vote will be polled in November that was polled this month with all the changes in favor of the fusion ticket. This insures the loss of Maine to the Republicans and three more votes to the Democratic column.

Fears have been expressed that the local differences in Virginia have become so bitter and so serious as to endanger the electoral vote of that State for Hancock and English. Late information, however, conveys the agreeable intelligence that no fears need be entertained for the Old Dominion. A correspondent writing from Richmond, says that both parties profess the most hearty loyalty to the Democratic party, and declare that their differences relate only to the manner in which the State debt in Virginia shall be settled; in fact that these differences are purely local in their bearings, and can only be local in their effects.