The New York herald., 1866-08-30
TflE WAIKE ELECTION.
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Opening Of the Greao Fall
Campaign.
The Issues Before the Pine
Tree State.
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VIGOROUS CONTEST In PSOGRESS.
HELP NEEDED FROM NEW YORK.
The Radicals Imputs Treasont to the President
and Fime Serving to Grant.
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Speeches Of Montgomery Blair, N. r. Banks
and Senator Wilson.
&s. &c. &os
our PORTLAND CORRESPONDENCE.

Uuh Pukl LANU CUHktSFuNDsNCe.
PORTLAND Me-, August 27, 1865.
Maine opens the fall campaign. The elections take
place the tenth of September next less than fort
night from This circumstance alone gives the ap-
preaching contest peculiar interest whilst the efforts be-
ing put forth by both political pariesby the radicals
and by the upholders Of the Ph Philadelphia Convention
give TO the struggle increased significance Gas Maine
goes goes the Union" is axiom that has held
pretty often, and may prove reliable in this instance
pecaily IL as far from improbable, the tide Of
radicalism, which for the last hve years has
swept the country receives here its first check II
Maine the State that gave o. Howard to the Freedmens
Bureau that sent Col Whitlescy into North Corona TO
sanction the atrocities OF the Rev. Wirz Fritz and estab
sh regime Of bureau planting and extoron under the
guise Of philanthropy; If Maine that s,l is half inclined
to regard these men the light Of sanctined martyrs
and that never since 1856 except solitary instance
and then by the barest majority has returned other than
the blackest republicans to Congress- If Maine veers
round in the direction Of constitutonasm and
vatism the elections In the other States are foregone
conclusions The radicals feel this and have opened the
campaign with extraordinary vgor The Johnson repub-
and the democrats begin to appreciate the Inn
porance OF the crisis Also and are waking up TO earnest
action.
THE CHANCES
Of hard cose fight In two II not three Of the Con-
gressiona districts good but the democrats have
been long excluded from power that their have
grown rusty and their joints sti The effects Of ten
years radical rule cannot be eaced In day. They
need help from abroad. Their wealthiest city los
been desolatod by fire the extent OF which none but
those who visit the ruins understand They need
stump the state, money circulate information,
and they ask for cheering words and countenance from
other States, especially from New York.
THE GREAT DIFFICULTY
Of the conservatives Is 70 devise means Of placing the
true issues before the people In the country districts
swallowed Horace Greeley, hat and ALL and sl In
partially comatose state In consequence. was
observes uch big boit as that, PIP never did see.
And when, In this instance the ''b0lt' has been
washed down by big drinks Of diluted Tilonism admin
istered In every little Sunday meeting house. the state
OF tho patient is rendered much worse and nothing
but powerful eme!c win ever bring him TO-
themselves, seldom mixing with the outside world
They have hazy idea that the over that Lincoln
is dead and that must be- somewhere about election
time but Of the importance and real nature OF the prn
cples involved in the contest they have never heard
They will vote thor weekly paper tells them to vote
shout In their the true state OF the something
is being attempted In this direction but much win
great change made. Senator Doolite, Governor Par.
sons, Of Alabama and Montgomery Blair are stumping
some portions Of the state and Eben !. Pisbury, the
democratic candidate for Governor, starts to-day on
similar mission.
THE CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR
are Eben fillsbury dcmocras and General Joshua L.
Chamberlain college professor, republican. Pills
bury has challenged Chamberlain to public discussion
but Chamberlain doesn't seem TO see IL.
THE CONGRESSIONAL cANDDATrs
In the First Congressional district which takes In the
cities and towns Of Portland sacs Bddeford and Bruns-
member, John Lynch, has been renom mated by the
radicals and l. H. NJ sweat. who sat in the Thirty
eighth Congress- and defeated by Mr. Lynch for the
Thirty ninth, has been again nominated by the demo-
Gratis s promised the support OF the johnson re-
plblicAna Tho contest In Portland will be close
one; Biddeford q smart little manufacturing city,
which has always been democratic stronghold,
will will ; give swss, majority Brunswick doubtful and
siderable personal popularity apart from their political
principles. Lynch is self made man, who has risen
IRON the ranks TO be Of the successful mer-
chants in Portland, and is much thought OF by the
working Classes sweat Is lawyer, an able, ready
sPsaxss ana sana upngn man. who when N
interests
In the Second district the nominees are sidney Per.
ham, RADICAL and Henry J.. Whiicomb, johnson ropub.
lican. Perhams denomination gave dissatisfaction to
faction Of the republican party who broke of, held
soldiers meeting at Lewiston and nominated Mr.. Whit
comb, candidate OF their own--a Lincoln man for.
mery, and now supporter Of President johnson. He
will receive the undivided adhesion Of the democrats
The Third district, embracing Kcnncbec Somerset and
Lincoln countless and taking Ia Augusta the State CAPT
tai Ia hopeiessiy radical Hon 9. Blame, the present
Congressman, will be returned without serious show OF
opposition. Tbe democrats have not even nominated
Their man as yet
In the Fourth district there is much better show for
hight The rad icals have nominated John A. Peters,
Of Bangor in the place OF Hon j. H. Rice, who having
served taree terms rctires This district has hitherto
gone strongly radical; hut there Is division iD the
camp. section Of the party, led by George r. Sewell
present republican OF the district and Tom
W,
favor Of the President and have nominated George NJ
Weston, formerly editor OF the washington Rpuoitcan
~ the Johnson republican candidate The democrats
support him, and brisk canvass ie going
fhere is similar split In the Fifth district whero
Hon. r. A. Pike, the citing member, has been rsnom.
nomination carried under Considerable excitement
and against the wishes Of section Of mis- party and
Is thought that II Ex-Governor Crosby, OF Belfast who
lives In the district will accept nomination John
republican and the democrats support him. which
they certainly will do, there chance Of Wrestling the
Filth district from the radical disunloniss
Tho interest Of the struggle concentrates IN the First
Fourth and Fifth districts The radicals straining
every nerve to keep up their mslorities They have
eight effective speakers sumpng the Portland district
aione-more than the conservatives have in the entire
Siato.
MAKING Tux FUR yLY
Meanwhile there Is CONSERVATION among the radical
ofceholders Many Of them, like that wonderful race
that the anoients believed existed in the interior of
Africa walking about with their heads under their
arms Colonel Wentworth, the radical storekeeper OF
the Kittery Navy Yard has been removed and Captain
named IL Ks Stead sss
heads carried away IN baskets The ono ais OF the Navy
money pretty freely support Of the dominant party
have grown suddenly costyc They apparently have
come TO the conclusion that they have not long 10
remain power aud that their wsest course 10 TO Keep
all they have got Several hundred votes will be
changed in this way BY choking on the influence Of the
radical oficehold rs Massachusetts, getting scared,
Is coming 70 the rescue, and has sent Major General
Turveydrop Banks and senator Wilson TO stump the
va ams m also on rsSas Mssous nno pson
have spread rumor that Sh pey 10 going 10 tell all he
knows about Banks and that Banks going 70 tell all he
knows about Shepey but others say that all the iaun
dries In the district could not cleanse the dirty linen that
would thus be brought 10 Wow, and that each Will keep
70 himself the experience he acquired while
ing the rebels OF Louisiana
A MEETING.
Mass meetings are being held with great frequency
On saturday night Hon. Montgomery Blair al.
dressed large meeting In the Deering Hall
IN this city, dwelling strongly the point
that " the radical polc cy Of exclusion were per
sisted In another civil must be the eventual
result The democrats aud national republicans North
and South would unte and elect majority in the For
tieh Congress Tho President would recogn 20 the ma
Jory legal Congress The radicals would organize
themselves into another Congress and impcach tho
President and thus The breaking OF the Union by the
radicals would lead 10 war as inevitably secession
Mr.. Hair stated that lie the only man IN Mr. lin.
CONS Cabinet that opposed the surrender OF For, sum-
ter aud after the lrsi Bu Run disaster he went 20 Mr.
Fesscnden and legged him 70 persuade Mr. Chase TO