The Portland daily press., 1868-10-02

VIA saehu-setf- Loses the Lead.
There was time when all the world went
to Massachusetts, for ideas, especially moral
IDEAS. There reforms started; there progress in
civilization was most rapid. 1t was the radi-
cal State, sending rifles to free State men in
KANSAS anu anri-sravvry uUcuTneuIs anu scnooI
books everywhere. Faneul Hall was the
cradle OF great reforms as well as of liberty.
What ails the old Commonwealth? Her
name is not intimately associated with any of
the more recent reforuatory movements
She still hangs her criminals by the neck in
the old beastly fashion. ooj @91ab an ai
She hangs half witted fellows like Charles
James-an act that in fifty years WILDE count
ed as blrbarous browning witches or plerc-
ing Quakers' tongues in Old Colonial times
She dominates Gen. Butler for Congress af-
ter he has proposed the viroual reputation of
the national debt. ,, mos ...-.
she allows the P L. LIS to, get control of
her Legislature and bring about the dizzy era
of free rum. l,o.,..t
She has State House haunted by lobbyists
and has Hoosac Tunnel Jobs .;t..-
She allows the STRIPPING States of the West
to get the start OF ner in agitating the subject
of the great reform of the century-female sui
frage. dgi3E sdl u 1853 r7tnoo9 2 f+s.l --- 49,.
Her Adams family has become conservative
-afrightful phenomenon. .-l am
What is the matter?s Has she fallen asleep
on her money bags? Maybe so-gold some-
times -beats poppiesss in soporlfc potency
Ordid the tremendous exertions put forth by
the grand old Stat during the war-exertions
worthy of her history and her fame-exhaust
the moral energy of her people, . -
1t is PLAIN that Maine must now look else
where than to Massachusetts, for leadership.
It has been humorously said that this State
transcribes her laws from Massachusetts, statute
books, and with some litte reason. Usually
it has been safe to do so. But all that is past.
We may now have the distinction of Initiating
some hing of giving our hitherto absurd mot
to, dirago, some meaning. IL is easier and far
more pleasant TO go ahead, than to wait, wait,
W it till soms body else has moved.
The thing for Maine to do is to admit wo
man TO the franchise beiore any other State in
the Union has taken that inevitable STEP
England threatens TO reach that consumma-
tion before any State in the Unon-aristocrat-
10. conservative, stupid England. This would
be a shame to America, yet any one may
Convince himself that this is a fact by EXAM
lining any recent f'e of English papers. Let us
not wait till Massachusetts has acted but have
q constitutional amendment submitted to the
people this very winter by the Legislature,
striking out the very last fictitious and IRA
tional limitation upon the franchise. Then
at last we shall have dem Jcracy and Maine
can say dirigo without being absurd
The MAINE ELECTION republsh the
following figures, given in our dispatches We'd
nesdsy morning, as they are the nearest ap-
Proclamation to the correct vote of the State
that can be obtained till the votes of the sever
al towns are counted and officially declared by
tn LEGISLATURE:
M ,tn,oerlan, 1887 |
Aggregate wore, a. '6S9 |
Chamberta ms majority .-i .ri On 10
The majority for Chamberlain will probably |
be Increased by the full official count Mean. |
while.let it be fully understood that tho Dam.
ocratic talk about majority for their marty in
Aroostook is the sheegest nonsense that evor
was. The votes of ignorant Madawaslo
Frenchmen will not be sufficient by from three
to six hundred to overcome the Republican |
majority