The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-09-24
MAINE.
"Have you heard from Maine 2"

And we don't like it. And we don't
intend to like it. And we won't like it
one bit, and in proof that we do not, we
shall the more earnestly urge the canvass,
the hotter pour in the fire of hot, not
cold fact, and arouse the people to the dan
ger of allowing New England Senators and
carpet-bag Senators from Southern States
to control the nation
We don't like the news from Maine,
for these reasons We hoped to reduce
the Republican majority there, and if the
first report be true, we have not. We
do not like it, for all last night, and all
to-day, in banks. banking houses, and
bondholders' houses and offices, there has
been too much levity. We see the pro-
tected aristocrats in glee. Bondholders
rub their hands, stop their carriages, TO
ask each other
"Have you heard from Maine :"
The spectators who amassed fortunes
dealing in United States securities all over
New York to-day drinking champagne,
and dancing in glee, shouting the while,
between the popping of corks:
''Haye you heard from Maine ?"
The turneats of the bondholders are
more numerous in Central Park to- day
than for months-the gold fish ride there,
and nod to each other, and order their
carriages up to drinking places, call for
the best wines, drink at the expense of
working men, smear at laborers, ask each
other
''Have you heard from Maine 90
Over the prospect of more victories,
eager to tighten the bonds about the mus
Gle of labor, the exempted, gold cIutching
bondholders of the East are in too high
glee, and are Smelling out thousands more
of dollars stolen from the people, to be
sent to other States for the ensIavement of
labor. We do not like it one bit, for the
carriages of bondholders tell with crushing
effect on the bare toes of the children of
the workingmen, who are mortgaged to
support the children of the aristocratsI
Tipsy bondholders, last night, drunk
with wine, and flush over the news, en-
braced each other in the corridors of lead
ing hotels, whirled and twirled and held
aloft their reports from Maine, and drank
more wine and snatched at each Others
diamond pins, aud walt8ed about the
floors, hiccupping "Hic- hic~ave you hic
card from Maine :"
At the Fifth Avenue hotel last night
one drunken bondholder, whose income
is seventy thousand a year in gold, and
who pays no taxes, was talking to circle
of Maineites thus:
81 say, have you heard firm 'aine p
Cd d-n it, money is what wids. If
we SOW money we reap bondsI 'Rah
firm 'dne !" And now les 90 for them
Western sons of''-toil, we presume he
might have said, but ''toir' WAS not the
word used.
Indeed, we do not like the news from
Maine. But it neither scares, disheart-
England to unite against the West, the
South. We looked for results to follow
the expenditure Of three hundred thousand
dollars in that State by Republicans, much
as they have. We know the aim is TO
consolidate New England for her to join
hands with the negroes and carpet tbag-
gers of the South, and to control affairs to
the last hour of her destiny. We know
the Republican victories mean gold for the
rich, rags and labor for the poor, exemp-
tion from taxation of bondholders, and
tenfold taxation for laboring men and
producers, and we don't like the news
from Maine. But Seymour will be elected
for all that. kentucky will offset Maine
and Vermont in electoral votes, and all OF
Radical New England when another war
comes.
1t is long road, and hard road, and
a dangerous road yet for Grant before he
reaches the White House. New England
has gone New England, so far as heard
from, and no man expected different.
When Oregon, and California, and Ken
lucky, ard Nevada, and Montana, and
Maryland, and Mississippi, went Demo
cratic, the Republicans said ''Oh, this
don't elect your President p"
Nor does the failure to change Maine
elect Grant. Go on with the fight we
are not beaten, nor disheartened, nor
weakened, nor demoralized.- Y. Dem.
SSTEHEV GANS,Fl NaW RNEHy,