The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-07-11
The Laboring Mans Candidate.

Reader! You who are resident OF Port-
land, and whose summer morning slumperS
are so light that you are up for walk through
the streets at five o'clock,-bave you never
noticed spare man in shabby attife' Win
smal dinner-pail in his hand, hurrylng along
To his work at that early hourP He is as
good a representative as you VIII md in
America of the Partisan Ourriers, Indeed, as
mar a sa,s-culotto as the nature of our climate
and the spirit of our institutions will permit.
He looks like one of those dangerous fell
lows of the boulevards, who, on some slight
occasion, throws down his tools, fills the air
with revolutionary cries tears up the street
and builds barricade You can see that he
II no ordinary man, for in spite of his atten
uated frame, his features pinched with hun
ger and the general air of feebleness occa
stoned by exhausting toll, there is still fire
IN his eye and certain natural nobility of
carriage that mark him Enthusiastically as a
man of genius. Here is one who appreciates
the laboring mans hardships and sutferings
and sympathizes with them! An artisan
himself, his motto is
Non ignarus mali miseris succurrere Disco
In other words,-"having paid the monop'
olists tax on my jack-knife, l bewail the lot
of the farmer who once in ten years pays
the duty on his plow-share, getting back on
~ one or two hundred times as much every
year on his protected potatoes, wool and 9TH
o. produce" Our representative working
man is an employee of rich corporation en-
gagged In the manufacture of carriages. The
present Ubiquitous tariff protects the products
OF this corporation by duty of thirty-fve
per cent. No wonder it prospers-that it
grows richer and richer, while its INDECENT la
borers grow poorer and poorer.
Who then is this .downtrodden laborng
man-this victim Of a monopoly created by
the tariff? 1t is Charles P. Kimball,-we
would by no means deny him the conven-
tional ESQ.," but his stern democratic in
stincts would scorn such "paltry protest of
pepper gingerbread" - Charles P. Kimba,
Democratic candidate for Governor! Listen
not to those who point to another man as the
Democratic candidate-to ga good portly man
faith, and corpulent," rolling along in a
handsome equipage at much later hour. 1t
Is only enemies of our laboring classes that
endeavor to pass off for the genuine working
mans candidate this counterfeit Kimball
For what can this capitalist-ths leading
apirit in great manufacturing corporation,
which is fattening on the tolls of the poor
this chief beneficiary of wicked tariff
what can he know of the artisans wrongs,
and what sympathy can he have with the
working mans sufferings? What propriety
would there be in putting forward such a
man as the working mans representative
The Democratic candidate has been recon-
mended to laboring men chiefly on the
ground of his personal interest in their well
fare growing out of his personal experience
OF their lot, and now his foes are trying to
destroy all reasonable prospect Of his success
by identifying him with prosperous, opu-
lent gentleman who evinces no disposition
whatever to give extraordinary practical ex-
preston to sympathy with the toiling masses
So much is due to Mr.. Kimball to remove
the misapprehensions that have arisen and to
make apparent the violent contrast between
him and the monopolst, rich mans candi-
date, Mr.. Perham. The latter, as is well
known, was Graded in the lap of luxury and
has, ever since arriving at a mature age, in
dulged his patrican tastes with absolute os-
tentation. Far removed from any personal
experience of the hardships of the working.
mans life, he is precisely one of those from
whom the poor man can expect no consid-
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