The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-08-24
DAILY PRESS,
PORTLAND
THURSDAY, AUGUST "a, 1871


sPerce" still leads the van OF the Dei'u
cratic hosts-a Penthesilea in executive ~"
ity, without a trace of Amazonian coaree"
1t is her genius that suggests eXpeden'''
couraees the faint hearted, reforms 'no o'0Ao"
,;na a,,a oro,,sas the enthusiasm OF the Whole |
oroanizatlon. 1t is still as true as "heh we
first said it, weeks ago, that sue seeniS TIE
only real. breathing, moving, vital exlstance
in the whole party. Like Benton she can
say .Solitary and alone have | kept the ball
in notion" and if by any chance the Demo
Gratis should carly the State this fall it will be
The basest ingratitude that ignores the pre-
eminent value of her services Charles of
France might as easily have overlooked Joan
of Arc as Mr.. Kimbal can this youthful
Democratic champion.
'Percie" does her work skillfuly and well.
arttuly causing recalctrant Democrats 10 re-
cant and the disafiected to give in their adj
hesion to the prevailing faction with an as
sumed cheerfulness that is truly pathetic By
clnningy framed interrogativeS she causes
msuSpectmg Republicans, who are as sound
il The faith as the soundest, to seem to take
their stand in the ranks of the dsaffected.
Who else could so decately probe the sore
SPOT in disappointed Republican foffice-seek-
er, and cause him to show with so little re-
serve his whole heart? Who else could so
iudiclousy question the king of the Maine
Bombors as to make him seem hearty sup
porter of the new "departure?" Commend
us to ''Percie." she is the only possession
which we envy the Democracy. Her exploits
in Oxford county were truly brilliant.
The most important stroke of business done
in Oxford County was the interview with the
venerable Virgil ID. Paris, who, we are sOr
~ TO Soc, has since been Frustrated by severe
attack OF illness. The object of the Posts
correspondent in visiting him was evidently
two-fold first, to show him to be still SUP
porter of the Democratic ticket, notwithstand
ing his vehement denuncation of the action
OF the Augusta Convention; and, second, to
find some sauce for the gander. Democrats
llold that MIR. Kimball has been attacked" in
those columns, where no reference has even
been made to his private character except in
The most complimentary terms, and where
reference to him has been scruperlously con-
fined 20 his public declarations. 1t is uafor-
1uneate for him that such criticism as is in
VOWED in a mere recital of bis declared opin-
ions has proved so extremely damaging that
his friends are obliged to create a diversion
by crying out MIR. Kimball is attackedP'
"Ugh, Those Republican blackguards have
assailed our candidate w"Mr. Lynch, did it
Lynch, the arch enemy of the ship
ping and all other local interestsw "Ehu!
The manufacture of carriages has been de-
stroyed, and the discharged workmen so about
the streets, because of the attacks of the
PREssr' Not content with this, they sought
revenge, and have found the man to strike
the blow in the person of Mr.. Paris. 1t hav-
ing been found necessary to abuse Mr. Per-
ham, the assaIlant does not even mention his
phblic career, but makes gross personal at
tack. The Governor is represented by the
veteran Democrat TO be a man whose mean
ness of spirit, incincerity, ignorance and in
efficiency, are his only distinguishing charac.
teristics. There is but one reply to this. Mr..
Paris is not qualified to judge we'll of his
neighbours character. Their ways of thought
preciate the other well. Mr.. Perham has all
his life been consistent advocate of freedom
and equal rights; Mr.. Paris has been equally
well known as nm advocate ,of human bond
age. One has been somewhat conspicuous as
temperance leader; the other has been a
power in the party of free rum. During the
war one rejoiced in Union and the other in
Rebel victories; one made Grant, Sherman
and Sheridan his heroes, while the other be-
slowed all his admiration on Lee, Beauregard
and Jackson. One gave the best efforts Of
his manhood to are cause of his county,, and
the other gave his influence to the cause of its
descriptions. Is it any wonder that Virgil d.
Paris dosen't admire Sidney Perham? How
much to the latter's credit would it be if he
did? If few mythical stories of Mr.. Per-
hams youth told by the most auspicuous
Rebel sympathizers in Maine is the best that
can be done in answer to our publication of
what Mr.. Kimball declares are his views, the
contest is indeed hopeless one for the Dem
ocratic candidate.