The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-09-05
DAILY PRESS,
PORTLAND.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1871.


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. / uera in the main purchased from the
/, gest bidders upon advertisement in the pa
u rs. we must be permitted to doubt that any
l. publican, prominent or otherwise, has
rlale such a foolish statement. Will the A.
{ Is give us the name of one?
But if such structure as this. land so
eaEy finished that an expenditure of five or
tx thousand dollars will complete it) ought
It 10 cost under the management of Repub-
ans over S1S3, 200, how is it that the mere
cttpets OF the new Court House in New York
cost 1897 900?
And yet the righteous argus has nothing
laore to say to the fact, than, "You are an
tther." Nothing could better prove than
this, how much more of economy and integ-
] ty the ArguS naturally expects from Repub-
] cans than from Democrats Its observation
and experience makes it wise in this regard.
1t is abominable las it really isl in Republi-
cans to piller even dimes-it is reasonable to
expect Democrats 10 steal millOhs-dcc0rd-
ing to the logic of the Argus.
The work on the new Post Office and
Court House in this city has been done by
The day. Receipts for every dollar that has
been paid are on file-not mill has been
paid to an individual laborer save for work
done. The materials, as before remarked,
have been purchased of the lowest bidder.
There has been in regard to the labor no
possible opportunity for fraud, and there has
been no probability OF unreasonably large
sums paid for materials, since the bidding for
them was thrown open TO all the marble
workers, the brick-makers, &C., &C., &C., in
the country.
Does Mr.. Kimbalt or the argus find fault
Nth the acdges paid to the men achO did the
labor on this building? Would they have had
any man receive smaller compensation than
he has received? Will they be kind enough
10 tell us the name of an individual who has
received too much?
Working mems friends, are they? And
here is the way they have of showing ii And
this is all that their clamor amounts to. The
men ,oere paid too much. Whether Portland
had any right, or fair claim to a structure so
elegant as this, may be question with some
Does the argus object to the building as too
elaborate and beautiful? But assuming that
it was no more than the just thing to our
city,-haviDg just come olt of a most disas-
trous confiagratien, to erect a fine and beau
tiful edifice that should be an ornament to the
city, we say, and challenge contradiction,
that no government building eoer erected
under Democratic administration in this
country, so large, so handsome and so sub
stdntial as this, aods euer built so chedpiy as
this has been.
Charleston, S. c., has smaller commerce
than Portland. Some fifteen or twenty years
ago new Custom House in that city was
commenced under Democratic auspices, and
continued under the same to the time of the
breaking out of the rebellion, and was even
then unfinished. Those were the DAYS of
cheap prices for materials, and yet the Demo-
Gratis paid out nearly THREE MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS upon it. The argus never com
planned of this. 1t was all right because it
was Democratic. Under Republican ad-
ministration in times of high prices lowing to
the rebellion which the argus friends
brought upon the country to pay out little
more than ope-tenth of this sum for Court
House and Post Office combined, in Portland,
is most wicked and outrageous thing, says
the Argus-so much has it grown into the
habit of subordinating our own city and State
to the cities and States in its beloved South
1t is left to the argus and its aoorking
mans candidate, who never murmured at the
spending of 100000 for a Custom House
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sum has been expended among the working
men of Portland for Post-Ofice and Court
House in Maine. N~-
The Courthouse in Portland cost some
$375,O00 says the argus, and it was too much,
it thinks. %, -
The pIasiering aud repatTs on the yet I'M
finished Court House in New York
cost in the years 1869 and 1870 So $780,
464,06. The fact is not denied. The war
rants Tor drawing the money have been print
ed. The old-scnool DEMOCRATS like Ex- Mayor
Havemeyer, Roosevelt ana others assert its
truth. But the AfsNe naturally sustains
Tammany, while it denounces an expenditure
Of only three or four hundred thousand dol
lars for our splendid Post Office and Court
House. The Argus essays to prove that the
Republicans are unworthy to be trusted be-
cause they have given to Portland so fine
building at an expense of 1915 900, yet it has
had never word to utter against the Demo
Gratis OF New York city, who paid out in two
years for furniture for their Court House
S.. 663, 646,S3!!
For the carpets alone in this building Tam
many has paid, as we have before said, 1897,
600. Yet member of one of the most hon
ora5le and extensive firms of carpet dealers in
New York has visited all the rooms in that
Court House, and finds that the actual cost
could not possibly have exceeded $4,000!
Now all these were gross and palpabIe
frauds. 1t is impossible for any man to doubt
this fact. That this money has been paid ont
has been charged upon the government Off
Gals OF that cltg, and the amounts have been
printed and not single one has been denied.
because the books Of the city proue their cor
Tectness. The facts are patent, have not been
oehled, cannot be denied and will not be de-
ned. Why are these wholesale Democratic
robberies endorsed? Because Tammapv with
these stealings, is able by its ballot ,ox stpf.
ing its repeating, and its frauds in general, to
report Democratic majority of 60 to 10000
ID that ity-large enough to carry the State
and it is hoped by the help of New York TO
carry the Union.
The Argus, which has never denounced
these wholesale frauds, is filed with indigna-
ton that Court House and Post Office in |
Portland, erected under Republican auspices,
should have cost $4,000.
Does the Argus really believe that those
knights OF Industry of Courthouse" celebrity
would have done better? II they had been in |
power and had followed the example in New
ork which the Argus tolerates if it does not /
expressly approve, this building, with the fur |
niture and carpets, would have cost not less
thar 0,000-leaving 1902, 900 for per- |
sonal and party plumber.
Democracy has its home and head center in
New York. What New York does is mar en-
cettence Democratic. Without New York. |
Democracy is nowhere.
Are the voters of Maine ready to
put away Republicanism because nnder
1T certain building costs S375 OOO
and the bills are open to inspection
showing that every dollar was earned and
paid, in order that they may in its stead in
troduce Democracy, which would, as its own
figures show, nave expended for the same
hing $10,0OO'0O0! A snug loss of over nine
md half millions in order to bring into pow
'r the party which by plunging the country