The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-31
Straight Democratic.

The New York Tribune urges all of the
Greeley Republicans to vote the regular Dem
ocratic ticket for Governor in order to help
the regular Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. In short the Liberal-Republican
dodge has been played long enough and it is
full time that this name be thrown away and
the few Republicans who have joined this
movement should throw off the disguise and
fully enter the ranks of the Democratic party
which H. G. has said naturally attaches the
lewd, rufianly, criminal and dangerous
classes by voting for Mr.. Kimball.
Addressing the Greeley Republicans, the
Tribune says:
You cannot safely support the Grant nomi-
nee Tor Governor, and yet expect to poll a large
vote against Grant at the Presidential election.
There are thousands of doubtful voters in every
State who always go with the current and
most of those men will be gained or lost to the
Liberal cause by the result of the September
contest A victory for us, or even large re-
ductlon of last years Administration majority
will not only encourage our party to fresh labors
and enthusiasm, but bring us valuable re-
enforcement of recruits
1t is great mistake therefore to suppose that
the State election is of little consequence and
that Liberal does his whole duty when he re-
solves to vote for Horace Greeley in November,
and meanwhile to support the regular Admins
tration ticket, This putting off reformation to
the last minute is as peri1ous as death-bed
conversion. Every vote by which the Grant
majority is reduced in September will count ten
or twenty votes for Greeley and Brown in No
vemDer:: The Grant managers are keenly alive
to this fact and are expanding every effort to
keep up their vote to the figures of 1871. They
are deluging the State with documents and
sending the heaviest stump speakers there; and
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them to vote for Perhaln now and postpone
their bolt to a later opportunity. Friends of
the Liberal cause do not be deceived. The acdu
to beat Grant is to go against Perhdm You can
not afford to put off your work until the
eleventh hour
From this it will be seen that Mr.. Greeley's
organ urges its small band of followers to Join
the Democratic party now if it would con-
tribute fully to Democratic success. 1t calls
the vote for Perham in September the vote
for Grant in Maine. 1t very wisely declares
that the contest in Maine in September is en-
tirely national in its character and influence
that every vote by which Perham's majority
is reduced in September, as compared with
1871, will count ten or twenty votes for
Greeley in November. And the few Liberal
leaders in this State-several of them nell
who could not vote for Gen. Chamberlain in
1869 because he was too little temperance
man for them-will lay aside such scruples
this year and to aid Mr.. Greeley in November
vote for his chosen lieutenant, Mr.. Kimbal
in September.
Republicans who are earnest for the re-
election of Gen. Grant, and Democrats who
detest the treachery of their leaders in selling
out the party to their former enemies, and
propose to break the contract, should vote the
Republican State ticket as the best means to
secure the reelection of Gen. Grant. By so
doing they will not only vote for Grant in
Maine but will vote in several States in Octo-
Der and November.