The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-28

this city who support Greeley are almost all
of the class who have been affiliating with
Tweed's gang for years. Every struggle of
honest citizens TO remedy our greyious local
abuses has been hindered and paralyzed by
this unholy alliance. So far as New York
city is concerned Greeleyism and Tammany-
ism are synonymous terms, and it is because of
if not absolutely annihilate the Tammany
majority in November.
That Mr. Greeley is personally honest,
counts as little when taken in connection
with the fact that he is supported by the
Tammany plunderers and has committed
himself to recognition of the claims to office
of the men who vote for him. In his hands
the federal patronags must inevitably revert
to the very class of men who have startled
the world by snch desperate raid on our To-
cal treasury. The apprehension of so great
calamity intensifes the earnestness with
which the honest electors of New York are
entering upon the Presidential campaign, and
will nerve them to most vigorous and de-
termined effort to avert catastrophe so ap-
palling.
The kind of reform we need here, is pre-
cisely the sort that has been inaugurated by
Grant and Boutwell, That is a practical,
tangible, genuine article. 1t doesn't consist
of promises, but of acts. Give us just such
local rulers and we will show you an orderly,
well regulated metropolis, with steady re-
,ofn oh
of crime, an efficient police, clean streets, in
viting park, and an upright judiciary. None
of these blessings will ever come to us through
the triumph of the Democracy that has en-
listed under the Greeley banner. We have
tried that to our sorrow. We have had alto
gether too much of it. Our hopes of re-
generated city lie in union between honest
Democrats and Republicans, and we are max
ing capital exchange every time we lose
Fenton and gain Dix, or swop off Little
john or Alvord for Havemeyer or Cisco.
Never had the friends of real reform strong
er incentive to effort, or greater encourage
ment of success than in our coming State
election. The lines are being drawn with
such distinctness that no voter can fail to dis
| Germ them. Gen. Dix has always been iden-
titled with every movement set on foot to cor
rect our municipal abuses. With him in the
gubernatorial chair, we shall have no more
vetoes of reform charters, and when the
Legislature ceases to be infested with those
veaal creatures known as Tammany Repub-
licans, who have worn the party cloak be-
cause they could be more servicable to
Tweed's ring in that disguise, we may hope
fully look for the dawn of our millennium.
People of Maine! the groaning victims of
Tammany despotism in New York city, APP
peal to you for help in their great battle for
reform. Every vote you cast for Perham in
September, or for Grant in November,
is blow struck at Tweed's ban
ditti. Baffied by the awful exposures of last
year in its direct efforts to clutch the national
Treasury, it seeks to accomplish its objects by
an alliance with disappointed Republicans.
Maine will utter a potential voice on the ninth
of September. If it is strong for the right
the coalition will crumble to pieces, and not
our city only, but the nation, will be rescued
from spoliation. YARMOUTH.