The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-04

CURED during the rebellion ana Is the legit- |
innate fruits OF his foresight and sagacity. |
He has built up house of the first rank on
Wall street with strong branch in London, |
and may be said to be planted on "a rock where
the storms of fortune cannot wreck him: |
and his future so far as wealth is concerned |
is secure. But better than riches, Mr.. Clews
bears an honorable name. His prosperous
career has never been sullied by an act of |
dishonesty or trickery. Rapidly as his means
have accumulated, no dollar in his Golfers
bears the alloy of having been procured dis
creditably. --.-.s.5.s ,7yE .ss.. D.,
However, Mr. Clews is a Republican, and
knowing Gen. Grant personally he happens
to entertain for him much of that warmth
of regard with which the President inspires
all his near friends, as for instance Sherman,
Sheridan. and other of his comrades in arms.
Believing in him thoroughly, he has thrown
himself into the contest for his reelection
with characteristic Uina. His purse and his
time are each at the promotion of the cause.
He is strong man for the administration
and will render incalculable service in the
gnu WOIh VI IC-ClCCbiLS Jul PiCcCllb cXCel-
lent Executive. Hu 4kE
But Mr.. Clews is also personal acquaint-
ance of Mr.. Greeley and his Lieutenant,
Whitelaw Reid, and they are grieved that he
has thrown his great influence in the scale
against them. Gentle hints have been given
him (by the Lieutenant) that he must not 20
too far-that he must not intimatethat Mr.. /
Greeley's election would be dangerous to the
welfare of the country orwell, never mind,
the penalty was not stated at first, but the
admonition not ut once proving effective, the
Tribune reporters were set to "raking in the
ashes" Meanwhile the funny man of the
paper was put to workito turn out half col
umn of sarcasm. Next came general at
tack all along the line, in which Clews is
charged with collision with Georgia State
officials in an over issue Of bonds in aid OF
railroads, which bonds Clews negotiated,
and which railroads he shared the. profits
Of the construction of. The Tri6une's state 4
ments are not very clear, its differences are
not at all inevitable, and it does not make
out much of case, albeit it is all ez parte
fact that its witnesses are themselves under |
suspicion of having perpetrated the same
frauds they are now seeking to fasten on 9TH
ers, and that it is slightly absurd to suppose
any sane banker, much less a shrewd one
like Mr.. Clews, would loan money on bonds
irregularly and illegally issued, the web in
which it seeks to entange Mr.. Clews is too
thin to bear particle of weight.
Now to the point. The libels of the T,i-
bune on Mr.. Clews are outrageous and have
no foundation. But apart from that, the an 1
linus out OF which they grow exhibits to US
very unpleasant side of Greeeyism. If. the
columns Of widely circulated newspaper
are to be prosttuted to the calumniation of
every influential man who refuses to support
its proprietor when he is a candidate for office,
JOURNALISM" has come to sorry pass,
and will soon be thing difficult to distin-
guish from black-mailing. ~
Fortunately, in this instance MI. CleNs has
exhibited as much pluck as Gen. Barlow
could possibly have done. He throws down
the glove to his doughty traducer, and defes
him to do his worst. So the public will have
a chance to see whether it il in the power of
any newspaper to hunt man down and dss-
troy his good name simply because he will not
shape his opinions after its teachings.
Mr.. Greeley and Mr.. Reid have tried this
thing once before with success. They made
relentless raid on ex-Collector Murphy,
and although every allegation they published
against him-wth the single exception of.the
averment that he owned one fourth of q
piece ofreal estate in company with Tweed
and his compeers-was wful, wanton, ma
licious lie, and they could hardly have avoid
ed the knowledge of its being lie-still what
with his Irish name, his Catholic religion,
and its 'damaable iteration" of exploded
falsehoods there is no mistaking the
fact that they did accomplish their pur-
pose ofmaking three quarters of the commu-
nifty believe that ''Tom Murphy" was a
''shoddy THETA ''forger," "perjurer,"
Cheat and everything else that was bad.
1t matters not whit that Mr.. Murphy i,
quiet, amiable and perfectly honest gentle
man, whose only offense is an ardent devo-
ton to the Republican party and Gen. Grant
as its leader. The Tribune types have black
ened his character past all recognition, and
the Murphy of actual fact is no more like the
Murphy of Tribune fiction, than Whitelaw
Reid is like George William Curtis.
What they have done to Murphy they will
now try to do to Clews, and so we are in a
fair way to witness the precise extent to
which IN oh ofA 10 = Io 49,
inscriptions press. 1t is high time this
was ascertained. Ifprivate life has no fur
Their sanctity, if the home is no longer sacred
we must needs be going backward to the days
personal defense rather.than forward to the
security of law and order, where every mans
rights are so perfectly protected by the State
that he need have no concern about
their consideration.
1t is pitiful that Presidential canvass
should degenerate to such issues as these.
These offensive personalities deserve rebuke
that shall make their repetition impossible.
1T is greatly 10 be hoped that the result of the
coming election will so effectuaily decide that
such weapons of warfare are not recognized
as decent that we shall have no more of
them. They degrade human nature.
Everybody knows who Daniel Drew is
1 don't mind exposing him to the batteries of
Mr. Greeley's organ because, entrenched be-
hind his twenty millions he is bullet proof
Therefore 1 must repeat what he recently
said to a broker on Wall street, who rallied
him on being reported as a Greeley man. 81
have known Mr.. Greeley forty years, and so
far from voting for him l should consider his
election the greatest disaster that could be-
fall the country" YARMOUTH.
INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO
VOTE IN OCTOBER. OUR FRIENDS
THERE ARE LOOKING WITH INTENSE
ANXIETY FOR THE VOTE OF MAINE
THE NEW OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ARRANGE
MENTs FOR SToNK.-The Capitol Commission
ers have been greatly embarrassed during the
past year by their inability to procure store as
rapidly as was deemed necessary for a vigorous
prosecution of the work. Last fall they enter
ed into contract with the Yarmouth Granite
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