The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-17
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| a correspondent at Caribou writes the HOul-
ton Times, that large Grant and Wilson
flag was thrown to the breeze at that place
on Thursday last. He says many Democrats
in that locality are going to support Grant in
preference to Greeley. One hard shell Dem
ocrat procured a. quantity of disinfectant to
| get the odor of the Tribune out of his house.
One Office seeker and one other man consti-
tute the Greeley and Brown Republican party
at Caribou.
Henry A. Wise of Virginia, who is op-
posed to the Greeley movement, has accepted
| an invitation to address the Democracy of
| New York city, and he will also be a delegate
| to the Louisville Convention to make a
| straight-out Democratic nomination.
Rev. A. II. Morrill,, formerly pastor of the
North street church in Bath, writing from
West Virginia, says: 'Mr. Summers letters
will have no influence on the colored votes of
this State. The unfortunate Senator finds it
hard to kick against the pricks. His mistake
is many-sided." ..
They have taken to breaking up Republican
meetings in Kentucky, and assaulting Repub-
lican orators. The era of reconciliation,
the unity of the Republic, and the rights of
all, has not yet dawned in that benighted
region. The progressive Louisville Courier
Journal will doubtless demonstrate with its
friends.
the significant "straws" of the
present campaign is the canvass just made of
the towns of Chesterfield and Ausable, N. Y.
T1a p,.r1x <xx0 r.. II.
the result of the canvass disclosed just two
Greeley Republicans in the two towds. one of
whom is doubtful; while no less than 12O
Democrats were found who will not vote for
Greeley, sixty of whom are out and out for
Grant.
The Toledo Blade says; "Why such fearful
howls about Jim Steadman's pretty make
of only $212, 1868? James retired from
that collectorship disguised man. When he
left Washington in 1867 he told friend that
the pay was about $4,000 per annum, but
it was worth a million to him. Perhaps
Pharaoh took care of the other $751;, $685. OF
for him. Will James rise to explain? He is
for Greeley" r..
The Tribune's last exhibition is a gentle
reminder of the Democracy that Henry Will
son has been very staunch temperance mau.
That is a sly bid for the anti-temperance vote
for Greeley and reform.
The New York Times gives the result of
thirty different presidential votes taken most
ly among factories and shops, and in few
cases on railroad trains near Syracuse in that
State. The total is as follows: Grant, 1889,
Greeley, 6O7, doubtful, 142. Syracuse is said
to be great center of Greeleyism.
Senator Patterson informs the Lewiston
Journal that he has no doubt but that New
Hampshire is sure for Grant and Wilson.
A Springfield, Ill. dispatch says that per-
sistent cries of help from the Maine Liberal
Democrats have come up, and that Senator
Trumbull and Gen. Farnsworth have been
delegated to respond.
. AS sample of the correctness of the Gree
ley correspondents, the statement of the New
York Sun may be AIKEN, which save that
there are two sons of William Pitt Fessen-
den OF Portland, Putnam, sx-mayor OF that
city, and Brown, the present mayor, who
have declared for Greeley.'
In Mr. Greeley's speech here he condemns
carpet-baggers. This is not the first time he has
denounced men under that name In 1868,
he stigmaiized German and Irish carpet-bag-
gers, in these Words
"We do business in a city governed bv car
pet-baggers only just over from Cork, Limerick
and Sauer-Krautenthal. The difference be-
tween our carpet baggers from Europe and
those with which the rebellious Hamptons are
afflicted, is that ours are generally deficient
in mental and moral cultivation as in property
We believe most of the southern carpet-baggers
sehoolmaster."
Mr.. Greeley is now severe in his denuncia-
ton of the carpet-baggers in the South. But
it seems that with all his poor opinion of
them, he placed them above carpet-baggers
from Germany and ireland. The latter will
reciprocate Mr. Greeley's peculiar regard.