The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-08-13

as something that must for mysterious rea-
sons be kept profound secret. 1t was in
this way that the rumor obtained circulation
that A. T. Stewart had furnished money to
the Greeleyites, a fiction so palpably incredi-
BILE that it is wonder any New Yorker
was taken in by it, and yet our good friends
of the Times caught up the story and com
mented upon it, as if it might have some
foundation. Encouraged by the success of
this play upon the public credulity, other
names are mentioned with an air of semi
confidential sscresy, as contributors to the
great alliance between Tammany Hall and
nton-Republicanism to purify national pol
itics Even Henry Clews, one of the most
thorough and pronounced Grant'm among
the money kings of Wall street, has been limited
at as donor TO the Greeley fund. These
stories amuse people who reside in New York
and know how Munchausen-lke they are,
but they are set aaoat to affect the minds OF
distant readers, and it is possible they may
not be without effect for that purpose.
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hunt down the "weak inventions of the enc
my.'' As fast as one falsehood is exposed
and exploded fresh one springs up to take
its place. The Tribune, scared at the evil
dences which are aecumulating which go to
show the entire harmony and concert Of ac-
ton between the seeding Republicans OF
New York and the Tammany Ring, is striving
Justify to prove that the Republicans are con-
irving an alliance with the followers OF
James OBrien. But as if the statement were
it more so by coupling Tweed with OBrien
as party to the alleged bargain. Now every
body hereabouts knows that while Tweed
necessarily keeps out of sight, his friends and
adherents are all rampant for Greeley. We
shall make large inroads upon the Democratic
vote in November, but they will be among
the reform Democracy and the Germans, both
which classes helped so much to overthrow
the Tweed dynasty last fall. 1t is because a
vote for Greeley is a vote for Tammany that
the honest German editor of the Stats lei.
tatng, Oswald Ottenderfer, still refuses to lend
the influence of his great journal to the Gin
cinnati nominee. For the same reason DEM
ocratic Germans are forming Grant clubs,
and OBrien, who caused the exposure of the
gigantic crimes of the Ring, thereby bringing
down upon himself the vengeance of the
Tammany leaders, hestates to support their
candidate for the Presidency.
Hon. S. S. Cox of Ohio, our eloquent car.
pet bag Congressman from the sixth district,
is talked of as the candidate at large under
the new apportionment. On the 18th day OF
February, 1871, at the time when the NUM-
cipal robberies were at their height, Mr. Cox
made speech in Congress, which will be
found in the appendix to the Congressional
Globe, Sd session, 41st Congress, from which
AXE the following extract:
THE people of the city and State of New
York are satisfied with Democratic rule.
Whether it be good or bad as to State or
municipal affairs, it is their own choice 1t
is nobody's business but their own how they
are administered. 1t would be super1uous to
rebuke the majority here for their frequent
and unjust aspersions upon that administra-
ton. n If / showed here how docks
and parks, public works and police, finance
and taxes were all cared for Nth exemplary
executive ability by the McClellans, Agnews,
Hunts, TwEEDs, SwEENEYs, HALLS and
others whose names are made familiar to the
nation by the intermeddling of outside criti-
csm into our inside affairs it would avail little
to dispel the prejudices of this House. Until
New York city becomes Radical this prejudice
and its spiteful legislation win continued
On the very day when this eulogy on the
Ring thieves was pronounced in the national
capital, three of the most notorious of them
being ostentatiously mentioned by name
Tweed was controlling and directing series
of infamous acts of legislation in the State
capitol at Albany, with view to perpetuate
his power, the parks, under Sweeney's man
agement, were involving the city in stupen-
dous debt, the public works were used as
cover for enormous frauds, the police was
employed to make franchise mockery, the
finances were in ineXtricabe confusion, and
the taxes were being supplemented by the
reckless issue of bonds which must be met bv
future taxation of a most burdcnsomc nature
The nomination of Mr.. Cox will bring the
issue directly home to the people between
have another square fight in the State against
the municipal corruption which the Legisla-
ture of last winter failed to eradicate through
a combination between the Democr. Is and
the partisans of Fenton.
The rooms of the National Committee at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel began last week to
exhibit signs of an awakening. Till then
the Republican side of the campaign can
hardly have been said to have opened. Hence
forward there will be no lack of activity, en-
ergy and effort. Gov Morgan will leave his
comfortable cottage at Newport for four days
in the week to give his personal attendance
Gov Jewell of Connecticut will be at the
rooms during part of each week, and Mr..
Chandler returns from his brief respite in
New Hampshire on the 18th, to remain un-
til the election is over. Grant and Wilson
clubs will spring up all over the country,
meetings will be held, documents distributed
and the whole Union reused to enthusiasm
for the good cause. A perfectly hopeful feel
ing prevails among the Republicans. who
manifest au eagemess to encounter and over
throw this old enemy in his new guise. All
signs point to an exciting canvass and large
vote. An immense effort will be made by
both parties to carry the Empire State. IL
is difficult to measure the detection which has
been caused by the abandonment of the
party by Mr.. Greeley and Senator Fenton.
but shrewd politicians declare that il will be
more than Offset by the accession of Demo-
Gratis whom no persuasion can induce to vote
for Greeley. From present appearances the
Democratic majority in this city will be great
ly reduced. There arc three wards in which
the Democrats have always counted on a
preponderence of 10000 to 1000, but which
would go Republican, if the vote were taken
today. Ii is not at all improbable that
the Greeley Democrats may succeed bv
threats and promises in ringing in great
many of their confumacious brethren. but
they haven't succeeded thus far in doing so.
New York is good fighting ground, and will
be contested for by the Republicans with ir-
repressible ardor YARMOUTH.
WHAT IT MEANs.-At a Greeley meeting
held in Louisville, KY, on the I'd ultimo,
Gen. Hodge, Democratic Elector for the State
at large, announced that the Democratic
party, in taking up with Greeley, had not
surrendered its principles. ''The graves"
he said, "of the gallant Southern dead who