The Portland daily press., 1872-09-24
Peach Orchards and Politics.

Peach Orchards and Politics.
The New York World, the leading Demo-
cratic paper Of the country, admits that 'for
a month past encouragement and apathy
have been gathering over the Democratic can
yass,'' but it proclaims that within few days
new courage has been infused into the oppo-
sition hosts by the reflection that nothing
was ever expected Of Vermont and Maine,
and that the belt of great States where peach
es can be gown, to which the canvass has
now been transferred, is the true home OF the
Liberal movement and the main reliance for
Democratic victories. Pennsylvania, New
York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri
are s'full of 'em," according to the World.
But the woods of Maine never scere full of
'em. o no, indeed! ''Why," says our trium-
plant authority, ''it Vermont or Maine sent
lect them" Again it says:
The irrelevant talk and clatter about the
Maine elections have proceeded like an arSu-
ment which starts from false premises, and
therefore necessarily reaches false conclu-
to the Democratic vote, were not to have
been expected in those States. They acre
not represented at Cincinnati.
And finally this:-
Nobody but born idiot could ever have
expected that either Vermont or Maine
would give its electoral vote to Greeley.
Now mark how completely, from begin
ming to end, from centre to circumference,
the Democratic and Liberal coalition is based
upon false pretences. Is there one of our
readers who does not remember how cent?
IDENTIFY it was claimed that the Liberal move
ment had taken a stronger hold here than al
most anywhere else ? and that Maine was sure
for Greeley? Now the World says that
''none but an IDIOT could have expected any
favorable result here. Not very compliment
airy to you, Messrs. Kimball and Lyford, as
the following extract from the World itself,
of few weeks ago, will show:
Among the visitors at the Glenham House
Saturday were j. j. Lyford and Governor
G. G. Kimball, of Maine. In the course of
the afternoon the writer had conversation
with the latter gentleman in regard to the
prospects in the East, but as he is a candidate
at the next election for Governor he felt deli
cate in expressing his views, especially as re-
CARDS his own State. He, however, was sure
that the contest would be very close, and it
was almost impossible to tell what would be
the result. On close calculation, however, it
was found by the State Committee that it re-
quired but gain of ten votes in each town in
the State to be successful. This gain is al
ready more than made, and from appearances
,chen he left ON Thursday acGs in a fair acdy
nf dna,bJsno Tho laa6ars nP fha al Disfr
ton party, who have all along argued that
they would retain the majority of 10000
which was given at the last State election,
are now content with 2000 and some even
less. ~"And" continued the Governor, with
a knowing wink, "when they talk in this
manner you can be certain they feel alarmed;
and don't blame them, for more earnest
and determined set Of men than these Liber-
ais have never known"
We are certain that Mr.. Kimban, who thus
claimed the State by at least five thousand
majority, never has been called an idiot by
his most bitter political enemies during the
that has just closed.
We hope opr friends in the peach-growing
section, will not allow themselves to be de-
ceived by this new Democratic proclamation
that "nothing was expected of Maine" We
assure you that the misrepresentation re-
specting the Liberal strength here were just
as extravagant and were just as persistently
scattered as they are in the Middle States
and the West. The PRESS again and again
pointed out the fact that the claims made
here were gross, open, palpable, monstrous
fallacies. We insisted that the Liberal
strength here certainly did not exceed a
thousand votes, and the result proved that
The estimate was excessive. 1t made no DIFF
erence. The Democrats sent word to the
States that revolution was
"Blaine was sure to be defeat
d." "Hale hadn't the ghost of chance" |
Perham himself was in danger, and the State |
was "safe for Greeley in November"
Some of our Maine papers kept up
his reckless buster till the very
lay of election. Nay, this system of |
and fraud was carried so far that
they pretended to exhibit papers signed by
,ver five hundred Liberals in part of one
Congressional district, and they sent the
Jews to Horace that over eight hundred Lib
rails were assembled together in one hall,
hough it afterwards proved that there were
lot so many in the whole State! At the
anne time the papers were filled with rose
olored accounts of the Understanding, the
power, ability and honesty of
he Liberal leaders. To the mind of the
the liberal Carleton, Lang and |
Pike became the leading citizens of the State. |
t will be perceived that these statements |
conveyed to the minds of those who read |
hem the impression that there could be not |
ess than ten thousand Liberal Republicans in
daine lin the State of which, they now saw
nothing was expected and which was snot
ven represented at Cincinnatir' At the
ime of that Convention all the Democratic
,apers in the country published long list of
Maine delegates" and the Worlds list, if !
re remember rightly, was little longer than
hat of any other paper!
Messrs. peach-growers, we do not person
lily understand the philosophy of the int
nate relation alleged to exist between your
pecial line of fruit-raising and SUCCESSFUL
raud and the triumph of GreeleyiSm. But
We are anxious that you should not be de-
'eived and made to believe that there has
'een anything in the canvass in Maine that is
calculated to lift up in the least the cloud of
and apathy'' which settled
lpon the Democratic prospects in conse-
Iuence of the results of its election. The
oalitionists claimed everything; they got
Iothing. So, no doubt, good peaeh-grower.,