The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-27
Horace Still Swinging Round.
He GrOans and COmplaines and makes a
H'i -9si Fool Of Himself.

SUNBURY, Ca, Sept. 26.-Mr. Greeley spoke
at Williamsport, Pa, to-day. He commenced
by calling attention to the administration, of
the Cabinet ministers and office holders, run
ming and roaring from one end of the country
to the other to persuade the people to keep
them in Office, and said: I thing that is some-
thing to which the people ought not to be recon-
ciled. Then of course, "like master like man
the hole body of office holders, fifty to seventy
thousand men, generally able, influential men,
are devoting their time and talents to reflect
ing their superofs to office and thereby keep
ing themselves in place. Iventure to say that
since the LIST day of May last the federal office
holders have done more work and devoted
more attention to keeping their places than
they have to doing their duty. All of them
are enormously taxed and their energies en-
ployed TO sustain this machine of power, and
their running and racing over the country, Civ
ing up to party service and to the Presidents re-
election the time and energies that belong to
the people, for which the people have paid, and
OF which the people out to have the advantage
Now, take my excellent friend Gen. Harri-
man, who is here to make a speech tonight for
Grant and Wilson. He is good talker AS
understand the case, Gen. Hartman is
naval officer of the port of Boston; response
BILE person with good character which he
doubtless earns, but here he is earning it speak
ing in Maine. have found him also in Con-
nectcut, pennsylvania, and so on. How under
heaven can he earn the money we are paying
IN that position as naval officer at Boston
while he is speaking all over the country. He
IS good, capable man, makes good speeches
but soy he ought to make his speeches ON his
speeches on his own hook as I do. He ought
not to be paid for making them out of the
federal treasury.
Now there is another point to which the peo-
pie are not likely to be recOnciled and that is
the enormous use of money in this election.
vi all the elections ever held from Geo. Wash
lnSt0n down to this time there has not been so
much money spent as has been in this election
OF Grant. They have the Treasury department
to the backs. This vast army of Office holders,
their Credit Mobilier men, with their large div
idends, dividends five times as large as the cap
ital invested. I tell you that right down in
honest old Vermont, where the people never
heard OF money being paid before their money
was poured out like water to induce Democrats
to vote for the Grant ticket or stoy away from
the polls. So in Maine. A hundred dollars
was paid 10 Maine for votes. Now gentlemen
if they elect their ticket this fall it will be be-
cause they have one hundred dollars to our one
Mr.. Greeley continued at some length, touch
ing upon the most important topics of the po-
litical canvass and finally returned to the train
amid great cheering.
Mr.. Greeley made the following speech at
Sanbnry:
''Fellow citizens, you will not expect me at
this hour to say many words to you, but UNI
derstood you would be glad to hear from me so
l have come across the river on purpose to say
those few words. First, 1 esteem it great
privilege to be able to stand here ON the same
platform with two of the most eminent Gener-
ais in our great struggles-two of the Generals
of the union armies in the great struggle for
peace and reconciliation with which we are
identified. 1 ask you to witness that the SOL
diers of our great struggles are among the most
generous of enemies and the readiest to give
generous and magnanmous terms to those they
overcome. If the matter had been left to the
soldiers of the two armies to settle, 1 believe
this country would have been pacifed and re-
united years ago. | say that those soldiers
the men who fought each other in that great
struggle, learned, if they did not already know
it, to respect each other. believe the soldier
of the union army, when they had finished
their war, went home with no bitteress in their
hearts toward the great mass of those who
struggled against them and with respect for
their gallantry, their soldershp and their cour-
age. 1 think that was true of the great body
of men who made up the union army. 1t was