The Portland daily press., 1876-09-26
NEW YORK Sent. %. 1876.

majority of Republican voters. Their twenty
three electoral votes can only be counted for
rilden in the event of denial of the right of
/ ssHra2 Oo large mass of their citizens.
: Florida and North Carolina casting
/ N i, r votes are probably Republican
s.- neCple have a chance to express
5rC .g, 'A' through the ballot box. But
3 lf -,,7,,e. , are twenty-three electoral
+, d9 for the st. Louis nominees,
VII 70. btained by system of in-
timida N utterly destructive ef
the prin... government. If they
should turn the scale the alternative would be
presented to the American people of accepting
an administration forced upon them By the
despotism of mob, or re, il1g a grevous
| wrong. 1t is to hoped for the Jake of peace
/ and order as well as of justice, that no such
choice OF evils will be presented to them. The
| mere apprehension of it ought Of itself to be
| enough to insure the election of the Republican
| candidates.
The Massachusetts Senator discussed the
financial question with the ability which his
native good sense and practical experience
| have combined to endow him. His declaration
that in the matter of resumption the Republi-
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| be regarded as promise that the success of
Hayes and Wheeler and the return of Repub-
lican House of Representatives will be fol-
lowed by prompt and vigorous measures to
carry out the act of January 1876 which the
| Democrats tried so hard to emasculate by
striking out the date.
MIR. Boutwell, is a competent witness in re-
| spect to the economy and efficiency with which
the government has been conducted since the
| first Inauguration of President Grant. He
| showed that the public expenditures during
| that period were nineteen per cent. less per
| capita than during the term of Buchanan, the
| last Democratic President This is a conclu-
| sive answer to all the current drivel and rub
bish about Republican extravaganza and cor
| ruption. The truth is, and it cannot be too of
ten reiterated-that there never has been a
stricter accountability and a more faithful
discharge of duty on the part of public
| officials since the Union was established than
4 there has been between the 4th of March 1869
| and the present time. The allegations of
wrong doings or short comings by men in office
that have been so freely uttered all the while,
never had any foundation in fact, and have
| always met with mathematc cal refutatioa when
ever they were put forth in form efficiently
| tangible to be confronted with the record.
There is no better authority on these matters
than the gentleman who for five years directed
| the operations of the Treasury Department,
| and in every one of those years effected a ma
teral reduction in the national debt His
words are entitled to great weight as well on
the score of his perfect truthfulness as on the
| accuracy of his information.
| The meeting gave tn, Republicans of New
York an opportunity of welcoming back to the
fold their old faverite CHAUNcEY NJ DEPEw
who strayed away during the Greeley cam
paign. He presided and introduced the speak
er. His opening remarks were in his usual
happy vein, and perhaps derived even addition
al interest from the circumstances under which
he appeared. He has been practically out of
| politics snce 1872. He enlisted in the liberal
revolt in spirit of pure chivalry. Having been
heretofore in friendly personal and political
relations with Fenton and Greeley, he felt him.
self under an obligation of good faith to ad-
here to them, when they mutIned. He was
great accession to their hopeless cause. Young,
genial, eloquent and socially charming, he was
just the man to captivate and proselyte follow
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him down to Maine during the campaign of
1872 to lend his persuasive voice in behalf of
the allies who were arrayed under the banner
of anything to beat Grant" I warned you at
the time that he was the only dangerous advo-
cate the enemy had despatched thither. l
knew from having heard him, that he was q
| power on the stump. He made very brief
stay however in Maine His ready intuitions
told him at once that it was of no use to try
to make converts there. The first speech he
made he had good audience, and addressed
| them with his customary earnestness and pow
er. They listened with courteous attention aud
laughed at his numerous hits, with which he is
always ready. But they didn't appear to be
getting under conviction, and when he finished
they INDUCED in their first manifestations Of
enthusiasm by giving three rousipg cheers for
General Grant. This was too much for
our silver tongued liberal who had been
wont to command the huzzas of wrapt
multitudes, and he quietly slipped out
OF your state, and reported to his political
comrades here that it was no use wasting time
there. Subsequently he was pressed into the
service of his new allies much against his will,
as a candidate for Lieut.. Governor, and got
very badly beaten, as everybody did on that
side of politics that year. However he wasn't
at all soured by that slight reverse. His per-
sonal relations with his former associates were
maintained without any change, and his popu-
PARITY suffered no abatement. Consequently
when he reunited with his brethren OF the good
old faith there was much rejoicing, and it found
warm expression on his first public appearance
4 A. Il e.
There is great deal of impatience to hear
from Senator Conkling. He has been i'll since
the adjournment of Congress, and has as yet
only partially recovered. He came home sadly
in need of rest after having been excessively
overworked for seven weary months. His sem
atorial labors consume a l the time he ought to
give to the cares of life, but he is obliged to add
to them the exacting duties of the profession by
| which he gains his livelihood. Few people re-
alize the sacrifice which gentleman so situ-
| ated makes when he responds to the demands
of patriotism by entering actively into the can.
vass. Nevertheless the senator will take the
field as soon as he regains his physical vigor
and gets his affairs in a shape that will admit
of his REIMBURSEMENT of personal supervision
of them for the remaining weeks of the cam
/ pdlBu. as udbttE VI COuES6 ne Will lQtuSf
new life into the cause and rally the Republi
cans of New York as no other man could He
is the trusted leader, the honored chieftain o.
his party, and besides being without peer in
ability to present the issues in an attractive ant
convincing manner, with all the graces Of
diction and eloquence, he is SO thoroughly ear
nest, honest and sincere that he enjoys the re
spect and admiration of a greater number o
the Republicans of the state than any other cit
izen within its limits 1t is a matter OF general
regret among his friends that he never will &C
outside of New York. They all feel that IL he
were as well known elsewhere as he is at home
there would be very general recognition of hi:
title to RANK among the foremost statesmen Of
his age But even if he had the inclination tc
promote his own political advantage by such
itinerancy, he hasn't the leisure for it. 1t hap
pens moreover that there is less of the self-seek
ing quality in his nature than is usual in per
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