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The Portland daily press., 1876-03-24

The ELECTION BILL---The bill passed by the
House on Wednesday, "PerIey" of the Boston
Journal thinks, is more than the Democrats
bargained for. Its provisions are as follows:
All officers and employees of the Government
are forbidden to contribute mouey or any yalu-
abe thing, or to make personal canvsss, for
politcal purposes 10 any national election, un-
der penalty of punishment for committing q
misdemeanor The Inhibition as to the usr of
money extends to Consressmen, and penalties
are also prescribed for the threatening of iDjury
10 the life or limb of a vo ter TO intmidate bis
voc. The United States Courts and their
Marshals are empowered to enforce this law.
The last provisions are contained in the
Goode amendment, and the Republicans claim
sisce the passage of the bill that they have q
much wider meaning and greater application
than the Democrats who proposed the amend
ment imagine 1t is certain that the Republi-
can lawyers were at first inclined to oppose this
amendment. but Southern Republicans ap-
preached, after reading the amendment, which
had not been printed, and urged their Northern
associates not to oppose its adoption. 1t is now
claimed that this Goode amendment includes
every feature of the proposed Republican force
bill OF last year, with the single exception of
the power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus
The Republicans maintain that under it they
can effectually prevent what is termed the in
timidation of the black vote. Que of their
number, more enthusiastic than the rest, de.
c'ared that under these provisions he could
take the United States Marshal and lock every
Democrat in his district up on the dag of cleo
tioh. 1t is not to be expected that the Demo-
Gratis who offered the ame,dment anticipate
such an execution of its provisions.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-24

The Argus says it has seen no letter from
DR.. Abby recalling what he said of Dana S
piracy. 1t ought to better inform itself as to
the merits of the case. However, its apology,
that it erred through ignorance and not
through malice, is accepted.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-24

THE Pennsylvania Democrats have met in
convention and declared for the repeal of the
resumption act. The delegation to the ma
tional convention is said to favor Hendricks.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-24

SENATOR BoGY has too high sense of
honor to vote for the confirmation of Mr.. Da-
ma, but he did not hesitate to buy his cleo
tion to the Senate by paying $500 head for
members of the Missouri legislature.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-24

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The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

warns US, must inevitably involve the countrv
in long continued period of bnsinass Jsy
preston and widespread disaster. 1e'' d'-
The national peril is further enhanced h, =
movement Throughout the Southern States
countenanced and fostered by the dominant
party in that section for excessive and unraa
sonable demands upon the National Treasury.
and In contemplation of the pending Southern
war claims and other schemes for reimbursino
the lately insurgent people for the expenses and
losses of their causeless rebellion against the
government, we hold that there is no security
ior business or property except. in the defeat at
tne coming election of the candidates and
pollcy OF the Democratic party. We have
already witnessed the reaction caused by the
bare possibility of the success of that party.
ana what the results would be were that posi-
oiIity 10 become an actuality we may with
reasonable Certainty estimate. The prospect is
sucn thst we as business men and citizens,
animated by the impulse of self preservation
and recognizing our dependence upon tbe con-
dltlons which cOnduce to the common welfare
or our countrymen are impelled to admonish
our feilowmen of the menacipp periI and IN
invoke the unity of political action to avert
The recent letter of Mr.. Tildep. candidate of
the party of reaction and an uncertain policv
warns us that the question of the Southern
claims is vital issue which is pressed by his
supporters, without whom he could not hope TO
be elected, and to whom in the event Of his
election he would be under obligation and con-
trol. IL lmpresses upon us more strongly than
any other circumstance could the imperative
necessity of the election of President and
Congress who are not only known to be op-
posed to the contemplated raid upon the peo-
pies treasury, but who are wholly uutram-
meled by the support of men and Influences
which are pressing these demands Herein is
only the perfect security against this menace.
Our conviction, which we seek to impress upon
the business men and all other citizens. is that
national unity and prosperity is the speediest
possible attainment of the indispensable CON-
dtlons for the restoration of financial stability
and business certainty, and the successful pur-
suit OF trade and manufactures depend upon
the success of the Republican party in this
election.
And therefore our agreement for ourselves
and recommendation to others Is that business
men and manufacturers give their votes and
lnnuence to the election of Rutherford b.
Hayes as President, and William A Wheeler
as Vice President OF the United States, and to
afford every facility in their power for the pro-
motion OF the cause of national unity, security
and prosperity which they represent
Among the signatures are John Crane & Co.,
the Sweet Manufacturing Company, the Syra-
cuse Glass Works, Swarthout & Ackermap.
the Bradley Manufacturing Company, Kenyon,
Potter & Co.. A. G Baum, the Onondaga Iron
Works, and A. G. Yates & Co.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02
Waiting for Their Rights.

The South Carolina Democratic committee
in their address of sullen acquiescence in the
presence Of troops say that they wait with
patience for the success of the Democratic
party to which they look for the restoration
OF their rights. 1t behooves the Northern
people to ascertain the rights OF which South
Carolina have been deprived, and what priv
ileges are to be granted to these men in case
of Democratic restoration.
The rights which the Democrats of South
Carolina have been prevented from exercis-
ing by the presence of troops in that state
are, the right to kill negroes, the right to
drag men from their houses and shoot them
because they refuse to vote the Democratic
ticket, the right drive colored men into
the swamps and white men out of the state
because they are Republicans, the right to
burn churches and school houses, the right
to nullify the constitution and the laws of
Congress. These and these only are the
rights which can only be restored through
the success of the Democratic party, rights
which the Southern people will exact in that
event. If the people of the North wish to
see these rights restored they will vote for
Tilden. If not, they will vote for Hayes.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

IT is evident that Republicans are gaining
in the doubtful states, and have every pros
pect of carrying the most of them, and so Sc
curing victory. That is good; but it is not
enough. 1t is essential that Republican vot-
ers shall secure not only majority but
large one in the states which are surely theirs.
Here in Maine there is no possible question
of Republican success; but for all that there
should be no apathy in regard to voting.
Though the Democrats have no hope of car
ryng the state they are actively at work to
make such demonstration as will give them
hope for the future and give also false idea
Of the political sentiment and condition of
Maine. The overwhelming Republican sem
timent here should be made manifest, and it
can be manifested in only one way-at the
polls. 1t is highly necessary that every Re
publican in Maine should exercise his right
of suffrage next Tuesday.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

The United States Al per cent. bonds,
when placed upon the market, were eagerly
taken by the London syndicate. London
banks sold English consols in order TO invest
in our A per cents. The Republicans were
in power, their tenure undsturbed and I'M
threatened, which was guarantee to the
nations of the earth OF the absolute good
faith of the United States. But "a solid
South" and the initiation victory in Indiana
render Tilden's election possibe-render
possible restoration to power of the repudi-
ating Southern Democracy, with its rings of
desperate, revolutionary beggars and thous-
ands of millions of rebel claims, and all is
changed. The syndicate. dare not take any
more of our Al per cents. The public credit
receives heavy blow. The honor of the
nation is impeached before the world.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02
News and Other Items.

Mckay failed to get verdict against the
Philadelphia Times in his suit for damages for
libel, the jury remaining out week ani then
disagreeing.
One of the whaling vessels deserted in the
Arctic Ocean, the "Three Brothors," has escap-
ed and reached tue Sandwich Islands, bringing
with her the men and officers who were left be-
hind.
Brentano, the famous newsdealer in New
York. arrived in this country in 1858, aud be-
gan business by peddling newspapers at retail.
He is now, at the age of AZ, one of the best
known characters in New York, and has for
tune estimated at 100000.
The other day man was hung at Tanna-
Fort, near Bombay, fer a horrible murder, and
made rather notable observation in Gujerati.
Standing under the drop, he whispered to the
executioner, "In one minute what lot shall
know"
Weston, the walker, lectured in Liverpool,
England, few days ago, on "What l Know
About Walking. A clergyman presided and
the proceeds went for charitable object.
Weston said he was not more popular in Amer
lea because he did not associate with the bet
ting men.
Charles Madison, who left New York July
Sth, to cross the ocean in dory, has probably
been lost. When two drys out he had his main
boom broken, aud on July 10th he boarded the
British schooner Newport, where he remained
about ten minutes, and later he boarded the
| ship Beethoven and provisioned his little craft
| for the continuation of his voyage. since which
| time nothing has been heard from him.
| The most popular campaign speaker in
, Brooklyn during the present CANVASS is young
colored man named Brown. He is not an edu-
Gated man; his grammar is often at fault, and
his climaxes are not always according to the
schools. But he is impassioued; has a roasing
voice; possesses much humur, with vein of
satire running through his addresses, to which
is to be added vehemence which keeps him in
a reeking sweat, and altogether makes him an
attractive orator. He crowds the largest
houses, and though he strikes heavy blows az d
calls the Democracy bard names, they come iu
| hundreds to hear him. His speeches, so far
have been very effective
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

The Western Union Tel
egraph Company has re-
duced its rates moro than
So PER CENT. i'm ten
years. Its own lines are
connected with more than
seven thousand stations
and through its cOnnec-
tiOns reaches directly more
than ten thousand stations.
1t has twenty-eight wires
coming into Portland from
all directions. while its RI
val whose advent is her.
aided with much sounding
phrase, but one wire in
one direction. The rates
by the Western Union lines
will always be as low as
by the lines of any other
Company that has any ca
pacity for handling teIe-
graph business.
j. s. BEDLO ",
Supt. I'd Dist Eastern Division.
oct12 diff
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

ARTEMUs WARD said that when the lion
and the lamb should lie down together the
lion only would get up, there would be no
lamb to rise. Hearing the Democrats talk
about the ''aliied forces" of Democracy and
reform, one is reminded of the genial humor-
lists remark given above. When the Demo
cratic lion gets into power there will not be a
reform lamb long,
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

'THE very essence of civil liberty consists
in the right of every individual to claim the
protection of the laws whenever he receives
an injury" So says the Supreme Court in
one of its most important decisions. Against
that the Democracy furiously rebel. The
dctum of Taney in the Dred Scott decision
constitutes their s'essence OF civil liberty"-
that is, the negro has no rights which the
Confederate is bound to obey!
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02
and many others.


The Democrats can get any reeded major
lty by the shot gun which they want, but
somehow in the long run such tactics are of
no avail. They tried it in Kansas and Ne
braska to save slavery, and now thoses are
two of the strongest Republican states. The
Kansas war developed John Brown, and
John Brown touched off the charge which
blew slavery out of existence. That is the
way the original shot gun worked, and the
new campaign with it will finally come to a
similar inglorlous termination.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

and the Democracy had sunk to Is per cent.
discount, and the expenditures for the ordi-
nary operations of the Government were only
obtained through loans at 12 per cent. dis
count. Under the Republicans the securi-
ties have advanced to par in gold and in
eager demand.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02
The English Polar Expedition Failure

A"o AhS hSH OldF EAp6tItIOu Edllutt
Or. Isaac l. Hayes publishes letter in the
New York Herald in which he declares the
English expe iition under Captain Mares to
be failure, inasmuch as with two big steam
ers, equipped at an expense of $3.50, 900, they
accomplished but little more than he with
little schooner at an expense of $25,000, or
DR.. Kane with his brigan,ipe. They had
stores sufficient for two years more, and
should have stayed and pushed through into
the open Polar ocean. The Arctic ocean, he
says, is 2000 miles in diameter, and he is COLI
fident that he crossed the land belt of ice in
1861, and that if he had been possessed of a
boat he could have gone to the Pole. He
thinks Capt. Mares could, with perseverance.
have pushed his steamer through this belt
and found an open polar sea. "An ice belt
in summer depends upon the prevailing
winds, but as for large body of water being
at any time frozen over, even with the low
est temperature, it is unknown" He had
made longer sledge journey than they and
the thermometer went seventy degrees below
zero, but in the sixty days occupied by it
none of his party were frost-bitten, and he
believes the suffering of the English was for
want of proper precautions. Kane and he
both found open water where the English
claim to have found ice eighty feet thick, and
they only penetrated eighty miles further.
He thinks the Polaris would have gone to
the Pole if Captain Hall had lived. Even
the great discovery of this expedition, that
'EsquimauX traces cease on the west shore
at 81 deg. So min. where they cross to Green
land" was announced by him several years
ago. In closing. he asks, ''Will America be
the first to plant her flag at the North Pole ?"
The fact that the Pandora which was sent
out to them, found the expedition in mid
ocean, instead of in the polar regions, is an
indication of the failure of the expedition,
and DR.. Hayes is undoubtedly, both in expe-
rience and pluck, best qualified to speak OF
any man now living.
1t is not new to find men demoralized in
the presence of difficulties in unknown seas.
Columbus was nearly defeated, and the Pola-
ris expedition was stopped by it. And it is
equally patent that a ship held by ice one
summer may find an unusually clear sea in
the next. The English expedition was es-
recially provided for this contingency, was
sure to be we'll backed, and should have held |
on. The remarkable description of Capt. |
Mares apparltion to his wife, in the English |
papers, will now need some other explanation |
than his death in the frozen north.
Smiths Sound is evidently the road to the |
pole, and if somebody will give fund of |
100000, the interest to be judciously con-
tributed to assist expeditions, and the princi.
pal to 60 to the crew who reach it, America |
can probably kaye the honor.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

THE history of this country is rank 10
Heaven with the fact that whenever the
South wanted to consummate a scheme for
its own benefit it has always found North
ern Democratic President mean and weak
enough to use as its agent.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

The great issue is not hard or
soft money, civil service reform or
the tariff question:, but whether
violence and disorder shall control
this Government or the sentiment
of the law-abiding people. The
South would secure the control OF
the Government by violence, and
the Democratic party is but the
ally of the South.
Gen. Banks. Liberal.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE

The Republican party has reduced the
debt since 1866, by $67s,OOO,oOO; it has re-
duced taxation by $3O3,OOO,OOO; it has re-
duced expenditures by more than $3OO,OOO,-
600; it has reduced the interest on the debt
by $40,0O0,OOO.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

Tilden'S letter Oh rebel claims
Is a man who robbed the revenue
through perjury and fraud likely
TO be very nice in his construction
OF the l4th amendment.-his
promises TO obey that amendment!
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

If times are hard, who made
them SO2 Answer. A Democratic
rebellion, which cost $1,000
100000 and took away (kiIled)
100000 bread earners from their
families.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

The philosopher of the Pittsburgh Com
merciat says that the real mission OF the
Democratic party seems to be TO avenge the
suppression Of the rebellion.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

is the country willing to make the White
House teanto of Tammany Hall? Because
that's what the Democrats are going to do
with IT,
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

In the South they increase majorities by
shooting Republicans; in the North by stuff
ing ballOt-boXes. This is reform.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02

10 be frank with you, we want
the Government, and we mean 10
get it If we have TO murder and
stampede any number of people.
Southern Democratic Congressman to Gen. Banks.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02


John Jacob Astor,
Samuel Sloan,
Hugh Auchineloss,
jackson s. Schultz,
Henry G. Stebbins,
V. Botta,
Theodore Roosevelt,
Isaac N. Phelps,
John Jay,
SaTul. b. Schieffelin,
C. Z. Detmold,
Leonard W. Jerome,
James H. Van Allen,
Chas. Watrous,
Richard Butler,
Joseph Seligman,
Benz. B. Sherman (Pres.
Mechanics Ma. Bank),
E. D. Tappan pres. Gal
latin Nat. Bank),
P. M Bryson (Pres. Phe-
nix Nat. Bank),
James VI. Morrison Pres
Manhattan Bank)
John Il Williams (Pres.
Metropolitan Nat,B'k),
VIM. DOwd (Pres. Bank
of North Amerisa),
james Buel (Pres. Imp.
81 Trad. Nat Bank),
Robert Buck (Cash'r Pa
eific Bank),
VIM. A. Falls (Pres. Corn
Exch. Nat. Bank),
T. f. Palmer president
Leather Man'rs' Bank),
Low, Hartman, & G.,
Wendell, Hutchinson s.
Co.,
Upham, Tucker s. Co,
Collins Within q Co.,
Baumdahl & Co.,
Kibbe Schaffer, Shreve
& Co,
H. j. Sibley & Co.,
VIM. B. Kendall.
Coffin q Altemus,
Pomeroy s. Plummer,
Il. Gibermann & Co.,
VIM. Turnbull 81 Ca,
j. V Farwell & Co.,
Rhodes, Grosvenor s. Co,
Root & Childs,
Howard, Stanger g. Co.,
Haines, Bacon, Co,
Parker, Wilder & Co.,
Lee, Tweedy g. Co.,
Schultz, ,Sonthwick & Co.,
Scofeld 81 Stevenson,
s. A. & j. j. Dickerson,
Lapham. Costello s. Co.,
Jonathan Thorne, Jr.,
VIM. Rutter q Co.,
Chas. III. Ishan & Co,
c B. Fosdick a. Son,
Barbour Bros,
A. G. Buckley,
Moore q Moody,
| g. B. Horton a. Co.,
w. w. Gilman,
Brooks & Dewson,
Adams & Shaler,
Sternfeld Bros. 81 Co,
Nathan FObes,
VIM. Argyle Watson.
IL. M. Ruggles,
Benz. X. Phelps,
Pierre q. Van Wyck,
i VIM. Barton,
G. P. Kenyon,
j. Steinhart,
Theo. Shotwell,
N. Sullivan,
Wm. Graydon,
Danl Lord, Jr.,
Charles E. Strong.
Henry E. Rowland,
Campbell, Hall & Co.,
A. S. Barnes a. Co.,
VIM. j. Bryan.
j. f. Anderson & Co.,
IL. G. Hurlhurt q Co.,
Dodd, Mead & Co.,
| W. ii. Pareons 81 Co.,
James Miller,
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02
Your faithful friends and fellow citizens.

is anu I6llOW clLlZ6nS.
Robert L. Stuart,
L. P. Morton.
LIE G. B. Cannon,
John S. Kenuedy,
Francis A. Stout,
Ellwood E. Thorne,
VIM. K. Dodge,
John A. Dix,
Geo. Bliss,
/. Butler Wright,
James G. Carter,
Enoch T.. Fancher,
Elliot G. CowdiD,
VIM. Bayard Cutting,
Thomas Denny,
j. ID. Vermilye (Pres.
Merchants Ma. Bank),
John A. Stewart (Pres.
U. S. Trust co.,,
VIM. j. Jenkins (Pres.
Bank of America),
Geo. S. Coe (Pres. Amer
ican Ex. Bank),
j. Q Jones pres. Chem
ical Nat. Bankl,
John Parker (Cash'r Phe-
nix Nat. Bank),
Robert L. Kennedy (Pres.
Nat. Bank COmmerce),
Norman White president
Mercantile Nat. Bank,
j. L. Worth (Pres. Park
Nat. Bank),
P. G Calhoun (Pres. 4th
Nat. Bank.
Vermilye & Co.,
w. 9. Langley q Co.,
Geo. C. Richardson & Co,
Lewis Brothers & Co.,
E. r. Nudge, Sawyer s.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02
FOR PRESIDENT,
RUTHERFORD b. HAYES.
FGR VICE PRESEBENT,
WILLIAM A. WHEELER.
or NEW YORK.

For Presidential Electors.
+ At Ldrge.-WILLIAM W. THOMAS.
NATHAN A. FARWELL.
First istrict- SYLVESTER LITTLEFIELD.
SECOND /. WARREN MERRILL.
Ihsrd 6 BENJAMIN ID. METCALF
Eoartb j. w. PORTER.
FVM SETH L. MILLIKEN
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-02
The Nations Credit in Peril.
The Business Nj ,n of Syracnse Prese mt a
Forcible Appeal TO the Public-I he Elec-
ton of Gov. Hayes7Urged.

The following appeal to the business COM
muhity, signed by upward of two hundred and
fifty business men of Syracuse, including the
leading iron and salt manufacturers, wholesale
dealers, bankers, and representatives of oil
trades and pursuits, is made public: