The Portland daily press., 1876-09-27
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

Certainly the Democrats make up plausi-
Bile story about the attempt to import negro
voters into Indiana, for they close the startl-
ing revelation with the assurance that the ne
groes are backing out of the bargain, ''afraid
the Democrats will kill them.' There's a
naturalness to that almost enough to cloak
the whole with truth to the unsuspecting.
The Milwaukee Sentinel asserts that res.
ident of that city lately visited a southern
state for the purpose of purchasing planta-
tion. He examined number and made in
quiries as to price and other particulars.
In several instances the owners announced
that in making sale they should reserve
the right of claims against the United States
Government for damages suffered during the
war.
At large Republican mass meeting In
Norwich, Conn.,, last Friday night Ex-United
States Senator Lafayette S. Foster presided
and made speech in which he said that be
believed that "the peace, prosperity and hap
piness of the country would be greatly pro-
NOTED by the election of Hayes and Wheel
er', Mr.. Foster was one of the chief Liberal
leaders in Connecticut during the Greeley
campaign, and in the spring OF 1876 was the
Democratic candidate for Congress in his
district.
Mr.. George William Curtis addressed a
large Republican mass meeting at Concord,
N. H., last Friday, in which he predicted
that New York would vote for Hayes in No
yember, and said: "Mr. DoIsheimer told us
in Faneuil Hall, the other evening, that Gen.
Hayas was IAN amiable, well meaning and
negative man. A negative man is hep Yes.
When the tide of battle was raging in our
country he put a negative upon George 81.
Pendleton in Ohio. After the war he put
negative upon Senator Thurman. Last fall
in the hardest contest ever waged In this
country between honest and rag money, he
put negative upon old Bill Allen And
mark my words, on the 7th of November
next, he will put another negative upon Sam.
uel ]. Tilden."
The Ohio Republicans are entirely conf
dent of victory in October. They have been
working hard lately, and are evidently seeing
the effects oft, for this sort of talk In the
Cleveland Herald is becoming common:
"Ohio will as surely 60 Republican on the
10th Of October as that day comes. The on.
ly question is as to the size Of the majority,
and that depends wholly upon the attention
Of the Republicans to the duty OF voting. We
have no fears of Democratic voting; all our
anxiety is to get out the full Republican vote.
If the Republicans are impressed with the
Importance of voting on the 10th of October
as well as on the 7th of November, the ma.
jority will be overwhelming. We are utterly
opposed to betting on election. 1t is an i'm
moral practice and should not be INDUCED in.
But if any Republican in New York holds a
different view on this subject of morals, and
should have bundle of greenbacks shaken
under his nose by an unregenerate Democrat
with an offer of odds that Ohio will 90 Demo-
cratic in October-take it,"
General L. NJ. Thayer, prominent and
lifelong Democrat, has come out against Til
den in long letter in which he pronounces
him frard. Referring to the charge often
made that President Grant uses the patron
age at his disposal for the benefit Of his
friends, the General ays:-"Mr. Tilden has
gone step further and used bis appointing
power for his own benefit. Both treat their
high trusts as perquisites. The motives that
inspired General Grant were generosity and
friendship; the motives that inspired Cover
nor Tilden were sordid and mean. Again,
Belknap sold his store licenses for money 10
please his vile. Had he used his patronage
to elect himself United States Senator from
Iowa, he would haue used it precisely as Til
den used his. If he had sold the license, as
he did, and then used the money to elect
himself Senator, certainly it would have been
no more corrupt. When a public officer
prostitutes his Office to his own use he of
course uses it in manner most beneficial to
himself If he prefers money he takes that,
but if be prefers to have his pay in political
services he takes them. The question is
whether it is any less corrupt to dispose OF
an office by way OF barter or cash sale. In
my judgment the fairest way in which an Of
| fee was ever sold was for cash. The differ
ence between Governor Tilden and Belknap
seems to be that the Governor had plenty of
money and no wife, while Belknap had plen-
| ty of wife and no money. tlf
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