The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-21
The Talk that Hurts Business

Everybody wants to know positive ly who
is to be President. Business men delay the
making of new ventures until they know
whether Republican or Democratic policy
is to prevail for the next four years. In the
fear of coming crisis there is delay in the
payment even of the ordinary bills of the
year. Some money is directly or indirectly
tied up in wagers and kept from the ordinary
channels of commerce; but there are no such
large amounts of money at actual hazard up
on the result of tine Presidential election as to
cripple or constrain trade, 1t is only the un-
settled feeling engendered by the state Of pub.
liz affairs which seriously affects business in
terests; and the thing which for the most
part tends to foster this unsettled feeling is
the talk of the Democratic press of the coun-
try and the outcries for war that come from
Democratic sensation-makers. There is
nothing in the actual state of facts 10 cause
alarm to the business man or to any man.
We have got an administration now that
will not allow anarchy or disorder. We shall
have quiet Inauguration of some President.
The American nation is too much of nation
to allow riot or revolt whoever is President.
But business will be checked and crippled so
long as anybody can be found to take stock in
such buster as the following from Demo-
cratic newspapers. The St. Louis Times
says:
THE Democracy of Missouri have 10 time to
lose. They should inform their fellow Demo-
Gratis whether they intend to contribute the nee
essary amount of physical aid to place Mr. Til
den IN the White House or not. They must
it'' ' --'AA
The Fort Wayne Sentinel says:
"filden or war is the watchword of the De-
mocracy.
kellogg and Chandler should begin to make
their peace with God.
One million men will be on hand to see that
Samuel j. Tilden is inaugurated President on
the 9th of March.
The Democrats of Fort Wayne should keep
list OF those radicals who applaud the Louisi-
ana and South carolina outrages. The list will
be convenient for future reference.
Ii the spirit and nerve of the people Of Louis
lana have not wholly departed, they will see
that the members of the returning board do uot
long hnger IN this vale of tears. Wells and
Anderson at least should be promptly put out
OF the road. Assassination in this case would
be justifable.
Such utterances as the above-and they are
common enough in Democratic journals all
over the country-can in the long run have
but one effect; they show the true inwardness
OF the Democratic party-the party of brag,
bluster and disorder.
In the meantime the sentiment of the peo-
pie is steadily and surely tending toward a
glad and cordial recognition of the fact that
Gov. Hayes is elected President, in spite of
the Democratic attempt to scare and drive
away the honest vote of Louisiana, to steal
an elector in Oregon and to buy an odd elect
or or two for the great "reformer'' in some
other states. The merchants and business
men of the country want a peaceful and con-
stitutional settlement of the question and
will not appeal from such means to mobs and
riots and the incendiary talk which tends
only to infame the base and dangerous ele-
ments of the nation. When Democratic
busterers cease from their vislent utterances,
business will revive.