The Portland daily press., 1876-07-28
"WelI Dressed Down. y

And now comes Marcellus Emery and his
newspaper of unsayory memory, the Demo-
crat, to take hand in that little quarrel
which Mr.. Clifford and Gen. Anderson begun
at the Tilden ratification meeting in City
Hall few evenings since. Marcellus believes
with Gen. Anderson that no Democrat ever
sinned, and on account of that belief, in an
editorial headed "Well Dressed Down." he
Tor DR.. Jordan) proceeds to castigate Mr..
Clifford in the following vigorous style:
One VIM. H. Clifford, of Portland, has, on more
than one public OCCASION during the past years
taken his opportunity to express his disgust with the
Democratic party and advise its dissolution. In
consequence Of his being the of his father the
Democrats of Portland have deemed it worth while
to throw sops to him from time to time in the way
OF public recognitons for the purpose, presume,
of holding him to a nominal connection with am or
ganization which he affects to condemn For that
reason we suppose he was invited to preside at the
Tilden and Hendricks ratification meeting in PORT
ed himself with bewailing the degeneracy of modern
Democracy but last Saturday night his growing dis.
gust had reached back to the earliest days of Andrew
Jacksons administration and he could not resist the
impulse to seize upon the occasion to SANDER the
memory OF that old hero.
Thus has Pope Emery launched his anath-
ema at Mr.. Clifford. If our esteemed fellow
citizen has political existence it IS not in the
Democratic party. The Democrat then gives
an extract from Mr.. Clifford's very naughty
speech SO that the evidence of his offence
may go with his sentence. This done, the
Democrat proceeds:
We read that there was generally disgust at
Clford's talk and large numbers of Democrats left
the hall. Fortunate it was for the demonstration
that GEN. SAMUEL j. ANDERSON followed him. He
was received with loud and l0Dg-continued de-
monstatons of applause, designed not less as a
tribute to the General than a rebuke to the chair
man. He spoke with unwonted eIoquence, for the
lion was stirred within him. Again and again did
the hall rock with applause as he poured forth his
his speech when the enthusiasm of the audience
was at its highest PITCH he turned upon Clifford and
poured out upon him the following torrent of fact
and sarcasm:
The "torrent" aforesaid we must omit; !;
but candor compels us to remark that the
last extract is rather graphic for the facts.
We do desire to remind Mayor Fessenden
that it isn't quite the thing for him TO allow
Gen. Anderson TO wilfully call forth an ap-
plause which causes City Hall to crock again
and again." The General should have
stopped when City Hall rocked once. It's
dangerous, positively so, to have the largest
building in the State rolling about in sea of
enthusiasm. The fact is, there may be po-
litical meeting this season when there may
be some people present, and if Gen. An
derson gets the building in the way of rock
ing with three or four hundred people In it
who knows but that it will go a rolling about
on less torrent when it is full. 1t might
make them sea-sick. Indeed, the building
itself isn't sea-going craft or fit to with
stand mountain torrent" Don't do so
any more, General! We know you won't,
Mr. Clifford, not this season.