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The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
Estimates Of the Convention.

The New York Times of Friday
made the following estimate of the
probable strength of the several Re-
publican candidates on the first ballot
at Cincinneti:-
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
The SUN

The events of the Presidential compaign
will be so faithfully and fully illustrated in
THE NEW YORK sun as 70 commend it
70 sSDdid men of all parties We will send
the Weehiy Edltion teignt psgesl post raic
the Sunday Edition. same size. at the sam Q
price; or the laily, fur pages. for $500.
Address Tile sun. New York City.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31
ROBERT HUTTON.
Plumber and Gas Filter
No 3O2 French Street.

Having removed to the above named A
store, and having everything in my SSs.
line OF business, am prepared to do IN
all kinds of Plumbing and Gas fitting L
IN workmanlike manner and at moderate
rates.
Oils and Lamps
of different Kinds kept on hand and for sale
at the .owest figures. His old friends and
the public are invited to give him a call.
i aprlld3m ROBERT HUTTON
The daily gazette., 1876-05-31

The whole Convention. 75s
Delegates already chosen. ........ zoe
- to be chosen. n............ Al
Necessary to a choice. ........... 37f
Delegates for Blaine 251
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

thought he would be elected, but the Sem
ator found the Republicans lust as bopeful.
All of which goes to show that the Demo
Gratis are relying for success more on wind
than on votes.
We have been hearing from the solid
South. We now hear from solid New York.
Wealth speaks. Commerce has tongues as
well as wings. Capital sounds the alarm.
The men of wealth and of substance, of solid
worth and exalted character, of highest
standing and largest influence, have, with
united voices, warned their countrymen
calamities 10 come. Never has New York
spoken with such weight. The call to Charles
Sumner to speak when foreign Intervention
seemed impending, was not of such weighty
force as that with which William M. Evarts
has been honored.
Lyman Tremaine concludes an elaborate
letter to DR.. Levy King as follows: ST hope
and believe that three great lessons will be
inculcated by the result of the next elec
tion: First, that, the majority of our people
are patriots, who have firmly resolved that
no unrepentant Copperhead shall be elected
President or Vice-President of the United
States in 1876; second, that they have re-
solved TO abolish an irredeemable paper cur
rency, and return to the currency of the con-
stitution-the currency of the civilized world !;
third, that the people are capable of pene-
trating all shams and seeing through the
wash thrown over candidates or parties. NO
fox is so cunning but that his hide will come
to the halter at last.'"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04
Campaign Notes.


If the ''reformers'' should be shut out Of
the public crib, after getting their noses so
close, what howl there would be.
The Secretary of the California Republican
State Committee recently wrote: "Calitor-
mia Will give majority of at least six thous-
and for Hayes and Wheeler. write know
ingly. The members of our Central Com
mittee have thoroughly canvassed the field,
and know how matters stand"
j. G. Carlisle, Tildenite candidate for
Congress in Kentucky, said in recent
speech: 81 deny that the United States
is nation. 1t is a vicious system that has
destroyed sovereign states and oppressed nine
millions of people in the South. If a state
has no right of secession she certainly has
the right OF revolution"
Mr.. Tilden makes professions and pledges
of what he will do if elected President. We
should have more confidence in these, if Mr..
Tilden had not previously given us his code
of morality on this matter, in his "Kent let
ter" wherein, referring to the probable cleo
ton of President Lincoln, he says: sour on
ly hope must be that as President he will
abandon the creed, the principles, and the
pledges on which he has been elected"
Ex-senator Lyman Trumbull has just re-
turned to Chicago from stumpiDg tour Tor
Tilden in the Middle States. He reports the
Democrats as much less sanguine about the
outlook than they profess to be. In Con-
nect.cut he says the Democrats are entirely
assured of victory; in New Jersey they are
hopeful but not so certain as in Connecticut
as for New York, Tiden himself said he
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04
The Pool Rooms.

The state of the political betting market
seems to be considered important by those
who make bets, and good deal of informa-
ton is communicated to the public upon the
subject which may also be interesting to the
same class. Those who are not accustomed to
disport themselves in the pools may not under
stand the meaning of the words "bluf'' and
"brag:'' but those who do will comprehend
that there are in the betting business wheels
within wheels and that when a speculator
offers long odds he may not be SO much back
ing his own opinion as trying to break down
the opinion of his opponent. A big bet by no
means proves big hand In 1910 the DemO.
Gratis continued to bet handsomely on the cleo
ton of Van Buren, up to the last moment,
though his chance had become little thinner
than ghostly. Ever since his nomination tha
supporters Of Gov. Tden have been trying the
experiment of unmtigated and unprecedented
boasting, taking his triumph for granted from
the start. although there has never been TINT
when the odds really were not decidedly againss
him. The sporting men of the party have
their orders; but those who make bets do not
always by any means put up their own money.
N Y Tribune,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04
THE COTTON TAX UNJUST.
New York City Vote.

Friends from the country ask if the chances
for; Hayes and Wheeler are not alarming
ly diminished by the fraudulent r gistration
believe that the fraudulent registration will be
fully counteracted, that effective measures to
that end are already in progress, and that their
successful issue will defeat Gov. Tilden in his
own state. The Democratic leaders in this
city are already erievously disappointed at the
result The confidently claimed a total registry
of not less than 100000; vote of 10000;
and a majority of from $4,000 to 10000. They
would listen TO no smaller estimates The
registration in this city foots up $4,000 in
round numbers. There will be falling of
according to precedents of about 10 per cent In
the vote. This will give total vote of 165, 900;
The Republicans have been claiming vote Of
60, 900; Democrats familiar with local politics
have been concedDg them $4,000. The high
est they have ever poled was "a, 900 in 1872,
and $4,000 in an off year Q875) when nothing
like the present interest or excitement existed.
A fair proportion of the increase of IS, 900 In
registration over last year. say three-eighths,
would add about Is, 900 to the Republican vote.
The Republican managers think they may safe
ly count on a total Republican vote OF $1,000.
This would leave Mr.. Tilden a majority Of only
about 81, 900 in this county.
If his hopes of disaffecton in the Repub-
lican ranks in the country districts are dis
appointed, this majority here will do him no
good. Only the disgrst of Republicans at the
administration gave Mr.. Tilden the election in
1874, when he got the largest Democratic vote
ever poled in this county, and the Republicans
polled only $4,000. Since the attempt TO organ
lze fraudulent majority, as In 1868, has failed
this time-and we firmly believe 1t is already
defeated-Mr. Tlden caunot be successful ii
Republicans throughout the state do their duty
as their brethren do in the city.-Irt6une.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND OUR CREDIT
IN EURoPE.-The following paragraph, from
the London Economist, shows very clearly that
they are not deceived over there by Democratic
promises:
"The platform of the Democratic party in
America as to the resumption of cash payments
is the repeal of the act which makes that re-
sumption compulsory on the 1st of January,
1879, and this they profess to desire, not on
soft money grounds, but on hard money
grounds, as means of accelerating resumption,
not of postponipg it; and as this is at first sight
curious, we have searched the letter OF their
Presidential candidate (expounding his princi-
ples) carefully, for a clear explanation, but we
regret to say we cannot find one; aud this is
the more remarkable because Mr.. Tilden is
known to have studied political economy, and
is believed to understand it, He tells MS un-
doubtedly that fixing a day for resumption
without preparing for that day is very wrong
and very absurd but then there are still more
than two years to the fixed day, and the work
of preparation will scarcely take longer than
that. When the preparation is complete an
early day can be fixed. The Republicans may
have been wrong in fixing a day without begin
ming to prepare, but the Democrats will scarce
ly advance the preparation by leaving the re-
sumption sine die The Republicans, so to say,
fixed the hour of dining, though they did not
begin to cook the dinner; but the Democrats
want to ensure the cooking the dihner by not
settling when they will dine; and of the two
this is the absurdest
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04
The Situation.

The general political outlook is daily grow
ing brighter for the Republicans. New York
is the central battle ground. and 10 her all
eyes are turned. From the interior of the
state the reports are uniformly cheering.
There are indications of such great up,
rising of the people as will overwhelm the
organizers OF fraud in the city in hopeless
defeat. A majority of $4,000 outside of New
York city and Brooklyn is confidently prom
ised and this cannot be overcome in those
cities especially as the United States govern
ment is taking special pains to check frauds
and protect the purity of the ballot box
With New York added to the sure Repub-
lican states Hayes will have substantial
majority. But more than this may now be
expected. New Jersey has become hopeful
ground and the Democrats are getting in
state of mind about Connecticut-states
which from the first have been practically
conceded to the Democrats. AS to Indiana,
Gen. Harrison, late Republican candidate
for Governor, told gentleman of this city
last week, that the fight is kept briskly up.
and that he himself had firm conviction
that the Republicans will win. He said that
some local issues disturbed the contest in
October which will not appear in November.
1t is. then, quite possible that the Democrats
will not carry a single one of the old free
states.
Looking southwark the prospect is not so
hopelcssly gloomy as it has been during the
summer. The conspiracy to secure "sold
South' for Tilden by aid of the shotgun and
revolver will fail in some quarters, though to
our shame as free nation it will doubtless
succeed in others. Mississippi with legiti-
mate Republican majority of 5000 will go for
Tilden under impulse of the most wicked and
wanton series of murders and tortures that
ever dsgraced any civilized nation. But
South Carolina, where the crack of the rifle
and the yell of the rebel are silenced by the
benefcent presence of United States troops,
will choose Hayes and Wheeler electors by a
large majority, while in North Carolina,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

IT will not fail of observation, as a signifi.
cant circumstance in connection with the
extraordinary zeal manifested by Southern
Congressman in telegraphiDg their approval
OF Tilden's letter on Confederate War claims,
that, with scarcely an exception, each one of
these Congressman at the last session of Con-
gress introduced from one to dozen bills for
the payment of War-claims. The proof is
found in the pages Of the Congressional
Record; but it will probably be urged in ex-
planaton that these bills were in support of
claims for loss and damage Suffered" not
incurred" by the various claimants during
the war. That there is a perfect under
standing among these Southern Copgressmen
as to the true meaning and intent of Tilden's
declaration on the subject of claims, no one
can doubt
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04
Specimen Southern Opinions.

THE SOUTHERN CLAIMS MUST BE PAID.
From the Tuscumbia, Ala Times ex- Congressman
Joseph H. Sloss, Editor, Oct. "a.
1t matter of surprise to see Southern poll
ticians and Democrats of the North asserting
that if Tilden and Hendricks are elected the
just claims due the Southern people will not be
paid. We are disgusted with such moral cow
ardice as will lead those who should be friends
of the South to thus show the white feather be-
fore the ''bloody shirt banner of those who
would rob the people of the South of their Just
and legal claims. We have always believed,
insisted that claims for privste property taken
ftom our people during the war, and used by
the Federal army, or sold, and the proceeds
carried into the United States Treasury. should
be paid; ar d we are satisfied that when preju
dice and bitterness cease to control our rulers
and legislators, every one of these claims will
be paid. While member of Congress we vot-
ed to allow the claims of loyal citizens of the
South for every cent of the value of property
taken from them by the Federal army. We
also voted to pay for school-houses, churches
and buildings belonging to charitable associa-
tions which were wantonly destroyed by the
Federal army. In thus voting we thought We
strict accord with established principle. believ-
ing that private property cannot, in any case
be taken and used by the public or by the Gov
ernment'without being paid for; and we shall
continue to insist that not only should the
claims of loyal citizens against the Government
for private property taken or destroyed during
rhe war by the Federal army be paid, but that
in every case where private property was taken
and used by or for the benefit of the Govern.
ment, it should be paid for.
1t is high time that our people should insist
upon simple justice being done them, at least
by those they send to Congress to attend to
their interests, and that no backing down from
determination to assert and insist upon eur
legal or equitable rights should be permitted
Let the candidates for!Congress be interrogated
as to their intentions as to such claims and if
either one is not in favor of demanding and
working for our rights, let US vote for those
who will.
THE COTTON TAX UNJUST.
(From the Macon, Ga Telegraph and Messenger.)
Tilden comes out with sweeping declara-
ton against all Southern war claims, including
even the refunding of the unconstitutional and
oppressive cotton tax. We think Tilden has
gone too far in this matter. The cotton tax,
which was a punitive tax, and wholly uncon-
stitutionaI, ought to be refunded after the ques-
tion has passed the ordeal of the courts and of
Congress, and no President ought TO oppose an
executive veto to q clear measure Of justice
and rectitude, so decided, simply because that
measure inures to the benefit OF quondam reb-
els and insurrectionists, SO called.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

There are claims before Con.
gress from men who kept guard
over the Union prisoners in the
Libby and Salisbury dens, or who
were of the fiends of the hell AT
AndersOnville. Let all branches
of the national government fall
into the hands of the Democracy,
and all such claims would be ad-
mitted, and paid, with compound
interest.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

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.
RrnE
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04
PRESIDENT Lincoln renlied 10 some rnsoln

PRESIDENT Lincoln replied to some resolu-
tions denouncing Vallandingham's arrest.
passed by Democratic meeting held in
Albany, New York: "He who dissuades one
man from volunteering, or induces one SOL
dier to desert, weakens the Union cause as
much as he who kills Union soldier in
battle" 1t is not stated that Governor
Tilden was present at the meeting in his
town which called forth this stern rebuke
from the gentle-minded Lincoln, but it is not
recorded that he opposed its action, and he
probably advised its proceedings. 1t is cer-
tain that the men who took part in it are
now acting for Tilden.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

The Western Union Tel
egraph Company has re-
duced its rates more than
t52 PER CENT. i'm ten
years. Its own lines are
connected with more than
seven thousand stations
and through Its c0nnec-
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 tele-
graph business.
j. S. BEDLOW.
Supt. I'd Dist Eastern Division.
oct12 diff
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

WONDER how Samuel ]. Tilden would
MAINTAIN the authority of the United States
in South Carolina if the rebels should dis
pute his proposition, that the war was right
and the results embodied in the war amend
ments to the Constitution must be accepted
as finality for all those issues. State SOW
ereignty, of course, gives the State right to
withdraw from the Union and the Union has
no mower to coerce.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

General Government, under direction of
Democratic Presidents, all over the country
for the return of fugitive slaves, there was no
complaint of s'Federal interference" from the
Democratic :press. Now, however, that the
slaves are free and troops are legitimately
used in protecting their rights as freemen
there is no end of complaint and denuncia-
ton
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

Louisiana and Florida the Republicans have
fully an even chance.
Under these favorable prospects the friends
OF good government are everywhere becom-
ing more and more hopeful and cheerful and
are looking forward with bright anticipations
of pleasant news on Wednesday next. GOD
SAVE THE REPUBLIC.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

THE Catholic Bishop Lynch, of Charles
ton, who certifes that all is peace and har
mony between the white Confederates and
the colored Republicans Of South Carolina,
is the same Bishop Lynch who in 1861,
when the rebel cannon were loaded and
sighted for firing on Fort Sumter. issued an
address assuring the people of the North
that South Carolina was peaceful and order
ly, and loyal to the national government.
Bishop Lynch is about as near right now as
he was fifteen years ago.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04
The Darlington Haaokeye thus forcibly so

The Burlington Haaokeye thus forcibly So
lidifes the South:
1t was solid for the fugitve-slave law.
1t was solid for the extension of slavery.
1t was solid for secession.
1t was solid for jeff Davis.
1t was solid for disunion.
1t wss solid for starving Union prisoners.
1t was solid for Andersonville.
1t was solid for the Fort Pillow massacre.
1t was solid for the assassination of Lincoln
1t was solid for the sacking of Lawrence.
And the Democrats say it is now solid for
Tilden. Well, may be it is; all its solidity
leads right up to that kind Of man.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

THE solid business men of the East have
been awakened to the necessity of rescuing
the country from the threatened danger of
Tilden's election-a danger embodied in the
few words, change of our national financial
policy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

WHILE some of the people of tie North de-
sire ga change" as they term it, and are
therefore inclined to vote for Tilden, they
forget that, according to precedent, the
change that would follow his success would
simply be repetition of the situation preced-
ing the war which brought about the hard
times Of which they now complain.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

THERE has not been Presidential elec-
tion since '56 that the Democrats have not
boastfully predicted the election of their can
didate. They are now simply repeating the
lessons they have practiced for twenty years
to be followed by a like result.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

IF, as is probable, the House of Represen-
tatives is redeemed, there will be fewer lusty
rebels and more ''empty sleeves" in the cor
riders of the Capitol after the 4th of March
than there are to-day.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

THERE is everything encouraging in the
signs of the times to the Republican party.
At the most propitious moment the Mer-
chants of New York put their shoulders to
the wheel and urge forward the car of
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

THE men who kicked the manned Union
soldiers out of their subordinate positions in
the House of Representatives would treat as
unceremoniousiy the principles for which
they fought.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04
THE PRESS
MORNING., NOV. 4. '76

We DO not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty Of good faith.
we cannot undertake to return OF reserve commu-
nicatons that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-04

A VOTE deposited in the ballot-bex for the
Republican ticket is better than dozen
broken promises.