The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-09-21
Campaign Notes.

MISS Delpnlne +. Baker OF New 7 0rk is
stumping New England for Hayes and
| Wheeler.
James E. Murdock, the famous actor, is
going to take the stump in Ohio for Hayes
and Wheeler.
| Ex-Governor Hartman of New Hamshire
has left to take part in the campaign in Ohio
and Indiana.
| When the Associated Press gave us news
of Republican majority of 1900 in Maine,
it was "the lying Republican Associated
| Press" Now that the official figures run the
majority 5000 higher, we begin TO see where
the lie came in.-St. Louis Globe.
The New York Herald says of the Honse
repeal of the resumption act: "That act of
repudation is the capital blunder of the Dem
ocratic canvass and will do more than all
other causes together to prevent the election
| of its candidates.
| A prominent Pennsylvania Democrat now
in Washington says, if Ohio and Indiana
both so Republican in October the Demo-
Gratis in Pennsylvania will not make an active
campaign except for Congressman; that
thousands will stay from the polls, and that
Hayes majority in the state will not be far
from 100000, or nearly equal to President
Grants four years ago.
Everybody understands the device, for
such it is, and it will hardly accomplish the
end expected of it. There is great public
respect for Mr.. Adams, but no patent reason
for displacing Gov. Rice by him, especially
offered as he is. We give guess however,
that he will run far ahead of his ticket, and
his election is gratifying evidence that one
party, as well as the other, can recognize the
ideal, and take step toward it.-BOston
COngregationalist.
Bob Ingersoll says that he has done what
no one else did before; that he has made the
Democrats OF Maine pious. He has done
more than that. As soon as it has been as
certained in any district that Ingersoll would
not speak again, fervent prayer of gratitude
has gone up from the Democracy, thanking
heaven for the respite, and he may thus claim
to have ditused an unaccustomed piety
among the Democracy wherever he has gone
little piety is much needed among the De-
mocracy in Missouri.-St Louis Globe.
A vote was taken on an Erie railway train
last week, and Hayes and Wheeler stood
three to one. When the train stopped at
station one of the passengers, seeing an Irish
man at work on the track. called to him:
''Say, Pat, we have just taken vote on the
train and we stand three to one in favor of
Hayes and Wheeler; what do you think of
that9" Pat took his pipe from his mouth
just long enough to say: ''To hi wild your
fashionable cars; just wait till the gravel
train comes along"
What is the present state of things? Look
around you and you will see it. 1t is uncer-
tainty; it is apprehension; it is want of con-
fidence; it is stagnation of business; it is
crippled trade; it is depressed industries; it
is spreading bankruptcy; it is thousands of
people having no work and having nothing to
eat; it is general dsconteat and distress.
The continuation of that state of things is
what Democratic victory will inevitably
bring upon you, and that is my prophecy.
Ii, unfortunately, that event should occur, in
day.-CdrI Schurz.
Gov. Hayes has sat down upon another
beautiful campaign SANDER Some imagina-
tive genius announced short time ago that
the Governor had in July last written a letter
to the American Alliance, accepting member
ship and declaring his belief that suffrage
should be limited to native born citizens. 1t
took Mr.. Hayes about one minute to dispose
of the charge when it reached him, by saying
that he never wrote any such letter, never
belonged to any secret political society and
never would, and that the sentiment attrib-
uted to him vas repugnant to every act and
belief of his life.
The plan for an active campaign in several
southern states is now about perfected, and
General Stewart L. Woodford will lead off
the middle Of next week, and will be followed
soon after by Generals Garfield, Banks, Kill
patrick, Lew Wallace and number of other
ex-generals. In all, the national committee
will send between twenty and thirty speakers
who have held high rank in the Union army,
and as many more civilians, so that four or
five southern states will be thoroughly can
vassed and the Republicans aroused to the
necessity OF doing their duty without fear of
being shot down at the polls.
Ex-Attorne Alderman of Georgia says:
''The National Government should be kept
in Republican hands. Its moral weight, and
to the extent of its constitutional limits, its
physical power, should be on the side of the
rights which its constitution has ordained,
The repyessive influence which for seven
years it has exerted on the violent men Of
the South should continue until they come
to better temper or are subdued by the good
men of the vlcinage. Do not unchain the
tiger before he is tamed." The Savannah
News, commenting ON this, says of Mr..
Akerman: "And yet he lives in the South
in safety.'
The most astonishing campaign document
that has appeared thus far, is an open letter
from jeremiah S. Black to Gen. Garfield, in
reply to speech by, the latter. The letter
fills six columns of the Pittsburg Post. More
than half of it is devoted to first-class drub-
bing of the Pilgrim Fathers, about quarter
of it is restatement of the familiar Southern
argument that the abolitionists were the chief
enemies OF the Union, while the Democrats
were its stanchest defenders, and the remain
der is made up about equally of abuse of Gov.
Hayes and the Republican party. There has
been good deal of talk about ''dead issues"
in the present canvass, but nothing deader
than the Pilgrim Fathers is likely to be dis
covered.
The ovation to Mr.. Blaine at the monster
Republican mass meeting at Boston Monday
nioht was one of ts most satisfactory fea-
lures. His hold on the popular heart con-
tinues as strong and unshaken as ever, in
spite of the malice of his enemies. There is
still no name so potent to copjure with as his,
among the Republican masses of the country.
There is no man whom people would 60 so