The Portland daily press., 1877-08-27
MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 81.

party is, that the People shall govern and select
their own officers. Around Ills every other
cLusters In their candidates for Office, for
cnelr own interest," they require, and unless de-
oe.i, VIII nave honesty and ability as qualf
the great d;s; tne formation OF our government
ena tteaI dividing line between the Federalists
S cau tne democratic party, then called Republi-
osn' rested upon this principle. The Federal
.sss demanded a strong government, beyond the
Ieacn OF the people. The Democrats demanded
people. That is the grand underlying principle
OF the true Democrat to-day. If any other party
choose to allow federal office holders, or clique
OF party Leaders, to dictate for whom they shall
vote and sell them out like sheep in the sham
bles, that is their business, not ours. The
democrats of Somerset are not so in the mar
ket, we call no man master. If we vote for
any candidate, we choose to know how he came
him in nomination.
Much is said about greenbacks and hard
money. All the talk of politicians upon either
Is mere humbug. don't believe any politician
IN tne county really knows anything about the
principles or operation of either, any more than
the mass of men understand the true merits of
the different schools of medicine, Allopathy,
Homeopathy or Thompsonianism Some have
tried each and got WE'LL How much either
neipeo nature IN the cure, it is impossible to
So with money. Some have prospered under
nard money and some under greenbacks also.
some have been ruined under both. How
mucn the currency had to do with their pros
pefity or ruin 1t is impossible to tell. One
enlps We know, coin is the currency of every
Civillzed nation save the United States 1t was
tne currency of the United States for eighty
years OF prosperity, and greenbacks have been
our currency for more than twelve years and
ruin stares us in the face on every side.
Men favoring all sorts of medical schools be-
long to the same party or the same church, and
why may not men entertaining very different
notions on questions of finance, belong to the
same party without quarrelling. Questions of
nnance cannot be settled in county conventions
nor by any officers chosen by counties
line question now at issue concerns ourselves
aione our interest and our liberty. Men,
claiming to be leaders of the party, have met a
Clique, pretending to own the greenback patty,
and contracted to sell, or rather give, the Dem.
ocratic party to the greenback party, and at
Skowhegan, August 18th, with few of their
followers, closed the contract and nominated
seven candidates for county officers, all of
r w,nSm. with possibly one exception, are
Pledged to vote for the Greenback Governor.
Win you now be delivered or will YOU rise in
your strength, call good and true men into the
4eld and support them with your might? The
democratic principles are just and its flag one
70 De PROUD OF. Whoever heard of a naval
com mander who went into battle with his flag
nailed to his masthead that suffered defeat?
Lst us nominate new men, shake out the folds
OF the old flag to the breeze and 90 into this
nght WIN IL nailed to our masthead. Should
al old Democrat ask us for Democratic ticket
the 10th OF September, what shonld we say to
himF Fellow Democrats will you assemble at
democratic mass meeting at Heselton's Hall,
Skowhegan, on August 29th, inst, at lob
ociock, q. M, to put in nomination Demo-
cratlc ticket. A LIFELONG DEMOCRAT.
This may smack little of Fourth of July
style, but it goes its whole bgness 70 honesty
and ability. Now we wait with interest to see
who are the representative men, the men who
will climb the liberty pole and do the heavy
mailing necessary
The Republican Convention meets at Show
hogan next week, and they will select men
who will be elected in September and do it
without any sounding of trumpets or booming
OF cannon. There is need of care and good
Judgment in the selection of these officers.
The time has passed when loyalty to party is
the only claim demanded of a candidate. We
want men everywhere. Men that in all public
or private acts speak by word and example for
right for justice, for truth and for the best
interests of all. These are the men that we
trust may be put in nomination for our county
officers, for their nomination would virtually
Do tneir election. SOMERSET,