Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-08-14
POLITICAL.
ID, mOcratic Tactics.

! New YORK, August Is. A Washington rdes-
patch to the Tribune says the democrats 10 the
second :hginia district are using the navy yard
custom house, signal office aud all other FEEDER al
offices, TO secure the election of Goode, demo
crat, to congress.
The republican committee have arrived in
Washington, aud say the campaign will have to
be giveG up unless Union soldiers have as good q
chance as eS-rebes.
Interview with Gov. Rice.
10 an interview yesterday Gov. Rice of Mass
said there can be hardly any doubt that Gen. But.
LEI will run for governor. He has gone too far to
Iecede. Ii he should turn back now after what
he has said aud what bis friends have said, 1t will
appear Ike showing tire white feather. lie may
endeavor to obtain the dem. nomination. There
are indications that seem to point in that direc-
ton but on Il careful survey of the whole field he
is inclined To think he will run as an independent
candidate.
Gov. Rice thinks there is no likelihood of But
lers try ing 10 capture the iep. convention, but
| thinks he may make decker with the dems. by
promising to aid them in the congressional dis
| trlcts II they aid him for governor.
Gov. RICE thinks Buffers rep. friends have been
| ahenst.d from lin by his course Ia the last con-
gress.
DO you believe the reps need feel alarm lest
the party in Massachusetts will be defeated thro
Butler
No, expect to see the rep. party victorious.
The opinlonsof greenbsck advocates, labor re-
Ioiners ana nhlloDal parties nave not made great
progress IN the state. The greenhackers are
generally labor retormers and nationals The
three groups contain nearly the same men each
aud the total number is not large enough to pre-
vent success OF reps,
Butter will have the support Of these groups
and To at OF portion of the prob Ibitionisis and
disgruntled Of all classes. He will also get the
vote oil great portion of'the Irish dems, both
making nominations and he Is dependent csndi-
date.
III l.. A. Il. L.
plurality, but hold, after carefully estimating
the strength of the various clements that he will
be disappointed aud the reps. will elect their
NEE.
Will Kearney's visit to Mass. result to Buffers
advantage
Ia all probability it will be an injury, rather
than benefit, SAID Gov. Rice.
1t is true kearney gathered 10000 people on
Boston Common to hear him and filled Faneull
Hall AMI the space around it as man has filed
them before for years. But what do bis sddl esses
amount tob They contain no argument. They
present no convincing array. They illustrate no
really foI chile or effective appeals The people OF
Mass. are not in the habit of being influenced by
talking of this character.
SO far AS kearDey teaches anything it is the
doctrine that every man should hate his neighbor
If the latter is in better circumstances than he is
Universal hatred is not = substan isl campaign
platform, nor ope that can be made to serve as q
rallyng point.
cannot please his hearers long, and his trick OF
taking of his coat and unbuttonng his collar may
haye handsome effect on his hearers the first
time, but 1t will lose its novelty as an ora
toricil expedient. kearney does not show any
qualities fitted 10 infuen nee the masses. In Mass.
they may assemble to hear him 10 large number,
at the beginning, but they will soon weary Of
him.
He has been brought forward too early to help
Buffers case. Before Nov comes a reaction will
set IN and Gen. Butler will fnd that he has lost
rather than gained by kearney's support.
Gov Rice thinks Talbot will have the rep. nom
inalion Tor governor of Mass. and CASTOR the
dem. nominee.
lie also thinks Grant the strongest candidate
for the next presidency, and says.
Ii seems 10 be the prevailing sentiment that he
has conducted himself with proprieiy and dignity
among the crowned heads and among the people
OF Europe and worthily represented the country.
There Is also q sentiment that he is one sf the
worlds heroes that his fame lot only national
but universal, and he will occupy = very high
place in history.
These ideas have great force among Americans
and would have powerful effect In the campaign.
Then too the trust in him As y resolute, untnch
ing, determined executive, who would overawe
and check vicious, turbulent and disloya agita
tors, would influence great numbers to support
him.
Nomination..
The reps. of the I'd VT. congressional district
nominsted }. M. Tyler of Blattebero.