The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-30

SENATOR CARPENTER in his letter to the
Republicans of Wisconsin told them what
they might expect if the Democrats get en-
tire control of the Government. He said:
''The last session of Congress informed the
people of what may be expected from the
success of the Democrats. Knowing that
they had to deal with a Republican Execu-
tive, they sought to conceal their purposes
in cunningly-devised, ambiguous phrases.
But enough appeared to show clearly, ~
that they were determined to render ineffec-
tual all the laws of the United States in
tended to secure honest national elections.
~ that the day of election should be the
jubilee of fraud, violence and disorder, and
that the President, whose duty it is to take
care that he laws be faithfully executed
using for that purpose, when necessary, the
military force, should on that day be power
less to perform that duty. Election day, of
all days, and the place of polling should be
free from any kind of disturbance. But
under the recent Democratic legislation that
day is excepted, and it is ordained that on
that day and at that place the President
shall be without the means to comply with
his constitutional obligations though riot
may be leveling the walls of city,"
THIS from the Burlington Ha,ukeye: The
policy of resumption; the policy of paying
our promises to pay, Or offering to do so, has
had this double effect for our good: First,
it has made our credit so superior that those
who hold our promises topay are no longer
in haste to have them paid. We need not
therefore pay them until we get ready to do
so. But the prosperous and prudent man is
always ready. Second, resumption is rapidly
wiping out debts, not only individual but
corporate and municipal debts. This will
remove one cause of high taxation and to
that extent will contribute to the increased
activity of commercial and industrial enter
prises. Debts are always contracted during
times of initiation and are never paid until
business settles itself to a legitimate basis.
Our history verifies the statement, but the
showing we are now making exceeds that of
any previous period in our history. 1t is
worthy of careful study.
THE Oxford Democrat says: ga promi-
nent business man of South Paris signed the
Young Mems Republican campaign pledge
last week, without solicitation. He has
always been Democrat, but cannot swal-
low the double-headed monster presented by
his party in this county, for Democratic diet
In the elegant and chaste language of the
late County Convention, it is too much
physic for him. There are many others in
town who will not take the dose, but who
have not made such decided stand as yet."
THE Campaign Standard said the other
day that the Maine correspondents of the
Boston papers with one accord acknowledge
that a Republican defeat in Maine is newt
able. That was untrue 1t now tells an
other ''whopper" and says that ''the repre-
sentatives of the press who accompany
that gentleman, say the Sherman boom in
Maine is a failure, that he arouses no enthu-
siasm, and his speeches fall flat as dish
water" The STANDARD is getting up quite
reputation for imaginative literature.
The argus wants to know if it is better
for the Government to pay some twenty mil
lions a year for the privilege of indorsing
national bank notes than it is to issue its
own notes in the place of them" What
does the Arqus mean by that? How does
the Government pay twenty millions for the
privilege"