Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-09-01
"A fair count Of ballots next November, for

"A fair count of ballots next November. for
Kansas"
Our lumber merchants have suffered great
losses by the hard times, yet without one OK
ception they believe grcenback success would
sorely iniure their business .-Caiois Adrer-
fiser.
The Press reports that the speech of
f. +. Pilsbury at Saccarappa. was not well
received by the grecnback part of his au-
diencc. One greenbackcr freely expressed
the opinion that the proceedings would give
% greenback votes to the republicans in the
town of Westbrook.
Ii the democracy endorse ticket, make
up your mind something is wrong about it.
Pillsbury \ Co. have directed the greenback
campaign thus far, and many of our best
his order including Duncan and Sargent
Green5ock Labor Chronicle.
4 well-known grocer and provision dealer
who has traded on lower Lisbon street, for
many years, and who has voted the democrat
ic ticket for the past two years has com. out
squarely for Corporal Davis. He can't swal
low the dose of the fusionists. Lewiston
journal.
VIM. r. Smith, Esq. of Augusta, a life
long democrat. Treasurer of the Augusta
Savings Bank, is out with an able defence of
National Banks, in a letter TO Hon. J. w.
North. which ought to open the eyes of all
sensible men to the mischievous character of
much of the financial teaching Of the green
back lecturers lIaterciUe NoH
The Lewiston Journal SAYS Gov. Garcelon
charged at Ellsworth that there were from
three to five mail agents running between
Bath and Rockland, at a salary of $1,000 each
when two would do the work. To this, one
of the agents replies that they run from Port
land to Rockland, and find their duties labo-
rio"s for every man, while they receive only
5000 year salary.
the greenback organ of this city brags of
great gains, but says nothing about Calais.
This city is fair sample of the State at large
and the Times knows the republicans will
double last years ma ority this year. Reports
from the county and State indicate a similar
condition of things. There i no need to
brag. for every man knows the feeling in his
own locality -Caiois Idre,tjser.
The cheerful 'toot'' of the radical office
holder is heard in the land. They. and hard
~ ANYBODY else are on every stump in the
State.-Argus
Let's see. Gov. Garcelon, Secretary of
State Cove, Deputy Secretary of State Saw
yer, Attorney General Mcclellan. State House
Superintendent Lancaster, State Printer
Pillsbury, and State Liquor Agent Bigelo~
are the State office-holders ''tooting' or 9TH
erwise engaged in political work Our i'm
preston is that they are not exactly republic
can officials. -LeristoR Journal.
The republicans are making gains in Mont
large gains by election day. Republicans
who went with the greenback movement last
year, say they saw enough of the trade~and-
dicker party and its proposed reform prnci-
pies, last winter, and will vote the republican
ticket at the coming election. Some of the
hard money democrats are dissatisfied with
their treatment by the greenbackers in the
division of the spoils last winter, and some of
the greenbackers say they hardly know what
the policy is this year; that they don't know
whether they belong to the amalgamation
party or not.-Belfast JoUynat.
1t is pleasant to record one really encour-
aging element in the Maine canvass, which is
now approaching its legitimate end. Mr.. W.
X. Smith of Augusta, a lifelong democrat of
the advanced type, publishes in the kennebec
Journal, a complete and elaborate defence of
the national bank system against the unjust
attacks of the grcenbackers. Mr. Smith
speaks solely in the interest of truth, and he
does not indicate whether lie intends to vote
the republican ticket But it is refreshing to
find man who does not wish to surrender
his knowledge Of the truth in order to suit
political ds.--P,orideace Morning Star.
Easily Incurred. Terribly Ohstinate.