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The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THIs.is Honest Truth: There never was q
State government so unanimously and un-
ceasingly devoted to duties that do not be-
long to the State as the present State govern
ment is. Some of the officers must have for
gotten they hold commissions it has been so
long since they warmed their official seats.
What grow would have gone up from the
Greenback-Democratic reformers had Re-
publican State government been turned into
stumping machine. But we are consoled
with the reflection that while the Greenback
officials are spreading themselves very thinly
over the State they are not doing any harm,
as they might do at the State House.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

The Honest Truth: AS the day of election
draws near, and the desperation of the
double shuttle cause becomes settled, the
falsehoods of Pillsbury & Co. become more
and more reckless. Honest men should be
warned against the Giles with circumstance"
which those unscrupulous fellows try to
force down the throats of confiding people.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

Mr.. Whidden of the Calais Times, one
of the most accurate men in political esti-
mates in the State, says Washington county in
any event is sure to give 400 majority for the
Democratic and Greenback ticket and will
give 800 if the Republican distributors OF cor
ruption money can be twigged in every at
tempt to bribe.-1rguS.
LET'S see. This is the same accurate
man. who says that the Greenbackers have
been gaining votes at the rate of 5000 a
week. That would give Smith over $4,000.
Perhaps this same ''accurate man" will be
kind enough to tell us what's to become OF
of the Garcelon vote.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

Boston Journal: The letter written by
William R. Smith, Esq, of Augusta, on the
National Banking system has arrested atten-
ton and secured commendation far beyond
the limits of Maine. 1t has been rendered
all the more noticeable from the fact that
Mr.. Smith has always been connected with
the Democratic party in past years. 1t is
brought into still more prominence in Maine
from the fact that Governor Garcelon, the
regular Democratic candidate, has expended
all the vials of his wrath upon the banking
system, traversing Mr.. Smiths sound views
at every point Whatever may be Mr..
Smiths political affiliations in the future, it
is quite evident that he cannot vote for
Governor Garcelon
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THE Argus has a correspondent probably
a staff correspondent, who signs himself
''Ward Four and hypocritically whines be-
cause the Republican caucus didn'tnominate
Mr.. Kimball as candidate for Representative.
Wonder if this correspondent is the same
fellow who signed himself 'Hops" last year,
and in the Argus of September 6, 1873,
sneeringly mentioned Mr.. Kimball in the
following words:
The city of Portland must have glorious
satisfaction in sending to Augusta so able
man as the Kimball, whom the managers
crammed down the caucus throat.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

TIE Leader repeats The falsehood, given
currency by Colonel Montgomery, about the
bull-dozed pensioner of Standish, but sneak
iDgly says our correspondent got the name
wrong. The LeGder does not give the name,
because it cannot. Our denial of the story
is substantiated by citizens of Standish and
by the pension agent for this District.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

BANGOR lVhig: A correspondent writes:
While was in Hermon one day last week l
was told the names of fourteen men who
voted for Smith last year who will vote for
Corporal Davis this year. They live in three
adjoining school districts. A leading Re-
publican who is we'll posted says the town
will throw fifty more Republican votes than
were thrown last year. One boasting Green
backer said he didn't know of a Republican
left, but he was informed that there were
nineteen in his own school district.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

The drgus intimates and the Leader says
that a Joint discussion on the financial
question is to be held at Clark's Grove,
Hollis, Saturday afternoon. Intimation and
statement are both without foundation, and
are put forth in hopes to draw Republicans
to the Grove to hear eminent Republican
speakers. If they go they will only hear
such truck as Harper and De La Matyr, he
fellow with French blood in his veins.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THE Republican voters of Portland should
take especial care that their names are on
the voting lists and the names as well OF all
the Republicans they know. A little time
and attention in this direction may work a
great deal of good.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

We have not yet met a single Democrat
who proposes to help Blaine & Co. either by
staying at homo on election day or by voting
for any of the Republican nominees.-Argus.
VERY likely. Hard-money Democrats
have been shy of you since you turned your
back upon the principles of Jackson, Ben
ton and Clifford
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

After Blaine closed his speech in Sidney last
Thursday young man who has been Re-
publican for years. and voted for Connor last
year, declared he had learned from Mr.. Blaine
just what he had lacked to convince him the
Greenbackers were right, and that he should
now vote for Smith.-ArJets.
HAVE you got Secre' ary Goye's certificate
10 the truth of that statement?
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THIS is the conclusion Of Mr.. Smallcy's
latest letter to the Tribune: A last word in
the way of prediction before closing. 1t is
that Davis will have from 5000 to 5000 ma
jority over Smith and Garcelon, and that
the Republicans will have q majority in
both branches of the Legislature.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

BRIDGToN is to have another Republican
rally, to come off tlfis evening. The mee'-
ing will be addressed by the Hon. W. w.
Thomas, Jr., and cX-Govemor Perham.
These able speakers will make it lively for
the fusionists. The presence of Mr.. Thomas
will have an especially good effect.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

As may be seen by notice in another col
umn Republican convention will be held
this afternoon to nominate candidate ior
Representative i'll place of Mr.. John q.
Coyle. Jr., who declines the nomination.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THE testimony of the New York World, a
Democratic paper, as to the revival OF busi
ness should be read by those Democrats
who have been taught that stories of busi-
ness prosperity are all radical lies.'
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for pubca-
ton but as a guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
mun,catlons tnat are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THERE is rumor floating about that af-
ter the -A,gus gets through with the late
Chief Justice Chase it win attempt to prove
that Mr.. Justice Clifford is Greenbacker.
BY the Lord Harry there viii be a row if the
rnits attanlnfS that
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

SPEAKER RANDALL is quoted as saying
that he considers the assassination of Dixon
by Barksdale as one Of the most fatal blum
ders of which the Democratic party has been
guilty, and that the Republicans are sure of
good maioridies in Maine and Ohio.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

WAIT and see how th- Demnitional press
will misquote Gen. Garfield speech. Those
portions in which he states the opinions of
Greenbackers they will represent as the
expression of his oDnions.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THE Ayyus was in the prediction bust
ness, too, last year. Here are some of its
predictions:
Vote for Anderson and thus go for the win
ming man.-Aiyus, Sept. 8, 1878.
He anderson will call out rousing vote
next Monday-one which will send him to
CONGRESS sure.-4raNs, Sept. 3, 1873.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 4.

EVERY regular attache OF the PRESS Is 1urhisheu
with a Card certificate signed by Stanley L. fuiieh'
Editor. All railway, steamboat and MOTEL managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding creueitis
of every person claiming to represent our JOURNAL
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

IMMENSELY entertaining, those 4rgus
files. If you are thinking of buying a last
years almanac get an drgaS file instead. 1t
will cost more, but then it contains great
many more funny things.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

Nobody seemed to be frightened, for the
reason that they knew they were lying, but
kept right along with their political work and
on election day they gave the radicals good
shaking up.-1rgus.
SO says the Argusin speaking of last years
surprise party. 1t is a frank confession. Is
that the reason why the Argus and other
Demnitional sheets are not frightened-"b
cause they know they are lying"
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

The Argus is still rallying the Press upon error
it made at the beginning of the canvass concerning
the time of State electon.-PreSs.
Who first commenced that kind of busi ness?
-4rg,tS.
BELIEVE we did--lnless you consider
that lie you told about Mr.. Reed raillery
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04
MADAM MIRANDA RAYMON,
raDy.s f,pxuuNEpNDESV.

After many solicitations from her numerous Lady
patrons, she has established an office at
4:6 AZ Congress Street, Onc door from
Brown Street,
where she will be daily in attendance, from 10
O'Clock A NJ. till o'clock p NJ, for the treatment
of all difficulties of the Feet.
Madam Raymon is painless operator, and makes
the most effectua cure of Germs, RuniOus, I'm
growing Nails, Unframed Joints, Vascular
TExcrescences, Sore EasteEss, Fender Feet,
or anv of the ills which afflict the Feet of suffering
humanity.
aonssissasiafa Free, and operating charges
rensouas,ie. Ladies can be treated at their resi-
dences if desired sep2dH
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

NEW York Tribune: 1t has doubtless
dawned upon the Maine Greenbackers by
this time that they viii have TO get up pretty
early in the morning if they propose to beat
Blaine. A man who can travel $50 miles
and attract 1900 people in small country
town. largely made up of his opponents, and
hold their attention for an hour and half,
is not man to be caught mapping on cleo
ton dav.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THE spectacle of three old hard-shell
Democrats laboring at Woodford's Corner
yesterday on u Smith fag-poe must have
been entertaining to lookers-on. No Demo-
crat in that town has yet been seen laboring
on q Garcelon fag-pole
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

TIE Greenback vote in Kentucky is, ac-
cording to official returns below $4,000. The
Greenback papers in this State have all the
time been saying that the associated press
lied about the vote.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THEY call it "a union ticket now. The
idea Of such truck as Eben L. Pillsbury and
Gorham i. Boynton talking about a Union
ticket! Next thing they will be swearing
they saYed the Union.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

The Democrats and Greenbackers of Knox
county have their war paint on ready for the
fight.-ATgus.
THEY'D better go home, wash their faces,
and practice their death-song.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

WAS it one Of those starving Durham
ship-wrights who was so leaky that he let
the Argus into the profound secret that
Senator Hamlin is to be succeeded by his
son? He might have known that paper
would publish it,
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

The Argus Gormerly Democratic) quotes
from an Indiana paper to show that the pan
ic was caused by contraction of the curren-
cy. When he argus was a Democratic pa
per the following is what it thought OF the
cause OF the panic:
The chief causes of tie present prostration
of business, which is almost universal are OBJ
vious enough. First on the list stands ire
deemable paper money American rag
money not only stimulated ourselves to ex-
haustion but they have produced similar
effect abroad by stimulating and then stagna-
ting industry, and by first stimulating money
lenders and then ceasins to pay-Argus June
%. 1875.
And business men may as well also make up
their minds for still further dilution OF the
currency. a rise in gold and all kinds OF mer-
chandise a revival of stock gambling with its
attendant evils and finally another crash
This is the prospect. The Washington rings
demand it, They want Jobs out of the pub
lie money and more taxation to yield it; they
want diluton or watering of the currency to
cover the recent shrinkage Of stocks and put
them on their feet again, and chances are
they will get all they demand.-Argus, Dec.
13, 1873
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

STILL another. AT a Republican meeting
in Oxford this week Mr. j. T. Fuller who
has always been Democrat, stated that he
should vote for Daniel +. Davis.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THE Gardiner Journal, which sees moth
ing lamentable in the shooting of Dixon,
points with pride to the fact that it has
taken strong grounds against pigeon shoot
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

1t is stated that shoe manufacturing hrm
is about to move to Rockland, Mass, from
Belfast. They employ 200 hands. That's a
business boom which the PRESS hasn't men
tioned.-ArguS.
No. The PRESS is not accustomed to
make any state ment on the authority of the
argus 1T is stated" But it does state
Ogdensburg railroad that that railroad has
had to take off its gravel train because it
couldn't secure enough men to work on tie
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THE fusion papers have not yet given the
names of those bull-dozed pensioners. Rea-
son: they haven't got the names.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

A CORRESPONDENT of the KcnaeJec
Journal says that at Kents Hill twenty
Greenbackers have come back to the Reput-
lican party.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

TIE thirteenth of the Tribune articles ON
finance, which We publish to-day, shows
how more money cuts down wages It is Of
special interest to laboring men.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THE Bangor Commercial says Bangor is
looking finely in a political sense" Yes, for
the Republicans.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04
APPOINTMENTS.
EsoN. JAMES G.. BLAINE

APPOINTMENTS.
EgON. JAMES G.. BEA1NE
WILL SPEAK AT
BRUNSWICK, Friday eve.. Sept D.
EEON. yyHE. E. FRYE,
WILL SPEAK AT
LIBERTY, Thursday, Sept. A.
BELFAST, Friday, Sept. D..
BANGOR, Saturday, Sept q.
A.G. BRADsTgEfT, Esq,
WILL SPEAK AT
sEBAGo CENTRE, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2.30 p. m.
BRlDGT0N, Saturday, Sept. g.
HON. w. e. LUNT
WILL SPEAK AT
GREAT FALLS, Gorham, Thursday, Sept. 4.
CoUSENS' ISLAND, Yarmouth, Friday, Sept. 3,
BEAR BROOK SCHOOL HOUSE, New Gloucester
Friday, Sept. 3, 7.30 p m.
HON. FIRED N. DOW
WILL SPEAK AT
sTANDIsH NECK, Friday Sept. 5, 2p M.
CUNDY'S HARBOR, Harpswell, Saturday, Sept. g.
7.30 p m.
GEN. G. p. MATTOCKs
DEERING. Riverton School House, Thursday,
Sept. 4 71a o. m.
CORNISH Friday, Sept. o.
FEEEPORT Saturday, Sept Is p. M
HIRAM, Saturday, Sept. u, 7.3o p. IN.
GEN. JAMES A. GARFIELD of Ohio
WILL SPEAK AT
PENNINGTON Thursday, Sept. 4.
LEWISTON, Friday, Sept. 5.
GEN. sos. 1t. EHAwLEY Comnecsicut
WILL SPEAK Al
BUCKFIELD, Thursday, Sept. 4.
SACO, Friday, Sept. 5.
PORTLAND, Saturday, Sept. q.
HON. EUGENE HALE
WILL SPEAK AT
SULLIVAN Friday, Sept. 5.
ELLSWORTH, Saturday, Sept o.
GEORGE G. HOPKINS, Esq,
WILL SPEAK AT
oTIsFIELD, Gore School House, Thursday, Sept. 4
WINDHAM Clark School House, Friday, Sept. 5.
GEN. JOHN D. PERRY
WILL SPEAK AT
CAPE SCHOOL HOUSE, Cape Elizabeth, Friday,
Sept: 5:
STANDISH, Saturday, Sept. g.
CLARENCE HALE, Esq,
WILL SPEAK AT
RAYMOND, Bryant's School House, Thursday,
Sept. 4.
BALDWIN, Quaker Brook School House, Friday,
Sept. 5.
CASCO White School House, Saturday, Sept. g.
HON. HENRY w. BHAAB,
of New EaaEaspshire,
WILL SPEAK AT
SEBAGO CENTRE, Thursday Sept. 4, 2 p. m.
EAST DEEItING, Friday, Sept. 5.
BRIDGTON, Saturday, Sept q.
EF0N. .sOsEAEE HE. DRUMMOND,
WILL SPEAK AT
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04
Vaults Cleaned and Ashes Removed

q from "a TO Sc per cord, or So per load All
n Orders promptly attended to by calling on or
addressing X. GIBSON.
oc2dtf 5SS Congress Street.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THAT meeting at Gorham yesterday was
rouser. 1t means business.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THE Gardiner Journal i s of the opinion
that had Kalloch been as miserable a bull
dozer as the lamented Dixon it would not
have been becoming in The Republican pa
pers to rejoice at his taking off The Jour
,,dg is right. 1t is never becoming for any
paper, Republican, Democratic or Indepen-
dent to rejoice, over murder. But how can
he Journal reconcile this opinion with the
opinion ii expressed last week that there is
nothing lament3ble in the Dixon affair? Let
it be admitted that Dixon was "a miserable
bulldozer,'' does that make his shooting any
the less lament .ble? Doubtless the death OF
GOOD man is more lamentable than the
death of bad one. Indeed, the death Of the
after may properly be matter OF rejoicing,
and if the Journal had said that Dixon would
not DE loss to the community we should
perl, ABS have been inclined to agree with it.
Butt. is the shooting of Dixon that the jour
nal can see nothing lamentable in. Now the
shooting of Dixon was murder. Barksdale
had not beengauthorized to takeDixons life,
nor was it necessary, to preserve his own,
1t makes no difference whether the shooting
arose froma political Or purelypersonal quar-
rel. It was equally murder in either case
Now the PRESS sees something lamentable
in murder, and in this murder as well as
others. Does the Journal assert that it
does not?
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

THIS is the New York World s idea of what
a Democratic President should be, Presi-
dent that, it says, ''can, even without Ohio,
be chosen next year." cit is one who will
promptly beat the life out of every dawning
dream, East or West, in New England, Cal
ifornia or the South, of notification or Sc
cession; who will advocate a fixed standard
of values; who will show that neither State
lines nor State laws can stand in the way OF
the command of the Constitution that the
laws of the United States made in pursu-
ance thereof y X shall be the 'su-
preme law of the land;' and who will not
tolerate the starving of an Executive to Sc
cure his assent to the repeal even of obnox-
ious LAVISH That is not the kind of man
the Democratic leaders of Maine are working
for. They are trying to promote the nomin-
alton of a soft-money candidate, on soft
money platform, man that cannot be
elected without the aid of Ohio. And
should they succeed in Maine and Ohio
they would have their way.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

Mr.. Blaine has backed down and out of his
offer to bet that the united vote ofsSmith and
Garcelon will not reach 10000 and now he
must accept the damaging inference that they
will get this number of votes and therefore
his man, Davis, will be defeated.-1rgus.
THE Argus makes this statement i'll sub
stance several times. 1t is untrue. Mr.
Blaine has made no offer to bet. Mr.. }. W..
Bartlett offered to bet 81 ,00] that tce united
vote of Smith and Garceon will not reach
10000 and deposited his money in an Au-
gusta bank. No Democrat nor Greenbacker
dared to cover it. Perhaps Mr. E. F. Pills
bury would have taken it had it not been for
his conscientious scruples. The Argus has
tracts its false charge, no man hereafter
should be called upon to believe or pay at
tention to its statements unless they are
substantiated by some reliable authority.
TIE Maine Standard is endorsing Mr..
Hudson of the Boston Herald. 1t was not
long since the STANDARD said:
Mr.. Couilard sent news from Maine as it
truly was. This the Herald (Bondholders Or
gam could not stand, so Mr.. G. was ordered to
talk differently. He replied that if the Herald
wanted the news from Maine doctored, they
must doctor it themselves. Mr.. Couillard was
at once recalled and another man substituted
in his stead, whose conscientious scruples were
less unyielding and whose Imagination was
more fertile Judging from the letters Mr.. E.
I'll. is now sending that paper on Maine politics,
the man was found who Just fills the bill His
prognostication that the Republicans would
elect both branches of the Legislature and
Davis by the people, would make horse
laugh.
Judging by the delight the STANDARD now
rsanifests, the reports Mr.. Hudson is send
ing to the Herald make an ass laugh.
The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04

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The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04
The Oldtown Shvlock.

The letter Of Mr.. G. F. Jordan of Old
town places the Greenback candidate for
Governor in most unenviable position.
He is accused of exacting from man to
whom he had lent money twenty per cent.
interest, of endeavoring to compel men i'll
his service to take fifty cents o1 the dollar
for their labor, of expressing and harassing
his debtors, of seizing upon the little they
had to satisfy his exorbitant demands, of
expressing them by mortgages, of taking
even the furniture from their houses to meet
his demands, of taking the last dollar from
crippled lumberman who had been in his
employ, and Of using his power as mort
gagee to compel men TO vote for him.
These are grave charges, and if they are
true Mr.. Joseph l.. Smith is Shylock, a
usurer. and a bull-dozer. The charges are
made by responsible man over his own
signature, man known 10 persons in This
CITY of Portland, who youch for him as up
right and trustworthy. Unless Mr.. Smith
can refute these charges he must stand con-
victed of them. AS yet he has said no word.
His ally, the Bangor Commercial, has had
ample time in which to consult Mr.. Smith,
and investigate the statement of Mr.. Jordan,
and says not word. Mr.. NJ. NJ. Folsom,
Smiths next friend, hitherto so eager to
rush to his defense, says not a word. No
one comes to his defense, either i'll Oldtown
where he lives, or in Bangor where he is
well known. Does any man believe that the
story would not be denied if denial were
possible?
This Smith is the man who is put forward
as the laboring mans friend, as the candi-
date of those who denounce the usurer and
The bondhoder, who complain that our
farms are covered with mortgages, and our
debtors driven to desperation. What do you
think of him, laboring men? What do you
think of him, honest men of all conditions?
How do you propose to rebuke him? By
voting for him or against him?