The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-18

Mr.. l.. f. PINGREE of Portland adveI
tises in the Boston Post for Moses to lea,
the Maine Democrats out of the wilderness
Massachusetts, can't spare any.
THE World says that with Tilden as it
candidate the Democratic party would b.
put on the defensive at the outset and KEEP
| there
THE argus still continues to talk abou
the wholesale purchase of votes by BlaiL e
Will it please mention one single vote pur
chased by him or at his suggestion?
THE Neuy Era says the contest in New
York this year is between Republicans ant
Greenbackers. That is rough on the Dem
ocrats.
| THE nomination of Mr.. Long as Republi
can candidate for governor of Massachusetts
seems to give general satisfaction to iht
Republican press of that State. Mr.. Long il
a native of Buckfield in this State.
Mr. FoGG (F. NJ. Fogg, we presumc) il
described by the Leader as young man o
! great ability and eloquence, whose convic
tions flow from his impulses, and who fol
lows them with a determination that break:
no opposition.
THE New York San (Dem.) says the Dem
ocracy cannot carry the country without SC
reforming as to get the confidence of the
people, and ''to do this effectively it will
have to send some of its so-called leaders tc
the rear and put paddock on the mouths Of
Others"
THE State Democrat backs up its state.
ment that the son of Senator Hamlin is tc
be appointed Senator by Gov. Davis, by re-
publishing paragraph to the same effect
which appeared in the same paper some
time ago. This is new evidence that the
Democrat has very poor opinion of the
intellectual capacity of its readers.
EX-Gov. HOFFMAN, who was made Gov
ernor of New York in 1868 by. the fraudulent
counting of the Tweed ring, has deserted
Tammany and joined Tilden. Tilden was
chairman of the Democratic Stte Commit
tee in that year, and Hoffman probably feels
that,he owes him debt of gratitude for moi
exposing those frauds if not for directly aid
ing in them.
HERE is an extract from priv ate letter
written by hard-money Democrat of Bos-
ton to a Republican of Portland:
l congratulate you on the Maine election.
OF course l am sorry to have Blaine successful
but L should have been more sorry to have a
Greenback victory, and like to have the
Democrats whipped, when they coque
with such cattle as the Greebackers. So, or
the whole, l am very well satisfied.
The facts are, as everybody knows, Mr.
Randall wants the voter guaranteed the priv
iege of going to the polls unn olested by any-
body, and casting his vote as he sees fit
Argts.
You mean casting as many votes as he
sees fit. That's the way the Democrats car
ried New York in 1868, and that seems to
be the way in which they carried Somerset
county in this State at the late election.
Ex-Governor WooDFoRD who accom-
panied Mrs. Chisolm to Mississippi and was
present all through the Gully trial, has Civ
believes the jury was impartially drawn and
has no doubt but the Judge and District At
torney did their whole duty. The verdict OF
acquttal was given solely because it was de-
manded by majority of the whites of KEN
per county.
JOHN G. WHITTIER wrote to the gather
ing of old Republicans at Worcester that the
Republican party has done noble work,
and it has still its missions and its duties.
1t is as necessary now as it ever has been.
/ must be maintained till the purity of the
ballot-box everywhere is safe from violence
and intimidation, and the civil rights of ev-
cry class of American citizens are made Sc
cure beyond the possibility of suppression OF
infringement
TIE Lewiston Journal thinks that the
Augusta fusionists who@llave sent the me-
mortal to President Hayes charging Post
master Hamln of that city with violation OF
the Civil Service ORDER show sublime impu-
dence in view of the fact that the State
House was deserted by the fusion officials
uulIio iitO Cttiipdisol, NhO opCilt tIlClI tlUut
in political trading, managing caucuses and
conventions and running the fusion cam
paign, to the alleged neglect of official du-
ties.
THE Yazoo (Miss.) Herald publishes a
list of thirty-three liable and fearless DEM
ocratic newspapers of Mississippi, all of
which, it says, vindicate ''the action of the
honest people of Yazoo" in causing the po-
ltical assassination of Dixon. The Herald
adds: ''To be indorsed by such an array of
excellent journals as compose this list is re-
assuring, and we need not tell them how
grateful our people feel toward them for
giving their side of the question a favorable
hearing and vindicating their character
from the aspersions of their enemies"
THE Aryus ought to attend the meeting
of the Democratic National Committee
which Mr.. Tilden has called to help him out
of his New York difficulty, and get some
good advice itself. 1t needs it rather more,
if that be possible, than Mr.. Tilden. 1t
should first ask whether it is best to re-
main Greenback organ or to become
hard-money one. 1t should then inquire
uvb II haJ hot in,