The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-12
An Old Soldier on His Ear.

To the Editor of the Press:
saw in the Eastern Argus of July oath
letter purporting to come from New York,
ridiculing all and everything that attempt to
say word or do work for the Republican cam
didate for Governor, Hon. Daniel +. Davis.
Well, suppose ridicule is well enough in its
way, but when men try to pass off willful and
malicious falsehoods under the cloak of ridi-
cule and pleasantly, and use any and all
means to befog and blind people to the true
issues before the country, it is time some one
should take it up. Why does L. w. s., who
goes on to say that ''the issues of to-day concern
the people of to-day, and not of twenty years
ago', go back and cite Gov. Dix and Gov. Til
den and claim for the latter the great saving
of money to the taxpayers OF New York, when
the fact is patent to every one who desires to
see the truth that the very saving accorded to
Tilden was done under Gov. Dix's administra-
ton, and with the usual Democratic GOODNESS,
stolen by S. J. or his naughty nephew, Pelton.
and appropriated as Democratic thunder.
Again, he quotes Schuyler Colfax. Why not
quote the administration of Granny Buchanan
and his notable Secretary of War, Jeff Thomp-
son, if he wants to give the world a fair speci-
men of robbery and wholesale stealing? 1t
1t was an honest (0 Democrat who robbed the
Treasury of nearly the last dollar; robbed the
armores and arsenals; robbed our own ex-
tended sea-coast of every species OF Govern
ment vessel, and sent them to the uttermost
parts of the earth so that as nation we were
powerless against foreign invasion; robbed us
of every United States soldier, by placing
Ill fJ,a yEac or in Tny-
as, so that at the opening of the late Rebellion
the Nation was bankrupt of all with which to
defend herself, except her staunch yeomen.
l. who was raised a Democrat after the tradi-
tions of the Fathers, and am come OF old Revol-
utionary stock, went in to help crush that Re-
bellion, and am now supporter of the party
whose record in that struggle is!a thing to be
proud of, and whose standard bearer i'll the
present campaign is my standard bearer, and
who will lead us on to victory in September
next. 1 happen to know, too, Capt. W. S.
Howe, M. D." so often and jeeringly alluded
to in said letter, and know him to be as emil
nent in mis- profession as doctor as he was as
a soldier. Although an alien at the time OF his
enrolment into the service, he proved his de-
votion to the country of his adoption, as his
numerous wounds abundantly testify. Now he
would not get thr0wn by any case that came
under his treatment, unless it might be IN Try,
ing to make what nature aud education tailed
to do by L. w. S-ndke man Of him. l
know too that if Capt. Howe had been sent
after Draft Riot Pillsbury, the State of Maine
would not now be troubled with the filthy,
reeking emanations of his traitor brain, but
his.(Pilsburys) memory would now stink in
the nostrils of the people.
The Scarboro Bible is not thought SO much
of in the eastern portion of the State as it used
to be in its own section when the faithful DEM
ocrats stood by the hard money principles OF
Andrew Jackson. Their oracle is rocking the
Rag Baby now and acting as wet nurse to the
DenOcratic-C Treenback bantliug.
In conclusion let me say that with all the
lying of all the Democratic Greenback-R
papers of this State they cannot carry it
against the Hon. Daniel F. Davis in the COM
ing election, Disgruntled Renegade arcelon
and Bloated- Bond -Greenback-Small-Po-
tatoes-Smith, and all their rebel cohorts to
the contrary, Notwithstanding.
OLD SOLDIER. /