Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-08-29
Campaign Notes.

booming splenddly.
Winthrop shows 100 republican gain so far
in the canvass. The schoo-house discussions
! in that town have been very profitable TO the
Honest Money side.
4 correspondent writing us from Norway
! saws: Things are looking \. |, all round
! We are gaining every day. ] have seen
nearly every section of the State except
Aroostook and Franklin. We have got 'em
/ if We keep TO our work and do our duty on
/ the Sth of Sept find oxford wide awake nj
/ this point and surrounding towns"
4 correspondent of the Maine Standard
who complains because Mcthodists do not
care to hear DE La Matyr preach, say
! "You might a. well undertake to purge a cut
} tlc-fish of its slime as to purge Methodist
republican of his bigotry and intolerance
! Ignorant, pig-headed and mulish, he glories
4 in his own degradation. and rcioices in hi
own infamv." How do the Methodists like
fusion talk? Do they care to vote with men
who thus dcnounce them?-i 0ftdad Press
4 sheet filed with misrepresentation made
bv the Maine STANDARD. and probably printed
/ in that office. is cir II ating i'll this. city. The
/ statements it makes are falsehoods and hav,
! been rcfutcd over and over again. Any mar
! who believes word of them should be put
under guardianship Portland Press
! Mr.. q. {. Moore " rites to the Nashua, \.
| II. Telegraph that Mr. Smalley Of the New
York Tribune. Mr.. Burr of the New Iorl
| Times and Mr.. Hudson of the Boston IIcral
agree that the republicans have the State, and
consider il now only question of the size OF
| the majority.
A Parkman correspondent writes: Those
republicans that left us last fall and went over
tn the grecnhackers are returning to the re-
publican fold, here in Parkman. One of the
strongest that left us last fall. came into our
caucus filled the Office of chairman. and was
chosen delegate to attend the republican
convention holden at Dover. and says he was
never so ashamed of anything that he ever
did. as voting the greenhack ticket
The statement of the Lewiston Gazette that
A. J. Blethen. Esq. of Portland. is to take
the stump for the grcenback or fusion party
in Franklin. is denied by that gentleman.
On the contrary Mr.. Blethen is so disguised
with the trade and dickcr policy of the green
back leader. that he announces his intention
TO vote for Daniel +. Davis.-Leriston Jour-
noi
Our correspondent (B.) writes: T. S.
Brigham and Dir. c. ID. Bradbury of Buck
| field addressed grcenback meeting on Mon
day evening last at Buckficld, and in the
course of his remarks DIR. Bradbury said,
"as the republicans had not succeeded very
well in protecting the negro the democrats
and grcenbackers had made up their minds to
let the Somhe,ners XIII them unless they
couH protect hemSeires," whercupon an ac
tive grecnbacker. formerly republican.
| said ''if that is your doctrine | am done with
you and shall vote the republican ticket
again" It was wet blanket on this meet
| ing Lewisf0n JOUyaoi
Several of tie democratic candidates on
| the Penobscot county ticket having with
drawn from the field in pursuance of the plan
| to transfer the democratic voters to the green
| back wing. Mr.. =. G. White, another candi-
He does it, he says, mot TO advance the in
tercst of the rreenback cause, but to save, as
far in me lies the power to do it. the dem
ocratic party from all responsibility for the
result this fall, and to leave every democrat
absolutely free to vote against the greenback
party if he desires so to do. For myself, |
am glad to say that shall do nothing for its
success directly or indirectly. On the con-
trarv, my face and hand shall henceforth he
against it. shall most assurcdly speak and
vote to defeat it,"
The correspondent of the New York Trib-
une. +. V. s., who is reporting The canvass
in Maine, makes the following estimate of
the vote
Last year the grcenbackers east in round
numbers Al 900 votes. OF these they will
probably lose about 5000 this wear, who were
formerly republicans and have now returned
TO their old party. Ont of the $4,000 demo-
| Gratis who withstood the greenback freshet in
| 1878. | estimate that not more than -, 600
| will vote for GarcelOn this wear. leaving b.
| 600 as the new democratic contingent sup
| porting Smith. We may. therefore expect
| that Smiths vote will be little heavier than
last year, running up 10 about 10000. To
| elect Davis the republicans mnst beat the
| combined grcenback and democratic vote.
and must therefore show strength Of over
10000, believe they will muster between
1000 and 20 900 votes"
The Belfast journal says that Mr.. Ellis.
fusion candidate for Senator in Waldo as
serted in recent speeches that a gentleman
| connected with the kitchen of the Maine In
sane Hospital. informed him that a barrel of
| -four was baked each day; and that it appeared
from the amount paid for -four that the State
was charged SIS per barrel. A republican
who heard him wrote to the steward of the
hospital, and was inf rmed t'lat Mr.. Ellis
had evidently got his information from one
of the insane patients who are frequently
called on to help in that department, and that
as a matter of fact over two barrels of -four
are baked every day for the 500 patients and
employees, and that the average cost to the
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