The Portland daily press., 1879-09-04
Improve the Chance.

The fact every day becomes more apparent
that the importance of the present political
situation is adequately realized by the Re-
publicans of Maine. We stand in the clos
ing days of an earnest, hard-fought campaign
which it is safe to say has rarely, if ever,
been exceeded in excitement by any of the
fiercely-waged partisan conflicts with which
the voters of Maine have been familiar in
the past. That the outlook is one of bril-
liant promise is, we are well aware, fully
recognized by the leading centres of Repub-
lican sentiment, who, in prompt appreciation
of the duty incumbent upon them, to make
the rebuke to Greenback pretensions as en-
phatic as possible, have, in their confident
assurance of Republican.success, contributed
more effectively than could perhaps any 9th
er influence, towards that desirable end
This excellent temper cannot be too cordial
ly commended. 1t is meet that in these last
days OF the campaign, our opponents, de-
moralized and disheartened, should realize
in advance the irrepressible verdict of the
people-that they should read the handwrit-
ing Which is written on the wall.
AS we review the field Of the present con-
test, our eyes rest upon an instructive and
edfying spectacle We behold a hybrid fol-
lowing maneuvring in our front, which
comprises in its motley array, the lowest ell
ements of the body politic.s We see the cor
rupt, the dishonest, and the ignorant senti-
ment Of the community banded together for
a combined assault upon the country's credit.
We see, mustered in the ranks and following
the fortunes of the Greenback theorists, the
Democratic party our familiar foe of yore,
in novel and becoming guise. Long estrange-
ment from public power, coupled with a
natural despair of ever being able to effect
anything by itself were temptations too
strong for it to resist. Accordingly it has
jammed its traditional principles in its pock-
ct and, with palms itching for the spoils OF
Office has made abject ard unconditional
surrender.
1t is for you to say, voters of Maine,
whether these men who have entered into
covenanted alliance to gain complete control
of our State, shall have the opportunity
which they so much covet 1t is for you to
saw whether their reckless and unthinking
crusade against the interests of sound fl
nance shall be successful, whether i'll. your
opinion it is meet thai they should be grant
ed undispu ed access 10 the State Treasury,
TO capture and debauch our credit, whether
you are willing to see your Sta'e controlled
by fusion influences. 1t is for you all to
recollect that the defeat of Greenbackery
this year is the deathblow to all hope of a
possible resurrection of that heresy next
year; that the more complete is the Repub-
lican triumph next Monday, the greater
credit at home and abroad rebounds to the
fame of the Pine Tree State. Let us not fail
to recollect that 1880 is the Presidential year
and that it behooves Matte to make her vic
tory now as complete as possible, to the end
tha, we may enter the National Republican
Convention with degree of prestige such
as will ensure our claims proper considera-
ton before that body. 1t is sufficient to say
that our people bearing these considerations
in mind are fully aroused to the great ques-
tions of the time, and may be trusted to reg
lister a stalw5rt majority for the Republican
ticket at the polls on Monday.