The Portland daily press., 1879-10-09
The Fall Campaign.
How the Fight is Going On.

The Boston Herald says that reports from
manufacturing towns in Massachusetts, where
last Fall the Butler movement fairly doomed
among the idle or half-employed working men,
indicate that the Republican ticket will make
heavy gains.
Mr. Nelson Baker, prominent Iowa Green
hacker, and one of their most effective speak
ers, has come back to the Republican party be-
cause the Greenbackers have sacrificed princi-
pie to policy, and he is unwilling to become the
tool of the rebel-Democratic party.
An interviewing paper in Ohio has promoted
Mr.. Frye to Senator, and learned from him
that he believes Blaine is the coming man for
President, though admitting that there is
very strong underlying current for Grant that
questionably support Blaine, and Grant will
have very generous support from the West,
and the majority in Congress may do much at
the next session to settle the question. Sher-
man, he believes, has no chance whatever; IN
fact Sherman has an eye on the United States
Senate, and is unquestionably shaping matters
in that direction"
The general drift of events is favorable to
the Republican party. The brilliant success
of its resumption policy has gained public con-
fidence, and the revival of business, after long
with the Government The incessant Demo-
cratic denunciations of the resumption meas
ures and the signal Justification of the Demo-
cratic predictions will operate in favor OF the
Republican party in State like New York,
where the revival of business is SO quickly lelt.
New York Herald.
Congressman De La Matyr, who is accident
ally an important parsonage because he may
decide who will be the next President in case
the election is thrown into the House, seems to
look upon General Butler as the man who
would suit him best for President. He says,
however, that Butler must carry Massachu-
settS this Fall in order to make himself can
didate. Ewing does not suit him at all, be.
cause of his affiliations with the Democrats.
He thinks Hendricks is by all odds the leading
candidate for the Democratic nomination, and
speaks of him so warmly as to leave little
doubt that he would cast his vote Tor him.
Yet he must know that by voting for him IN
the House he cannot eject him, for his vote
will only make tie. The only way he can
elect President will be to vote for the he
publican candidate.
Ex-Attorney-Ge General Taft is as answering
Grant man as ever. He does not believe
that Grant can be beaten in Ohio for the NOM
ination even by Sherman, and thinks that II
Grant looms as candidate Sherman will give
up the contest. Other Grant supporters are SO
elated by his reception in California that they
are claiming his nomination as fully assured,
and are talking about either Blaine or Sherman
as good candidate for the second place.
One proposed centennial celebration seems to
have been improved in no National spirit by
the secretary of the committee having its ar
rangements in charge, Mr.. Henry G. Wayne,
who takes occasion to remind the South that it
has Just emerged from a bloody war IN de-
fence of constitutional reservation 10 the
States-the right of secession" The annlver-
sary to be celebrated is the 9th of October, the
day on which Sergeant Jasper was killed in
gallant but unsuccessful attempt to rescue Sa-
vannall from British oppression: Mr. Henry
c. Wayne, the secretary aforesaid, son OF the
late Mr. Justice Wayne of the Supreme Court
of the United States, thinks this is good op-
portunity for making an attack upon what he
is pleased to call Radicalism. ''Let it be re-
WONDERED" says he, that there is more OF
political significance in this Centennial Ceie-
bration than meets the eye" we should say
there was, and we should advise well meaning
citizens of Savannah to have as little 10 90
with Mr. Wayne's celebration as possible.
The anti-Robinson Democrats held at New
York city Saturday evening what they called
estate convention of Jeffersonian Democrats
and nominated full State ticket with John
Kelly at its head. The remainder OF the tick
ct is as follows: For Lieutenant Governor,
Robert w. Hume; for Secretary of State, L.
H. Bronsan; for State Comptroller, George
Hill; for State Treasurer, Peter Haines; for
State Engineer and Surveyor, John Slack; for
Attorney General, George w. Gibbons. The
platform adopted is very brief, and confines it
self to denouncing convict labor and eulogiz-
ing the Tammany bolt as an assertion OF polit-
ical rights by down-trodden Democratic voters
The public is getting an excellent though not
very flattering idea of the inside of Democratic
management in New York from the descrip
tions given of each other by the Robinson and
Kelly Democrats, and the most notable thing
about these descriptions is the abundant con
fl rmation they give of the prevailing impress
sions in regard to the way the New York Dem
ocrats have been accustomed to fix things.
One of the best-posted Republican editors in
Ohio writes to a friend in Washington that he
will be greatly disappointed if Fosters majori-
ty does not reach 10000 and that he fully ex
poets the Republicans to carry the Legisla-
ture. A private letter from Commissioners
Raum says that he has been speaking mainly
in the Democratic counties OF Ohio and that he
finds the Democrats there are discouraged and
generally expecting defeat.