The Portland daily press., 1879-09-05
Are You Prepared?

| side of Justice. The cool Indifference with
| which the Dixon murder is treated by the
South, nay, the angry comments OF its press
that the Northern papers should presume
to voice the verdict of public indignation
and horror, may well arouse our community
| to a sense of the depth of degradation
evinced by society which regarding such a
foul crime thus lightly, permits manslaugh-
ter and downright murder to be the recog-
nized plan for righting grievances. What
reason, we beg, have we to believe that rep
resentatives of such Southern sentiment ar
| fit to control the machinery of our National
Administration, and execute faithfully the
laws? None whatever, and the fact is
freshly realized by our people in the light OF
this last powerful illustration.
The fact is, gentlemen of the South, long
the recognized and traditional leaders and
official mouthpieces of Democratic senti-
ment, the American people are not quite
ready to deliver the country to your tender
mercies. They are fully cognizant of your
true position and your present plans. They
have well-grounded and natural distrust
invested with even brief lease OF power,
plunges into the most Incorporate excesses;
which, lost to all sense of honor and self
respect has, during the short period for
which it has held legislative control, done
its very utmost to belttle the great results
of the war; which has dismissed crippled
Union soldiers from Government employ,
Al ,.lo oil hod ia5 and
lnrepentant rebels; which is solely respon-
sible for the unnecessary, extravagant extra
Congressional session, recently closed, at a
cost of millions of dollars of increased tax
alton, drawn directly from the pockets OF
the people, and which, to-day. is mastering
all its strength to prevent a free full and un-
intimidated ballot at the South.
Are you prepared, voters of Maine, to
surrender your State at the coming election
into the hands of this oppressive and malg-
nant party, which, aware that it is impotent
to accomplish anything by itself, has, in
shameless fusion with purblind sect of
error, announced itself as the champion of
| financial dishonesty and national repudia-
ton; which has made open bargain and sale
of its professed principles for the equivalent
! of Greenback votes, by means of which it
hopes to foist itself upon US, and seize the
reins of power in our state? We trow not.
| And when the polls close OIL Monday night,
the sham Democracy will realize that, pinch
beck though it be, it has sold itself cheap.
| THE Leader is making the most of its last
opportunity for Misrepresentation before
election. 1t says the Kentucky Greenback
vote was 10000; the official figures give it as
less than 10000. 1t repeats the Baldwin
story of bull-dozing, changing the scene to
Steep Falls. 1t tells a story, utterly without
foundation, Of bull-dozing by Portland banks.
1t says Mr.. Blaine had share of the salary
grab, a statement that every intelligent man
in Maine, not excepting the editor of the
Leader, knows to be false. 1t repeats the
falsehood about bull-dozed pensioner in
Standish. 1t says Senator Chandler threat
ems Maine with British guns. These are a
few illustrations of the inventive powers of
the Leader We wish that paper would,
after election, give its editors and readers a
surprise party by telling the truth,-just
once. 1t would be real refreshing.
THIS is how Major Smith looked to the
prophetic eyes of the Argus little over a
| year ago:
A "WorEcingman's' candidate for, say the
office Of Governor is more than likely to be
man who has never had any experience in
| public duties, or some demagogue who uses
the Workingmen's party simply as a stepping
| n pI, adv cub
quent betrayal. Because man has become
skilled in some particular branch of labor or
has, by any means, become popular among his
fellow laborers, it no more follows that he
would make a good Governor than that a sue
cessful tinancier would make a good general OF
an army, or an eminent college professor a
practical bank president, and if by any turn OF
the political wheel of fortune, such an un-
tant responsible position. it requires no very
far-seeing intelligence to see in the light OF
past experience the bad results which are
pretty sure to follow.-Argus, Jan. s, 1878.
Mr.. Webb may be ''good fellow for al
we know, but it is men with right principles
that you should vote for this year. and NO
simply good fellows.
Beware of Radical cheats.-Argus.
YES, Mr.. Webb was good enough fellow
to go into the Union army, fight its battles
and lose a leg in its service. If that makes 8
man ''radical fraud and cheat he is
one. If the principles he fought for were
not Fright principles, then he is not the
man to vote for. The Argus seems to be
skipping its record for the last four years
and going back to its talk during the war.
HONEST Truth: The election of the Re
publican ticket in Maine this fall will be
worth many million dollars to the tax pay
ers of the country! 1t will inspire new con
fidence in business affairs by ensuring stead
mess of values and putting a quietus upor
reckless speculation. 1t win be worth al
the effort that can be devoted to it from this
time forth.