The Portland daily press., 1879-09-15
Letter from Scott.

Boston, Sept. II, 1879.
We send greetings to Maine, and thank you
most heartily for the aid you have given us IN
this State. The election there is generally con-
ceded to have been the last expiring KICK OF
Greenback lunacy. 1t began i'll the lar " est
and gradually worked eastward, sweeping over
Massachusetts " 1878, aud finally winding up
in Maine in 1879. We ought to have day OF
public thanksgiving and return thanks TO God
for our delverance from the most insane craze
which ever swept over the land. l do not
know at this writing that Mr.. Davis is elected
by the people, but this we Go know, he will be
the next Governor, if he lives until next JAN
uary This one further thing we know. The
united fusion parties are beaten-and beyond
question. beaten forever. | mean by this, OF
course, SO long as either represents dishonesty
and nonsense. Had the old Democratic party
held together last year. turned the cold should
er on the Greenbackers, and kept itself i'm
pregnable, it would this year have been the
second party at least. Had it let the financial
question alone, made State issues and the
''great fraud" the campaign stock, and abused
the Republican machine" I'm lot sure it
wouldn't have been the leading party. You
know 1 rather agree with the Democrats in
thinking that there are some things better
than some things the Republicans sometimes
do. But could not and 1 never will, assist
any party to office on false issues. Demagogue
Pillsbury damaged his party about as much as
anything I know of. First his attack on Davis
and then his often reiterated falsehoods about
State expenses. Mr.. Blaine's splendid man
agement of the campaign hear praised every
where 1 wish we had such man at the head
of our State Committee this year. We hayn't,
and we have rather poor manager.
The later caucuses have a Pierce look; still
I'm inclined to hold to my first prediction that
Long would be nominated. 1 regret to see
that the friends of Mr.. Pierce are making an
uncalled for fight on Mr. Long. 1 do not know
that he has not as clean a record as his COM
pettor. In fact, both are clean men, and
their supporters might be in better business
than traducing one another. Mr.. Long has
held entirely aloof from caucus managing, far
more so than the opposition. Neither man
has personally done any work or sought to car
ry caucuses. In this respect this has been one
of the cleanest, least machine-managed politi-
cal contests ever known in this State. A few
emissaries from Boston visited Lynn, Law
renee, and Newburyport and sort of fixed
things" for Pierce. The fact is the Common
wealth feels the effect of the years of perss-
tent pleading for less politics and more patri-
otism. The Republican party of Massachu-
sets stands to-day for reformed civil service
and pure politics. | do not think the like has
been seen before in the history of this country
The true Democrats are equally high-minded,
hat hr,tf p.,t1n oil H.
see one of those famous campaigns of the best
men of each party contendng on principles
and not on personality. Buffers attack ON
Mr.. Pierce through his foul-mouthed organ,
the Globe, proved to be one of those Eben f.
Pillsbury boomerangs which kick back. Mr..
Perce's reply was satisfactory to nearly every
one, regardless of politics. By the bye, there
is a prospect that the Globe is to be more de-
cent and sensible, to say nothing of ability,
this Fall than last. Since it became a Demo-
cratic-Butler organ it has had no editorial abil-
ity whatever. Its editorials have been dish
water. Now George j. L. Colby is to edit it.
He is a brilliant and versatile writer, and very
much of gentleman
Not writing to you last week the time for
speaking of Mr.. Murray's letter at length has
passed. l must repeat that the comments of
the several papers in and around Boston
have been unkind, uncalled for, and UNI
just, and have insinuated things which
are not true, and of which the editors
have no proof. These papers have made
too free and been too familiar with this
mans good name Some of them ought to be
made to suffer. The lions Herald says they
only give voice to what has been common
street talk for months or years. True; but does
Zion's Herald propose to give credence to COM
mon street talk? 1t is the only paper, aside
from the scurrilous Saturday Evening Express,
which has thus far given credence to these
scandals. lions Herald knows, or ought to
know, that there is no reason whatever for
crediting them. SCOTT.