Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-11-06
nov. DANIEL p. DAVIS.
Interesting Interview regarding nv Re
cent Eieefiosts. and upon hoiiticni Wat
sers ina GeA~ral.


| tiers ia Gen~ral.
While the Hon Daniel +. Davis was in
the city, yesterday, on his return home from
the campaign in Massachusetts,, he was called
upon at his rooms at the Cony House, and
gave free expression to the impressions which
| had been made upon him while doing service
| for the success of the republican party IN
| Ohio and Massachusetts. After doing most
telling work in his native State, speaking al
most every day in the campaign, with hardly
an exception, and sometimes twice IA day, he
went to Ohio. at the request of the re-
publicans of that State, and remained
there nearly three weeks. More re-
Gently he has taken part in the Mas
sachusetts campaign, making speeches in
! Faneuil Hall, Lowell, Lynn. Gloucester,
New buryport and IIaverhill Having thus
mingled with the people of other States, and
being naturally a calm and candid rcasoner,
his opinions are entitledto great consideration.
Mr. Davis said that he found the people in
Ohio very radical and very much worked up
on the Southern question. There is not much
grcenbackism left in Ohio, it being found on
ly in few localities in the State. There was
some talk during the campaign on the bank
ing question, but this matter is generally re-
2arded as pretty well settled. The ideas Of
the people of the State are also well settled
on protection, they desiring the tariff to re-
main about where it is now. The political
meetings were enthusiastic and well attended,
and especially so wherever Mr.. Blaine APP
peared He was surprised to find how close
| ly they had watched the campaign in our
State. and how well posted they were in our
politics. The people OF Ohio were surprised
that there could be SO many grecnbackers in
Maine, where such an excellent school sys-
TEN prevails.
In Massachusetts, Mr.. Davis said he found
one of the queeres. campaigns that he ever
had anything TO do with or ever knew about
There was a combination of all men and all
parties to break up the republican party and
beat Long. There was a man on one side
Butler-and party with good principles on
the other. The meetings were quiet at first,
but the last week the people were more stirred
up. He thought the majority of the republ-
cans in the old Bay State were to-day as radi
cal on the Southern question as the people of
Maine Another year national issues would
be involved and Massachusetts would give
an old fashioned republican majority.
The North demands that the South shall
give every man the right to exercise the bal
lot and the Southern question will be the
issue for 1880. He thought that the great
majority of the greenbackers were as honest
as any party, but the question was not SO
much who was honest but who was right, and
events have shown that the republicans were
in the right Ms. Davis said that the cleo
tions Tuesday indicated greater strength
than the vote showed. In Massac husetts the
Butler men were more nearly out than the
republicans: and in New York the demo-
cratic party having two wings, its effect was
to get out almost every democratic vote, The
stay-at-homes in both States were republi-
cans. He classed New York AS a safe repub-
lican State tor the presidential year.
In both New York and Massachusetts, there
were hardly any signs of greenbackism, but
both of these States were interested in the
tariff, and so must Maine be. The matter of
tariff was one which interested the laborer
rs well as the manufacturer, and would be
an important question in the presidential
campaign.
Regarding the rumors which prevail about
the Governor and Council counting out rep
resentatives and senators, his own Judgment
was that they never contemplated doing any
such thing, but that all the talk on the mat
ter had been done b, outsiders.