Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-09-11
The Press OH the Maine Election.
from the Portland Press

test our appreciation OF It's efforts
The Press OH the Maine Election.
from the Portland Press.
The victory won by the Republican party.
Monday, is assuming magnificent proportions.
The indications are, that we have elected
Davis by the popular vote, while we know
that we have carried both Senate and House,
and majority of the counties. Our victory
Is the victory of the people of Maine, but 1t
Is due to the magnificent executive ability
and matchless organizing powers OF Senator
Blaine Without him should have been
lost. Out of a beaten and dispirited host he
made jealous, confident and admirably dis
cplined army and he led it to victory. The
campaign was conducted with Incompatible
skill. To what extent respectively the imam
cial question, the Southern question, AMI the
attempted legislation of Congress, aided in
bringing about the result we are not now pre-
pared to say. II is certain that Greenbackism
has got its death-blow, and will not hereafter
be a powerful force for evil in Maine politics.
Fusion, too, is dead-dead as last years potato
vines. The Democratic partyis seriously Grip
Piled. A long time, perhaps years will pass
before it can regain the fine organization il
had in this State in 1876 1t has entered upon
period of quarrels and personal squabbles
between its leaders, many of whom are for
ever discredited by the course they have taken
In advocating fusion. One political death Is
already recorded. that of Ebeh F. Pillsbury.
He is dead cock in the pit
From the Bangor Wing
But even if we have not succeeded in wipiug I
out the entire opposition majority, of more |
than $4,000 last year, we have won a most re-
markable and signal victory. in regaining con-
troll Of every branch and department of the
State Government at the very first election
after the combination triumph of last year.
1t takes two or three years in other States,
and some much longer, to secure such re-
action against demagogism but we have
strangled the Bourbon Greenback fusion that
gained foothold in our State a year ago, and
Maine is as sure Republican State for 1850
as it was in 1872 or 1876.
Our triumph has heen won in the face of
tremendous obstacles, and in spite of all the
powers Of lying, SANDER and appeals to the
worst passions of men. We have won it fairly |
on an honest platform, and in defence of noble |
principles, directly in contrast with the dick |
ering and trading of our political opponents. !
Maine will have no brighter page in her
history than that which records the brilliant
success of the Republican campaign of 1879.
From the Lewiston Journal
We congratulate the Republicans of Maine
on their substantial victory. 1t has been
hard fought contest We have had opposed to
us not one organization with clearly defined
principles, but two with antagonistic princi-
pies. Circumstances have favored their fusion
for the time but it will be impossible for them
to repeat it under SO favorable circumstances.
Next year, there can be no lodging of the na-
tional issues, and all voters will be called up
ON to choose between the republican and dem
ocratic candidates for President Then il will
be impossible for greenbackers and democrats
to fuse, and the square issue on national issues
will inevitably compel greenbackers to choose
between republican and democratic rule.
From the Boston Journal
The result Of the election yesterday in Maine
cannot be regarded otherwise than Republi-
can victory of no ordinary importance. Had
such a result been secured by any party in
Massachusetts, Ohio or New York, it would
have been hailed as signal and overwhelm-
ing victory, since in those States plurality
insures an election, while in Maine a majority
of all the votes Is necessary to insure an elec-
ton Of the State ticket.
Republicans elsewhere have abundant cause
to congratulate their brethren in Maine ON
their most gallant contest and victory. II
might have been more complete bat il puts
Maine in the Republican column in 1880 be-
yond a possible doubt. and shows the Demo-
cratic managers thar their piot 10 carry Maine
by the aid OF Republican dcsertcrs. for the
Democratic candidate for the Presidency in
1850, has proved abortivc That Of itself is
great victory.
From the Boston Advertiser
After a contest of unparalleled energy and
brilliancy the republicans OF Maine have re-
covered the ground they lost last year. and
are again masters Of the field. Under wha,
difficulties. against what deeply seated delu
sions, in spite of what desperate AMI nnprin-
cipled combinations this gratifying victory
has been achieved. the readers Of orr recent |
letters from Maine are already well Informed
Ii is a noble achievement, and we congratulate
the people of Maine, and especially those who
have borne the unusual burden of the canvass
on the success that crowns their labors
The result is gratifying a. an Indication
GsaSeefseii de against repnSeicani,m !.
q. last checked. 1t is especially gratifying
a. showing that the sober second thought l.
recalling many wanderers from that worst
form OF fanaticism and folly, which looked
for social revolution through the repudia-
ton of debt and a general overturn in the
settled and benefcent order of things. The
extreme unreasonableness of many of the or
ganizers and leaders of the greenhaek move
ment. leading into communism, and tending
toward social anarchy at every step. mast be
credited with part, at least. of this whole
some revulsion Of public feeling. But it is
a'so owing in part 10 the effective, persuasive
AID persistent presentation of the truth by
r,publiean speakers and writer's who have H.
Eliminated every part of the State with their
presence.
From the New York Tribune
The Republicans have made splendid
4 hit. and their thorough canvass Of financial
gu sstions has unqucstionabiy cut up the ,oots
Of the Greenback heresy, although the plant