Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-27
Political.
JAMES A. HALL.
Damariscotta, Oct. %, 1880.

Political.
The Governors of 10 States are to be cho-
sen next week.
VIM. T. Vanderbilt, heretofore a demo-
crat, has declared for Garfield.
Advices from all parts of this State indi-
cate great success for the republican ticket.
Tribune.
The watchward for every republican now
is: mo State is safe until it is won.'
! Horatio Seymour has called upon General
Hancock visit of coincidence, probably.
'sHe knows how it is himself"
Barnum, having lost his reputation as a
mule buyer in Indiana, is trying to retrieve
| it by getting out roorbacks and lieing last
cards.
The Maryland republicans hope to carry
three or four of the six Congressional dis
trcts of that State, and with an honest cleo
ton in Baltimore would secure the electoral
| ticket.
Republicans in the interior are preparing
to roll up a majority which will overwhelm
the democratic majority it will meet at Har
| lem DTluye.-IftOHHe
Gen. f. E. Spinner, the exTreasurer with
serpentine signature. though seventy-eight
years old, is stumping the towns Of Herki-
mer county, n. Y, for Garfield on foot.
| Several of the most prominent democrats
of Eastern Tennessee have during the past
week come out for Garfield and Arthur, and
are making speeches for them.
| General Hancock has illustrated the can
vass with two statesmanlike utterances.
These are: 81 am opposed to niger domino
atom and The tariff question is local
question:
| The effects of the recent State elections
in Indiana and Ohio on the manufacturing
interests are already manifest. Several of
the large factories in New Albany, Ind, that
had been running short have been put to
! their full capacity of production.
Republican enthusiasm is not all confined
TO the close States. Such strong republican
States as Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas are
| showing as much earnestness as though there
was any doubt how they would vote.
Gen. Mcclellan has not shone as stump
speaker in his journey through the State.
The Elmira Advertiser harshly says 1.-The
trouble with Mcclellan as an orator is that
he wants to throw up too many breastwor
between his ideas
The Herald's Washington special says that
from the best information that can be got
here, it is believed that the republicans will
carry New York by 40, 1000 majority, Connec-
ticut by 5000 majority and New Jersey by
10000 majority Republican defeat is now
deemed impossible in any Northern State"
A South Carolina paper says that Wade
| Hampton Is in constant rece ipt of kilograms
from the North ridiculing his letter to Secre-
| tary Sherman. Since he intimated to the
Secretary his willingness to accept a chal-
ienge, his daily life has been full of annoy
ances. His own party friends write and ex-
press regrets that he acted as he did
The registration of New York closed on
Saturday with 2l6,974 names registered.
against 1873, o64 in 1875. The vote of the
city is likely to reach 100000. The Repub-
Iicans are confident of a vote of at least 10, 900
| which would give the Democrats a plurality
OF $4,000, and hope to score sc, 200 ballots
for Garfield and Arthur. There is an in
crease of registration in all parts of the city,
but the increase is largest in the districts
where there has been a heavy Republican
| vote.
A gentleman who has just returned from
New York, and knows whereof he saws, is
authority for saying that James Gorden Ben
nett is enthusiastic for Garfield. and earn
estly desires his election, and takes more in
terest in the present election than any that
has occurred since he has co ntrolled the Her
aid. 1t is said that Mr.. Bennett has made
liberal contribution to the Republican cam
paign fund, and that he finds it difficult to
sufficiently control his political feelings so a.
to keep the Herald apparently independent in
politics. 7rareiier.
Don Piatt. of the Washington Capital who
| Is q Democrat, and was at Cincinnati during
the election there, says: ''Barnum brought
money and Randall roughs. The thoughtful
patriotic. self-respecting Independents were
confronted by as dirty, low, mean and dishon-
est machine as ever Pennsylvania put in
motion. Barnum's money was to buy votes
and Randalfs roughs, imported from his own
| sw eet-scented district, were to intimidate, re-
peat. and If necessary to smash ballot boxes.
Now don't assert that this is not SO. l know
whereof write, and the worst part of it is
that every man, woman and child of Cincin-
natl knows as WE'LL"
One of the most notable recruits which the
tarlif issue has brought to the Republicans
Is Mr.. Henry Mccormick, large iron man.
ufacturer, of Harrisburg. He has been a
| Democrat for generation, but he is unable
| to trust his business interest to the care of a
, free trade party, which is running for the
Presidency man who regards the tariff as
local issue" He has in his employ nearly
| loVo men, and his conversion is likely to be |
followed by that OF many OF them.
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cents.
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