Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-29
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A vote for Hancock is an Endorsement OF
forgery as political weapon.
The business man who votes for Hancock
votes for his own ruin.
The latest discovery by Barnum is that the
republicans carried Indiana with counterfeit
money - Hartford Erening Post.
The best thing" says the Philadelphia
Press-..for Barnum TO do would be TO forge
a new platform, or, at least new tarif
plank"
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Hancock's sword killed off some democrats.
but his pen has killed off great many more.
Democrats with clubs ami stones assaulted
a republican procession in Lexington avenue.
New York, Tuesday evening.
People now look into their daily paper for
new s.Roorbacks' from Barnum, just as they
turn to Harpers Weekly for the cartoons OF
Mast.
There will be gain of one Congressman
from the Second District of Minnesota, where
the Hon. Horace B. Strait is making splen-
did canvass.
The new Jersey republicans expect to elect
their candidate for Governor and a majority
of the legislature, and to give majority for
Gen. Garfield.
The presence here at this time of Chair
man Thompson, of the Ohio democratic COM
mittee, is construed as evidence that the Ohio
democracy have given up the fight in that
State Washington Star.
Next time the democrats will not resolve
in favor of tariff for revenue only. They
learn, but they are always four years behind.
Cincinnati Gazette.
The next forged letter Mr.. Barnum will
publish will tell how General Garfield once
upon a time carried away red-hot stove IN
his vest pocket-N. T. Commercial 44dre'-
tiser.
Every republican is respectfully requested
to keep working. After the election the
whole party can take a gigantic rest, cheered
by the knowledge of a gloriohs victory.
The Fall River Herald, democratic, re-
Dukes Father Sheridan, a Catholic priest in
Connecticut, because he told the children of
his flock that it is their privilege to vote as
they please. The average democratic editor
opposes both political liberty and political
equality.
| The democratic author of the forged Chi
nese letter spells religiously ''religeously,"
which is not at all strange. 1t is word
heretofore entirely unused by the democra-
cy.
| At the headquarters of the congressional
republican committee there is no doubt felt
whatever as to the election of Gen. Garfield.
/ The committee is now hard at work in an eff
fort to capture the next House of Representa-
tives for the republicans Washington Star.
The full returns from the October cleo
tions in West Virginia are not yet received,
but the indications are that the democratic
majority will not exceed five thousand,
against fourteen thousand four years ago, and
! the republicans hope to do still better next
/ Tuesday.
! 1t is fact worthy Of note, now that the
democrats are awarding General Hancock the
burg. that Congress passed an order thank
/ ing Generals Meade and Howard for their
services there, and that no member of that
body suggested that General Hancock be
named with them.
At Syracuse, on Wednesday, after the adj
dress by Gen. Grant, many prominent demo-
Gratis took the occasion to come out for Car
! field. Among them NAV be mentioned
Tho. Gale. the well-known contractor; VIM.
T. Hamilton, President of the Morris Run
Coal Company John Greenway, the we'll
known brewer; Abel G. Cook, and many
others.
Joe Pulitzer of ST. Louis, the smartest
democrat in Missouri. now in New York.
saws that the democrats are overmatched this
year by wealth. newspapers, stump speakers,
political organizers and the stiffening preju-
dice of the North. He had never known the
republican party so strong, so imperious, so
versatile. while the democrats were a brave
line of battle led by donkeys.
citizen of Bridgeport, Conn, has re-
ceived letter from friend who is tempo
rarily residing in Staunton, Va, in which he
says: ''In this place (Staunton). on the
main street floats rebel flag with Hancock
and English hanging to it. A large one also
swings in the main street. They are not
half licked" Staunton is the place where
/ Hampton made his famous speech asserting
that the principles in this campaign are the
same for which Lee and Jackson fought.