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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-25
Republican County and Senatorial
Convention.

The Republicans of jefferson County will meet
at the Court house, in Jefferson, on Saturday,
September 25th at o'clock P. NJ, Tor the purpose
of nominating candidates for County officers.
There will also be held at the same time and
place Senatorial Convention for the Twenty
Third District to nominate candidate for Sena-
tor for said District Each town will be entitled
to five. and each incorporated village and each
ward of a city, TO two delegates IN SAID Conven-
lions GEO. c. SMITH.
J. ID. BULLOCK,
J. H KEYES.
County Committee
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WATERFOWL RIFLES,
C0ncordia Island,
Sunday, Aug. 20, 1880.
MARSHAL, TIE TRY MULBERrER
Assistant Marshal, G. +. Gardner.


At O'CLOCK P. NJ. the Grand
Procession, consisting of the Wa
tertown Rifles, Civic Societies, and
citizens generally, will form in front
OF the Armory and march to the
Engine Houses, where they will be
joined by the WATERFOWL Fire
Companies. From thence the pro-
ceSsion will march to the Island.
headed by the Brass Band and Ma
jor Richert's drum corps. At the
Island there will be games and
amusements of various kinds.
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~ = - A YEAR and expenses to
" agents Outfit Free. Address P.
~ O.VICKERY, Augusta Maine.
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FIRST ANNUAL
PIC MIC
OF THE
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The undersigned would inform the public gen
orally that they have associated themselves to-
gether under the firm name of
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11
The Presidency.
THE FIRST BALLOT AT CHICAGO.
Blaine Leading Grant by Four Votes.
PHILADELPHIA Press.


OF the 756 delegates composing the National
Republican Convention 5S6 have been elected,
leaving ITO yet to be chosen, divided among
eleven States and six Territories OF the
States Nevada elects on Tuesday next; Florida,
Michigan and West Virginia on Wednesday;
Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and Dakota on
the 10Th; Alabama the day following; Louisi-
ana on the oath, and the youngest, Colorado,
last of all, on the 25th inst. During the past
three or four weeks the friends of the various
candidates managing the bureaus either at
Washington or Chicago, have sent out state
ments of the votes they expect to have when
the balloting begins, but in each case the fig
ures have been more or less exaggerated. For in
stance, Secretary Bartlett no later than Monday
last claimed for Senator Blaine 3S9 votes, or
ten more than the number necessary to nomi-
nate, while the friends of General Grant were
about the same time still asserting that Penn
sylvania and New York would be solid, and
that the ex-President would have decided
majority ON the first ballot. Both had made
estimates of the States holding conventions
during the week. and both have been in some
instances disappointed. The truth of the situ-
thoritative reports are to be relied upon, will
have the requisite votes on the first call Blaine
will, however, lead, having already secured
237 delegates, with strong probability of OBJ
tanning SO more, making in all, $50 or 40 less
than he needs. As far as the fight has gone it
is very close between the Maine Senator and
General Grant, the former leading the latter
by only four But the ex President it is ad-
mitted on all sides, has already exhausted his
greatest strength, and is not likely to secure
as many of the remaining delegates as his pop
ular rival. Granting. however, that he could
control every delegate yet to be elected, an ut
ter impossibility-he would have only 403, or
just "a more than the all-important number.
In confirmation of this view of the field The
Press is enabled to-day to present the following
table, showing the States that have already
elected in the order of the date of their con-
ventions, the position Of the men chosen and
the States yet to elect, with estimates OF the
latter based upon the most reliable information
obtainable at their respective political centres:
rXrpr,.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11
Talking Across the Country.

Bob Burdette in Burlington Hawkeye.
1t is really pleasant to note as you travel
across the republic from Maine to Colorado,
how the topic of conversation changes at state
lines, just as the expression o. faces and styles
of clothes gradually undergo an alteration.
Down in Maine, when got away from the
coasts, heard lumber and ''the woods" all
the time. The men were sin the woods" or
the man who talked to you had just come out
of the woods. Then you go to the coast, and
everybody fshed, and you dreamed of dorys
and hake and haddock and things you never
heard of before. When you go to Bath you
begin to pick up all manner of ship carpenters
slang Then you come nearer New York, and
commercial travellers filled the air with mer-
camille argot, and as you held your way west
ward, you get into the oil regions of
and Oil City, franklin and Titusville talked
hull wheel aud pipe lines and dry holes and
heavy oils and refinery, and tank and drill
and rigs and walking-beam and derrick and
pump until you could taste oil every time you
talked Then you moved along through
Johnstown and Pittsburgh and heard about
blasts and open hearth furnaces and crucibles
and Bessemer process and rails, wire and in
got until you left them behind and Indiana
was talking to you about slaves and heads and
hoop poles and veneers and hard woods and
quinine and bent wood and wagon timber; and
by-and-by Illinois got your ear and said
"c-o-r-n," and you cross the Mississippi into
Nebraska and you heard man say to neigh
Dor, Ben, where is that timber claim of john
sons?' and you heard Ben reply briefly, '12,
Is. g." and you knew that you were in coun-
try of land, and that eighties and quarter sec
tions, and timber claims and homesteads and
preemptions were to constitute your conversa-
tional pabulum for the next two or three
nt,1 ohaI al 40
to hear assay, and dips and leads, angles spurs
and sinuosities, and claims, and carbonates,
and that is as far west as have been, and
don't know what they talk about beyond there.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11
THE New York Tribune publishes q

THE New York Tribune publishes
careful estimate of 600 delegates thus
far elected to Chicago. 1t assigns 241
to Blaine, 224 to Grant, 81 to Sher-
man, 81 to Edmunds and 13 to Wash
burne. This gives no candidate majority
of the convention, $40 votes. Blaine lacks
13S and Grant 155. In making this esti-
mate the Tribune assigns to Blaine only IA
of the New York delegates and 25 of those
from Pennsylvania, although the Blaine
Club at Washington claims p of the former
and 2S of the latter. The estimate is made
on the supposition that the Chicago conven-
tion will decide that the unit rule cannot be
enforced. Blaine and Sherman estimates
are also given by their respective Washing
ton clubs and Grant estimate made by Mr..
Clapp, editor of the Washington Republi-
can. The Blaine and Grant estimates are
as follows:
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11
Wasted Sentiment.

Considerable sentiment is being wasted in
Hamburg, and the cable dispatches hint
that Bismarck is about to destroy its Hber-
ties. Privileges that were conferred by
Frederick l., Germany's red-bearded Kaisar,
and have been maintained down to this day
in spite of political and social revolutions,
have historical and sentimental value apart
from the benefits they give to the people
who enjoy them; and regret and protest
from the world at their abrogation need not
be wondered at. But as it happens Ham,
burg voluntarily gave up her position as a
free city of the Empire inl1S79, hauled down
her flag, abolished her consular service, and
disbanded her army and navy. She is now
one of the States of the Empire, and sends
three members to the Imperial Parliament.
She retains the management of her local
affairs, and so is 'free'' in the sense that
the States of the American Union are free.
But this local self-government the German
Chancellor does not threaten and probably
has no wish to destroy.
The obstruction of the liberties of Ham
burg'' which Bismarck proposes is simply
the doing away of her privilege of receiving
goods free of duty, which she retained when
she gave up her other privileges; and the
object of doing away witt. it is to unity the
customs system of Germany. In 1912, just
after the terrible fire in which one-third of
the city was destroyed, Hamburg offered to
concede' her free-port rights, but the old
Confederation did not deem the offer worth
accepting. Perhaps she attaches no more
value to them now. They cost her half a
million dollars year in way of tax to the
Empire, and that is burden she will be
very glad to rid herself Of She will be
placed on the same footing, so far as Gus
toms duties are concerned, as all the other
parts of the Empire. That is all. Her lib
critics are not menaced, and she is in as good
estate as at any time since she joined the
North German league in 1866. So we may
read the cable dispatches with dry eyes, Sc
far as the destruction of free cities is con.
cerned.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11
SEMI.ANNUAL STATE CONVENTION
OF
REFORM CLUBS OF MAINE
BuckspOrt, Wednesday and Thursday,
June I'd and Sd, 1880.

The semi-annual Convention of the Reform Clubs
of Maine will assemble at Bucksport June I'd and
3rd, 1880, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
1t is earnes sy hoped that ev club in the State
will be fully represented and let those clubs who
cannot be represented by delegates send reports by
letter to the Convention. 1t is the earnest desire
make this Cow ention the most profitable one ever
held in the State, and to renew our faith and
uphofding of our principles 'Non-poltical, non.
sectaran and non-prosecuting, "Charity for al
and malice towards none.'
The railroads have reduced their rates of fare as
follows:-Maine Central one fare for the roun(
trip to Bangor; Grand Trunk, one fare for rount
trip to connection with Maine Central; Portland &
Ogdensburg one fare-return tickets furnished by
the President of the State Committee; Portland q
Machias Steamboat Co., one fare to Rockland ant
return.
Delegates will call for Convention tickets from
their respective stations except on Portland g. Og
densburg.
GEORGE H. LEFAVOR,
President of State Committee.
JOHN F. STANLEY, Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11

The Charges Against Sherman.
Colonel Moulton telegraphs to the New York
Times an indignant reply to the malicious
attempt of the Times to blacken Mr.. Sherman s
character by innuendo. The following is the
most essential part of the reply
You have undertaken to make your readers
believe that have been engaged in an unlaw-
full undertaking, while you knew, while you
made the statement, that your assumption was
false in every essential particular. and that you
had no evidence to sustain it. Even if you
had produced any evidence that had an in
tereSt in the contract referred to, you knew
that it would have been perfectly lawful for me
to have been so interested. You can be con-
victed Of obtaining stolen private letter, know
ing it to be such, and using it after ascertain
ing the fact that it was stolen. You can be
convicted in the present instance of obtaining
the Brown-Comingore letters from attempted
blackmailers, after an attempt to use them for
backmailing purposes has been made. You
stand convicted, by evidence in your own col
umns, of having made statements which are
not only not sustained by the evidence you pro-
duce, but which are directly dsproved by such
evidence.
1t might be assumed that an editor who dis
regarded the obligations of truth would not
stop at single false deduction, and the fact
sustains the assumption. After attempting to
show that was engaged in government con-
tract, you go further and assume that because
1 was so engaged, therefore Mr.. Sherman was
interested. This is hanging one lie upon
another with recklessness that exceeds all
your former efforts. In order to sustain this
inference, you refer to previous statements in
your paper; that is, to sustain one of your
falsehoods, you produce another statement
equally false. You are, of course, aware that
L refer to what you have published about the
management of Mr.. Sherman's political affairs
| by me, not one word of which is true, and the
aui6apoa ic of hand that kpayv thasa CT To
| ments to be as false as the others. The logic
| of your argument is, however, more contemp-
| tible than your falsehood. The substance of it
| is that Mr.. Sherman is not fit to be President
| because he has a bad brother-in-law, and this
| argument you address to an intelligent public
| as if you believed in it. You are certainly in
| telligent enough to know that your readers
will deride such foolishness, and for this rea-
| son you seek to show that L am Sherman;
| political agent Thus, to save yourself from
| ridicule you resort to falsehood, that CHEAP
refuge of vulgar minds.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11
PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO.,
PORTLAND, ME.

The Executive Committee of the Blaine Club of
Maine, having perfected their arrangements for an
Excursion to Chicago to attend the Republican Ma
tional Convention, make the following announce
ment for the benefit of those Republicans who may
desire to attend and aid in nominating honored
Senator James g. Blaine, candidate for Pres-
dent at the coming election.
A special train the Eastern Railroad will
leave Portland Thursday, May 27th, on the arrival
of the morning train from Bangor arriving in Bos-
ton in for tea. The party will leave Boston
for Chicago direct the same evening by special
tran with Wagner sleeping cars, over the Boston
& Albany, New York Central, Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railways, taking breakfast Fri
day morning at Syracuse, dinner at East Buffalo,
and tea at Cleaveland, arriving at Chicago Satur-
day morning. Ample hotel accommodations have
been engaged for $50 persons at the Gardiner and
Mattson Houses, and rooms will be assigned on the
train to the excursiontists, avoiding confusion on
their arrival Hotel bills $3.50 to So per day.
Fare from Portland to Chicago and return, 500.
Wagner sleeping cars to Chicago, $3.50. Excur-
sionists taken to and from Portland from stations
on Maine Central r. R. at fare; tickets to be
procured at all stations. Persons desiring to go
can have their berths in sleepiug assigned by
enclosing $3.50 to the Treasurer of the Club,
H. S. Osgood Portland. Those wishing to secure
should address the Secretary. j. SWEET Rowe,
Augusta, as early possible. All Republicans are
cordially invited to join the excursion.
j. R. BODWELL, President.
j. SWEET ROWE, Secretary.
Augusta, April %, 1880.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11
National Republican Convention.

A National Convention of the Republican party
will meet at Chicago on Thursday, the Sd day of
June next, at IL O'Clock noon, for the nomination
of candidates to be supported for President and
Vice-President at the next election. Republicans
and all who will cooperate with them in sup
porting the nominees of the party are invited
to choose two delegates from each Congressional
District, four at large from each State, two from
each Territory, and two from the District of Coum-
bia to represent them in the Convention.
j. ID. CAMERON
Chairman National Committee
THOMAS B. KEoGH, Secretary
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11

Boston Traveller: Solon Chase warns
the Greenbackers not to bring their party to
an end by uniting with the Democrats. We
suspect bis warning will be disregarded,
and that the Greenback party will be like
the Lydian monarch, who was "by Solon
cautioned to regard his end" As the ancient
Solon warned in vain, not the less vain will
be the warning of the modern Solon.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11

PHILADELPHIA Press The foundation
pillars and whole framework of the third
term movement were solid Pennsylvania
solid New York and solid South. Solid
Pennsylvania is broken by the revolt of ten
or dozen districts in the interior and the
outskirts of Philadelphia. Solid New York
falls to pieces with the opposition led by
Senators Robertson and Woodin. And the
solid South has lost its solidity in the divi
sion of Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Texas.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY II.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for pubca
ton but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munlcatlons tnat are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11
Death of a Dominion EDITOR,

Hon. George Brown died at Toronto Sunday
morning. Mr.. Browns death was FASTENED,
If not caused, by wound received from a man
who had been discharged from his emp 10y sew
eral months since and who forced his way into
was the proprietor and editor of the Toronto
Globe one Of the best newspapers in the Do
minion, and had been prominent in Dominion
politics.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11

The stories that Marian Evans is pining
away with grief at the death of George
Lewes, and that no more novels from the
pen of George Eliot may be expected, will
have to be revised. The course taken by
Miss Evans strikingly suggests the precipi-
tate widower at whom our sisters have been
poking fun so long. But George Eliot al
ways did have masculine traits.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11

BosToN Transcript: The country at large
is really to be congratulated that several Of
the ablest Republicans in the New York
Senate, who are delegates to the Chicago
conversion, have declared their purpose Of
obeying the wishes of their constituents
disregarding the unit rule, and voting against
General Grant-a part for Senator Blaine
and part for Secretary Sherman. This is
the most encouraging political news re-
ceiyed for long time
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11

NICE state of affairs after Wednesday.
The appropriations for fuel, lights and wa
ter for public buildings will be exhausted,
and Government officers are forbidden by
statute from running in debS in excess Of
the appropriation. That is one of the bless
ings of Democratic Congress.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11

II is we'll to remember that A. B. Morton
just arrested for forgery, is President of the
National Liberal League. Had he been {
church member half the newspapers in the
country would have before now had article:
on the hypocrisy of protesting Christians.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen
Editor. All railway steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11

THERE is little hope of the refunding bill
passing this session. The Democratic ma
jority prefers to waste it's time attempting to
coerce the President.
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11

The dagger to Massachusetts, in the first ta-
BILE indicates the portion of the States total
representation. which is twenty-six, that has
been chosen, and in the second table the por-
tion yet to be elected. In the case of Utah
there will be contesting delegations, the regular
or first convention having selected Blaine
men and the second declaring no preference.
Arkansas is credited to Grant because of in
structions to support him, but Senator Dorsey
is authority for the statement that eleven of
the twelve will vote for Blaine. OF Ohio's
forty-four, at least one-fourth are known to be
for the Maine Senator on the second ballot.
In Pennsylvania he is credited with twenty
five, and in New York with twenty, figures
that, with the positive declarations of Mr.. Nc.
Names at Washington on Tuesday and Messrs.
Woodin, Sessions and Birdsall in New York,
tCgether with other information of private
character in possession of the Press, may be
relied upon as trustworthy The recapitula-
ton above shows the actual strength each can
didate will have on the first ballot. What the
figures will be on the second it is not safe to
Dredict
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11

London has just commenced to paint the
names of streets ON the corner lamps, and a
share of the public growl about it as "another
of them new-fangled American notions
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
DOG NOTICE.

SEC. 1. Every owner or keeper of a dog shall an
nually cause it to registered, described, and
licensed for year. in the Office of the city clerk
by paying therefor to said clerk the of twenty
five cents and shall it to around its neck
q collar distinctly marked with the owners name
and registered number, and shall pay into the city
treasury for such license one dollar.
SEC. 2. Whoever keeps a dog contrary to the
provisions of this ordinance shall forfeit ten dollars
to be recovered on complaint to use for the city.
SEC. 3. All fines and penalties provided in the
preceding sections may be recovered on complaint
before any court of competent jurisdiction in this
city.
SEC 4. All other ordinances relating to licenses
for dogs are hereby repealed.
SEC. 5. This ordinance shall take effect when ap-
proved.
[Approved March 80, 1881
This ordinance will hereafter be strictly enforced.
G. X. BRIDGES,
City Marshal.
April 10th, 1880. apl3dtf
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11
The Charges Against Sherman.

ILLINOIS is the centre of political interest
lust now
The Portland daily press., 1880-05-11

THE English Conservatives indulge in a
rhetoric we had thought peculiar to the
American Greenbackers. Here, for exam
pie, is letter which appeared in the Lon
don Globe. Change the names, and it reads
like a passage from New Era-Leader edi-
tOrial:
'Vindictive and unscrupulous politicians
have succeeded but too well in hoodwinking
feeble-minded and gullible voters. Radicals
and Russophits, Ritualists and Home Rulers,
Bradlaugh and Brammagem, now rejoice to-
gether, and verify they have their reward.
But, sir, leaving this unhallowed copcourse of
atoms to exuberate in the intoxication of its
malicious delight, will ask what, at such q
crisis, is the duty of Conservatives In word,
organization. The burglar is at the door, let
us prepare to meet him. Political dissenters
are leagued with the enemies of religion and
order for the purpose of encompassing the
overthrow of our church and the disintegra-
tion of our Empire. Shall churchmen then
sleep and patriots slumber? Shall we sit with
folded arms and await, as some timid and
weakened Conservatives would have us, the
turn of the tide? No, sir, not for an hour! Let
us arise, and put on our strength, or be forever
fallanp'