The Portland daily press., 1880-06-26
For Governor,
DANIEL r. DAVIS.
The Significance of the Cincinnati

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The Cincinnati nominations, respectable
in themselves, are most unfortunate in
their supporters. Not only are they the
nominations of the Democratic party, an
organization that was driven from power by
the people of this country twenty years ago,
and that by its unwise and unpatriotic
course since has confirmed the distrust in
which it was held, but they are the nomina-
tions of the worst portion of the party.
The unrepentant rebels of the South and
the impenitent thieves of New York joined
to make the ticket and will work for it's sue
cess. The chief of Tammany, which has for
years fattened upon the greatest and the
richest city of the Union, and the chief of
the White Leaguers--the emperor of that
'Invisible Empire which has terrorized
the Southern States since 1866, and struck
down liberty of action and freedom of opin-
ion there, which has silenced the voice of so
many of their citizens and stayed and
MANNED the hands of so many voters who
were reaching to the ballot box-haye joined
forces and ''are moving on Washington"
The Union General who has been put at
the head of the allied forces would have
been quick as most of his comrades to dis
Germ the meaning of the combination in the
storm and stress of the Rebellion, and his
batteries would have been :urned on the
conspirators in his rear as they faced the
open and armed rebels in his 'front.' But
the wiles and stratagems of politicians are
not those he has been educated to meet
At West Point they do not teach men to
guard against those. Uneducated in the
administration of affairs. unfamiliar with
if not to despise the slow and eau
tious methods of civilians and to scorn
their quick apprehension of the popular will
and unhesitating Difference to it, he is as
unfit depositary of the executive power as
could be found Admirably fitted to COM
mand an army corps, perhaps equal to the
command of an army, he has proved himself
possessed of none of those traits which
would qualify him for the proper discharge
of the duties of the high office to which he
dSplItS. "A UIdVc anu ShIlilul SOlulcl, uc Has
never expressed an intelligent opinion upon
nor shown lively interest in the questions
concerning political government, the tariff,
the currency, and the other issues upon
which the people are divided and political
parties make their fight. If elected, he
would, recognizing his own inexperience,
be guided in his opinions and acts by the
men who made him President. The old
Democratic party would shape the one and
guide the other. Those who wish for the
success of that party, and for the triumph
of policy that, repeatedly rejected by the
people, had been pertinaciously clung to
by a faction, will vote for General Hancock.
Those who distrust that policy, who have
fought it for years, and who have again and
again saved the country from the humilia-
ton and misery which its adoption would
surely bring, will throw their vote for thai
representative of our highest thought and
culture and endeavor and achievement, for
the man who not only fought for the cause
of the Union on the battlefield, but so ma
terially aided in confirming the results OF
the conflict and placing upon the statute
book of the Nation the great laws which
mark and make operative the victories Of
the Union arms,-for the statesman and sol
dier, General James A. Garfield