Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-22
POLITICAL.

Political.
Republicans rejoice, but don't cease to
work.
Gen. Arthur talks but little and does
great deal.
Senator Cameron says Pennsylvania will
give large republican majority.
Just say English to a democrat if you
want to see an incipient case of hydrophobla-
Senator Wade Hampton of South Carolina,
insists upon turning himself into repubii-
can campaign document.-Ha Washington Post,
! (Dem.)
The Hoosiers remember how Lee and
Jackson would have voted if they mad been
alive, and voted on the other side.
Hancocks notion about the Tariff being "a
local matter may be that it doesn't affect
! inhabitants of the asteroids. He has been
''seeing stars" lately.
| A prize of so, coo might be safely offered
to any Pennsylvania born and bred boy OF
sixteen who could prove that he knew so lit
tie about the Tariff as Hancock does.
Wade Hampton bad better select some
wishes to make political capital out of cor
respondence.
! No republican should forget that business
stability for four years can be secured by en-
ergetic work for Garfield and Arthur the
coming twelve days.
On Tuesday morning the New York Sun,
speaking of Indiana and Ohio, said If both
those States go for the republicans, Garfield
will be elected in November" And this
seems to be about the size of it.
What the democrats really want is Tariff
that will protect them against ''the crude ma
terial' imported into their campaign by the
commander of Governors Island.
w. W. Perry of the Camden Herald, says :;
1--WE give up the State as lost to the opposi-
ton, knowing that Scion Chase and his fol-
lowers have already drawn off enough to
elect the republican electors
Bill English says the fault rests with Hen
bricks and Landers, and Hendricks and Lam
ders retort by declaring that English is the
Jonah who must be cast overheard.
Tammany Hall and Irving Hall have final
ly agreed upon division Of local officers
and have placed in nomination for Mayor
William r. Grace of Irving Hall and the
eral organizations.
The unavoidable coercion of lower wages
if "a tariff for revenue only is adopted
this is the all-powerful coercion" that is
bringing manufacturing operatives by the
thousand into the republican ranks.
voter who has wavered writes to the
Troy Times: Wade Hampton challenged
John Sherman to fight a duel. This straw
shows that the .'solid South in the person
of her most representative man, is still bar
barian. l shall vote for Garfield"
The Methodist Conference at Rockford,
ILL.,, recently passed series of resolutions
declaring that pastors should not change their
charges until after election, so that several
thousand votes might thus be saved to the
republican party.
Some ribald person posted upon the door
post of the democratic headquarters in Phil
adelpha, the other day: ''This place to let at
1929 per annum." The disposition to crowd
the mourners seems to be widespread and
rampant.
Secretary Thompson says the republicans
will carry Indiana by an increased majority
in November. and there is not democrat in
the land who will bet a cent against that
prediction. English is not the sort of a man
to spend his money on forlorn hope, and
unless money is spent the present. democratic
vote will dwindle.
A citizen of Lynn during recent trip to
England had his eyes opened on home mat
tiers in a rather curious way. He was travel
ing in company with an Englishman, who
was exulting in the prospect of the election
of Hancock. The American expressed some
doubt of it, but the Englishman was conf
dent. and said that Hancock meant free
trade. "Give us Hancock, and we will have
free trade, and with free trade we will give
you six months TO run your factories. We
: can hire men for 80 cents day, and we can
shut up all your factories in SIX months"
The American does not look upon such a
state of affairs with complacency. and is hard
at work to disappont his English friend and
sympathizers.-Lynn ITEM.