Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-10-25
Political.

The boom burst on the prairies of Ohio
and Indiana.
Confidence will not carry the election, but
hard work will.
Glorious Old -Man-Afraid-o of his Platform is
the Superb's full title.
The October drought is felt most by demo-
Gratis, but dryer November is before them.
The latest reputation of the democrats is
their abandonment of their own platform.
The portrait of Abraham Lincoln was
Missed at Hancock meeting in Philadelphia
this week.
The democratic roorback is roaring through
the land. There will be one day now till
election.
| Labor and capital unite in supporting the
republican plank of protection for American
| industries.
Prayer is the only hope for the debilitated
democracy; yet they forsake prayer and be-
| take themselves to forgery.
Indiana is laughing at Landers. By mis-
take he voted for Porter, and insisted on hav-
ing the error rectified, but was told that the
voter was required to be able to read his vote,
so it had to go as cast.
| A depatch in the New York Times from
Catskill, New York. says: The Hon. Lewis
Barker of Maine, delivered the best speech
of the campaign to a large audience at the
| Opera-house this evening""
1t is now quite certain that the efforts OF
the northern democratic leaders to bring
about a com promise in Virginia between the
two democratic factions have CO me to naught
and that election day will find two Hancock
electoral tickets in the field.
Truth, the new democratic paper in New
| York, demands the withdrawal of Mr.. Grace
as the candidate of that party for mayor of
the city because, as it alleges, his running
| will cost the democracy of that State from
| O,0OO to &c, 900 votes.
| A letter from New York says republican
meetings have been crowded with laborers
who listen indifferentv to any class of ques-
tions till the tariff comes to be discussed,
when, without regard to nationality, they be-
gin to applaud and call tor more on that sub
ject.
One lesson of the Indiana victory should
be applied here, namely, that there is just as
much to be gained by a strong organization
in democratic counties as in republican coun-
ties. There has been too much dispos ition
in the past to let the democrats have their
own strongholds. IN Tribune.
A well-known gentleman of this city, en-
gagged in manufacturing, and whose goods
are sold in Europe and England as well as
all over this country, made the following as
| sertion, in the course of conversation the
other day: ''If the democrats carry the day
in November, shall have to sell my goods
thirty-three per cent less than am selling
them now, and my T. en- will have to work
thirty-three per cent cheaper than they do
now." He is a ''stalwart' but spoke simply
from business point of view-LoreH Cour-
Ter.
The exodus of democratic voters from their
old party to the republican ranks goes on
apace, and we could name many a man here
IN Lowell who has announced his intention
of voting for Garfield, who has never voted
integration of the Irish element Of the party
is even more marked here than we had dared
to anticipate. On Tuesday last four Irish
voters applied for tie chance to parade this
evening with the republicans, saying that they
were going to vote the republican ticket this
fall. They will he seen in line tonight, car
rying Garfield torches. The opposition to
. a change permeates all ranks. Said one
well-to-do citizen of foreign extraction yes-
terday, g own $4,000 worth of manufac-
turing property. Why should vote for
change from the good times of to-day?"-
Said another 'Bedad, business is good
enough ~ith me now. l can't afford to risk
a change" Even job-wagon driver an
nounced his conversion from Hancockism to
Garfieldism. on the ground that he is now
busy. and cannot afford to try any experi-
ments with his means of livelihood. The
disease" as the democrats call it, is as
prevalent as the epizootic.-LoreH Courier.
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