Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-28
THE FIGHT IN MAINE.

Blaine M0Eiag q Desperate FDht-H0aU the
Situation Looks for HIS Opponents.
Mr.. Stilson Hutchins, editor Of the WASH
ington Post, and member of one of the
Democratic national committees, and who is a
shrewd observer of political movements, has
been in Maine looking over the field of opera.
tions. Mr.. Hutchins writes to his paper as
follows:
The situation in Maine is not Ineligible to
an outside observer, and, to confess the truth,
the more one attempts to study it on the spot
the less he knows. The Greenbackers have
are expected to cast nearly all the votes. The
candidate for governor is Greenbacker of i'm
mediate Republican antecedents. 80 are three
out of the five Congressional candidates. Of
the other two, DR.. Ladd has been Democrat up
to two years ago, while Gen. Samuel J. Au-
deraon, in the Portland district, is still a Dem
ocrat, and the only man on the State ticket
who has been nominated as such and runs as
such. do not mean by this statement to cast
any reflection upon Mr.. Ladd, whom consid-
or one Of the best men in Congress, and whose
Democracy Is none the less reliable because he
is more closely identified with the Greenback
element. Twill state the facts.
Notwithstanding all this, the Greenback ele-
ment of the opposition does not enter into the
Contest Will tuo VAgOI anu neaI Cluebs eApeCteu
of them. A good many hang back, and while
they do not oppose the ticket they do not give
it the support SO freely yielded to Smith last
year. Taken altogether, do not doubt that
there is at least 1000 majority against the Re-
publican party in Maine nor that Plaisted
would be elected by fully that vote if every
body who pretends to be opposed to Repub-
licanism pulled squarely together. What is
called 1.-THE State steal" by Mr.. Blaine and
ofboro ia Sot tho cauao of fhin hanoiuo honb
The Republican fusionists believe that Smith
was fairly elected last year, and that Corporal
Davis was the man who was stolen in ; and
my judgment is that the result of the revolution
led by Blaine and Chamberlain, has weakened
| the Republicans rather than helped them. Ev-
erybody in Maine knows that bribery was the
agent and treachery the means by which the
great Republican victory of 1879. 80 was achiey-
| ed, and good many honest men who voted
| for Davis last year will not vote for him this
time.
There is as little doubt in my mind that
Maine could greatly stimulate and aid the
Hancock cause, as that it can do nothing to
retard it. Maine is not expected to give he1
electoral vote to Hancock and English. But
If abe should serve notice by the election OF
Plaisted that she intended to, it would OF
course occasion stampede in Republican
circles. If Garfield could not carry Maine
what would be the use of spending 100000 in
Indiana for him, So it is clear that Mr.. Chase
might aid, while he cannot retard, the progress
of the Democratic party at large.
There il, however, better feeling to-day
than there was week ago, and if the election
were to come off tomorrow, Maine would cleo,
Plaisted and four out of five Of the opposition
candidates for Congress. There is no good
reason why this result should not be assured ir
the three weeks yet left to work, rather thar
! threatened