Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-28
Fatal Accident.

with stock of goods. Loss 81 900; partially
insured.
Fatal Accident.
JERSEY CITY. n. j., August %. James
Otis of Maine, aged 81, steward of schooner
CANA, fell into the hold last night and was
fatally Injured
Hon. F.. ii. Cove Leaves the Greenback
Party.
Hon. f. II. Cove, chairman of the green
back State committee, greenback candidate
for Congress in the first district in 1873, and
Secretary of the State under Gov Garcelon,
has written the following letter.
BIppEFoRp, August 26, 1880.
Gentlemen of the Greenback State Com
hereby surrender my membership of your
organization and withdraw. Hereafter l
shall act with the republican party. No one
can more sincerely than myself regret the
necessity that compels the step. The origi-
nal end sought through new party was cur
rency reform. Its present aim is 'tO beat
the republican party" The first issue called
thousands out, the second issue sends them
back. Against the will and calmer judgment
of true men, the persistent. tireless democracy
have dragged the greenbaek party into this
false position. l find 1t no longer an indie
pendent organization. Its forces as now d.
rected are one with the Solid South" fac
tor in the struggle for democracy supremacy
OF this party Scion Chase says ''They now
stand upon the hardest kind of a hard money
platform. and the Bourbon rule in the South,
where they have their own way, is a disgrace
to the civilization of any country" A "Solid
- no hnacf nf tho nnrfharn Aamn.
Gratis 1t should be their shame and con-
fusion. 1t is not community of ideas be-
gotten of free discussion. 1t is the harmony
of fear, the unity of terrorism, cemented in
blood. Now we are united by fusion with
this criminal and dangerous Solid South
The young, pure blood and vitality of the
greenback party, is to be transtused into the
form of this dying desperate. | can see
nothing of advancement to greenback
principles in this alliance, so franght with
National peril. / believe that the interests
and the good of the country are best served
by the defeat of the democratic party. That
I may contribute to that end in the most i'm
mediate and brief manner, go to the repub-
lican party. | am yours,
(Signed) +. III. Cow.
Republican Mass Meeting.
There will be a grand republican mass
meeting at Lake Maranacook. Friday, Sept.
Sd, at ] 30 ?. NJ. Speeches by Col. r. S.
Ingersoll. and Gen. Geo. A. Sheridan. A
special train will be run from Portland, Ban
gor, Belfast, Dexter, Skowhegan, Bath and
Augusta, at greatly reduced prices.
Great Demon stratiOn in Portland.
The republican demonstration at City Hall
last night, was one of the greatest-if not the
greatest-meetings ever seen in Portland. At
6 o'clock crowds began to gather. and at Z 30
the hall, stage, galleries and floor were
packed with people. while the stairways and
corridors were filled, and a great outdoor
crowd necessitated an outdoor speech from
Hon. G. 6. Williams of Wisconsin. Mr..
Blaine on his arrival was greeted with cheer
upon cheer and the roar of artillery, and the
cheers were taken up and repeated inside the
building as Governor Davis and Mr.. Blaine
made their way to the platform.
Mr. Blaine devoted the larger part Of hi.
speech TO State issues. When discussing
National affairs he made the following
reference TO the reported census frauds -
The Southern census as now foreshadow ed is a
terrible menace to the peace, prosperity and
dignity of the republic. God forbid that
should charge an innocent man with crime OF
that should indict a whole people for fraud
But the attempt to falsify the census of any
State or any section, for the purpose Of
securing greater strength in the House Of
Representatives and in the Electoral College
than an honest election would give, is a
deadly stab at the very existence of rcpub
lean government. Certain men in the South
according to all the information we can &c
from the Census Bureau, have been engaged
in correcting fraudulent returns whereby {
much larger population is enumerated thar
actually exists. Who these guilty men are
know not. but I feel very sure that th'
crime. whatever may be its extent, did no
originate with the enumerators of the severa
| subordinate districts, and I feel equally sur,