Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-26
POLITICAL.

The enemy is on the retreat. Don't give
him a chance to rest and reform his lines
The verdict of the people is that the demo-
cratic party must die. The solid South can
not save it.
English favorite ballad is-''The old oak
en- barrel, the iron-bound barrel, the mort
gagged old barrel that stood in the hail. ~.
Y Commercial Adrertiser.
The mechanics and workingmen through
out the North are rallying to the support OF
the party which believes in protectlsn 10
American industry.
Whoever else may be weeping over the
present condition of things in the democratic
marty. there isn't a tear in Samuel j. Tildens
eyes.
The democratic party is the enemy OF Ia
Dor. 1t wants to put the laboring men OF
this country upon a level with the laboring
men of Europe.
Suppose death should veto Hancock? Then
William H. English The meanest thing l
can saw of him is &c pronounce his name
MgersoH
Barnum thought he had found republican
s'mare's nest" II turned out to be merely
s.nest" of his own ''mules." Barnum ought
to keep track of his own stock.
The Irish voters are getting their eyes open
to the fact that the democratic party is in
league with the nabobs Of England, and are
deserving the democracy by scores and hun
dreds.
A democratic paper in Richmond, Va,
saws that every business man throughout the
land is rejoicing that the great political con-
test will soon be over. But it does not say
as it might that they rejoice because they
believe it is to result in the triumph of the
republican party and policy.
Mr.. Barnum says the people Of Indiana
were bought by republican money. The
patriotic people of Indiana will resent this
insult in November by rolling up larger
majority for Garfield than they did for Porter
in October.
The next time the democrats employ for
ger they should provide him with spelling
book. man who spells companies COM
panys" will not do, unless the erudite democ-
racy are prepared to go to the country on the
issue that General Garfield does not know
how to spell.
Barnum does not want to have the tradition
al fame of Connecticut to grow dim if he has
the power to prevent it. Wooden nutmegs
and Eastwood hams did well enough for a
side speculation, but forged letters, misinter-
preted dispatches and false charges are what
he relies upon at the present day. There's
millions of 'em.
Secretary Sherman and Senator Edmunds
of Vermont have accepted an invitation to
address MONDAY meeting of New York
merchants some day this week.
If southern democrats accepted the results
of the war with the good faith they boast of
they would do one of two things, which they
have the power and the constitutional right
to do They would abolish negro suffrage
and accept the consequences in a loss of rep
resentation in congress and the electoral
college, or they would cease to prevent by
force and fraud the free and effective exercise
of the suffrage by the negro. They are de-
termined, however, to retain the political
power and deny to the negro who gives it
any share in it.
A personal friend and great admirer of
Gen. Hancock in Washington wrote him two
weeks ago, propounding the following qaes-
ton 'In case of election will you say that
should there be two applicants for the same
position, one who served in the Union Army
and the other in the Confederate Army, all
things being equal. the former should have
the placer" The writer is much chagrired
by reason of Gen. Hancocks failure thus far
to respond.
Congressman Reed, in a recent speech,
said: Think of 500 pure-minded Demo-
Gratis, filed with undying love of the Consti-
tuition and undying hatred of monopoly,
perspring together in the swelter of June
day in Cincinnati, and laboriously putting
into shape the latest wisdom of all the ages,
to have it all knocked into pi by Major Gen
eral who has vague remembrance that the
tariff is q local question which once sprang
up in his native village"
The following is an extract from letter
written by prominent clergyman in Indian
apolis:
1--WE have hurrahed till our threats are
worn through | never saw such a demon
stration of JOY as were made after the cleo
ton. Old men threw up their hats, Rugged
each other, and acted like children. The
democrats are the most disconsolate set YOU
ever saw. pity them; they are absolutely
beart-broken. One prominent lady of that
school said to a knot of US, i am going home
to cry She didn't cry when the Union sol
diers lost battle.
Providence makes all things even. =
We shall have a Governor any State might
be proud Of We shall doubtless have Ben.
Harrison in the U. S. Senate, another man
we are proud of. Hoosierdom is coming up -
In Troy there are employed I,l50 men in
the manufacture of Bessemmer steel rails.
They are paid S725, 900 yearly. The Troy
Times says: The average price per ton of
steel rails is SIS. The tariff on the English
rails is S2S.6 per ton. And yet English rail
is sold here at the sane price as American
Take of the tariff and it stops Bessemer
manufacture. or the difference in the cost of
English and American manufacture comes off
capitalists. off the men who mine the ore and
coal. who work the pig-iron, who convert il
into steel, who roll the rails, off the farmers
who supply the home market created by this
industry, of the railroads and water lines
and the thousands of men they employ in
Transporting the raw material TO the works
ID conveying their products again to their
destination
Answer This.
Did YOU ever know anv nerson IN ba Ill