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The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
Judge Black on Garfield.

[From an Interview in the Philadelphia Press,
Aug. 3Ol
"Judge, you know General Garfield we'll.
Would you object to giving your estimate Of
him?"
81 have no desire to add anything to my pub
hshed letter to Blaine. What said then of
him wasitrue and is true. With regard to the
Credit Mobilier transaction, 1 have said, and
always will say, that I believe that General
Garfield told me the truth about it. He would
not do anything else. watched the develop
ment of the investigation, and I saw nothing
in that to alter my opinion. will tell you,
General Garield's hands were clean in that
transaction, as he has always kept them, but
he unfortunately adopted the false defence of
those who were guilty, and who expected
Oakes Ames to swear them through, instead of
standing on his own true and good defence
and leaving the guilty to their fate. There
was his devotion to party. 1t was urged upon
him as party necessity, and he yielded to
that consideration as he always will His
party demanded the sacrifice, and he made it,
For that reason the Credit Mobilier has not
hurt him with his party, and will not and
ought not firmly believe in General Gar
fields personal integrity, and base my judg-
ment upon an intimate knowledge of his pri-
vate walk and conversation. He has large
sympathy and great humanity; would make
any sacrifice to serve his friend in any honor
able way, but in politics gives to his party the
key to his conscience. He is man of thu
gentlest nature; would not harm a hair of
your head yet, at his party's command he
would help on the oppressive and brutal policy
AGAINST IL, 6<> l<~r.~
the Constitution; knows that the President
has no right to use his sta ding army to police
the polls and dragon the South after fashion
that has disgraced our civilization. heard
mirable argument in the Mulligan case, profess.
ing his ardent devotion to the Constitution, ie-
claring that no officer of the army could
trample on the Constitution without laying
perjury on his soul; and yet he went into the
House at the direction of his party, struck
down the Constitution, and insulted the corpse
by kicking it. There you see fairfield the
man, knowing the right and struggling to do
it, yet driven to wrong by his party, a bad lot
which holds conscience in as little esteem as
its great leader Stevens did. Whenever
hear msn begin to talk about conscience
said Stevens, Il know that he is about to be-
tray his party. Consciencei Bahl' Now, up-
derstand me. There is Garfield, the man who
servant, who will do his party's bidding.
Now, have said enough about General Gar
field, and think there is nothing in what
have said that the public win want to hear"
DO you look upon General Garfield as be-
ing as strong man as his party could have
nominated. Judge?"
intellectually he is its strongest man. and
morally he is the equal of any man in the
party. But you understand that the head of a
party is like the head of a snake-it is wapped
by the body and tail. Now, General Garfield
has very bad tail. He will always be as good
as the party will let him be-no better
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
READ THIS.

Whatever may be thought of the politl-
cal campaign elsewhere, every lover OF
good government and common honesty
should hope for the defeat Of the unholy
political combination i'm Maine which
brought disgrace upon that reputable state
last year. We have heard prominent Dem
ocrats express the same sentiment, their
disgust for the folly Of the Garcelen crowd
overcoming all party feeling. If the Peos
pie of Maine do not rise up and rebuke the
political cut.thr0ats whose Infamous rec
ord caused every son of Maine 70 blush we
snail lose eur faith i'm natural law.-BosToN
HERALD QND.) AUG.7.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
DEMOCRATIC OPINION OF THE
COUNT.OUT.

COUNT.OUT.
There is NO possible way i'm which AlOn-
70 GareelOn can be prevented from maxi
ing himself Governor as long as he lives,
and keeping his precious set of vii
lains i'm this State i'm Council for
life, provided they can secure nom
inati ons for the places, and can find
courage to throw out Republican returns
enough each year to seat their own tools
in the Legislative chamber. Popular Iiber-
ty thus far has had its throat cut i'm liberty
loving New England by a scalpel of Down
East doctor, and nothing but the hope
that the infinite justice of heaven will over
take him, stands between this and the fu-
ture subjectiOn Of the State of Maine to his
dictatorship, if he is brazen enough to con-
tinue this kind of work. There is but one
thing that would meet the case with per-
feet Justice, and that would be the short
shrifi of this man with a great cord from
one of the elns of Augusta. But New Eng
land takes the more tardy, but equally sure
way through the ballot box, and even pup
pet GarcelOn and maestro Pillsbury will
not have assurance to use their power
against one more verdict by the sturdy sons
of Maine, which they will get next Sep
tember.-DEMoCRATIC LOUISVILLE COURIER
JOURNAL ON THE CoUNT-OUT LAST WINTER.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

THE capitalists are being put to severe
straits to find place for their money.
United States four per cents are up in Lon
don to 113. 1t costs three years. interest to
get bond at par. This is kind
of national credit worth talking about, and
it must be attributed to the management of
the Republican party. How long after the
election of Hancock would the finances of
our government remain in this hourishing
condition? During the last Democratic ad-
ministration the United States government
could not borrow money for less than ten
per cent. interest and often had to pay more
than that. Who wants change of our
present sound and healthy financial condi-
tion?
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03


CINCINNATI Gazette: Unhappily, Demo-
of these southern crimes against the fran
chise does not touch the conscience of a
Democratic politician. He cares not for the
protection of the right to vote unless it is to
vote the Democratic ticket. His idea of
freedom of election is to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket, and he thinks all means justi-
fable to defraud all other voters. But are
there not many Democrats, particularly
among the young men, who have not yet
become so enslaved to that party as to fol-
low it aconfederaeywith gigantic crime,
which intends to make the national govern
ment the spoil of thieves and the represen-
tative of the criminal classes?
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

THE American mob is what Colonel
Thomas B. Swan of West Virginia, an old
Confederate soldier, calls the followers of
General Hancock. Colonel Swan, in a letter
declining to run for Congress, says:-I shall
give to the nominees of the Chicago conven-
ton cordial support. recognize in Gen
eral Hancock distinguished public servant
of great worth at the head of the American
mob. If the vexed question of national su-
premacy over State sovereignty is not settled,
when the States holding these views are
again strong we may look for return to
arms. No party seeking to impose these
upon the public mind after the judgment of
Appomattox is safe depository. of power
for the American people. We must have
peace to have national security. We cannot
have either so long as a large and respecta-
BILE part of the people cherish and seek to
enforce these revolutionary views. We
must be all nationality or all State sover-
eighty as taught in the resolutions of '9S
and '99. If the questions are not settled
and the ground is still debatable, the re-
suits that flow from the controversy may at
any time, and will at some time, again lead
to an appeal to arms, because there is no
other tribunal that can in our system settle
so delicate question:"
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

Mr.. ]. B. CHAMBERS, of Texas, has at
last written a letter formally accepting the
GreenbacA nomination for Vice President,
but says that he is still suffering from the
effects of fall he received in getting off a
railroad train, and is too weak to attempt to
address public meetings at present. That
fall is trife to the trip-up he will get in
November. He will then think he has got
under a railroad train,
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
WHY THE SOUTH Is SOLID FOR
HANCOCK.

Consider what Lee and jackson would
do were they alive. These are the same
principles for which they fought for four
years. Remember the men who poured
forth their life blood ON virginia's soil,
and do mot abandon them now. Remem-
Der that upon your vote depends the sue
cess of tho Democratic ticket.-WADE
HAMPTON, AT THE MEETING IN THE INTEREST
OF DEMOCRATIC HARMONY IN VIRGINIA AT
STAUNTON, July 26.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

If had been a candidate and received
a certificate of election to the legislature
when was certain thnt my opponent eb-
tanned more votes than myself, would
sooner cut my hand eff than take the prof
fercd seat. should feel that was taking
what did mot belong me.-JoHN QUINCY
ADAMS ON THE MAINE CoUNr-OUT.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
AN ARGUMENT THAT WEIGHS A
TON.

Here is a Republican campaign docu-
ment i'm a nutshell, that weighs a tom:
Under Republican administration DUR
ing fifteen years of pence, $S42, ,6SO,S36
Of the principal of the National debt has
been paid, while the current annual inter.
est is $4,000, 900 less than at the close
of the war. The Democratic press and
stump speakers might well try to tun-
mel through the Rocky Moustains. with u
hair-pin, ms TO break the force of this
magnificent showing.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
A Word With Greenbackers.

The accusation so frequently preferred
against the Democratic -Greenback alliance
in this State, that it is a union for spoils
alone. and that the only object the two
wings can have in common is the seizure of
official patronage, is always denied but never
disproved by the Fusion papers and speak
ers 1t cannot be'disproved; because it is
true.
Sincere Greenbackers believe in the eleva-
tion of the laboring man, in the amelioration
OF. social conditions, in universal suffrage,
in equality before the law, in free land, in
currency reform. What help to any of
these objects can they expect to get from
tho Democracy? What is there in the his
tory or the present professions of that politi-
cal organization to lead them to look to it
for aid? Every one of the National Green
back doctrines except that of imitation of
the currency it has always opposed; and
to-day, willing as it is to make any sort of
promises in order to gain votes, it ignores
the currency issue in its national platform.
In that platform it reaffirms all it's old po-
litical heresies, and declares that it stands
now where it always stood.
Greenbackers who were once Republicans
can have no sympathy, unless they are
apostates from the faith which they formerly
held, with the objects which the Democracy
is formed to promote, and do have the live
liest interest in the defeat of those objects.
They must know that aid given to Fusion in
Maine can only help the Democratic party
and can only hurt the Republican party.
The so-called Greenback party can be nei-
ther made nor marred by their action. See
ing this, what course will they pursue?
This question we address to Greenbackers
who were once Republicans, andsto it we in
vite their honest and careful consideration.
With the bulk of the Greenbackers in this
State, the men who went into the new
party with the intention, avowed or secret,
to turn it to the benefit of the Democracy,
we have nothing to do and to them nothing
to say. Our appeal is to Republican Green
hackers,
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

will tell you who I think the Republi-
cans should nominate, and who consider
their strongest man; he is n true mnn, a
man OF principle an honest man, and
would make good President, for us all.
Personally, consider him the best man
you conld nominate. refer to Gen. James
A. Garfield, of Ohio.-THoMAs A. HENDRICKS,
DEMoCEATIo CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT IN
1879
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

THE Argus is still bowling Justify for
Plaisted. Prohibition, and the Protestant
succession. AS comic paper it is fast
coming to rival Puck 1t only needs the
cuts-and those will be supplied in the re-
port of the Fusion vote on the 18th of Sep
tember.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03


IRoNIcAL observation by the Providence
Journal, commended to those who attend
the Democratic rally tonight: There was
an individual known as ''Beast'' Butler. a
wall-eyed, bandy-legged tyrant, coward
and thief, who looted plate chests in New
Orleans and hung better men than himself,
who got up the back pay grab and mingled
the funds of the national asylum for dis
abled soldiers with his own private account,
and who, in short, was the embodiment of
all that was mean, impudent and diabolical
in bis public and private career. But he
has passed away, or rather, he never was,
and in his place we have the eminent states
men, brave soldier and pure patriot, Gen.
B. F. Butler, of Massachusetts.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

A STUFFED census and fraudulent ballot
are the only distinct and well defined princi-
pies of the Democratic party. In the back
ground may be easily seen the cause that
Lee and Jackson fought for, with pyramids
of Confederate claims.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
soLoN CHASE ON FUSION.

The old BOurbons have visions Of Ham
cock and glory-that is, n pull mt the public
teat, and they have agreed with a few
trading Greenbackers TO divide the enstom
houses and post-OMces. hat is the end
and beginning of fusion i'm Maine. n that
nest of eggs does hatch out, il will be
nOndescriDt brood.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

The renewed energy of the Democratic
party Is but the spasmOdic effort that
Presages death. From this national
struggle ii will fall back, a defeated, dis
cordant and hopeless minority. The hope
OF federal patronage gone, its local SUI
Premacies cannot long be maintained.
This rs 10 be desired, for the way TO cur
rency reform lies across the grave OF the
Democratic party. To enter its ranks is
TO take its name. To take its name is 10
assume the vindica,ion of its evil past
e. H. COVE.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
TOURISTS AND STRANGERS

Coming to Portland should visit the Observatory on
Munjoy Hill. From the cupola may be Seen the en-
tire city, the Ocean to the horizon. Casco Bay,
and with the powerful Telescope mounted in the
cupola the hotels on Mts. Washington. kear.
sarge and Pleasant NAV be distinctly seen.
The views here said to be unsurpassed for beau
ty and variety by any in the world Congress street
cars pass every ten minutes. au1O diff
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
The Maine Issue.

Last winter an attempt was made here in
Maine to falsify the acknowledged result of
the State election, to, ignore the will of the
people as signified by the ballot. to shut out
from the seats to which they were chosen
thirty-seven Senators and Representatives,
to seize apd administer the State govern
ment. The promoters Of this wicked at
tempt to overthrow popular government and
the freedom of elections first sought to
achieve their object by resort to the methods
OF the criminal lawyer who seeks to secure
the discharge of client, whose guilt is evi-
dent to all men, because of flaw in the in
dictment. But the flaw could not be found,
and so the fellows who had the canvassing
OF the vote, took up bolder practices, and
entered upon forgery and fir raud and system
attic fabrication of election returns, in order
to gain their end. Their progress in crime
was amazingly rapid Starting out as sneak
thieves they became, in one short month,
accomplished burglars. This rapid prog
ress through all the degrees of larceny, this
tropically sudden blossoming of the pick
pocket into the highwayman, shows an un-
expected and most deplorable aptitude for
thieving.
The question is whether this knavish
sharpness shall be approved or condemned.
The men who attempted the miscount are
on trial. They have been nominated for
important offices, and are endorsed and
supported and upheld in all their misdeeds
by the political organization which has put
forth Gen. Plaisted as its candidate for
Governor. A vote for him is voice in ap-
proval of them; and the approval of them is
the justification of the chicanery of last
Winter and long farewell to honest elec
tions in Maine. If the voters of this State
desire to be cheated out of their ballots, to
have elections decided in the council-cham-
Der instead of at the ballot-box, they will
show that by electing Plaisted. But if they
wish to stamp out fraud, to make forever
impossible repetition of the attempt to dis
regard the will of the people and reverse the
verdict of the ballot-box like that attempt
made by the Garcelon gang, they will vote
for Davis. The choice is now before them.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 3.

We do no read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publca-
ton but guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munIcatIons tnat are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

THE New Orleans Picayune consoles it.
self with the thought that the Democratic
party accepts Ben Butler "wilhout compro-
mise on it's part as regards its doctrines"
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
Will confer favor upon by demanding credentials
OF every person claiming to represent our journal.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
APPOINTMENTS
HON. THOMAS II. REED

WILL SPEAK AT
EAST BALDWIN, Friday Sept 3,
CAPE ELIZABETH. Saturday, Sept. 4.
NORTH HARPSWELL, Monday, Sept. 6.
DEERING TOWN HOUSE, Tuesday. Sept. 7.
NAPLES, Wednesday, Sept. 8.
HARRISON. Thursday, Sept. 8.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
Democratic ranks. and Gibraltar in his rear
THE FUTURE OF THE NEGROES.

on the day Of election.
THE FUTURE OF THE NEGROES.
from the Meridian missy Mercury. DEM
We would like to engrave prophecy on
stone to be read of generations in the future:
THE negro in these States win be slave again,
or cease to be. His sole refnge from extinc-
tion will be in slavery to the white man.
MORE TO THE SAME EFFECT.
from the Richmond Dispatch Dem.).
Lee and stenewall jackson represented in
the late war in this country the cause that was
upheld IN the war OF the Revolution by WASH
ing and Hamilton.
NEW DEFINITION OF LOYALTY.
[From the Mobile Register. DemN
Wade Hampton uttered nothing that should
alarm the most supersensitive loyalist. when
he made the remark attributed to him.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

SENATOR WALLACE is reported to have
given up prophesying that Hancock will
carry Pennsylvania.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
Maine Republicans Confident.

How an AggressiveIC Campaign is Being
Pushed-The Troubles Of the Inharmo-
NOUS Fusionists-The Greenbackers to
Nominate an Electoral Ticket-Senator
Blaine Sure of Republican Success
Campaign Gossip.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

SENATOR LAMAR, of Mississippi, is to
take the stump in Indiana for few speeches
for the Democratic solid-South cause.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

New YORK Tribune: 1t is clear that the
better impulses of the sincere Greenbackers
are making themselves felt in Maine. Gen
eral Weaver's visit to Alabama, and his ex-
perience of Democratic frauds, made a good
investment for himself, for his party, and
for the people of the North. A letter from
staff correspondent in Maine contains the
assurance, embodied in the statements of
prominent Greenbackers, that new
straight-out electoral ticket will be nomina-
ted at the approaching Convention: 1t is
even rumored that Solon Chase, the apostle
of Maine Greenbackism, favors taking this
course after the State election. 1t need
hardly be said that the nomination of Wea-
yer and Chambers ticket will doom the Fu-
sion electoral ticket to overwhelming defeat
in November. The figures of 1e79 and not
hose of 1876, must be cited on this point,
because the vote of last year was the largest
that has been cast in the State. The total
vote in 1876 was only 117,041; that in 1879,
13S, 1886. Something like this large vote is to
be expected this year, because practically
the same contest is continued If there is
any falling off, it will be on the Fusion side,
number of their disguised voters being
likely to stay at home. If the vote of last
year could be exactly repeated in November,
except that the Greenback and Democratic
voters we're polled, the Fusion ticket would
have majority of only 492 votes. But it is
impossible that that vote should be repeated.
The Fusion ticket is probably defeated in
Maine without the nomination of third
electoral ticket. Let third ticket be put
in the field, and the defeat must be over
whelming.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

AUSTIN BLAIR. Michigan's war governor,
who went into the Greeley movement of 1872,
and now goes into the Garfield movement of
1880, gives the following reason for support
ing the Republican Presidential candidate:
prefer General Garfield, in the first place,
because know he is true and tried states
man, and know what his policy is. l op-
pose General Hancock because don't know
what he would do; but looking at the plat
form of his party, l am satisfied if he at
tempted to do what want done he will
have his party about him and will not be
able to accomplish it. Because prefer the
position of the Republican party to the posi-
tion of the Democratic party, and because l
prefer General Garfield to General Hancock,
l mean to vote for Garfield and give my
voice and whatever / can do to assist him in
this campaign. l think it will be best for
the interests of my country, best for the in
terests of all concerned.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
A. G. BRADsTREET ESQ.,,

WILL SPEAK AT
so. DURHAM, Monday Evening, Sept. 6.
BRUNSWICK, (Grovestown District) Tuesday
Sept T.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
State Election, Monday, September 18TH
For Governor,
DANIEL r. DAVIS.

FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
For Electors at Large.
JOSEPH S. .WHEELWRIGHT, of Bangor.
IRA H. FOSS, of Saco.
First District-ELISHA H. JEWETT.
Second District-OTIS HAYFORD.
Third District-EDWIN FLYE.
Fourth District-LEWIS B. JOHNSON.
Fifth District-SEWARD B. HUME.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES TO CONGRESS-.
First District-THOMAS B. REED,
Second Dsstrict-WILLIAM ?. FRYE.
Third District d. LINDSEY.
Fourth District-CHARLES A. BOUTELLE.
Fifth District-SETH L. MILLIKEN.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
SOLID SOUTH.
WHAT THE MEN WHO LIVE THAR
HAVE TO SAY.

papers on Southern Loyalty-Southern
Reasoning Against the New York Dry
Goods Argument-What the South
Seeks-No Place for Republicans or
Greenbackers, Southern or Northern.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

MEANING OF A DEMOCRATIC RES
TOKsATION.
s'We would like to engrave a prophecy
ON stone to be read of generations i'm the
future. The negro in these States will be
slave again or cease TO be. His sole refuge
from extinction will be in slavery 10 tie
white man.-MERIDIAN (MIss.) MERCURY.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
HON. WIN. III. GIRsON

of Ohio,
WILL SPEAK AT
BRIDGTON. Friday Afternoon, Sept. 3.
SEBAGO LAKE, Saturday Afternoon, Sept. 4.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03

BRIDGTON. Friday Afternoon, Sept. 3.
SEBAGO LAKE, Saturday Afternoon, Sept. 4.
HON. II. G. HORR
of Michigan
WILL SPEAK AT
BRIDGTON, Friday Afternoon, Sept. 8.
HOLLIS GROVE, Saturday Afternoon Sept. 4.
SACO, Saturday Evening, Sept. 4.
GRAY, Wednesday Afternoon, Sept 8.
CUMBERLAND, Wednesday evening, Sept. 8.
PORTLAND, Thursday, Sept. 8,
SACCARAPPA, Friday, Sept. 10.
PROF. q. w. ATHERTON
of New Jersey
WILL SPEAK AT
NAPLES, Wednesday Evening, Sept. 8.
HARRISON, Thursday Evening, Sent. 9.
oIlsFIELD, lMeeting House Hill Tuesday after
noon. Sept. z.
GEN. CHAS. H. GROsVENOR
of Ohio
WILL SPEAK AT
FREEPORT, Tuesday, Sept. z.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-03
County Nominations.

ANDROsCoGGIN COUNTY.
Senators-Jeremiah Dingley Jr., Auburn
George Parcher, Leeds
Commissioner-A. d. Bailey, Auburn.
Treasurer Alexander F. Merrill, Lewiston.
Register of Probate-Nathan W. Harris. Auburn.