Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-11
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political parties engaged in the strife. Dur
ing the past week both the Democrats and
Greenbackers have redoubled their exertions
in making aggressive war on Blaine and his
followers, and as result the break which the
Republicans SO gleefully anticipated among
the Greenbackers has not yet occurred,
Weaver, although refusing to speak
from the same platform with
Butler, has stifened the backs
CT the Greenbackers; and as the Democrats
are solid in support of the Fusion candidate,
the Republicans are now not as confident of
victory as they were week ago. If the
meeting of the Fusionists and Democrats at
Bangor on Saturday is criterion, it is plain,
as the Democratic leaders to-day claim, that
the Republicans can not carry the State.
Over twenty thousand people alone were
present from the surrounding towns.
Both sides prophesy sure victory, the
Republicans claiming they will have all the
way from three to ten thousand majority.
The latter figure by cool headed men compe-
tent to judge is considered preposterous, in
esmuch as last year the Republicans failed
to get majority against the same forces
now arrayed against them. Special tele-
grams personally from leading editors of
Maine have been received by the Boston
Herald relative to the probable re-
suit, and the same are conflicting,
as might be expected from men who base
their calculations in a measure on their re-
spective political preferences and prejudices.
The Bath Times claims Frye's election to
Congress to be conceded by three thousand
over Fogg, the leading member of Governor
Garcelon's council last year, and that Davis
would have ten Thousand majority. The
Rockland Courier predicts Murch's defeat
in the Fifth district, and the election of Mil
liken to Congress. The Fairfield Journal
thinks the prospect of the election of Re-
publican congressman in the third district
is very favorable, and the Somerset Report
err thinks Davis will carry the district by
eighteen hundred The Biddeford Times
claims the first district as largely Republi
can. The Piscataquis Observer claims that
Reed Republican) will 60 to Congress by
four hundred, and Davis will have one thou
sand msiority. The Kennebec Jour-
nal elects Davis and the congress-
man in the Third district by at least
three thousand. The Lewiston Jour-
nal claims the Republican majority in the
Second district will be $500. The Bridge
water Neus and the Waterville Neps are
more moderate, and claim the plurality of
Davis will be from 1900 to 5000. If the
estimates of the rabid Republican journals
relative to the Congressional districts are to
be considered, they would carry the State by
at least IL, 900. But when their estimates in
this regard are compared with the majority
they expect from Davis, they show the in
consistent and preiudiced manner in which
they make up their majorities on paper.
The Fusion and Democratic journals,
on the other hand, prophesy the defeat
of the Republicans. The Bangor Com
nerci0l, one of the best journals in the
State, says: sit is certain that at no time
during the progress of the present political
campaign have the prospects from the stand
point of the opposition to the Republican
party appeared so promising as at present.
ALI the resources of campaign unequaled
in desperation on the Republican side have
failed to turn pack the current which has
set steadily against them from the
first. A canvass of number of representa-
tive towns in this county and district, made
by careful men, upon the request of the
Daily Commercial, with instructions to give
the benefit of the doubt in all cases to the
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gain over last years vote for the Fusionists.
It is the Judgment of the most conservative
of our political managers that We shall re-
elect Congressman Ladd by from five hun
dred to one thousand majority, carry our
whole county ticket by at least five hundred
majority, and if the counties west of the
Kennebec do equally well with those east,
elect General Plaisted as governor by five
thousand majority"
The Machias Union claims the Fifth dis
trict will elect Murch to Congress, and will
give Plaisted two thousand majority. The
Maine Standard, of Augusta, predicts the
election of Plaisted by from three to six
thousand, and that Philbrick, Fusionist, will
60 to Congress, and asserts if money was
not being illegitimately used by the Repub-
icans, and fair ballot could be had. Plais-
ted would carry the State by tremendous
majority. Prominent Democrats of Maine
predict the election Of Plaisted by close
vote.