Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-23
Political.

left their party since the election
Hancock has wrestled with the tariff ques-
ton twice and been thrown each time
Garfelds district gave majority of IL, 121
For man so entirely used up this will do
Vote against party that begins to break
its pledges before the campaign is over
Cannot Gen. Hancock be coaxed TO write
another letter? A reply to Gen. Grant, for
instance.
Each day adds hundreds to the number of
New York city democrats who have come out
for Garfield.
The democrats have an issue at last. They
are seid for the reputation Of their own
platform.
Wade Hampton has been stepped on BY
John Sherman. and gives a rebel YELL
Brooklyn Union (Rep.)
! Official returns in Ohio make the republic
can plurality 1899 for Governor, and 49,
O4I for Judge of the Supreme Court.
| The workingman who is shouting for the
reduction of his own wages still stays in the
background.
| Landers, the late democratic candidate for
Governor of Indiana says he will never again
have anything to do with politics.
J. B. Sargent. heretofore an influential
democrat, has come out for Garfield and Ar
thur.
Democratic chorus over the tariff for rev.
enue only" resolution: ''Alas. we didn't
know it was loaded.'
Mcclellan will make three speeches in
New York before eleetion-prOvided he gets
there and the enemy is not there with twice
his numbers.
The democrats call it a business scare"
That's just what it is. The business men are
scared "A tariff for revenue only" did it,
Ner Harea Journal.
What saddens Gen. Hancock is the treat
ment Mr.. English is receiving from his
friends. He feels that it will be his turn
next.
The one hundredth and Ninth Pennsylva-
MIA Regiment, which belonged to HancOck's
corps, recently took vote, which stood two
hundred and nineteen for Garfield, nine for
Hancock and six for Weaver.
We have yet to hear of the first democrat
ic candidate for Congress in the South who
approves of Hancocks letter on rebel claims.
Not one of them dare indorse it,-Troy
Times.
The Hon. Gilbert De La Martyr was buried
very deeply, the official vote for Congress
man in his district being: Peele, republican,
1850; Byfeld, democrat, 1896; De La
Matyr, greenbacker. =, 1856.
Gov. Porter predicts that Indiana will give
Garfield majority of $4,000 in November,
and believes the State las been added perma-
nently to the republican ranks.
/ A tariff for revenue only can be ''incident-
ally protective" to nobody save the foreign
manufacturers. Anybody who says it can be
to manufacturers in this country, either does
not know what he is talking about, or else he
tells what isn't so.
| The New York Tribune says that we'll
known shipping merchant of that city, who
is staunch democrat, subscribed $1,000 to
the republican campaign fund Tuesday, and
sent his Chez, for that amount to the repub
!
He says that for business reason he cannot
afford to have change.
Six thousand working men in the Mahon-
ing Valley, of Ohio issued an address to
their fellow workingmen throughout the
State, in which they say 1.-THE mills and
furnaces are running full tilt. We have
steady work and good wages. Why should
we vote for changer"
| The tariff cards are winning over to the
republican ranks thousands of democratic
workingmen. Commenting upon these de-
sertions The Syracuse Standard says ''The
talk ofone intelligent workingmant to anotheris
the best kind of campaigning, and Garfield
and Arthur are being greatly benefited by
| it"
eve must have another subscription from
you now to help our campaign fund; we
need it even more now than we did for Indi-
ana, you know" Such was the democratic
appeal to a prominent merchant the other
day. "Not one penny more,'' was his reply;
81 may give money to nurse the sick, but l
am not such fool as to throw away my
money trying to resurrect the dead"
When the Hancock boom goes up trife
the business boom goes down; same as dur
ing the war, rebel victory was a business
disaster. The similarity between rebel
victory and democratic victory is so decided
that spinning-jenny appreciates it.
William II. English, kicked out of the
treasury for committing fraud. is picked up
by the democrats and made second on the
the ticket to illustrate the ideas of their party
on civil-service reform. As an illustration it
is not easily excelled.
Hancock is a good man weighing two hun
dred and fifty pounds. English has the most
odous reputation as a skinflint to overcome"
| The Democratic candidates as characterized
by that leading Democratic organ, the New
York Sun.
General News.
1t is supposed that all who were on board
| the steamer Athena (wracked near Hollapd