The Portland daily press., 1882-08-28
Campaign Notes.

T. H. Murch, M. G. has been making speech
in Westerly, r. I. He seems disinclined to face
the music easterly,-Belfast Journal
1t is the constitutional duty of the Governor
to nominate and with "the advice and con-
sent of the Council to appoint" 1t is The con-
stitutional duty of the Council to refuse to con-
firm when they consider the nomination an un-
suitable one Any nomination made to punish
a faithful officer by supplantipg him, is an I'M
suitable one. The Council did its duty nobly
in defending Judge Libbey. The people will
endorfe their course.-O1ford Democrat.
The truth is the Council has invariably as
scented to the Governors appointments, except
when such nominations conficted with the very
proper rule which the Council laid down for
their government, to wit: "No removals from
office for political reasons merslyv To this
rule they have rigidly adhered, aud all OF Gov.
Plaisted's troubles have come upon him be-
cause he has been determined to disregard this
ruie.-Belfast Journal.
A Portland dispatch to the Wing says rela-
tive to the claim that letters were received
from prominent Republicans throughout the
State indorsing the so-called Independent Re
publican movement, that diligent inquiry failed
to ascertain the name OF one. Inc mountainous
elicit nothing but amusement. No importance
is attached to the movement. The meeting was
SO ret, and nobody is allowed to know where
it was, or who attended
The sophistication of ideas in Governor Plais
tsds letter of acceptance, in the light of Capt.
Boutelle's able speech, is transparent, and we
venture to say that no voter left Auburn Hall,
Tuesday evening, without keenly feeling the
base indignity of the Executive treatment OF
the Supreme Court and especially OF Judge
Libbey Capt. Boutelle closed his able speech
il. ell. If
campaign in Androscoggin opens very auspici-
ously.-Journal.
The Republicans hold their grand opening
rally at Bangor, Tuesday evenings August Goth.
The opening will be addressed by Hon. James
G. Blaine and the eloquent Gen. VIM. Gibson,
of Ohio
If Gen. Weaver is going to take pull for the
Democratic party, Them Steers and the wild
ass of the prairie" must part company.-Ihem
Steers.
Daniel H. Thing, the blonde and angular fac
ing-several ways candidate for Congress is
amusing the natives with his harangues on n
nance, monopolies and agricultural distress.
Daniel has itched so much and SO long for an
office adequate to his mother wit that he has
scratched himself into real political ST. Vi
tus' dance, and now he goeth about giving free
exhibitions of himself to limited audiences,
and pipes his melodies with voice as musical
as a cracked bassoon.-Dexter Gazette.
The Fusion papers have just found out that
Hon. Washington Gilbert of Bath, the Fusion
candidate for Congress last year, who this year
repudiates Plaistedism and comes out for So
lon Chase, don't amount TO much, anyway!
And yet ciphers seem to trouble the Fusion
people Is there not some slight acidity in
these grapes? Judge Gilbert is member OF
the Fusion State committee, and until recently
was supposed to be as brainy person as the
opposition laid claim to.
A Fusion correspondent, who is in the conf
dence Of Gov Plaisted and his friends, and
who is doing whatever he can to promote his
election, predicts that there twill be lots of
chances between now and Christmas wherein
the Governors opinion and the Courts opinion
NAV come in hostile contact" Is this an Off
ciai declaration that Governor Plaisted will re-
peat the Garcelon tactics?
The situation of the varions parties is such
as to make handsome Republican plurality
almost certain. On the one hand stand the
Republicans, thoroughly organized, determined
and united. On the other hand are the Flu
sonists, poorly organized, weakened by dis
sensions. and opposed not ouly by the Republic
cans, but by separate Green pack ticket mead
ed by Scion Chase. the father OF the Greenback
marty. When we remember that the Fusion
ists' plurality in 1880 was only 1S9 votes it is
easy to ace why the Republicans should be
sanguine of victory.-N. Y Tribune.