Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-06-13
POLITICAL.

GREEsBAcK TIcKEr.-The straight Green
back ticket, % completed, Is as follows |:
For Governor, Scion Chase; for Congress,
VIM. +. Eaton, Cape Elizabeth; Eben q.
Geary, Dover; b. X. Kalloch, Rockland !;
d. B. Averill, Prentiss.
Mr.. Dingley of Maine, In the National
House Wednesday,, made very good
speech, giving business reasons why IL
is better for the public interests that the
national banking system shall continue
than that United States Treasury notes
shall be substituted for the bank circula-
tion.--Press.
The custom house fees and charges for
q Calais schooner Of liz tons trading IN
the British Provinces amount to $50
year. The fees and charges for st. Ste
phens schooner, on the other side OF the
st. Croix river, trading in the United
States, amount to 1926. This Ia the In
equality which Senator Fry's bill is intend
ed to remedy. Is 1t strange that Amer.
can commerce has declined?
There Is vast indignation in the Fuss
ion camp because Greenbackers In Exeter
Joined with the Republicans and whipped
ing Greenbacker, who was elected one or
the Selectmen, is threatened with dire ven
geance for the part he took in the matter.
The case Is peculiarly aggravating from
the fact that Exeter Is the town where +.
w. Hill resides, father-in-law Of Gov. Plais-
ted.-Rennebec Journal.
Colonel Bisbee, OF Florida, native OF
Canton, Maine, who has had more than
the usual experience of men In contested
election cases, will probably get the sea.
in Congress for the Second District or
Florida, to which he Is Justly entitled.
The subcommittee Of the House Commit
tee on Elections will report that Mr.. Fin
ley was counted in by fraud when there
was a majority Of $50 votes against him.
1t appears the reports OF illegality at cleo
ton time In the Second District were not
beyond truth. p. S.-Since the above was
in type the House has awarded the seat to
Col. Bisbee.
Democrats having revived the old sto.
~ that the violent Rebel paper, the Okoto-
ma States, was sustained by Republicans,
and having coupled the name OF Don c.
Henderson, the vehement Republican edi'
tor OF the Aiiegan Journal, with the story,
Mr. Henderson denounces 1t as false In ev-
cry way, and challenges the production OF
the documents the inventors OF the false
hoo pretended that they had, to sustain
it.
1t IL somewhat curious that Minots
political summersault has not previously
been noted. IL was formerly the abode OF
I. B. Swan and nest of FusioDism; but
at the March election not a Democratic or
a,E xr.fA In n w
town. Every officer Is now Republican.
We are not sure but TIE corn-sheller was
Minot blessing in disguise.
tJoarRdl.
The London Times frankly admits that
under our form OF government higher con-
is given to the comfort OF the
workingman. The Times says The Unit
ed States do not approach the question
from the same point OF view "a ourselves.
The object OF their statesmen Is not TO Sc
cure the largest amount OF wealth for the
cou ntry generally, but TO keep up, by what
ever means, the standard OF comfort among
the laborIng classes.
MFR Casson, general manager OF the
Earl OF Dudley's Staffordshire iron works,
when visiting this country, said to a Pitts
-
you have the advantage OF us as regards
mechanical appliances, whilst in others
we are greatly ahead OF your manufactur-
ers. We can manufacture iron at just one
half the cost, as far as the price OF labor Is
concerned. find that your rate of wages
Is about exactly double what We have to
pay.
At the meeting OF the Greenback State
Committee In Augusta, some three weeks ago.
IL was dec idcd 10 hold the State Convention In
Bangor. on the same day with the Democrats.
The latter have decided on June eth. at Lew.
iston. The two places are rather far apart
for holding Joint convention, but then the
telegraph Is available.-Portland Advertiser.
Besides, IL Is only one party with every
thing arranged beforehand; the pretense
OF two Conventions is only for the purpose
Of quilting the fats.-Bdth Times.
The Democrats of Florida have a very
effective way Of carrying elections. 10
1880, In the First Congressional District,
they first arbitrarily struck from the vot-
ing lists the names Of thousands Of Repub.
lican voters. Then, on election day, they
stuffed the boxes with tissue ballots, aud
finally, when the Republican candidate for
Congress undertakes to make contest,
no judicial officer can be found TO admin
lister oaths TO his witnesses, and his coun-
sci. who has retaining fee from him, re.
fuses to act or to return the papers that
have been placed In his hands. These are
facts that have been established by compe-
tent testimony taken by the National House
Committee on Elections. And this in a
country which pretends to be governed by
the will OF the majority, freely expressed
The laws are Inadequate for the proper
punishment OF men guilty OF such crimes
against our boosted free Institutions
Providence Press.