The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-08-18
Campaign Notes.

Southern orators are beginning already to fire
the southern heart with the declaration that the
Democrats of to-day contending for the same
principles for which they fought from Sumter to
Appomattox. There will be another ''lost cause''-
or if they prefer the same old cause will be lost
again-in Nevember.-New York Tribune.
Hon. j. Manchester Haynes, the member for
Maine of the Republican National Committee, who
has recently been in attendance ON the meetings of
the committee brings the most encouraging reports
as to the outlook for the Republican candidates in
the race for the Presidency. There has been a
steady improvement in the prospect for Republican
success since the campaign was inaugurated.
Who can look upon the disordered and deplorable
state of the Democratic party as it appears to-day
leaderless and broken as it is and say that this is
the work of Samuel j. Tlden To our mind it seems
the result of imbecility and presumption rather
than the wisdom of the statesman who so recently
led the party to most glorious victory. Some
things show their character and origin on the sur
face, and this is one of them.-New York Sun.
The opening meetings of the campaign in Maine
don't look much like apathy. The pine woods are
about as full as they can hold of Republicans this
year. and the Republicans to be in the state of
mind known to experienced campmeeting-goers as
shouting happy When the time comes for Old
Dr'go to speak, it is probable that even the deafest
OF Mr. Baine's sanderers will be able to catch the
purport OF the remarks.-Hartford Courant.
1t is fact that nearly every one-we do know of
single exception-of the so-called Independent
he"sPaPoIS WHICH now advocate. cleveland as the
exemplar and candidate of reform can be, and has
been, quoted as declaring this same Cleveland the
ally OF monopoly and political corruption, and the
enemy of the laboring classes and economical ad-
ministration, as shown by his course in treating
New York legislative bills in 1888. What has hap
pened in one short year to change the opinions Of
these pretentiously independent and impartial"
journals we have not been able to discover-that is
so far as concerns of consistency and honor
Providence journal.
The calumny is an old one, and when it first ap-
peared retraction made. 1t was first made in
1878 by Knowlton, the Washington CORES
pendent of the Chicago Tribune. He subsequently
published adaVts acknowledging the falsitY of the
story. At that time the story investigated by
Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journa
the well-known Kentucky Democrat and Journalist
who told This friends that he knew the story to be
utterly false and on the occasion of attack upon
| Mr.. Blaine on this ground by the Frankfort Oiy9
Yeoman MIR. Watterson denounced the story in his
own paper as false and malicious Murat Halstead,
| who was hostile to Mr.. Blaine at the time this
story was first published investigated it, and came
| to the conclusion that it was without the least
foundation in fact The publisher of the Sentinel
| insisted on repeating and commenting on this
scandal after he had been informed by Mr. Blaines
| friends that it was false, and even after being
warned that it would involve him in difficulty.-
Boston journal.