The Portland daily press., 1884-07-15
Campaign Notes.

Hannibal Hamlin has been invited to address the
York County Republican convention August 9Th.
The Republicans of Belfast raised large Blaine
and Logan flag Friday evening. Hon. S. L. MILL
ken made an effective speech.
Mr.. Blaine goes to Bar Harbor the last Of the
present week, remaining there for quite an ex-
tended period
Frank B. Torrey, Esq, of Bath, formerly chair
man of the Democratic State Committee, and an
indefatigable worker in the campaign OF 1880 in
which he spent some 81 900 is reported as saying
that he will take no active interest in this cam
paign neither his business nor inclination permit
ting him.
The Republicans of Buckfeld raised Blaine
and Logan flag on Saturday evening. Addresses
were made by Hon. George D. Bisbee, A. H. Her
sey, DR.. o. R. Han and George NJ. Atwood. A
Blaine and Logan Club was organized and the fol-
lowing officers chosen A. II. Hersey, President;
George M. Atwood, Secretary and Treasurer; Chas.
H. Prince, Homer N. Chase, Geo W. Shaw, Hub
bard Lowell, Sanford E. Conant, Daniel Clark NJ
j. Damon, Henry W. Whitman, James A. Warren
and VIM. S. Harlow, Vice Presidents. U. s.
Marshal Bisbee threw out a handsome Blaine and
Logan flag.
Hsc JabuIG docet Mr.. Bayard, that it is better
to be an ordinary barnyard alderman in the
Democratic party than to be a scholar, statesman
and gentleman all your life.-Washipgton Republi-
can.
A new party can never be formed in this country
on merely personal issue. The independents, who
magnify their Importance and numbers to ridi-
culoss proportions, are at dalliance, therefore,
with false theory. There is satisfying issue
involved with the bolt from the Republican party.
Boston Commonwealth
The Democratic convention says it ''believes in
honest money the gold and silver coinage Of the
constitution, and circulating medium convertible
into such money without loss." The record of the
party in Congress Is the true test of how much it
believes in honest money and its course at the last
session of the House furnishes the data which will
enable anybody judge how earnest 1t is to provide
against deprecated currency.-Boston Transcript.
Grover Cleveland was not nominated at Chicago
because he was considered the represen tative De-
mocrat of that body of the party but because he
Is expected to catch the voters in New York who
are disatfected toward the Blaine nomination. 1t
is therefore, clearly not a nomination on the
merits las the party regards merits but of OK
pediency. Cleveland is new to the public life and
has short record to quarrel over. Nobody has
regarded him as one of the distinguished men of
the Democratic party, one whose services enttle
him to recognition. The man who passes his 50th
year without making his mark in any way cannot
be regarded as in any way a very great man.
Hartford Courant.
SOME ANrI-coNvENTIoN DEMOCRATIC PREDIc-
TIoNs.
CTroy Press, DemA
From present appearance there is too great on
position among Democrats to Governor Cleveland to
make it safe to nominate him, Notwithstanding the
probability that he would get a considerable num-
Der of Republican votes. 1t must be borne in mind
that out of the number Of Republicans that would
vote for him. not few would do so for the very rea
son that would make good many Democrats luke
warm to say the least.
{Brooklyn Eagle, Dem.)
1t utter misrepresentation of the facts to say
hot Ha
Tammany Hall or any other political organization.
It's source is in the minds of workingmen ant-mon-
opoists and Irishmen, who have come to look upon
the Governor(without reason in the Eagles opinion)
as being either Indifferent hostile to interests
which they deem OF Great Importance.
ALBANY Times, Dsm.)
The Democracy of other States will be convinced
by the action of the State convention that Cleve-
land is not the hearty choice of the party in this
State and that though the Independent Republicans
may prefer him, his nomination would be so dis
tasteful to large portion OF his party that he
could not hold the entire Democratic vote without
which it would be hopeless to attempt to carry New
York against so formidable Republican candidate
as Mr.. Blaine.
Dorchester Union, Dem.)
The veto of the Five Cent Fare bill was against
and directly in the teeth of constitutional principle
and public policy. The constitution of the State of
New York expressly declares as a condition prece
dent of the formation of corporations, that the
charter of every corporation shall be held subject
to alteration from time to time or repealp bv the
law making power; and the Court of Appeals of the
State of New York and the Supreme court Of the
United States have affirmed the right OF the law
making power to so alter or repeal Every engage
ment entered into, and every contract made by
corporation created by the State of New York Is
subject to the exercise of this laW-mahing power
The constitutional reservation is the very first con
diton of any such engagement and of any such con-
tract. The principle of the veto denies this and ar
CUES in favor OF the corporation theory that chart
ers of corporations are in the nature of contracts be-
tween the state and the corporations and that the
corporations, not the State, are master. There is
not an anti-monopolst-thee is not a true Demo-
crat in the United States who can q prove of that
veto and doctrine, or support for public office any
man who approves of them.