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The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

The committee of the Brunswick boilers
say that some of them will vote for the
Democratic candidate, who, they declare, is
Z ian upright and honorable man against
whom it is believed no objections can be
raised except his party affiliations" Well,
is not that enough, aud more than enough.
to prevent any earnest Republican from vot-
ing for him? Congress is political BODY.
and the ''party affiliations" of the members
count for something. They are, in fact. the
most important matter of consideration, IN
less the personal uprightness and honor of
the candidate is more important; but no.
body who knows the two men will rank the
Democratic candidate above the Republican
candidate in any comparison of integrity
and purity. This recommendation of our
Brunswick friends is as if a church com
mittee should recommend a candidate
for pastor by saying, "He is an upright and
honorable man, against whom we believe no
objection can be raised except his ipfldeli-
typ
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

Representative Golf of West Virginia says
he is confident that that State will give a
majority for Blaine and Logan. He has no
doubt that the Republicans will carry the
First and Fourth Congressional districts. The
Third is doubtful, but the Republicans have
a good chance of capturing it. The tariff is
sue is having very favorable effect on the
Republican canvass
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

Republicans should remember that the
Democracy they are fighting this year is the
same Democracy they have been fighting for
the last quarter of a century. 1t is thinly
veneered with reform this year to be sure,
and looks a little better than usual, perhaps.
But nobody should be deceived by that. The
veneering will all peel off after election.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

The Argus has been cudgeling the minis
tiers because they refused to give Gov. Cleve-
land certificate of good moral character,
and now it has begun to pitch into the vet
Grams of the late war because they went to
the celebration at Strong. AS this celebra-
tion was in honor of the birth of the party
which upheld the soldier and defended him
against the assaults of the Southern Demo-
Gratis and Northern Copperheads, it was nat
ural and proper that the soldiers should feel
a deep interest in it.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

Who corrupted Garcelon and his council
when they endeavored to overthrow the will
of the majority of the people as expressed at
the polls in 1880, and were ready to take adj
vantage of perjury and forgery to accom-
plish their diabolical plot? We're they cor
rupted by Mr.. Blaine? Yet the Argus as
serts that Mr.. Blaine is responsible for all
the corruption that has been and is in
Maine politics.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

The Boston Globe is greatly impressed with
what it calls the "plucky canvass Judge
Redman (by the way, it has finally learned
how to spell his name is making in this
State. The 'plucky canvass" apparently
makes much deeper impression in Boston
than it does ia Maine. The opinion was ex-
pressed at the recent meeting of the Demo-
cratic committee that the Democratic out
look would be much improved if the Judge
would keep his mouth shut.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

The Argus has kindly published another
of the circulars of the State Republican COM
mittee. The Argus seems to be making the
same mistake the Democratic Congressional
committee has been making in sending out
Republican campaign documents instead of
Democratic ones.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

Ex-Gov. Plaisted is going to take the
stump this week. Perhaps in some of his
addresses he will find an opportunity to in
form the public how he happened to send a
bundle of Madigan circulars in answer to a
request for campaign documents.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

The statement of the Argus that General
Roberts of Bangor, when he was candidate
for Governor was called coward in any
Republican campaign document, or in the
open letter of Col. Smith, is false state
ment. On the contrary, the letter in ques-
ton starts out with statement that Gen.
Roberts was gallant soldier, the criticism
on his conduct being that he left the service
largely because he did not approve of the.
emancipation proclamation.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26
No Democrat win Fill the Biu.

To the Editor Of the Press:
was amused at an article copied from the
New York World in the Argus this morning.
comparing John Quincy Adams with Mr..
Blaine. wonder if the Argus noticed that
the original writer had to go outside Of the
Democratic party for the subject of compari.
son. B.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

We publish this morning communication
from Judge CleaVes referring to the article
in yesterdays issue signed ''Republican,"
which Judge Cleaves thinks did him an in
justice. The PRESS Intends to do no man
an injustice, and published the article in
good faith, coming as it did from the pen of
gentleman of recognized ability and char
acter, whose object apparently was to call
attention to the inconsistency of the Bruins
wick boilers in their address, and not to
make personal "attack" upon anybody.
We have called the attention of "Republi-
CAM to the letter of Judge Cleaves, and his
rejoinder, which is printed in connection
Herewith, is interesting reading for persons
of both parties.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

Thomas A. Hendricks in 1868 voted
against Mr.. Summers proposition to abolish
the coastwise slave trade;a year later he OPP
posed a bill to give colored soldiers the same
pay as white soldiers; and also did what
he could by voice and vote to prevent
persons of African descent from enioyin G
equal rights in the courts. He also opposed
measure introduced by Senator Wilson of
Massachusetts, to emancipate the wives and
children of colored men who had enlisted as
soldiers to fight the battles of the Union.
Gen. Swift in describing him as a Copper
head evidently only stated what was the
truth.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

A correspondent of the Argus, one of the
sneak tribe the tribe is not so numerous as
the various signatures to communications
appearing in the Argus are designed to indi-
cate-pursues the perfectly characteristic
course of applying our criticism of certain
contemplate anonymous aspersions of MIR.
Reeds integrity which lately appeared in
tnat paper, to the quite different charges
brought against him by certain respectable
persons in Brunswick who have the courage
to put their own names to their public state
ments and he asks whether we call General
Chamberlain, Marshall Cram, etc., sneaks.
No, we do not, and we do not suspect any of
the Brunswick party of writing the sneak
communications to which we referred, nor
do we think they will thank this ssNew
Wharf, (Rat.?) for representing to the pub
lie that they may have done 30. The Bruins
wick men do not proceed by indirection and
deal in innuendo. They are not cowardly
assassins, but bold opponents. We believe
they are prejudiced and vastly wrong, but
we cannot believe them guilty of anything SO
mean as traducing by insinuation, under
aliases,th personal in tegrity of Mr.. Reed or
any other political opponent. There are, how
ever, persons nearer to Portland who have
giveI us reason to think they are quite
capable of such warfare.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

The efforts of the Italian authorities to
keep the cholera from spreading to their
country have proved unavailing. The dis
ease has appeared in several Italian villages,
and seems to be spreading with alarming
Iapidity. There is an unconfrmed rumor
that the disease has appeared in England.
There has been a marked abatement OF its
virulence since it first appearared in Tonlon,
and the per cent. of recoveries is consider
ably larger. The cleaning up of cities and
towns in anticipation of its approach IN
doubleday accounts for the decrease in NOR
tality.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

Foo Choo, the Chinese city which has just
been bombarded by the French, is situated
on the river Min about twenty-five miles
from its month. 1t is surroundsed by wall
thirty feet high and twelve feet wide on top.
The gates, seven ir4 number, are overlooked
by high toweSls; smaller guard towers stand
upon tlne walls at short intervals, in which a
Few soldiers lodge, and where few cannon
indicate their object. The city is closely
built inside the walls. 1t has a naval arse
nal, ship yards and school of navigation.
Its commerce is very large. The latest esti-
mate of its population places it at 500. 600.
The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26
PRATT'S ASTRAL Oil.

Use no other In your Oil Stoves and save the
inconvenience of Smoke and Odor. For sale In
any quantity by w. w. WHIPPLE e. CO.,
81 Market Square. Delivered free of expense.
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The Portland daily press., 1884-08-26

When the Argus attempts to hold Mr..
Blaine responsible for the dissemination of
the Cleveland scandal because Republican
papers have informed their readers of what
Democratic and Independent journals were
telling about Cleveland, it makes very poor
excuse for itself and the other Democratic
organs which have circulated calumnies, of
their own invention as we believe, about
Mr.. Blaine. The Cleveland scandal first ap-
peared in an independent paper in Buffalo.
The only other paper which has copied it en-
tire, as far as we know, is the Democratic
Cincinnati Enquirer, which boosted of sell
ing 10000 extra copies of the number con-
tanning it. The New Yerk Tribune and the
Philadelphia Press, which may be consid-
cred the personal organs of Mr.. Blaine, If he
has any, Lave never printed it, or any part
of 1t. Most of the Republican papers of the
country have contented themselves with
publishing the so-called 'vindications' that
have appeared in papers friendly 10 Gov.
Cleveland. 1t is upon the showing of his
supporters that he is condemned, and be-
cause they have acknowledged degree of
guilt to which the moral sense of the com
munity is unwilling to be Indifferent.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-03
rIIschIevous Malaria.

To say that malaria is miscksevcM
IS to pat it very mildly. 1t is all that
and more L. is cunning, deceitful
treacherous, sly, and undetermined
1t does its work in the dark, and IN
such sly way that much of the mis-
chief is done before it is discovered
1t saps the foundations of a healthy
system. 1t robs the blood ofits vital
ity, demoralizes the liver, confounds
the stomach, and makes the victim
wish he were in his grave. lis sad
tosee people sit down in their misery,
content to be the victims Of mischiey.
Gus malaria, and thinking that moth
ing can be done for them. The power
OF BRowN's IRON BITTERs over the
misChiefs of malaria has been so am
ply proved that there is no reason
why anybody who can procure a
bottle OF this Prince O. TONES shall
suffer. Great IS the % . r of malaria,
and great are is disastrous effects.
But greater far IS the benefcent in
auence of BRowN's IRON BITTERs.
The preparation Of iron IN this favor
te family remedy can be taken
without running tire teeth Or produc-
T'or ~C0SfiDa+io7 - headache
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-03
WHAT WILL HE DO >

The Warren Tribune, Republican paper
published at Warren, Trimble County, Ohio,
and supporter of BlaiDeand Logan, has an
article in recent number from which the
following choice mOrsei is culled:
"Of James G Blaine the Tribune is informed,
ana believes it TO be true, that though a young
OF ordinarily good habits he became in early
life, and before marriage. the father of a child;
that he took the babe upon one arm aud its
mother upon the other sought out a parson, and
Joined TO her in holy matrimony."
Why does not the knight of the Crurnpled
Plume send gushing telegram to some local
Sancho Panza to bring suit without an
hours delay" in the UNITED States Circuit
Court" against the Republican brother who
"assails the honor of my wife and children"
Why Goes not our Mulligan friend send
another appeal to honorable Democrats
asking them to justify him in suing this Ohio
editor? Why does he not embrace this OPP
portnnity to send over the wires another
electioneering telegram? Why does he not
again risk his life and sue this new defamer
of his wife and children? Will he do it?
Mo- 1t is clear now to a blind man that
Blaine made an ass of himself before the
whole country when he sent that dispatch
to Holloway and caused suit to be brought
against the Sentinel for libel. The telegram
bears internal evidence of having been writ
ten with one eye on the voter, notwithstand-
ing the simulated indignation of the writer.
Mr.. Blaine will not be in a
hurry 10 repeat his assinine folly.
He is too shrewd not to have seen before
this that his enemies are openly laughing at
him, while his friends are secretly cursing
the stupidity of his action. Therefore, the
Warren Tribune is safe, though it states as a
fact what the Sentinel said only by way of
inquiry. The Tribune is safe for another
reason-a very powerful reason with the
knight of the Crumpled Plume-and that is
that votes could not be made, but might be
lost by a suit against it. This reason will be
Sufficient one with the modern Don
Quixote for overlooking this last attack
upon Mrs Blaine and the children.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-03
cArKprs AM THE swAMP.

CalkiDs and the school fund once more.
Read Jap Turpen's letter from Laporte, in
another column, and our readers can get
some sort of an idea Of the land upon which
Calkins borrowed money from the school
fund. The land is described as being situa-
ted in the center of an absolutely valueless
district, except for hunting and fishing.
There is no bottom to the mud, and
even horse swimming is hazardous
Calkins pulled the wool over Jap Turpen's
eyes a few weeks ago, and persuaded him
that he was much injured man. The lat
ter, to even up matters, wrote a letter to the
News combating the charge that Calkins
had acted improperly regarding the school
fund transaction. Mr.. Turpen recently Wis
tied Laporte and has had his eyes opened
very widely concerning it. This letter gives
the entire history of the affair, and it shows
Mr. Calkins in no enviable light. Calkins
will not do. He is a small copy of Blaine
cratic, unreliable, harum-scarum and gush-
ing, with about as much substance as there
is in bottle of pop.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-03
A POINTER FOR CALKINs.

Calkins is not as Smart as Blaine. "Cal-
kins could never grasp an idea said Gen
eral Gresham. Blaine can grasp" almost
anything more effectively than Calkins, al
though Calkins 'grasped" the school fund
very creditably in that swamp land transac
ton. Blaine, however. would probably
have owned the entire northern part of the
State il he had started with Calkins' Kanka-
kee swamp as a nest egg.
The point, however, to which we wish to
draw the attention of Mr.. CaIkins, is to ad-
wise him to sue somebody for libel. When
things waxed hot for Blaine he employed a
counter irritant; he distracted public atten-
tien-he sued.
The charges of the Widow Duncan against
Mr.. Calkins are very serious ones. She evil
IDENTIFY thinks that he was largely instru-
mental in the loss of her home and the
81, 400 which she had paid on it. If not
true. the charge is libellous. If true, it puts
the Republican candidate for Governor in a
very questionable position-''in hole" as
the boys say. Mr. Calkins, if he possessed
the ''smartness'' of the Republican candi-
date for the Presidency, would sue Mrs.
Duncan promptly and make the Sentinel a
party to the suit. This would produce a
Calkins might not run behind Colonel Gray
more than $4,000 votes. As the case stands
now, it looks as if he might get buried un-
der $4,000 m ajority. No, Calkins is not as
''smart" as Blaine.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-03

CHIEF JUSTICE HARLAN, OF THE SUPREME Court OF
THE UNITED STATES:
Hon. JAMES SPEED, UNIRED STATES ATTORNEY
GENERAL UNDER PRESIDENT LTScoLN, AND
GENERAL JAMES NJ. SHACKELFoRD. OF INDIANA.
In addition to this there always was a
doubt that the Carlisles killed their man
Even General ShAckelford, distinguished
Republican who prosecuted the Carlisles.
wrote to Governor Hendricks, at the time
the pardon was under consideration, aud
stated that he did not believe the CarlisIes
killed Hampton. In that letter General
Shackelford, after stating that he had no
doubt that the prisoners were of the party
who took Hampton across the river, and after
stating further that "of the killing of son
of old man Carlisle in Southern Illinois DUR
ing the winter of 1865 by Hampton's COM
mand, there can not be question" says:
But that the Carlisles, or either OF them,
was present at the time of the killing of Lieu
tenant Hampton, or that they intended that
he should be killed or murdered, do not
believe. On the contrary, feel satisfied in
nv own mind that the two Carlisles. after
landing DR.. Dawson, Mcdaniel and Hamp.
ton on the Kentucky shore, started up the
river for the purpose of returning the skiffs
to the place from where they had been
taken, and when they had proceeded
perhaps fifty or sixty yards, Hampton ran
into the river, and was shot and killed by
Dawson and Mcdaniel. 1 will also add that
in my opinion the killing of Lieutenant
Hampton was one of the many deplorable
aud lameDtable fruits or results of the war;
and. whilst / entertain no doubt of the legal
gull. of both the old man and his son, do
think, under all the circumstances con-
nected with the case, that in the punish
ment they have already received the ends of
public justice have been met, and hence l
hope the executive clemency will be ex-
tended TO them"
We think the matter needs no further at
tention from Us. Over against the distIn-
guished Republicans who sustained Gov
ernor Hendricks in this matter, the Journal
writes the name of "Shuler," whom it states
is "a bsilif, and lives at 9SS North Illinois
street" Cannon, all. AS Governor Porter
told Journal reporter, "thers is nothing in
-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-03
TIE BOSS TWEED METHOD.

In public speech Major Cslkins has said:
seldom make personal explanations. bat at
the quest OF some will say in reply to the charge
of swindling the school fund of the state, that
sold the land subject to the mortgage II owe
anybody anything am able to pay my debts.
The Republican nominee for Governor in
this instance will have to depart from his
usual custom, and talk plain United States,
The subject is not one in which an inquir-
ing and interested public can be put Off
with an assumption of lofty disdain or the
hauteur begotten of wounded sensibilities
Boss Tweed's answer, What the devil are
you going to do about it?' was found to fall
far short OF rendering satisfaction before his
campaign" ended. The fact that Major Cal
kins says, 81 sold the land subject to the
mortgage" shows an attempt to deceive,
though the record shows that Major CAL
kins has sold a piece OF worthless land,
fraudulently mortgaged to the school fund,
a number OF times no buyer agrees to rem
der payment and in consequence the county
Of LapOrte is reduced to the inconvenience
of paying tax on money vrongfully held by
him for the last ten years He does owe
Lsporte County. Time and again he has
acknowledged his obligation. This is at.
tested not only by affidavits, but by letters
over his signature. Now, entrenehed behind
a legal technicality, ne says: 'If 1 owe any
body anything 1 am able to pay my debts"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-03
GALL THIS IS CONFIDENTIAL. "

a few years ago when the Republican
bosses could arrange Tor a series of Southern
outrages the Chairman of the State Central
Committee-Friedley at that time-issued
circular to all tne Republican papers in the
State to make conspicuous 1.-The outrage"
business. This card was the leading and
winning one for many years, until the peo-
pie discovered the swindle. Now CONES this
years new crop of Republican Committee
men with a new trick. This time it is
Blalne's sensational dispatch to sue the SEN
tinel. The Republican papers are ordered to
put it in black type Kitchener, whose name
is at the bottom of the circular, is a new
find, He is a Shelby County radical and
succeeds Buck Terrell as Secretary of the Re-
publican State Central Committee. He is
new at the business-hence the clumsiness OF
the ukase. After he gets creased up he will
run better.
Our readers will remember. in the langua ze.
of the circular, that ''all this is cDniden
tial." Now comes the precious document:
lNDIANAPoLIs, August 10, 1881
DEAE SIR In publishing full report Of
Mr.. Blaines suit against the Sentinel, please
do not omit that magnificent dispatch di
recting suit to be brought. His manly and
brave action is in striking contrast with the
inaction Of certain Democratic candidate
Isuggest that you keep Mr.. Blaine's dispatch
standing in blsck-fsced type in conspicu-
Gus pa t of your paper. Let the fight be
pushed vigorously from this time on.
inclose circular sent out to eur speak
ers All this is confidential.
L. 7. MIcHENER,
Secretary.
Note the exquisite drollery OF the new
Secretary-"all this is confidential" and
'let the fight be pushed vigorously from this
time on"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-03
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS OF
INDIANA,


Elsewhere in this mornings Sentinel will
be found an address to the Republican voters
of Indiana by a committee of Independent
Republicans of this city. The work of this
committee is to show to their brother Re-
publicans the unftness of Mr.. Blaine AMI
the fitness OF Mr.. Cleveland for the Presi-
deDcy. Documents and public speeches will
be sent out by the committee to this end
The committee rely entirely upon vOlun-
tsry contributions, and they state that
Whatever funds may De sent them Will be
used for the ends stated in the foregoing, as
they are at no expense of Office or clerk hire.
Mr.. Lewis Rowland is the Treasurer. The
committee is of the opinion that the closest
investigation proves that, after many years
of public life, James G. Blaine has no i'm
portant service to his country to point
to, and all that he has to
show as the result of his lsbors for
the public welfare is a large accumulation
of private wealth, and this the result of
questionable financial speculations in prop
erty, directly or indirectly connected with
Congressional legislation. Much OF this
went on while he was Speaker of the House
of Representatives. The views of the com
mittee on the Mulligan letters are very
clea-. They state that they ARE the Null
ligan letters stili.' On their face they indi-
cate shameless corruption in public office on
the part of Blaine, and that no Republican
paper has made a manly attempt to meet
these letters. ''The leading Republican jour-
mails of Indiana" are denounced representing
a cowardly spectacle in standing mute in the
presence of these famous letters, refusing to
print them and dishonesty deceiving their
readers by keeping the truth from them.
Mr.. Cleveland is recommended to the suf
frages of the Independent Republicans, and
the committee state that this advice is given
latter the fullest examination Of his official
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