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The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03
A REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
WILL BE HELD IN
CITY HALL, LEWISTON,
wednesda June 8, 1886, at II o'clock a. m

HCuilOoudJy UNIV "
For the nurnose of nominating q candldate Tor
governor 10 be supported at the september cleo
tion and transacfing any other business that may
- The basis Of representation VIII pc as iolloWS;
Fach civ town and plantation VIII be entitled TO
one deleyaste and for each seventy-hve votes cast
fn tba BennbIjcan candidate for Governor in SS4
M additio1si delegate and for fraction of forty
xntas IN wees Of seventyve votes, an addition
al delegate 49, ,,,,,I ha in sassion in tho
Recention Room of the Hall at nine o'clock on the
morning Of tbe Convention, for the purpose OF re-
eeixing the credentials of delegates.
All electors of Maine who are in favor of main
taining = Protective Tariff; who will join in re-
sisting the attempt now being made in Demo-
crate House Of Representatives to injure many
II fhe leading industrial interests of Maine; who
are in favor of elevatng and dignifying human la
hor Inv Securing to the laborer his just reward /;
Who demand freedom of suffrage throughout the
renuhlie and an honest counting of the ballots
WHO nnhold ali iudic0us measures for the encour-
sgemant of American shipbuilding; who believe
in an honest and responsible civil service and in
an economical administration of the Government;
who annroye the Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic
and the fnromotion of the cause of Temperance,
are cordially invited, without regard to past pot-
icsl differences TO unite with the Republicans in
tIe selection of delegates to this Convention.
Per order Republican State Committee.
JOSEPH III. MANLEY Chairman.
WILLIS H. WING, Secretary.
Augusta, Me-, April 16, 1886.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03
CHILDREN'S
CLOTHING {! /!

/ am now showing some very
handsome Suitings in this depart
ment, both in Fancy Checks and
Plain Mixtures, WhipcOrds and
DiagOnals. Also a very fine line
of SPRING OVERCOATS at low
est prices to be found in the city
for same kind of goods.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03

With John Kelly politics was simply a
business. He cared little about the princi-
pies of one party or another; but he cared
very much for the ascendency of the faction
of which he was the head. He was firm
believer in the doctrine that to the victors
belong the spoils, and he worked the offices
for all they were worth. Personally he was
honest, and he was never suspected of any
of the corrupt practices which attached
to Tweed and other Tammany leaders But
his political notions and methods were far
from elevating.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03
CURRENT COMM EMIT.
THE SOUTHERN NEGRO.
cnrinrfiald IrnioD

AS matter Of fact, he has no status at all.
His condition is exceptionally favorable in
some local. les and exceptionally hard in
others. The hopeful fact is that real prog
ress is all the While going on. A wiser and
humaner spirit is winning its way. Growing
industrial interests are proving a powerful
solvent Of ancient preiudices among the mod
ifable elements of the white population, and
as for the irreeoncilahles, it will soon be said
of the last one: ''And he was not, for
somebody-took him"
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03

Buddensiek, who was convicted year or
more ago of building tumble down houses
and who has been out on bail building more
tumble down houses, has got to pause in his
career and take a rest in the penitentiary.
The New York court of appeals has affirmed
his conviction and sentence
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03
Proposals for Subsistence, Quar-
ternsaster's and Hospital Stores.
OFFICE TREASURER N. ii. ID. V. s.,
TncIrs Me NAY IL 1856.

TOGUs ME-, May IS, 1886. !
SEALED PROPOSALS, subject to usual CON
- ditions, win be received at this office until IL
O'Clock NJ, June ~, 1886, at which time and
place they will be opened in the presence OF bid
ders, for furnishing and delivering at this Home,
the Subsistence, Quartermaster's and Hospital
stores required for the fiscal year commencing
July L, 1886, and which consists in part Of the
following viz:
Tea, Coffee, General Groceries, Flour, Fresh
and Corned Beef, Mutton, Veal Pork, Smoked
Shoulders Hams, Fresh and Salt Fish, Butter,
Cheese, Eggs, Lard, Onions. Potatoes, Corn,
Oats shorts. Croekery and Table Ware, House
hold articles Hospital supplies, Tobacco, Case
line, Kerosene, Oil and Coal.
rejected item by item.
The Home reserves the right to waive defects
and reject any or all proposals.
Blanks, and full information as to bidding and
terms of contract and articles to be supplied will
be furnished ON application to this office.
Envelopes containing proposals should be
marked Proposals for Subsistence, Quartermas-
ter's or Hospital Stores at National Home ID. V.
S. Togus, Me- and addressed to the undersigned.
II. A. COBAUGH, Treasurer.
Approved:
LUTHER STEPHENSON, JR., Governor.
my1 2Sjun1-3-5-7-9-11
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03

The Young Lion donned pair of oyeralls
yesterday, and appeared as laboring man.
For a first appearance it was very good. AS
the, show notices put it, some of the faults
incident to a first performance will be cor
rected in the future.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03

Col Daniel Lamont makes his debut as a
reporter this morning. The report of the
Presidents wedding is understood to be from
his pen. For maiden effort it does the Col
nnel great credit.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03

Poor John Redman! He put out what
money he had and sadly overworked pair
of lungs two years ago for the Democracy,
and now they throw him overheard.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03

The Knights want the government to go
into the banking business and establish loan
agencies all over the country to lend money
at low rates of interest. Evidently the
Knights have yet to learn that this is not a
paternal government
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03

Col Edwards, it is said, has been at home
building fences on his farm during the Ban
gor convention. He has taken big contract
for stump fencing during the fall.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03

More than twenty years have passed since
the war, and now the Maine Democrats have
begun to feel deep interest in the soldier.
When sympathy and support would have
done him same good they were cold as ice
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03
PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 8.

We do not read anonymous letters and commun-
cations The name and address of the writer are
n all cases indispensable not necessarily for pub
licatlon but as a guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03

The Hon. William H. Clifford as the cham
pion of the laboring man must have been a
moving spectacle.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03

The Hon. Eben f. Pillsbury will doubtless
be invited to take the stump in behalf of the
soldier candidate
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03
DISTRICT CONVENTION,

The Republicans OF the First Congressional Dis
trct are invited to send delegates to a Convention
to be held in
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03
MEMS YOUTHS
CLOTHING S! T!

My stock is all new, and select
ed from the best manufactures,
and perfect fit and well made
garments are always to be found
on my counter. Also all the late
styles i'm NECK WEAR, COLLARS
and CUFFS, HOSIERY, GLOVES,
sc.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03
FYagDRA AGE

First.cIass storage for Flour, Fish,
Cotton and other merchandise in the
Portland Sugar House: warehouse re-
Lowest rates of Insurance. Apply to
is. DOUGLASS, Agent,
tvtAdtf No. 29S Commercial stree.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03

All purses divided into four moneys; 80 per
cent to 1st % per cent to I'd, 10 per cent to sd,
10 percent to 4th.
Hay and straw furnished free
Five per cent. Of entrance fee must accompany
the nomination.
Entries will close Thursday, June 10, 1886, al
Il o'clock z. NJ All races to be mile heats best
three in five to harness, and under the rules OF
the National TrOtting Association. A horse dis
taneng the field or any part thereof, will receive
but one premium. In all classes five to enter and
three to start. Horses called at 1.3O and started
at 2 O'Clock p. IN. sharp.
All entries addressed to-.
je1dt1Oth VIM. j. DYER, Sec'y and Treas.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03

s. w. JUNkINS, Secretary.
Portland, Me-, May 8, 1886.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03
SPRING and SUM ER
1885. 4

Taken for gentlemen's Quitting from any part
of the world. The Largest and Finest Stock of
Mems Furnishings in the States ON hand at popu-
ulars prices.
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A story without a Moral.

Boston Transcript
He was a member of Congress, having previ
ously been elected to many minor Offices OF
emolument and patronage.
How did l make my first success in political
lief" he said, repeating the question that had
been put to him by one of his constituents; ii
will tell YOU"
81 was drafted during the war of the Rebel
lion, but not having liking for sleeping on the
ground and living on army rations, I paid an
other chap to do my soldering for me.
THE business seemed to be agreeable to him
AT all events, he fought like a hero. and at the
close of the war returned home with an eagle OIL
each shoulder.
"Soon after we both ran for the Legislature
One party nominated me, and the other put him
up. His war record was big card for him. be
sides that, his party had clean majority in the
district. But beat him"
"YesP"
'Yes. You see went around every day shak.
Ing hands with everybody l could get at The
consequence was that beat him over five
hundred votes"
"But why didn't he do the same thng2"
"He couldn't Poor fellow! he had lost both
hands in his last battle"
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oUMBAcK on THE CARTOON.
Merrill or Tacgart-Which?

TO the Editor OF the Indianapolis journal:
The article political Catechism." which ap-
peared in the Indianapolis World of Oct %, has
suggested to me some queries which would be
interesting to have answered.
Which is better, to aid and encourage the
colored man to obtain sn education that will
work at two thirds the wages of a white man,
taking advantage of his ignorance and helpless
ness in order to further the employers own sell
ilsh aims} For whom should we, the colored
voters of Marion county, cast our votesf For
the man who educates or the man who furnishes
the negro cheap employment Mr.. Taggart
claims, on the merit of employing col
ored walters, that he is great friend
OF the negro, and on this score asks
their suffrage Colonel Merrill. whom / do not
know, and would not recognize unless pointed
out, has placed on record deeds that will always
mark him as the Oenefactor Of the colored race
deeds that rise so far above the petty claims of
Mr. Taggart that that gentleman ought to subside
from pure shame. Mr.. Tasgart wants to
think that the Office sought him, and that
Colonel Merrill worked to get it, the Office, for
the money there was in it. Now am In a posi-
sion to know the facts, and l don't believe any
body sat up later, did more button-holing. and
worked harder to get the nomination than this
same Mr.. Taegart
If there more of the stamp of
Colonel Merrill we would be the better off for It,
The one fact that he was instrumental in liber-
ating us from the bonds of slavery is In itself
the one great reason why he should receive our
suffrage. Had we depended on the Democratic
party for our freedom this day would still see
ns suffering mass of slaves. was a slave and
realize what it is to be free, and every coIored
voter in the county should have no hesitancy in
casting straight Republican ticket.
CoLORED VOTER OF THE FIRST WARD.
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The State House Yard and Dome.

To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal:
1t is said that the Commissioners of the ), at
house propose throwing up an embankment of
about four feet around the entire grounds Of the
State-house behind stone wall, like the court
house. at cost of from $4,000 to $500 This
would seem to be the most ridiculous thing posi-
blefrom a commonsense standpoint Half the
money would gild the dome that every body
wants to see. and the Commissioners talk as If
they are afraid they will not have money enough
to do it. Everybody wants the dome eilded and
everybody ridicules the stone fence arrange
ment, but would like to see handsome lawn
graded at the proper slope to the sidewalk from
the building, which would elevate it from it's
present souatty appearance. The dome is a
beauty in form and ought to be gilded. What
Go you say? ENQUIRER
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Further Evidence Showing that Patients Are
Brutality Beaten by Ward Strikers Employed
as Attendants for Political Reasons
Food Fit Only for Buzzards Placed Bee
fore the Unf0rtunates to Eat.
The 0utrageS Resulting from Reckless Par
tiSan Management of Benevolent Insti-
tuition in the Interest of Democrats.

That the management of the hospital and dis
cipline of the attendants are thoroughly and un-
equivocally bad, Superintendent Fletcher him
self has time and again noted in his reports, and
even quite recently repeated these assertions to
persons with whom he has conversed. There is
plenty Of confrmatory evidence on these points.
That the attendants should be what they are in
their treatment of patients in the male wards is
not a matter of surprise when 1t is taken into
consideration that they have been chosen, not
oecause of any fitness for such duty, but on &C
count Of service as ward strikers and party
workers. These wel-muscled fellows have not
been disciplined in temper softened by long
ministrations upon the suffering and enfeebled
in body and mind Theirs has been the rude
education OF the primary and the polls, and they
have made their way to the positions they now
hold by the strong arm with it's ready blow, and
the heavy heel with which they scrunch the
ribs or face of PROSTATE antagonist.
One Of Superintendent Fletcher's conflicts
from which, as in nearly all others with the
board. he retired vanqnished was over the mat
ter of supplies. He desired toknow of the board
whether the statute intended the book and
storekeeper to be officer of the trustees or
the superintendent Shall the superintendent
have access to all books and papers at all times
or not? Shall the superintendent have the power
to.reject supplies or notl are questions upon
which written report of the board is request
ed" That the state of affairs at the institution
is not what DR.. Fletcher who is man of large
humanity, would have them. admits of no ques-
tion He tried in every way to prevent the In
stitution from being merely used as a dumping
place for produce and supplies of vari-
Gus kinds, but DR.. Harrison, presi
dent of the board, brought him into
subsection and silenced him. The institution
was to be used for speculation, for the
money there was in it. and it has
been 80 used to the uttermost limit OF
endurance. Dr. Tarlton, an honest man, and
for that reason no longer the board of trus-
tees, testifying concerning the storekeeper, said
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GROVER TO GET RID OF HIS FAT.
The President Will Try the Massage Treat
ment for His Extra Adipose

The President Will Try the Massage Treat
ment for His Extra Adipose.
New York Special
President Cleveland has grown steadily more
corpulent since his accession to Office, and the
fact has added much to his personal discomfort
and has made his work more difficult to perform
as well. He has tried the remedies OF his reeu
Jar physicians in vain; has camped in the Adirou-
dacks: eaten camp-made griddle cakes and fried
fish; has Dug bait. and thrown the line and car
fied the rod in various sections of the country
and all In vain. The more ne worked and tho
more he idled the fatter he grew. He has at
last consented to give the physicians who looked
after Secretary Manning trial, and will, there
fore, after the unwilling OF the Statue of Liberty,
go into training under DR.. E. T. Osbal Des-
monde practitioner of the massage order.
Desmonde is a Swede, who has an Office on
Sixtn avenue, in this city. and is highly esteemed
cy bis professional acquantances He has re-
seived the formal call from the President to be-
gin the treatment and expects to go to Wash
ineton with MIR Cleveland and stay with him
until good many pounds have been massaged
of the executive frame
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be proven. A number of affidavits fully sub
statating this outrageous state of things
have been taken and other witnesses
stand ready to testify. DR.. Fletcher himself,
If duly sworn to tell the truth and placed upon
the witness stand, could not deny that he him
self protested against the quality Of food sup
plies furnished. He does not now deny having
made statements to numerous persons regarding
this matter, but as the charges against the man
agement have occasioned him more inconven-
fence than he anticipated he now lodges and
equivocates. Witnesses can be produced who
will testify that hogs for use in this hos
pital, the meat to be eaten by the unfortunates
confined there, were taken out of droves that
were infected with hog cholera. or a disease
greatly resembling it, and from the effect of
which many hogs In the droves had died. They
will testify that the hogs that were killed were
in some instances. driven over the dead bodies
of others that had died of such disease. They
will further testify that patients were
regularly sent out with attendants to
do the work Of killing hogs, work
upon the farm, and the like, regardless
of the wishes Of the patients SO employed When
Sa-ss ASs~ aiming "oS giving uu tuo uoSS wore ala
kept in one place, and the hogs that vera dis
eased unto death were not separated from those
that were killed aud fed to the patients in the
hospital. Stewed pork was served up to these
unfortunate patients in the morning and boiled
pork at dinner. Witnesses will testify that they
reported this state Of facts to the hospital
authorities and often wrote upon the subsistence
report that the butter was "rotten."
THE CASE OF CAPTAIN BUCHANAN
Never have the complaints of cruelty prac-
tlced by attendants upon patients been 80 fire.
quent as during the present management. Many
of these cases seem to have been wantonly cruel
Albert Thayer, man of good attainments
ard OF whose insanity at any time there are
grave doubts, was for some time. an inmate of
this alleged benevolent" institution The
cruelties practiced there made such an impress
sion upon him that he felt it his duty to give to
the world an account of some of the things he
saw there. He has, from time to time, at his
own expense. printed circulars exposing these
abuses. Mr. Thayer speaks particularly
OF the case of Capt Charles Buchanan
an old soldier. He saw the captain
among the patients and recognized him. but did
not speak to him. Then it was the Captain.
friendless in this dreadful place. made an appeal
that Mr.. Thayer could not but answer He gave
Masonic sign. and Mr.. Thayer, brother crafts
man. going to him, took his hand. They con-
versed together awhile. the Captain at the tina
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Isaac Allen further states that while his
brother was at the asylum for treatment he fur
nished, at the instance of the management, all
the patients clothing, and that the clothing was
OF frst-class quality, better than he wore him
self, that the patient could not have worn
them out, and the query is what
became of the clothes. Dr.. Fletcher's
card, under the circumstances, is remarkable
production, but it is due him to say he did not
write it; one Of the subordinates evidently doing
that. The patient, it will be seen, escaped on
April IL, and was not returned until June Is, yet
on May 8, within four days of month Of ab-
sence from the asylum by this patient, the
Superintendent, with dash of fiction that would
have appalled, Baron Munchausen himself, gives
q report of his health.
This is not the only instance Of carelessness in
keeping the unfortunates sent to this institution
In October, 1886, an inmate of the asylum from
Lagrange county. Mrs. Dallas, escaped from the
hospital 1t was so reported to her
husband. and he was advised by Dr.
Fletcher not to &c down as they would do
everything to find her. They did not know just
how she escaped, but gave an opinion to Mr.
Newman, clerk of the Lagrange court, when he
called to inquire about her, that she got away
through the basement No trace of her has been
discovered to this day. There are two strange
features to this case: First, that an insane
woman could escape from the inside of the hos
pital; and, second. that no trace of her has been
discovered after the lapse of one year.
There are. doubtless, other cases Persons
who have afflicted relatives and friends confined
in this institution cannot rest easy until there
shall be change in affairs. The poor, shattered
types of humanity confined there ought, under
all circumstances to have the kindest, and most
humane, and considerable treatment, besides
which the institution ought TO be so guarded that
they should not escape, and thus put their lives
in peril, or, in running about the country, mperil
the lives Of others
At least there should be enough known OF the
patients Of the institution to prevent such an
answer to an inquiry as was sent in the case of
Jonathan Allen. What assurance can any rela-
tive of patient in the hospital have of their care
and treatment when such response as that
herewith published is possibel
FOOD FOR TURKEY BUzzARDs
That the patients at the Hospital for the In
sane, whose ills are frequently as much of the
body as of the mind, require the most whole
some and nourishng of food all reputable
physicians will agree. That they have been fed
food that was dangerously unwholesome, some
Of it. in fact. fit only for turkey buzzards, can
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OFF for New York.

The amount necessary for the expenses Of the
trip having been contributed by the business
men of the city Division No g. Uniformed Rank
K. of F., thirty men in number, will leave this
afternoon at o'clock, under the command of Sir
Knight Commander B. A. Richardson. to repre-
sent indianapolis in the great parade in New
York on Thursday on the occasion of the un-
yelling of the Statue of Liberty. It was the
intention of Mayor Denny to accompany the di-
vision but he finds that he will be unable to co
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A Progressive Rabbits New Departure.

bbi Sonneschsin. of St Louis, the great
III preacher, whose notions of progress and
m recently brought about severance be-
4 him and his congregation, is, with his
in the city for few days visiting friends.
This evening they will be the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. HI. Bamberger. The Rab
bi in leaving his charge was followed by
large part of the congregation. Every
thing goes on swimmingly," he remarked
yesterday to a Journal reporter, ''better
than ever in my life. | am rid of my
enemies and the obstacles they placed In
my way as a progressist. Ny friends
Doubtless will, in due time, publish a
full account of all the disagreements and
= differences. My new congregation is
called Temple Israel We have rented
= for our services the Christian or Camp
bellite Church at the corner OF Seven
tenth and Olive streets. We are look
ing for location to build. The place we
now occupy Is opposite the place where
: l preached for seventeen years This
choice was an accidental one. though
some people will not believe that. But
there l am opposite the old stand. /
shall stay here until Thursday evening
Within Ave daysfrom the time left my
Old charge had a new congrega-
Of 163 members, heads Of families In Tenn
'rael we take new departure Ladies will
and take equal part in the church work
the first time she is as good member as