The Portland daily press., 1886-08-30
THE LIFE OF A CONGRESSIONAL
CANDIDATE.

The Washington branch of the Literary
Bureau has Just produced biography of the
| Democratic candidate for Congress in the
| First district of Maine which is published in
The National View of Washington. A large
| number of copies have been sent into this
district for distribution. With the election
of President Cleveland ''there welled out"
says the biographer from the hearts of the
| party of the people in Maine, as comes out in
| spring time the healing balsam from her whis-
| pering, fragrant pines, settled determine
ton to win back to the Democracy and to the
people many fair sections of that burberry
bearing State" 1t is quite evident that the
biographer has been a close student of Mr..
Cliffords speeches and to a considerable
extent has caught his style. Mr.. Clifford
would, however, not have spoken of the
State in which he is a candidate for Con-
gress as ''blueberry- bearing State" He
would not have belittled it in that way. He
should have been allowed to see the pr onf.
After the above exordium the biographer
| proceeds in this fashion:
Under such an inspiration as this it was that
the sterling Democrats of the First Congressional
| District summoned the handsome and magnetic
| Harry Clford-as his troops of warm friends will
| insist upon calling the Hon. VIM. III. Clifford OF
| Portland-to take up their long unhonored stand
ard-uuhonored by triumphant bear It on to
sagaciOus constituents given Mr.. Reeds faithful
followers the strongest possible assurance that
the Republicans will have the hardest KIND OF
work before them to read their title clear to the
first districts seat in Congress- after the ideS OF
next November-the Congressional election oc-
curing in September.
Mr. William Henry Clifford is a native of York
county. Maine, and is now about forty years. years Of
age. When his father the late Justice Cn1tord,
was sent to represent our government In Inc mans
Of the Montezumas, young Harry acdGo S a
grown man may be the better aDle, recallus tne
impressions made upon the mind OF the bright boy
to take up Understandings the question ct our
lie beyond the Rio Grande-a question with
which Congress may soon have to grapple in real
earnestness.
The reports from the schools in which young
Clifford received hts intercollegiate education
schools in which the growth and health OF mind
and body were given due and proportlonate At
and an athlete He was graduated at Dartmouth
at the early age of 18 years. A deal OF sterling
manhood was developed in those earlier days az
President Lord. The writer of this recalls, as
eyewitness. many football game on the COM
mon, compared with which the most hotly-con,
tested games of later-day base ball are tame and
spirtless. And here ALSO we are happy to be-
lieVe the attainments and accomplishments OF
early life may serve the future Congressman
well. Muscle hath its victories in the lobby no
less renowned than war on other fields, some
times.
mitted to the bar, and practeed his profession
for some wears in Boston. but finally returned to
his native State and settled in Portland. In the
trial OF patent causes he has won the foremost
rank, has but few equals ana no SUPERIOR IN the
in 1874 lust to get his hand i'll, accepting the
Democratic nomination for Congress IN the first
district, Overwhelmingly Republican, Inc nght