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The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03
secret Voting.

There is now before the Massachusetts
legislature bill of great interest and i'm
portance relating to modification of the
time honored method of exercising the right
of suffrage A secret ballot has often been
advocated in this country; and very recently
much has been said in favor of that form of
secret voting called the Australian system.
The bill before the Massachusetts legisla-
ture, reported from the committee on cleo
lions with but one dissenting voice. embod-
les the principal features of this system.
Though first devised in Australia it was
adopted in England in 1872, and has since
been in successful operation there. So 1t is
a system approved by trial in very conser-
yatiye as well as in new and democratic
community. Besides making the ballot Sc
cret the Australian system regulates the
nomination Of candidates and provides the
tickets for the voters. 1t is provided in the
Massachusetts bill that all nominations for
candidates that are to be voted for on the
State ticket shall be made to the Secretary
of State at least fourteen days before the
election, and for candidates for city
elections to the city clerk at least
six days before the city elections.
The candidates may be nominated by caucus
es or conventions, as at present; or they may
be nominated by a paper in which certain
number of citizens signify their wish that
certain person be a candidate. All candi-
dates TO be voted for at the same polling
places are printed on the same ticket. This
ticket the voter receives from an official dis
tributor ON entering the polling room. The
voter takes the ballot and goes to one of sew
eral stalls in the room, and there, by himself
and with no one allowed near to overlook
him, he makes mark against the names of
those candidates for whom he votes. He
then folds his ballot SO the marks cannot be
seen, and deposits it in the box. BY this
method intimidation of the voter is impossi-
BILE; the corruption of the voters on the
scale often carried out in large cities is also
difficult, as there is no means whereby the
briber can tell whether. the voter has voted
as he has been paid to vote. The bill has a
large support in the public sentiment of
Massachusetts; and if the opinions of the
committee on elections are an index of the
sentiment of the legislators, it will become
law
The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.
A Republican State Convention will be held in
CITY HALL,
Portland, Tuesday, June ~, 1883,
All o'clock, A. M,

for the purpose OF nominating candidate for
Governor, to be supported at the September cleo
tion, and transacting any other business that may
properly come before it.
The basis of representation will be as follows
Each city, town and plantation will be entitled to
one delegate, and for each seyenty-lve votes cast
for the Republican candidate for governor in 1884
an additional delegate, and for fraction of forty
votes in excess Of seventy-hve votes, further
additional delegate.
The State committee will be In session in the
reception room of the hall at o'clock on the
morning of the convention. for the purpose of re
ceiving the credentials of delegates.
All electors of Maine, without regard to past
political differences who believe in protecting the
Industries of this State and its agricultural pro-
ducts; who believe in protecting the laborer and
the wage-earner in every right; who believe Gin
choosing policy which inspires labor with hope
and crowns 1t with dignity, which gives safety to
capital and protects its increase, which secures
political power to every citizen, comfort and cul-
ture to every home" giving free popular education
TO the people; in favor Of free suffrage and an
honest counting Of ballots; who approve the pro
hibition Of the liquor traffic and the promotion of
the cause of temperance; in an economical, just
and efficient administration of public affairs; a
faithfully administered civil seryice and who up
mold all judcions measures for the encouragement
OF American ship building,are cordially invited to
unite with the Republicans in the selection OF del-
egates to this convention.
Per order Republican State Committee.
j. Ii. MANLY, Chairman.
WILLIS II. WING, Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03

The temperance people of Concord, N. H.,
are much pleased with the results of their
rigid enforcement of the prohibitory law. A
correspondent of the Manchester Mirror
writes that there has not in the past decade,
or even since the close Of the war, been so
little general drinking in Concord The
contrast between the situation now and two
months ago is great. The most notorious
saloons have quieted down into billiard halls
and cigar stores, and the temperance people
think they can keep them so. BY eternal
vigilance they can; only they must see that
the rumsellers are not at work while they
are sleeping. 1t takes more than two
months to secure the conquests of a crusade
Of this sort
The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03

Some years ago through the instrumental
ty of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union woman was appointed to take
charge of female offenders brought to the
station. For while her whole compensa-
ton was paid by the Union. Subsequently
the City Council appropriated 500 to help
defray the expense and afterwards in
creased the sum to $780, Up to this year the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union has
been left in charge of this matter, they Sc
lecting the matron, and the Council merely
helping to defray the expense. This ar
rangement obviously had many adyan-
tages. The matron made report of the cases
of females arrested to the Union and the
disposition made Of each case. If woman
was sent to jail the Union inquired into
her family and her children were
taken care Of during her Imprisonment.
When she was discharged che Union kept
track of her and sometimes were able to
bring about her reform. This arrangement
seems to have given general satisfaction up to
the present year. Successive Mayors and
Boards of Aldermen have approved it by
voting the small sum asked without hesita-
ton. When the appropriation was asked for
this year however, a motion was made,
which prevailed, to lay it on the table, This
was the first of April. On Monday last at a
special meeting the Board took the matter
wholly into its own hands and appointed
a matron and fixed her salary, thus entirely
ignoring the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. What the reasons for this action
were did not appear in the proceed
ings Of the Board, nor have we
any information on this point.
They may have been sufficient. But the
action of the Board seems to have been very
summary, and certainly was not free from
the appearance Of discourtesy. The Union
ought to have been notified that a new plan
was proposed and given an opportunity to be
heard We are informed that at the next
meeting Of the City Council this omission
will be supplied We hope this information
is correct The originatorS of what is now
generally admitted to be wise and useful
reform ought certainly to be consulted be-
fore that reform is essentially modified.
The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03
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WEST NEWBURY, MASS.
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The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03


The New England Homestead recently adj
dressed inquiries to large number of New
England farmers asking their opinions of
the Mills tariff bill. Among the answers is
one from Vermont farmer which runs as
follows:
No. If the farmers only protection is voted
away by the free admission of raw materials, L
should then, in self,protection, advocate entire
free trade, and think it would then be our only
hope.
The free traders who concocted the Mills
bill no doubt had this idea of the Vermont
farmer in mindswhen they constructed their
measure. "Put raw materials ON the free
list, they said to themselves, land that will
deprive the farmer and the miner of protec-
tion. Leave manufactures protected and that
will compel the farmer and the miner TO pay
tribute to the manufacturer. The protec-
tive system will thus be destroyed, and in
stead Of it will be inaugurated system of
robbery SO plain that the farmers and the
miners will see it and inevitably revolt
against it, Thus will the dawn of free trade
be fastened" The protective system can
only be defended on the ground that it enures
to the general good. The moment it ceases
to do that and despoils one class to enrich
another it becomes system Of favoritism
which nobody can defend. II is into such
system that President Cleveland and his al
lies in the Democratic party are seeking to
convert protection, with view to its CON-
plete destruction in the near future. The
Vermont farmer is quite right in revolving
against policy that shall take all protection
from the articles he has to sell and keep
it on the articles he has to buy. A mixture
of free trade and protection, such as the
Mills bill proposes, can have but brief ex-
istence. The freetraders understand this
perfectly, but they see in that measure a
wedge with which to split asunder the pro-
tective system and hasten its complete des-
trnctiOn.
The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03

1t would be difficult task. even for Sena-
tor ingalls,, to overstate or paint in blacker
colors than it deserves the infamy of Senator
Voorhees, war record. There was manli-
ness about the conduct of the men who
made open war against the government that
somewhat extenuates their crime, but Voor-
hoes was not Of this sort. He stabbed his
country in the back. Processing loyalty to
the union he gave aid and comfort to its
enemies in every way he dared. He says
the people Of Indiana have condoned his
reco I'd 1t is true that the Democrats have
elected him to the Senate, and as far as they
are concerned this may be condonement of
his record. But by the loyal people of the
North such record as Voorhees, can never
be forgiven and ought never to be forgiven.
1t is very questionable, however, if it is prof
fitable to spend the time of the Senate in
such debates as that Of Tuesday. They are
vastly entertaining to the galleries, no doubt,
but the Senate was not created for the pur-
pose of entertaining people. That's what
circuses and sparring matches are for.
The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03

A case of sunstroke is reported frcm
Eastern Maine. 1t must have been the heat
OF the gubernatorial contest that did it.
The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03

Another point in favor of the new chief
justice is that he was one of the men on
whom Joe Mackin, the ballot box suffer,
was pleased to take vengeance in 1884. by
keeping him out Of the National Convention.
Mackin is no W in the penitentiary.
The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 8.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu-
aications. The name and address Of the writer
are in all cases indispensable, not necessarily ior
publication but as a guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03
A sure and Positive Care.
THE MOST WONDERFUL CURE ON
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been under the treatment OF many physicians and
tried various remedies. / conld not, in all the
years that have passed since stricken, lift my left
foot from the floor. / commenced taking DIR.
Greene's Nervura Nerve Tonic, and am now able
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Sworn TO and subscribed before me this 21st day
of December, A. ID. 1887.
T. s. PHILLIPS, Notary Public.
The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03
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PA r A. Y l S
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great fatigue, and the weakness will be very
marked. These symptoms will often be accom-
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head or back, and the person often wakes each
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after time, by slight numbness or tinging, at
first hardly noticeable, but gradually becoming
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until the sensation is similar to that felt when,
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The tingling is not always constant. but may
come and go at any time without apparently any
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the limbs with an exhausted sensation.
The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03
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The Portland daily press., 1888-05-03
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Bryan Fields, of kinston, has
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ingalls, Attack on Mr.. Cleveland.
IIIarpcr's Weekly, Republican,

EIIarpcr's Weekly, Rrpubiican.1
The acting Vice President of the
United States has published in the
N0yth Ame1 itan RspIe70 the foulest
attack upon the President which has
yet been made, ard with the intention,
undoubtedly, that it should appear
upon the eve Of Lis denomination. A
Just sense of official dignity and pro-
priety, it seems to lis, would have with
held the acting Vice President from
such an unseemly performance at any
time. Even ii the allegations were
true, they are expressed with such
studied vituperatjon, and with such an
evident desire not to tell the truth, but
to produce an impression, that they
can have no possible effect upon any
reader who is not already decided.
As vulgar personal TRADE, the article,
proceeding from person in highly
dlgnilied office, is merely offensive to
every decent American OF whatever
party sympathy. But as inviting re-
proach upon the American name, and
Skept:cism and scorn of popular gov
eminent, 1t is of more importance.
The paper in carefully chosen, repul
siyc ep;thets describes the President
IS man possessed Of every acknowl-
edged disqualification for his office,
''who has been selected because OF
them" He is"an inert and vacant
mass of ignorance and bestiality,
whom the people of the United States
have either deliberately chosen to be
their Chief Magistrate or have submit
ted to his imposition upon them by
fraud. The author holds up his coun-
try to the contempt Of the world. If
what his poper alleges were true, If this
were the actual result after trial of a
hundred years of free popular COVER
nors h the people, the failure Of the
popular system would be complete.
The author of this libel upon the Amer
lean people was an ardent supporter
for the presidency of a man who was
defeated because he was believed to
have trafhlked in his official position.
That fact is as creditable to the coun-
try as the assault of the acting Vice
President is disgraceful. Nor is his
aSpersion relieved by his remark that
the election of such a President as
he describes has proved the capacity
of the people for self-government. He
admits that such an assertion is para
doXical. But it is simply silly. Such
IN unqualified assault strengthens the
candidate at whom it is launched. The
only persons who will applaud this
diatribe are those who would support
any Republican candidate, even If it
were the Senator from Kansas. But
all other honorable American citizens
will see with amazement that the at
tack upon popular government pro
ceeds from the man whom the Repub-
tlcan majority of t,,e Seuate has elevat-
cd to the highest honor within its gift.