The Portland daily press., 1888-09-13
CURRENT COMMENT.
A DAMAGING BLOW.
rB0ston TravaIlar1

A DAMAGING BLOW.
boston Trayeller.l
Every Democrat In Congress realizes that
the reelection of Tom Reed is damaging
blow to their party.
USEFUL LETTER.
[Albany Journal
The Presidents letter of acceptance APP
peared just in time for the Maine election.
The Pine Tree State citizens evidently read
1t and then voted the Republican ticket.
TRUE VERDICT.
boston Transcript
II must be conceded that Maine does not
fancy Mr.. Putnam's agency in the fishery
treaty, although this treaty will not here
after. we think, be condemned to as great
degree as now. The tariff question was
fully debated, and the Republicans have a
right to claim the verdict as one condemning
| the fisheries agreement and the Mills bill
GROUNDED THE CRAFT.
CBoston Journal
The latch string of the White House isn't
hanging out any more to- Commissioner OF
Navigation Morton. He has run the free
trade ship hard and fast aground in Maine,
and the administration will have no further
use for his political services. Perhaps he
may be permitted to attend to his legitimate
duties now, and to learn how to distinguish
an East lndiaman from canal boat
m BEST OF ALL.
~ New York Press.l
Best Of all, glorious Tom Reed is elected
to Congress by an increased majority. Dem
| ocrats fear him because he is bright and
| brainy, and they hate him because he is ag-
| gressive and honest. They concentrated
| their spears upon his breast, as the Austri-
| ans theirs upon the Swiss hero at Morgarten
they poured out money like water to defeat
| the brave leader of the Republican minority
| on the floor of the House of Representa-
tives. But the Winkelreid of the Republi-
| can cause triumphed and survives TO lead
the. fighting battalions into the breach that
/ he has made. A
THE NORTH AROUSED.
Lowell Courier.l
The result Of the election in Maine is salts
factory beyond the keenest hopes of the
most enthusiastic Republicans in the coun-
| try. 1t far exceeds the most sanguine ex-
pectations. Republicans generally would
have been thankful for much smaller plu-
rality Everything considered it means
more than the similar majority of 1884. II
| shows, taken in connection with the votes in
Oregon and Vermont, that the whole North
| is aroused as 1t has seldom been in Presi-
dental year, and strengthens the proba-
bility that every Northern State will cast
its electoral vote for Harrison and Morton.
THE SPIRIT OF VICTORY.
philadelphia North Americana
The State of Maine covers SO wide terri
tory and is so sparsely settled that the collec-
tion of election returns is more than ordina-
rily tedious and troublesome, and the reports
published this morning of yesterdays voting
| are unavoidably imperfect Such as they are,
| however, they leave no room for doubt as to
| the spirit by which the Maine Republicans
| are animated. 1t is the same spirit as that
| which swelled the Republican majority in
4 Oregon and Vermont and started a steadily
increasing panic in the camp of the free trade
Democrats. 1t is the same spirit as that by
which the Republicans in every part of this
| great country are possessed. 1t Is the spirit
of aggression, of confidence, of combative-
ness. 1t is the spirit of victory.
BAD NEWS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE.
Philadelphia Bulletin.]
The reelection of Hon. Thomas b. Reed
from the First Congressional District Of
| Maine is a severe blow to the Democrats,
| which will be felt especially in the White
House and in the House of Representatives
1 The greatest labor of the party was devoted
| to his defeat, because he has been for years
the brainiest and cleverest man on the Re-
| publican side in Congress- and the President
and his supporters have continually WINGED
| under the keen shafts of his logic and his
| wit. The district is called the only close one
| in the State. -Four years ago Mr.. Reeds
| plurality was only 925; two years ago it was
| 1926; tnis year it is estimated to be 1900
| 1t can hardly be called s'close" any longer
| Backed by such majority, Mr.. Reed will be
more than ever thorn in the side of the
| administration.