The Portland daily press., 1888-10-22

aware that it has been dealing in abuse or
misrepresentation. 1t wants bill OF par
ticulars. 1t shall have it. In its issue Oh
Oct 18th, it said:
Rather than reduce the sugar duties ten per
cent Mr. Reed allowed an important industry,
fthe shook industry,l TO perish; but In three or
fonr wears the Republican Senate proposes to re-
duce this same duty forty per cent ad valorem.
Here is very glaring case of misrepresen-
tation. Mr.. Reeds whole effort was to save
the shook industry. 1t was the Democratic
party that allowed it to perish.
In the same issue is this paragraph:
All interest in the Senate tariff bill is gone now
that IL is clear that i was drafted and reported
simply as campaign measure without any view
to its ever becoming a law.
This is another gross Misrepresentation
The only foundation there is for it lies in the
assertions of the Democratic press-a yery
poor foundation indeed.
OF piece with the above and occurring in
the same issue. is this:
Continental bluff-the Senate tariff hill.
In its issue of October 20, the Herald as
serts that the National Republican commit
tee
has been circulating liquor literature rim New
Jersey IN The German language declaring that
cleveland Is total abstainer and thai he recent
saloon IN the vicinity Of his pri
That In the South the Democrats are depressing
NE liquor trafic, while the Republicans in the
part Of the Republican platform. but that the
etc. ~ P
Here is another Democratic SANDER Dor
rowed by the Herald without any investiga-
tion Of the facts. 1t is both abuse and
Misrepresentation.
Here is another paragraph from its issue
of October 20, showing the manner in which
the Herald abuses its Republican contem-
poraries:
rhe Lewiston Journal recently told of a "Metho-
dist clergyman in this State" formerly Prohibit
nonIst VINO ,S would i support Harrison The Jour
lished IN another State, without changing sthis
state, 10 the state, where the. paper was pub
from the start but thought il as good for the DireO
State as for any.
Here from the same issue is another illus
trative of the same thing:
The Lewiston Journal seems to have fallen in
love with the Iowa w. Z. I. u. Luckily the law
againt poygamy Is better enforced than the liquor
In its issue of Oct. 9th it publishes in the
shape of correspondence this outrageous
Misrepresentation without word Of rebuke
VI $OtANCtiou.
The party OF Lincoln and Chase did noble work.
put what can be said of the party of Grant and
blaine? They commenced by strengthening the
pubic credit by making bonds that cost the
holder sixty cents on the dollar, worth 100 per
cents, thus putting forty cents into the bond
holders pocket They horded money in the
puDiic treasury, not paying the bonds, but re-
funding them on long times SO as to keep on con-
tracing the peoples money that they might build
themselves up immense fortunes.
The above by no means exhausts all the
instances of abuse and misrepresentation
that can be found in the Herald, but it ex-
hausts all the space the PRESS can give to
the subject at present. Besides, If the COM
mendable spirit which the Herald mani
tested last Saturday continues until next,
its apologies will probably exhaust all the
space the Herald has available. We cannot
refrain however from calling the attention of
the editor of the Herald to this paragraph in
the issue of the Herald of Sept. 10Th which
appears to show that he has not always
been so unconscious that his paper was in
dulging in abuse and Misrepresentation as
he now is. This is the paragraph
.'The contest in Maine is a local one" said the
New York Tribune shortly before election. This
was In some degree true-lterally true when
taken In a strict sense. Many hundreds If not
thousands OF voters acho think our attacks on the
Republicans In Maine unreasonable will vet vote
for Fisk In November. Likewise many who voted
for Putnam.