Show r I 1 tu 0 MAINE MAINE ON I 1 MONDAY I 1 L As in military warfare war faire skirmishes precede tho the deai decisive lid 1 lea lil liko C wise in ill political campaigns there a anre roi 11 1 r 1 aa advance vance fights I 1 before tho tile 1 great g reat 1 national Natio naf wrestle I 1 there are in in state tussles such buell na as t tho late contest in Verin vermont olit where as usual 1 the republicans got a majority of the green mountain 1 i boys ya 1 1 S 14 i the tile next great ato state etri strife fe wili will be in tho the adopted state of tho republican candidate for the presidency pr cepl i I 1 an exalted position I 1 winch never before has bas been BO oo degraded by offering it to a roan mani with mulligan memories and other tattoo marks the citizens of the Tine free state will be called upon to elect a state ticket and congressional rep on monday sept ath th tile present li resent republican governor frederick rederick P robie is 13 a it candidate for election reelection re and the tile democrats sare arc running ralin hig john B redman against him in 1882 out of a total vote of the re republicans bubli I 1 had a I 1 majority mai of 5 but in the freshen I 1 over both llie the democratic and greenback candidates was ivas only 1400 though ine in 1876 the 1 had i d 1 sr 7 this that politics in I 1 11 i apine pe arc are a sort of s sec e c saw game likely to teeter one oue way as much as the other the fluctuation it is true is much more wore remarkable in lier her early history for after her presidential i el t in maiden h a SL K aaen vote for monroe a democratic Deni Geratic su as party lines now go she cast lier her next I 1 two successive ballots for adams in 1824 all and 1828 then for or jackson and van buren 1832 und and 1830 being democratic changed again ag ain I 1 in in 1840 for harrison republican ai party lines now run but repented pe of the evil of her I 1 ay fori the next three national elections 1 T kj i supporting successively I 1 alve l y tho the demo cratic nominees polk cass and pierce but then maine got into the vortex of the republican maelstrom and lier her rote vote has successively swelled tho the hopes and happiness of fremont lincoln grant hayes au rf beld making waking main 6 tio nally a republican state borho for the last seven Adi ninis im ra r ratling rat tc ioni long V k N rs t j now though we think that til atthe r the deven seven fat tat kw kine of the republican majorities should be succeeded by G seven lean democratic bovines to give them a i ch anceto to fatten c n I 1 up we arc are afraid that the 0 republican republicans hang jiang on oil loo much to 0 the teat they have havo been sucking so long and feo ho lovingly possession canine is ax aine I 1 points in inlaw law in maine mainers Ma ineas as at 1 elsewhere true tr uv the tho roan inell fro fr 0 m ns maine I 1 havo bave not been very well 1 rewarded c for their fidelity to the republican party this latter latt or has given the northeastern border state of the union only one oil e vico arice dent hamlin 11 amlin one secretary of state blame blaine and two secretaries of the treasury and morrill attorney gemial clifford 1 oct oci 17 1846 to juno june 21 I 1 ai 8 1 and postmaster Postin aster horatio king feb 12 1801 to march maich 5 8 r 1 I 1 were nvere the t I 1 ic appointees applin tee of democratic D clil C preside presidents lits BO 60 that maine indeed I 1 t J I 1 lias ba little lo 10 thank tile republicans for fo r but all lill this ingratitude of tho the past has been wiped out by tile chicago convention of june juno last when james G 0 blaine blainie on the fourth ballot cast on june fth the fourth day of t the he week received the nomination of the republican party and wo we have no doubt that he ho will carry the tile state at least in AW I 1 1 t t T h bdate e action erection alg 1 Y arf bi se clairl h it t ve I 1 0 ia eairy I 1 1 0 ak 11 ty AM robie ierg reef rele ctet by 6 14 I 1 m k laj arity while from we that din P arc ing ing i a Loru will fisit t to keep majori majority y below abey it as i a practical V ae X 0 alf ianita fr rii 8 is 8 J done one 11 ia h filhe no doubt theeS 4 ir n 8 are nol not half tu na far a ns arega with li respect r ct me a rinart at A in ti breut greut amoo gitil con a teat on the first tuesday of the eleventh of A D 1884 |