Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-12-28
eastern Time5.
BATH, DECEMBER %, 1854.
Designing Wing Politicians and the
Maine Law.

Designing Wing Politicians and the
Maine Law.
We copied an item from the Albany Atlas
two or three weeks ago as follows -
The operation and course of the temper
Onoe leaders IN regard TO politics has been from
the beginning little else than fraudulent con-
spracy against the democratic party, and in
behafOfa designing class of whigpoliticans. ="
We stated it as our belief that the remark
was as true of Maine as any other part OF Gre
alton. OF course we supposed if anybody
noticed the charge, it would come from some
wing paper DESTROYS of maintaining the good
character of that party. But it seems pro-
fessedlv neutral naper has considered 1t IN
cumbent to step forward TO repel the attack
upon the fair name of whiggery. The Hal
lowell Gazette, paper that never NEEDLES
with politics. over the left, dissents entirely
from our declaration. and fights with the man
fulness of hero for the integrity and inno-
cency of the whig leaders. The editor asks,
"was tia wing Legislature that passed the
Maine lava whig governor that signed it
wing leader that took the stump in defence
of it Z"
We answer, that is not TO the point. The
long and short Of our declaration was that
temperance leaders had conspired against the
democratic party and in behalf of certain
class of wing politicians. These leaders, after
making great pretence for the Maine law, did
all they could to throw overheard the excel
lent Governor that signed it, and raise to the
gubernatorial office the present incumbent,
who VIGOROUSLY opposed the law at the outset
on constitutional grounds And the editor of
the Hallowell Gazette voted for Gov. Crosby
for the same reason, viz; mol to support the
Maine law, but 10 put down the democratic
party of Maine. That was one result of the
operation and course of the temperance lead
ers-they got rid of the Governor that signed
the law, because he was democrat, and gave
us Governor who s'forbld the banns between
temperance and politics." because he was
whg. And the very first appointment he
made was after the same sort-only more SO.
Again, the operation and course of the tenn
perance leaders put one of them into the chair
of Speaker Of the House-another noisy
declaimer on temperance, into the clerkship-
nominated candidate for Congress in the
Eastern District to pay him for his Maine
law gas and got him run down as conse-
quence-put an Observation-Disclosures into
the U. S. Senate for six years-nominated an
opposer of the Maine law for Governor last
Spring on strong Maine law platform and
then deserted him-why! because these very
temperance leaders concluded they could stab
the democratic party deeper by going in for
Morrill,, whose watchword was ''death to the
democratic party of Maine.' And they car
ried with them twenty thousand wings, who
declared with Peck and others that the Maine
law was not question in the canvass-oh,
no, the glorious Maine law, VIGOROUSLY not
enforced, but dead letter in three-quarters Of
the State, not question The grand game
was to be in at the death Of the democratic
party. And yet, with all this history before
him !; known and read of all men, and not dis
puted even by out and out whig organs, our
friend of the Hallowell Gazette deems it in
cumbent on him to raise himself from the neu-
trail bed, which, in scriptural language, is
''not long enough to stretch himself upon,"
and WELD his cudge at US with terrific force
because of an expression of coincidence, so
far as this State is concerned, with the remark
of the Albany Atlas. We are at a loss to ex-
plain it except on the same principle we sup
pose he recommends the Hallowell House as
superior to the Augusta houses. AT the in
auguration ofthe Augusta House they used
champagne. He therefore recommends the
members of the Legislature TO board at the
Hallowel House, where it is we'll known bet
ter champagne cannot be found in the country.