Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-14

through the democratic papers that there
was to be breaking up in the republican
party. that the speech of Mr.. Dawes upon
the appropriations was the prelude of a
lively attack to be made upon the admin
istration. and that separation in the
ranks of the republicans would follow.
The Argus told its readers few weeks
ago that the division of the republican
party was inevitable and the mongrel COM
bination certainty. The division it said
was "inevitable :" it could not abe avoided
or long postponed The "shrewder
men" of the republican party saw what
was coming and We're shaping their
course accordingly" Mr.. Dawes had
"opened the ball in mos. telling man.
ner,' The administration with few
camp followers and corrupt men would be
upon one side. while the immaculate de-
mocracy, purified from the stains that the
rebellion had left upon its skirts, would
Join hand in hand with honest republicans
to overturn the party in power. The de-
scription of the mongrel concern AS we
find it in the Argus, says that the COM
bination will comprise those republicans
who have no desire to place the claims of
party above those of country and who
are intelligent enough to be proof against
the receptions of the demagogues who
are now misgoyerning the country. MIR.
Dawes and republicans like him will con-
stitute this class, while the democrats, al
most in body, will help to make upa
power that will sweep the country and in
augurate new era in the management of
affairs"
Unfortunately for this nicely prepared
democratic plan and sounding theory, it
was but few days old when MIR. Dawes
appeared upon the stump in New Hamp-
SHIRE and informed the people that he and
President Grant were in perfect accord
about the appropriations, and that alone
in the permanent supremacy of the repub-
lican party could he see the safe solution
of the great questions of reconstruction.
finance and taxation. bequeathed to the
country by the demolishing of the rebel
lion, and through it alone can be secured
that fidelity in the collection and economy
in the disbursement of the public reve-
nues which will liquidate the public debt
and tighten the public burdens. This gave
the democrats to understand that in count
ing Mr. Dawes as a partner in their mon
grel operations they had reckoned without
their host. And when these declarations
of Mr.. Dawes were followed by the SPLEEN
did republican triumph in New Hampshire,
there was an end of the hopes of the mon
grel party. not only in New Hampshire
but in Maine and all the States, for it was
plainly seen that "Mr. Dawes and repub-
licans like him." as the Argus had it, ''who
are honest, who have no desire to place
the claims of party above those of country
and who are intelligent enough to be proof
against the deceptious of demagogues"
[democrats] were rs strong and united in
their support of the Administration as they
had been in sustaining the flag of the
country in the bloody days Of rebellion.
The flattering invitations that are held out
to republicans to walk over into the dem
ocratic party are pleasant reminders of its
own helplessness. and the disrepute into
which it has fallen through disloyalty in
the rebellion, but they were not sufficient
to cntice the honest, intelligent repub-
licans of New Hampshire TO enter the DEM
ocratic den, and they will serve no better
purpose anywhere else. The demo-
cratic party has neither power, credit,
nor principles to commend itself. 1t
lost its power when slavery fell, its
credit when it became the apologizer and
abettor of rebellion, and if it had princi-
pie worthy of the name it would not be
taking on new forms and appearances at
every election. Honest republicans have
more respect for the men who wore the
gray uniform and took the field than for
those rebel sympathizers who remained
under the protection of the government
and assailed it at all times and in all ways
they could without endangering their per-
sonal safety. The republican party stands
| frmer in the confidence of the people to-
day than when General Grant was elected.