Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-09-06

cherishing the sentiment of hostility put
forth by those who assumed to speak for
it, it was in the highest degree impertinent
Beginning thus, it has sought to extend
its influence to other localities and by like
methods. When its sole organ declares it
independent of party, when, in advance,
its leaders do not hesitate to declare that
the chamberlain men" will not submit
to the usages and counsels of the party,
but will seek success through such sup
ports as may come to them from any quar-
ter, should it create surprise in the Adver-
tiser that there are those whose estimation
of and attachment to the republican party
are such as to impel them to deprecate
such methods and purposes as boding only
evilp
When before did journal protesting to
be republican, think it expedient or allow
able to make an appeal to "the people" to
control the action of its party? When be-
fore has it been thought becoming to pred
icate the expectation of political success
not only upon allies and influences outside
of the party, but hostile to it? When be-
fore in our politics was faction, moved
by the impulses of personal partizanship,
found counting or willing even to accept
forces from whatever quarter they might
come, or of whatever stripe, so that it adj
vanced the interests of its favorite can
didateP
Now, for all this, what is the pretense
of the Advertiser? That the politicians
have the control of the party and are hos
tile to its favorite candidate for a high
office. There is very little truth in either
statement of the proposition, that the pol
iticians, in the sense intended, have the
control of the party, or that they have
been or are hostile to Gov. Chamberlain,
whatever may be their opinion as to the
Scnatorship. Since the republican party
had an existence in this State no party
was so entirely in the hands and under the
control of the masses that constitute it,
attributable to their high purposes, intelli-
gence and independence. If these are
the politicians referred to, and they are
the veritable politicians of the party,
then it is true it is under their control.
But who are the politicians intended by
the Advertiser The office-holders Who
and what is its favorite candidate, the chief
of office holders in the State, and what of
the legions who are holding office under
him, and swift to do his pleasure, and who
do not hesitate to declare their indepen-
dence of party in this service What, |
pray, are these and the like, the disinter-
ested people" as contradistinguished |
from the politicians of the Advertiser?
The silly cry of 'stop thief" from such
will deceive nobody. If by politicians the
Advertiser means those prominent in the |
confidence of the people, and who in
some good sense may be said to be rep
men, then we say no man ever
in the executive chair of State was so en-
.irely put in place and sustained by the
berlain. Does anybody need to be re-
minded of the political methods of last
year which brought him before the State |
for Governor for fourth term, and how |
they were not of the people or the masses
of the party THAT he was literally put
on the track by the letter OF designation of
nine distinguished and most estimable gem
tlemen, all politicians" and portion of
them holding Office at the time under him ?
And does anybody need to be told what in
iuences nominated him at Bangor, when
most obviously not the choice ofthe conven-
ton? They were the influences which the
Advertiser now deprecates as hostile to the
ambition Off its favorite. There was hostility
to his denomination at Bangor, there was
menace there then as now, and the seduc-
ton of proffering allies, then as now, if he
were not renominated. II prudential con-
sderations Influenced the politicians then,
it nevertheless disproves their assumed
hostility. With what an i'll grace comes this
cry of the Advertiser against the politi-
clans. Have an eye to the men who use
the word as term of reproach. 1t seems
to convey to the Advertiser the idea of
artifice. continuance, personal partizan
ship. Well, some minds are so consti-
tuted. Whatever stands in the way of
their interests or ambition is sinister To
most, however, on the contrary, the word
has an honorable significance, suggestive
of one versed in the affairs of government,
at once the most enrolling and important
of occupations. and to all, in free coun-
try, to be devoted to politics, is not mat
ter of reproach. 1t is term of reproach
only-let the Advertiser ponder it-when
coupled with the idea of accomplishing
political or partizan ends by indirection,
by artiful contrivance, and not by accred
tied and legitimate methods.
POLIIICAL,