The Republican journal., 1870-03-31
MAYOR HAyFoRD AND THE AGE.

WhiOn ANU IIC roL. u
If ever q man had occasion to exclaim
''Save me from my friends"' that man is |
Mayor Hayford, of this city. In publishing
last week his Annual Address, the document
and plans in language so clear and straight
forward, that no comments were called tor.
50 we laid the document before our readers
without remark.
The Prog Age, however, could afford only
"a brief ABSTRACT of the document. And
that ''brief abstract occupies twice the space
that the whole address takes in the Journal.
Such u mingling of mendacious lying and
thick headed stupidity, Of bare-faced trcach-
cry and malicious assault upon the credit Of
the city, was never before seen in the columns
Of any printed sheet As n specimen take
one recommendation in the Mayors Address,
rs follows
During the coming year we shall be under the
necessity Of providing for payment Of the interest
falling due our Railroad Loan, shall derive
no income from the Road i'm season to meet that in
tercS for the first six months, and but portion of
he last would, therefore, call your attention to
the eXpediency of making Municipal Loan, for
sufficient sum to pay the same in term OF years
rather than to raise the required amount by taxa
ton the present year. ] ask Your consideration of
this subject, us one of much importance and inter-
csl to our tax payers
This is plain enough The rent from the
Maine Central, to commence next November,
will not pay the interest on the city bonds
issued during the year, prcyioust to that date.
Shall the citizens be taxed 10 make up tn"
deficiency, some $50, 900, MI at once? or shall
money be borrowed, and the amount repaid
by taxation distributed over y series Of years?
Ii is one Of the commonest financial expcdi-
cnts to adopt the latter course, and in this
case Il very wise one. Now how does the
'.hrief abstract of the Age, which is a good
deal longer than the original, state this very
plain proposition? II is turned twisted and
inverted into this shape
Abiding to the necessity Of providing for the in
tercSt which is falling due on the railroad bonds,
he suggests the eXpedienry Of obtaining munich
| pal loan Of sufficient sum to pay the same for II
| term Of years.
The difference between raising a portion
of y years intert st on $500 .0O0 to be repaid
''u 4 term Of ycars'-or .'obtaning 4 muni-
cipal loan of q Sufficient sum 10 pay the same
for q term Of years is very great II j. all
the difference in the world
| But the main question which affects the
citizens of Belfast is-What motive has the
conductor Of the Age in refusing TO publish
the brief address Of the chief mn @istrate and
sending ont TO the world sGch 4 miserable
misrepresentation rs tins? Is il native and
Unborn stupidity. which cannot comprehend
| the plain meaning Of words2 Or is il n ma
liciouS attempt to bring the city into COM
tempt and its securities into diSrrcdit, ~ re-
presenting sucl an absurd scheme u.s. being
seriously recommended? 1t is one or the
other Of these. Types and presses in such
hands arc dangerous articles. Like monkey
pcrchcd on tie crane with the powder-horn
ii isn't of nlu il account if he gets blown up
the chimney but the house may be injured
in the operate on.
We don't appear rs the defender of Mayor
lIayord on political or personal grounds.
| We don't like his politics better than those Of
any other man of his party, and on n party
issue would oppose him as vigorously as we
would any onr But as 4 citizen of Belfast
having Il pride in her welfare and interest in
her prosperity. we cannot let such gross mis-
representation and vin,licliNeness pass I'M
challenged it is shameful thai such stuff
should he put in print.