Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-08-26
Democratic County Contention

tho Democratic County Convention las
week, to stir up the party in the County
to little life. by speeches from some o
the lawyers in attendance. \. S. kimball
Esq, OF Waterford, the nominee fo
County Attorney, was first called out
He responded in very creditablc man
nor. the line of his remarks being TO sho"
that the Democratic party had the bcs
record in the management of our nationa
affairs. and he dcplored tho fact tina
young men, rs they commenced poiiica
lie. were mole inclined to act whit tht
republican party. Mr.. X. might have
given the true reason for this, 10 wit =
that while the democratic party Is con
seryaliyc and covered with the barnacle:
of age, and is engineered by pensioner:
and old fogics, the republican party i:
made up Of Ire mcn,progrcssive, radical
if YOU plcase-and young men see the
difference, and choose the latter. Mr.
Kimball said the democracy had been ac'
cuscd Of dealing with dead issues, ant
nominating To Office men who had MOI
been active in defence OF their Country
but now what have they TO say against
our nominee for Governor, Charles W.
Roberts? (The name was received win
cheers.) Where was he in the last war
said Mr.. Kimball-no, in Congress, iilch-
ing from the people their hard earned
gains, AS some were. but tn The .fth
fighting for o,w iHSftiHioaS' This an
nounccmcnt elected 40 applause-it lei
like wet sheet upon 4 body OF men,
most of whom had condemned the war
and all who participated in it. No en-
thusiasm can be stirred in democratic
hearts by the war record of Gen. Roberts
their nominee for Governor. II is evident
Mr.. X. withdrew, after thanking the Con
vcntion 70: the nomination bestowed upor
him.
Alvah Black, Esq, OF Paris, was thcr
called upon. and ere lie had proceeded
far, il was evident that he had struck out
for n somewhat extended speech. liz
spoke over m hour, and amused his
auditors considerably, especially when he
played upon "the harp of Thousand
strings" WHICH democratic orators SC
frequently resort to-by the use OF sucl
terms as the God and morality party,
the dcn of thieves, Butler and his spoons
&c
Now Mr.. Black is one OF the prominent
leaders of his party in the County-per
haps tho ablcst Of thcm-and when he
speaks deliberately, upon political mat
ters, he can make points worthy Of notice
it should be expected of him; and we
propose to examine his speech, and sec
what he made out.
lie commenced by saying that it was
about 20 years since he had been in the
habit of meeting with the democracy, 70,
consultation, each ycar-then there was
Z democratic majority in the County Of
about 1000. and since then, it hal been n.
much the other way. This is n significant
Iact-lct us pause here moment and ash
the reason OF this extraordinary state,
mcut, that great political party, in so
small territory Is a County, in that
period Of time, should so lose lis hold
upon the people. Have the voters he.
come infatuated and weak minded, that
this should happen, or is it not more
probable that the party has become
dcrelict of duty and principle, and forfeit.
cd their support? Mr. Black sud the
democratic party was the party Of truth
and OF right, and while the country was
under this rule. it prospered. He cited
the period from 1915 to 1860, in proof
He could not have been more unfortunate
in his selection Of dates. What was tho
legacy left by the democratic party, il
1860, when it went ont of power? A most
unholy, unjust and villainous civil war
got up by democrats, under democratic
administration, concocted in democratic
cabinct-an empty and discre dited treas
ury, with weak and scattered naval
this and much morc-and this is demo-
cratic prosperity TO boast of! Mr. Black
said, suppose there were some men in the
democratic party that did wrong during
the war, there were more republican;
who had done worse since the war closed
The democratic party, he said, did no
profess to be party of morality, while
the God and morality party did" Yc'
the latter patty was full of corruption
He found so many evils 10 condemn in it
that he had to put them all together. ant
damn them in heap (Grcat laughter
Why, there was one democratic Office
holder under Jackson, who was de
faulter, and it caused great shame to tho
party to think of the disgrace. His name
was put into the Dictionary to express tho
new offence of cmbeZzling public funds
IL was S,CdrtroM But it wouldn't be
possible to get the names of all the re
publican dcfaulting office holders into any
Dictionary in cxistence-it wouldn't hole
them!
Let us see now this is? The point made
is, that the republican party, protesting t.
be purer party, contains more rascal:
than the democratic party. To this We
reply that tho comparison is hardly fair
because numerically our party is mucl
larger, and might contain moro dishones