The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-05-19
A STRANGE 9ALLYlNG CRY.

1t is said that long continued and uncheck-
ed lease of power makes men not only I'M
scrupulous, but very bold in their unscrupul-
business. This is shown in the course of the
Republican party, is especially observable in
the call for a State Convention, just put forth
And it is not only boldly INSCRIPTIONS, but
ludicrously so 1t invites to tho party gather
ing All who ''applaud it successful endeavorS
to establish economy and honesty in the adj
ministration of the Government; who ap-
prove the record Of the party in Maine on all
questions of public policy including its con
sistent and straightforward efforts for the
suppression of the evils Of intemperancc"
The economy and honesty suggestion will
not be likely to draw a large crowd If only
those come who honestly indulge in that kind
of applause, the convention may be held in
cheese-boX, without danger of being crowd
ed With its yeary expenses treble those of
the last democratic administration, aside from
the interest on the bt,-with defalcation
and plumber exposures following each other
as regularly rs the sun rises-wth one of its
high officials the Wanted Christian soldier
an accused thief and undergoing Il trial
which it is not dared to hold in public-with
| the magnificent public domain melting away
| in foolish and needless grants to railroad
| companies, which are Immediately shared
with the Congressman who vote them--with
the people getting poor and the officials
growing rich-these fellows prate about
economy and honesty.
And there is even a self-complacent allu-
sion to ''the record of the party in Maine y
| Why the single acknowledge fact that, under
/ its direction and by its connivancc, the peo-
pie of the State were robbed of more than a
million of dollars-robbed by rs foul and
rutiianly a proceeding as though with a high
wayman's pistol at their heads-we say the
tact IS enough to sink to everlasting perdition
any party that ever saw the light of day. The
expenses of governing the State are cnor-
mously increased-new and needless officials
are foisted upon the people-and new schemes
for plumber and corruption are daily develop
ed
|
can party! After nearly twenty years of its
virtuous and disntercsted efforts in the cause.
it has effected a transfer of the sales of liquor
from the keepers of hotels and place of en-
tertanment to its own special friends and
partiZans. Rum selling has become Il part of
the party machinery. The republican party
to-day is keeping huge state reservoir of
rum at Portland, from which it flows, under
party direction, in streams of wet damnation
to every town in the State. From the town
deposltaries it is judiciously directed where
it can most help the party. The whole sys-
tenn is rank and rotten with sin and corrup-
ton. 1t actually stimulates and promotes
drunkness, by holding out to the young the
idea that there is in the indulgence of liquor a
mysterious forbidden pleasure, of which the
servants OF the republican party holds the ex-
elusive patent rights, and by whom permission
for indulgence may he had 1t makes young
men not only drunkards, but hypocrites and
liars. The whole system ought to be kicked to
Tophet, to the keeping of Satan, who is its
father and patron.
! However numerously the office holders
who fatten on the substance of the people
may meet in Convention however the pane,
credit heroes may come there to vaunt thei,
purity; however the patrons and promoters
of delirium tremens, the custodians of bune-
hole and tap, may preach and prate-there is
a sense and feeling of propriety that will one
day awake, and stop the whole wicked bust
ness.