Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-09-28
rHE YER TISER EXPLAINS.

serious enough in the letter published in
the New York Evening Post, and written
by prominent supporter OF Governor
Chamberlain in Portland, to demand eX-
planation. The Righteousness with which
il treated the idea that the Chamberlain
movement meant treachery and disorgan
ization to the republican party, has all
vanished before the frank ayowals to the
contrary in this letter of Chamberlain's
friend. The effrontery which enabled it
to pile falsehood upon falsehood, and sheer
Mt suggestions that this movement was
independent of party has abandoned it
made by us and other republican papers
against Chamberlain are proved to be
true from this letter written by one of his
bosom friends. This writer says that
Chamberlain will have. if necessary, the
undivided support of the democratic
members :" he also says ''thc movement
of Chamberlain is quite Independent of
party, and will not be subjected to the
rules of political rings and partisan cau-
euses; = It is going to be joint operation
between the democrats and Chamberlain
republicans. And what explanation does
the Advertiser make to these assertions of
Chamberlains friend, no insignificant or
irresponsible man either? What can it
say? 1t pronounced Mr.. Paine of Ban
gor, "indscrect' for only referring to The
coalition, but when the correspondent of
the Post, one of the leaders in the Cham
berlain movement, lets out the whole
scheme. the Advertiser crouches like a
whipped puppy, and says the letter only
"gives out hasty impressions! !" This is
not all, in the attempt to explain. the Adj
vertiser plunges into the same pit with
the Post writer, declaring its opposition to
a legislative caucus, and thus casts adrift
from party usage and swings off into
the independent, Observation-Disclosures
movement by its own announcement.
Why should it undertake to apologize for
lis friends in Portland and elsewhere pay
inr no attention to caucuScs in the late
election and joining the democrats to
elect representatives, when it declares it
self against 4 Legislative caucus? We fail
to see.
The writer in the Post told the truth ;
the Advertiser covered the movement with
cloak of fasehood as long as it could,
and now it stands by its own words an
avowed supporter of the infamous coali-
ton with the democracy. Its mysterious
utterances about "a new plan, and the for
nation of party within party" meant
what has been expressed more fully and
clearly in the Chamberlain letter referred
to. Such coalition could have but one
result--complete surrender of Governor
Chan oerlain and his friends to the demo-
cracy.
This scheme, however, is to be mag
nificent failure. Thanks to the Argus and
Advertiser, the Democratic State Conven-
ton, to the Roberts and Chamberlain
tickets, to the Chamberlain boilers in va
rious towns, and to ''indiscreet" Chamber
lain men like Paine of Bangor and the
Portland correspondent of the Post, the
character of the movement is well under
stood, and that is enough to kill it. We
have dislike to kicking a dead body, but
if the friends of this Chamberlain move
ment have not sense enough to understand
and realize the condition of their pet and
remove it. while they may decently do So
they must be accountable for all the rough
treatment it receives between this time
and next January, when the republican
doctors will pronounce it dead! dead !
dead!! A greater political swindle was
never undertaken in the State; u more
complete defeat than awaits it is not re-
corded in our history. There is not re-
publican honestly elected, of those claim
ed as Chamberlain men, who will 60 an
inch outside of the republican legislative
caucus to support the Democratic-Cha
berlain coalition; not one. This being the
case, the scheme utterly and contempt
IDLY fails, and its epitaph is the next thing
in order,-to which pious task we com
mend the Advertiser and the big brother
letter writer of the Evening Post.