Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-06-24
DEMOCRATIC SEWERAGE.


The ear-marks of the articles in the
Standard, defaming Mr.. Blaine and en-
deavoring to create contention and STRIFE
in the republican party, are sufficient to
indicate the author to those who under
stand his peculiarities and modes OF ex-
pression. There is no mistake about them
on that point, if the authorship were of
anv consequence. which it is not.
The keynote with which he starts, viz ::
that Mr.. Blaine's fortunes are waning, be-
cause in the congressional convention he
received on the first ballot only 1l3 of the
135 votes cast, afterwards made unani-
nous, has not a very inspiring sound for
his cause, to begin with. If this shows
what would show populari-
ty? The discord between the proposition
and the fact is the best answer to the prop
osjtion itself. When five-sixths of the del
egates of the convention for this district
give Mr.. Blaine their first vote, it requires
considerable ingenuity to conjure up how
..it might have been otherwise and would
have been otherwise, and should have been
otherwise, had things been so and so,"
even to make out a supposable case of
waning fortunes"
As to the allegation of unfaithfulness to
Mr.. Morrill,, that has been answered and
stamped as falsehood from the best pos
sible source. 1t will be "good enough
Morgan" till after election, when it will
subside and never be heard of again. Mr..
Blaine is Mr.. Morrill's friend, was at the
last election of United States Senator, is
now, and will be when the next election
takes place. SO much we undertake to
say, and all the fiction and chicanery of the
Standard man will be as idle, when the
truth appears, as the idlest dream OF an
untutored school-boy. In one thing the
writer is truthful, that is, in declaring his
article is written in the interest of the
democratic party; but there was no neet
of his saying SO. That fact is apparent
whether he intends it or not. The shee
in which it appears. the organ of sympa
thizers with the rebellion. the vehicle o
insult and abuse to everything and every
body loyal in the rebellion, casting on
| filth weekly against those who are not o
its political faith, is enough to establish
that this and everything else like it which
appears in that sheet is written in the in
terest of the democratic party. No frient
to Mr. Morrill,, Mr.. Blaine, Mr.. Hersey
Mr. Perham, or the republican party
would be guilty of writing such stuff fol
such conduit.
The rare extent of outrageous falsehoot
to which the article goes is well shown b,
the following. The article says:
| at is coincidence so remarkable as t.
arrest notice, that five is the precise numbe
of members of the Legislature of 1869. from
Kennebec county, who deserted Mr.. Morril
in the contest for Senator-and, what is no
less remarkable, that the five in both instance
were the same men, and on each occasion, j
is said, led by Mr. Blaine"
There is not one iota of truth in thu
above. 1t is all lies from beginning te
end. The men referred to were not dele
gates in the convention at all. The towns
to which they belong were represented by
delegates for Perham. Those who voted
for Hersey were from other towns. Sc
this remarkable coincidence" vanishes
into smoke as the rest of the fabric of lies
which has been weaving about the Sena
tor question will presently.
Out of the thirty-one members of thu
Legislature of 1869 belonging in Mr.
Blaine's district. Mr.. Morrill, received tn,
votes of all but five on the first and onl,
ballot, receiving the entire vote of Ken
nebec county. OF those who did not vot,
for Mr. Morrill,, three were from Lincoll
and two from Somerset county. So mucl
in answer to the falsehood about the vot,
of Mr. Blaine's district in 1869. These
lies show what democratic honor is wher
put to the test.