The Republican journal., 1870-02-03
PAPER CREDITS AGAIN.

WHICH the paper IS oeHt.-EH
PAPER CREDITS AGAIN.
In reference to the investigation into the paper
credit charges, the Belfast journal intimates that
the matter never can be finally and Sati>factor-
lily settled till the Democracy get into power and
have shy at it. Bangor Wing.
| We didn't use the word ''shy" The shy
ness is all on the part of the Whig and its
friends The Democracy want less of shyness
and more resolution, and we reiterate our
belief that we shall never get to the core of
this matter till the Democrats do have the
power to investigate it. The shy and sly
radicals of the Legislature, whose fingers
are tangled in the meshes Of the paper credit
net, will never let the facts see light.
The Wing further says
| All through this paper credit agitation. the Dem
| ocraic papers and orators have made great out
! cry about "trauds." Why wouldn't it be good
plan to put the investigation into Democratic
hands :'*** Let all the Democratic editors volun-
teer their information in the premises. The edi
tor of the Belfast journal. for instance knows all
about who got rich during the war. what made
! them rich, and as a natura! sequence, how the
| fellows can be smoked out.
Here again is an error. We know who
got mysterously rich. and we 7ca2t to know
where the riches came from The charges
against the suspected men, the Whig will
recollect comes from radical sources. The
officials of a kennebec town, good radicals
ALL charge the Wings pet. Mr. Farwell, of
Augusta, with taking a large sum of their
money and putting no men into the army
for it-so that the Equalization Committee
ignored their claim. They have sued Far
well for the amount. Mr. Hume, a good re-
publican member Of the Legislature, says an
investigation
g will show the most dalnnablc schemes Of VII
lany that ever known out Of hell II will
show TO the people of this State that they have
been robbed OF tens of thousands and hundreds
of thousands of dollars"
The Whig will perceive that this is not the
authority of the editor of the Journal All
that we do is to call for this inyestigaton--
not a sham, like the former one, but
thorough and exhaustive research. Let the
Selectmcn Of Sidney testify to their dealings
with Mr. Farwel. Put Mr. Farwel him.
self on the stand, and ask him where his large
property so suddenly came from, if not from
paper credits. Summon the late Adutant
General, and former Governor. Produce the
books of the office. Make the former clerks
testify. Put q couple of fearless and active
Democrats on the Committee. Do this, and
you will reach some tangible result.
Does the Whig remember the exceedingly
smooth and sanctimonious Elder Peck, who
aforetime presided over choice flock of the
elect in Portland Does it remember how
the pious soul of that good man was moved
at bcholding the wickcdness Of Democracy !?
night among the brothers and sisters and
tender lambs of his flock to build up a party
that should have in it none but good and
Cody men like himsef-and how he felt
robe, bcstow a farewell kiss on the sisters of
his flock, and transplant himself to the Treas
ury at Augusta? Can the Wing remember
how the brethren gathered around the Elder
and looked upon the wonderous accumula-
tions Of the treasury ?-how Deacon This and
Brother That and Sister So-and-so wanted a
few shekels each ?-how the air presently
grew thick with rumors that the Elder was
in trouble-that the brethren couldn't respond
with the shekels--that the state treasury in
fact was squeezed as dry as contribution
box? Can the Whig recall with what alacrity
it enlisted in the Elders defence ?-how it
utterly refused to believe that the smooth and
sleek shepherd of the Portland flock the
Lob, | >F 10 Al I,
anointed, could have done this thing?
Does the Whig remember how, by the eff
forts of the Democratic editors, the Lcgisa-
ture was compelled to order an investga-
tion?-that by patient and persevering dig
ging, it was discovered that stream from
the treasury had been running into the pocket
Of Brother Somes, the radical Congressman,
at Biddeford, and another into the pocket Of
Brother Neal Dow, (where Bradish Johnson's
spoons afterwards wenD-and another stream
flowed this way, and another that until the
Shepherd stood revealed as defaulter?
Now we have tosay to the Wing that there
is another Elder Peck case at Augusta, and
that the people are determined to know some
thing about it. The Wing was once mistak-
en- or something worse. in a matter of the
kind, and may be again. 1t would be better
and more becoming in the Wing to reserve
its sarcasm until the issue has been tried. 1t
is not calliblc itself, andits party is morally
a very shaky affair, if the testimony of the
members thereof may be credited. Again
we say-LET Us HAVE LIGHT.
Miss Lilly Peckham stayed at home from the
f, Woman Suffrage Convention, at Washington, to
take care of Il sick mother. Why cant Congress
make an appropriation to supply the rest of these