Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-11


ssrse be,loss Mayss snowgee, scestersnv ees@spon
his Snow and his friends Withdrew, ard went into
''citzens Caucus" composed mostly of demo.
erat., where he was nominated. In accepting the
nomin alton he thanked his uemscratic friends and
promised to carry out their wishes far as be
knew them in preference to his own convictions.
day, and by efforts not very hoaorable and seldom
Known In the town succeeded In being elected
The Dr.. only carried ont the Roberfe and Chamber
| lain programme. he viii Gnd tworse ttian dose
4 oil ipecac before be Is done with 1t. There mo
harm done in having the panty pnrgcd Of such
stnG. Good bye, Dr.
Mr.. Speaker $50 far az that article as
/ serts, or intimates that | used any dishonora-
BILE means to secure my election, or that my
| friends did so, with my knowledge, or that
! they did so at all within my belief pro-
nounee false and libelors. D If the article
means that il is dishonorable or sdiscreditable
for man TO be elected Representative from
/ the town of Winthrop, except he be elected
! by the straight Republican party of that
towns by which | mean those who vote for
all the candidates on the Republican ticket !;
thenqI shave To reply that frere Is no such
party in the town Of Winthrop; or if there
is. ii is so small that it could not elect any
body 10 any Office whatever. And will tell
YOU when and sby what means the said party
came to its dissolution.
! In the summer of 1869, at the Republican
!
| gor convention to nominate n candidate for
| Governor to be supported at the ensuing cleo
ton, a motion was made to pledge the dele
gates elect and the. caucus TO abide by the
nominee of the Bangor convention. This
motion was promptly voted DOWN; ana our
delegates went to the convention virtually
saying that if their man was nominated,
then the action of the convention was bind
ing-otherwise, not AS a matter OF fact our
delegates did not secure the nomination of
their man, and they did bolt the action of the
convention, and aided in making up another
ticket to be supported inste al of the regular
Republican ticket. The result was that many
who had heretofore voted the regular Repub
lican ticket, supported this bogus ticket, and
the leaders ofihe party matflated aliof the
regular tickets by substituting one of the
names on this bogus ticket in place Of the
name of one OF the regular nominees for the
Senate. from lifts Senatorial district; so that
at the ensuing September election there was
not single regular Republican ticket throwIf
in the town Of Winthrop.
The same Senator's name was, this year,
stricken from most if not all Of the tickets on
which my opponents name was placed for
Representative, before they were distributed
to the voters, SO that nearlyall OF the regular
Republican tickets which were thrown in
who voted for me. Il s. .gseax-gs.tgs r- "a
1t is truc thar have never been much of
politician, and have never been admitted into
the political ring but | voted for A. Z. Nor
ril for Governorin 1865, and against my OPP
ponent when he received the solid Demo-
cratic voter for Representative, and was de
feated, in 1866. I have also voted the regu-
lar Republican ticket lwhen there was one,)
and supported the measures OF the party
every year since. therefore innoeently sup
posed when I frankly told my Republican
friends that Ishould like to go TO the Legis-
lature this winter, and gave as a reason that
an important medical bill, affecting the inter-
ests of the profession and people Of this
State, of which ! was the asthor, was, by the
unanimous vote of the Maine Medical Asso-
citation, TO be presented to this Legislature for
enactment that | should receive the cordial
support Of tie Republicans OF the town, TO
whom alone 4 had any political right to look
for support. Imagine my surprise when
was told, in effect. that the boilers of last
year--the Northumberland swallowed the
Republican party, aud that they proposed TO
use its individual members as Cats paws &c
secure chesinuts for themselves, and that
unless would subscribe to their articles Of
political faith, and oppose eyeryb dy whom
they opposed, could not be nominated, or if
feat pt the polls. Well, what were the arti-
Giles Of the creed, in which should be re-
quired III profess my faith, in order 70 be
saved2 may not be able to state them ex-
actly as they would state them, but for sub
stance, they were, that the Maine Law was
given BY divine inspiration, andtfnalst there
tore be perfect, and the only proper instru
mentality 10 be used to promote the cause of
temperance. That Joshua Nye is the Pope
of the new faith, with the intalibility dogma
attached, and that whatever alterations, adj
ditions or amendments, he may from time TO
time propose, must be received with a like
implicit faith as TO their Divine origin and
perfect adaptation TO secure the ends sought.
That the exercise of the right of private
| judgment and conscience is to be prohibited
and that anybody suspected even OF entertain
ing doubts regarding this creed, is to be sub
jected to SANDER, opposition and injury in
every practicable way, by the faithful.
j had always believed, as the Governor has
expressed it in his excellent message, that
| ssrhe work necessary to restrict this evil H.
temperance to the smallest possible limits,
belongs primarily, and perhaps chiefly, to the
domain of what is termed moral etiort;'' and
have hitherto supported the Maine law in the
hope that 1t might aid somewhat these efforts.
But have always considered ii human in
strumentality- human in some OF its pro-
] visions. t"""
This state of things existing, my Republican
| friends conceived the idea of calling citizens
caucus, and giving the people an opportunity
1 to take these matters into their own hands
4 My personal friends in the Democratic party
voluntarily suggestedto my Republican friends
that they would use their Influence to have
i the Democratic party forege their usual par
ty nomination for Repre- sentative, and, if |
could get the vote of the so called Republican
caucus, give me the unanimous support of the
! people OF the fown-unless the Hichbornites
should carry ont their threat to bolt The eau
Gus, in case got the nomination.
4 AT the called Republican caucus, the 70
1 IIichbornites, by eajoiing some Of the Repub-
licans inthe east part Of the town, into bring
ing before the caucus q neighborhood candi-
date Of their own, and by exciting the fears of
few timid Republicans elsewhere, that church
lots would be turned into play grounds for the
school children, and the North Star changed
from its position in the heavens, and things
generally go to destruction unless "Joannes'
was sent to the Legislature, succeeded in de-
feating ne--my opponent getting ii was de-
I elared1 % yGtes--iust the number required