Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-11
A TWEED COAT FOR TIE STANDARD.

in characteristic article upon the kenne-
bee Journal, we find the following:
The allegation of paper which, according
to a respectable republican State Senator, is
"a disgrace to the party" and such party
too, that the Standard regards "Boss Tweed"
as a sssaint" is not of sufficiently respectable
authorship to require denial before an in
tellipent public. Every decently well-inform-
ed person in the community knows, and that
paper knows as well as it knows anything,
that we severely and conscientiously con-
denim all frauds and corruptions committed by
Mr.. Tweed and his coadj tutors, and upon prop
er legal proof of their commission we would
consien them to the rigors Of the EXTREMIST
penalties of the law they have so wickedly
violated.
Whether the allegation made in this
paper in relation to the course OF the
Standard concerning the New York frauds
and Boss Tweed were of respectable
authorship" or not, may be judged by the
following extracts from its columns. In
the Standard of Aug. 4th we find the fol-
lowing:
The New York Times, which long ago
earned the right to the appellation of the dds
reputable Times" and has quite rghttuly
had that descriptive term applied to it to this
day by certain of its contemporaries, has
lately added to its unenviable notoriety by
publishing ssseries" of COARSE, GROSS
LY FALSE AND MALICIOUS CHARGES
against the members of the Democratic city
government of New York. The charges are,
in brief, that the members of the city gov
eminent, Mayor Hall and Comptroller Con-
molly in particular, have been guilty of stu
pendous frauds upon the city treasury, amount
ing in the aggregate to something like eight
or ten millions of dollars. The Times pub
fishes long columns of figures to show that
the city authorities have made out exorbitant
charges for keeping the city armores and for
work done On the new courthouse, and asks
the public to infer that they pocketed the diff
ference between these sums and what they
really had to pay. 1t alleges that the city
was required to pay $941 900 for keeping the
ten armories in repair for nine months time,
and that similar frauds were practised in the
matter of carpets, furniture, &c., for the
court house.
These charges of the Times were natural
ly caught up by all the radical papers of the
country, daily, weekly and monthly, and the
changes have been rung upon them with all
the vim and venom which the whole herd Of
ssmean, insectiverous" creatures could bring
to their command. The democratic admins
tration of the city of New York has been, OIL
will be before the month expires, denounced
for fraud, corruption and extravaganza, in
the most unmeasured terms, by the whole
radical press of the country. and upon the
sole authority of the naked assertion OF dis
reputable, dishonest, disappointed newspaper
WITHOUT A SCINTILLA OF GOOD EV-
IDENCE IN ITS SUPPORT. The animus
of these lackeys, who imagine themselves to
be particularly obliged to give strong,
vociferous sneeze whenever one OF their
leaders takes pinch of snuff, is evidently of
q political nature they seek to destract at.
tention from the hideous corruption that per
, vades every department of the federal gov
eminent, as administered by their party, by
charging similar crimes upon the democratic
administration of the leading city in the
Union. THEIR EXPOSURES AND DE-
NUNCIATIONS ARE SIMPLY THE OLD
"STOP THIEF" CRY.
In the same article the Standard speaks
of "Boss" Tweed as that GREAT LEAD
Err IN THE DEMOCRATIC RANKS,
HON. VIM. M. TWEED" and praises
him for what ne has done to promote hon
esty in the city government. 1t also states
that NEW era Of reform and economy"
had been inaugurated by the democratic
city government, and the city taxes re-
duced millions of dollars. In the mean
time the Maine Farmer had noticed the
great frauds in New York, in an editorial
article. At this the Standard boiled over
with indignation, and in a long article in
the issue OF Aug. 18th defended the rob-
bers and denounced the Farmer for its re-
marks. The article commenced as fol-
lows.
The Maine Farmer, with a zeal that can
not be accounted for in 'neutral" paper,
makes haste to publish a half column article
embodying all the MALICIOUS ISLANDERS
of the N. Y. Times UPON THE DEMO
CRATIC CITY GOVERNMENT OF NEW
YORK. We hardly know whether to char
acterize the statements of the Farmer in this
matter as WILLFUL, MALICIOUS LIES
or give it the more charitable judgment OF
utter ignorence upon the subject which il
treats. Certain we are, that IT'S ARTICLE
is TOTALLY FALSE in more than fire am
poytant instances. Apparently, it not only
believes the MALICIOUS FALSEHOODS
of the disappointed Times, burning and
ranking under the smarts and stings of wick
Gu scHtUeb tuWdTtcu, Uut IL even CDplts tilOoe
OUTRAGEOUS ISLANDERS and gives them
an establishment well calculated to cast an
odious disgrace upon the Democratic party in
that city, and by implication, upon the dem
ocrats Of the whole country.
We might copy more of the same sort,
but this is sufficient to show that the Stand
ard defended the robbers until very re-
cent date. Our allegation" is proved
true by itself. Perhaps it did not require
denial before an intelligent public y GER
tainly an Intelligent public" even OF
democrats, will blush that the Standard
ever made "denial" under the circum-
stancs IS, with the falseness of such 'denial"
plainly written in its own columns. But
such is democracy at the Maine Standard
Office, not everywhere though. as appears
by the returns from the New York cleo
ton. Having worn Tweed so long we