The Republican journal., 1872-08-01
What the Matter is With the Court
Journal

Journal.
The kennebec Journal of the 9th has
a personal attack upon Hon. G. p. kim
ball, which goes below the hitherto lowest
guage of that very low descending sheet
1t abuses that gentleman because, in the
canvass of last year, he saw fit to write a
| circular to his political friends in the state,
which circular was sent out by the Demo-
cratic State Committee. By bribery of a
weakened and avaricious democrat (and
if there is anything which the paper-credi
heroes at Augusta understand, il is BRIBERY
some of these circulars We're published
There is nothing in them more than is
ordinarily found in party documents of the
kind Just before election-smply a request
to organize and get out the full vote
The radical papers went into spasms over
it at the time, but nobody thought of the
matter rs anything ont of the usual course
of election circulars. But the kennebec
journal ofthe oath digs up this old affair to
offer an infamous insult to a high-minded
and honorable gentleman. Referring to
the fact that some Of these letters were
written under Mr.. Kimball's printed letter
headings, containing his card, such as all
business men use the journal has these
scurilous remarks
But along with the serious and ,liSreputahle
features OF kimball's little trick, 1heic is AZ
tII.nI mat Il lst sl,rl,t
OF ! 1t is his Jealous effort to advertise his
rages in connection with his 'dark-lantern'
process of manufacturing voters in THE
NIGHT TIME" Every one has heard of the
old lady who thought ''she would take stitch
while the c, ovid gathered" when her husband
was about to be hung; and OF another celebrat-
ed mourner in Paris who in "A Sorrowful obtu-
ary relative TO her husbands many GOOD quail
lies and appointing the hour of his funeral. did
not forget to include in the same paragraph
that "the afflicted widow would continue the
silk hosiery business at the Old stand and would
be happy to see the former customers of the late
lamrnted." So Mr.. kimball in copying The
tactics of Tammany ana circulating u political
tract all over the State in the niuht time. did
| not forget TO give il 4 pictorial Illustration Of
one of his own vehicles. heading the entire cir
rular with the important announcement that
"C.P. kIMBALLI> STILL THE MANUFACTURER
OF FINE CARRIAGES AND SLEIGlIS.
We copy this that our readers may see
the malicious and insulting nature of the
article to which we refer. So far as the
matter of circulars is concerned, we have
in our possession one issued by the Repuh-
lican State Committee last September, Of
the same character with the one alluded
to. The Republican circular hurdnned
the mails, under the frank Of James G.
Blaine, chairman ui the State Committee,
who had not the honesty 10 pay for its con
veyance or use his own name both Of which
Mr. kimball did As between the twn
circulars and all that pertains to Them,
the discredit is entirely on the radical side
Now word as to the motive that ln.-
pels the kennebec journal to its Infamous
attack on Mr.. Kimball. The journal is
drawing enormous sums from the state
treasury for printing. and those who own
and control the establishment are piIing
| up profits in a manner heretofore unheard
of. Shrewd figurers in the printing office,
and complaisant party friends al the State
House, enable it to run mp IN annual bill
of THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. In
Democratic times the cost of state print
ing used to be about five thousand dollars
Does any sane man believe that such an
amount of printing is necessary ? Can
there be any doubt that the republican
party actually swindles this ont of the tax
payers, to support its central organ, ana
pay it for such dirty Jobs rs ii is doing?
The five or six Thousand dollars that
democrats used to eXpend annually on
the state printing paid tor all that was
needed-all that the officials found use
for 1t was enough. Now thirty thou
sand dollars are required yearly. Have
our readers any idea how much printed
paper thirty thousand dollars will pay for
Take for example sheets the size of the
one on which this article is printed, and
thirty thousand dollars will pay for enough
in a printed state to extend in a straight
line, if placed close together. FIVE
HUNDRED MILES! They would reach
five times from Belfast to Portland A
man driving a horse eight miles an hour
for ten hours day would be week in
going the length of these printed sheets
Half a dozen steam presses toll continually
to produce the public documents for Il
state containing six hundred Thousand of
population, and THIRTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS A YEAR is taxed upon the
people to pay for it,
The kennebec journal wakes fat on
these. With both hands IN the state
treasury TO the elbows, and hugging its
plumber, the editor essays to outrage II
gentleman who hasn't a dollar that was
not honestly earned at his business. Why
is this i?
Because it knows that if Charles F.
kimball shall be elected, he will use his
influence to stop its plundering schemes.
That's what's the matter with the kenne~
| bee Journal.
The Democracy If tho EirSt On ores