Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-08-06
"AND NO v FOE MAINE !"

"AND MOI FOR 1MAINEi"
This is the cry with which the New
York Tribune, in the first flush of an i'm
aginary victory in North Carolina, encour
ages its few apostate followers and the
democrats in Maine to do their best in this
State
One year ago the Tribune supported
Governor Perham and the republican
ticket. There was no division between il
and the republicans of Maine upon thu
questions dividing the two parties. We
had a platform which was not equivoca .
but plain, direct, outspoken. The frs,
resolution noticed with pride the record OF
the republican party The second assert
ed the power and duty of the general gov.
eminent to protect al American citizens ir
their rights as voters and in their person
and property The third resolution wa.
as follows:
RESOLVED, That the Administration O
President Grant, by its economical manage
ment of the national finances and it's enor
wise conduct of the foreign Affairs OF tn,
country. especially in securing AN honorabl,
and advantageous adjustment Of all our Difficult
ties with Great Britain: by its judicious ane
determined efforts TO reform the civil service
of the country; BY its humane and successful
policy of dealing VITA the indians; and b.,
its persistent efforts 10 secure the rights OF
every American citizen, without regard to
creed or color demands and receives at our
hands the renewed expression OF our conf
dence. and the assurance of our unwavering
support.
To-day, the republicans in the State OF
Maine, standing upon precisely the same
ground which they occupied last year,
with the same candidate for governor as
then, are met by the Tribune leading on
the democrats and crying out. down with
Perham and the republican party.
But this is not all. The democrats have
the same candidate for governor this year
rs last. and the same platform, for be it
remembered they took the new depart
ure" early; yet we see the Tribune which
last year opposed c. p. kimball now urg-
ing republicans to support him, and
founding on the democrats to destroy the
republican party. SO bitter was the feel
ing in 1871 of Mr.. kimball and his friends
toward Horace Greeley, that they distrib-
uted caricatures of him over the State as
campaign document. in which he was
represented as an arch fend from hell, out
of whom were issuing all kinds of polti-
cal evils.
Now whatever Mr.. Greeley may say about
his having met with no change. and MAIN
tanning that he is just as much republican
as ever, the facts in the State of Maine
give the lie direct to snch an assertion.
His appeals are made to the democratic
party against the republican party. When
he was republican he urged the election
of Perham Mr. Perham has not changed,
stands exactly as he stood in 1871, but the
Tribune SAYS in substance to the voters of
Maine, down with Perham and up with
Kimbal" If Greeley has not met with
change, then both parties nave changed,
and Governor Perham has in some unac-
countable way been metamorphosed into
C. =. Kimball Had the democrats pre-
scented a new candidate instead of Kim
ball they might have been more success
full in their deception, but having the
'.same old COON for candidate, they can
not very well disprove his identity. The
doctrine of metempsychosis, or transub-
sanitation, or transmigration, would be
tritles for the understanding to take in CON-
pared with such a wonderful change of per-
sonalities. Never was there better proof
of the ialseness of the assertion made by
Mr.. Greeley. and weakly supported by Mr..
Sumner, that he in becoming the candi-
date of the democrats is still republican,
than the revolution which the Tribune is
obliged to make in its course towards cam
didates and parties in the State canvass of
Maine. Let it explain if it can IN any
reasonable manner why it should be urg-
ing the voters of Maine to oppose Kim
ball last year and support him this, and
] NOW IL CdU tD ~ VIII dthUOW ltuIIHy
a change.
The course of this apostate sheet will
deceive few persons. But when repnbl-
cans look at its columns this week and
notice the effort it makes to defeat the re-
publican State ticket. it will arouse them
to lively action. and produce different
effect from that intended. Republicans
who take it have an enemy in the house.
hold. Its appeals are to their foes. Its
success is their destruction. Its hope is in
deceiving them. But unless its readers
in Maine are as gullible as simpletons they
can see through the sham of the Tribune
and Mr.. Greeley, and will give him a
proper answer to his loud call for helf for
kjmball