Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-10
DOUBLEFACEDNESS.

The Maine Standard has been exercis-
ing the vast cunning of that establishment
in small things, in an effort to convict US
Of double-facedness in some of our recent
editorials. 1t has been an herculean task,
but we believe the editor is satisfied, after
selecting sentence here and another
there, that he has made out case.
For this alleged double-facedness we
are RECALLED with choice denunciations and
epithets. The offence imputed to ns is
called "The Journals Lunacy." 1.-THE
contemplate regeneration and dou-
ble-facedness Of the Kennebec Journal
tits duplcity." "an the towns folks are
said to be laughing at us, we are said to
lack brains, and 80 on TO the end Of quite
along chapter.
Now we present the following extracts
from the columns Of the Standard, and
would inquire Of the editor of that paper
if he can see upon comparing his utteran.
ces anything in them like the appearance
of double-facedness "a to Horace Greeley.
In its leading editorial of this week the
Standard says Of Greeley:
He has been one of the most prominent
supporters of the republican party since it,
organization, THE LEADING SPIRIT, IN
FACT, In giving tone and direction to the re-
publican press Of the country, not only in
supporting that party and it, measures until
within brief period, but in opposing and de-
nouncing the democratic party.
Passing along in the very same article
we are surprised to find the following.
"Ir HIS EXAMPLE AND TEACHING
HAD BEEN FOLLOWED BY THE RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY. the country would
have escaped the turmoil, strife, and ruinoui
results of carpet-bag and scallawag rule in
the South, and the southern people would
have become the devoted allies of that party.
In one paragraph he is said to have been
the leading spirit of the republican party
and in the next it is remarked that ''if hi!
example and teaching had been followed
by the republican party" &c; the las
fatty contradicting the first.
But we are DESTROYS of doing full justice
to the ''brains" that conduct the Standard
and SO we give another example of it
ability to present the same subject in two
different lights. In its article of yester
day it inquiries, '.Does any one doubt Mr.
Greeley's honestly" To which we let the
Standard itself reply in the following arti-
Gle which appeared as editorial in its
columns in 1868. ....t...-.
"The Tribune is still harping on my
daughter Gov. Seymour and the draft riots
constitute the major part of it, editorials day
after day, and ku-Kluxss the minor. If
there had been no draft riots and if there were
no Ku-Kluxes, the Tribune would be as dry
these times ~ Mr.. Greeley's old white hat.
1t 10 not Of the least consequence that four
ffths of WHAT THE TRIBUNE SAYS on
each subject IS UTTERLY FALSE. Every
one expects that, and no one expects anything
FOR TIE TRIBUNE TO BE FRANK
AND HONEST, as for Thad Stevens to be
humane, Ben Butler upright or Parson Brown
low Christian
Since the Tribune is Mr.. Greeley and
Mr.. Greeley the Tribune, the Standard
has its answer from its own columns. We
don't say the editor Of the Standard is a
lunatic, or lacking in brains, or dishonest,
or that everybody is laughing at him, but
we copy these paragraphs from his paper
and simply leave it to an intelligent public
to decide what they think of the editors
mental and moral condition, and whether
he is the proper person to accuse any one
else of double-facedness.