Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-07-24
The Standard. Last Attack.


EDITOR JOURNAL: The last Standard shows
that life still remains in the Standard writer
though the memory of the fellow has departed
and only the familiar hiss is left as loud and
as shrill as it is harmless and disgusting. 1t
seems excessive cruelty TO stir such a crea-
ture, though he preends to be amused and
raves incoherently, calling us dead duck
and an ass, which phrases have adorned near
ly all his efforts, and finally Puritan, and
pleads for US to stop that he may have that
chief qualification of the common scold, the
last word in discussion of his own opening
and continuance. This was changed by his
own motion from the original attack which
he was forced to abandon, 10 personal abuse
of the parties who showed his real purpose,
as his bowling over the soldiers graves soon
changed from what he termed kind requests,
to abuse and insult of the living and dead
soldiers alike, and ended in a cessation OF his
variance over the Catholic graves, that he
might Try the amusement OF stepping on the
coat.tail of the State Librarian, to use his
own phrase. 50 after a notification of his
terrible coming, he performs the ceremony
by expressing the opinion that the State Ii
brarian really could not afford to perform the
duties of the Office without the small compen-
sation which the law allows that officer, or as
he expresses it, sit would only be essary
to remove his head from the State pap bucket
and he would wilt Instantly" We are of the
opinion all officers should be paid, especially
such as have charge of valuable property and
are obliged to give bond for faithful labor,
but when newspaper drugged with treason
can live even twelve months in Franklin
county before collapsing in an isnominious
and shameful death, and its editor survive
and find place in another sheet to insult Union
soldiers, living and dead, while standing aloof
from every personal attention except of abuse
during or since the war in which they served
under the flag that protected even such rs
himself, and hold up his head with brazen
etirontery as the soldiers champion; we re-
peat, if such things could be, it 5, ems ii man
might live even without the very nominal sal
AIRY Of the Office to which he refers, despite
his valuable opinion to the contrary. We fail,
however, to see what connection the business
OF the State Librarian has with decoration.
Yet, as the fellow must rave at some body it
NAV as well be the librarian as any one, and
others may rest lille he bedaubs himself IN
the filth in which he wallows with the vain
endea. or to render others as conte mptihe
himself. Like the raven in the fable while
he tries to sing he Tan only crook with
sQueaky, broken voice. In trying to be wick
ed he is only weak, and where he would be
sharp he is only silly, and still in happy igno.
rance he proceeds with such tiresome buzz
zings that it might be wise to grant him the
mercy of silence, and kind to save him from
repeating again and again the adjectives with
which he declares the ''amu sement contin-
ues" in the tired ears of the public. If he
will not be silent we must be now and then be
pardoned, for occasionally referring to the
matter lest his vanity become equal 10 his
other weakness, and instead of being as now,
only bore, he become an intolerahle nui-
sance from his connection with a public
journal which lifts him from merited obscur-
ity, and in his hands becomes an instrument
of attack whenever his spleen or inclination
might dictate, with disgusting personalities
and uncaled for abuse.
MEMBER OF CAPITAL GUARDS AND
COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS