The Portland daily press., 1872-10-19
Ananias Secundus.

The N. Y. Tribune is strong in the way of
Maine correspondents. As if j. s. z. were
not enough in the epistolary line, somebody
with the signature of 'K'' has written let
ter. With the terrible fagellation which
the now notorious J. S. P. has received from
his indignant and outraged fellow citizens
evidently before his mind, this other erich
mond in the field'' attaches no date nor place
to his epistle which is garnished only by the
letter "K'' which of course tells nothing of
its authorship. 1t is not wonderful that any
man should seek under DISCUSSES to escape
the responsibility for these vile insinuations
of fraud in Maine, which everybody here of
all parties knows to be simply and entirely
baseless and intended only for effect on dis
taut communities where the facts are not so
well known. This f'K'' INDUCES himself
chiefly in general statements that large sums
of money, ''hard upon 5000, 0O0' as he ele-
gantly states it, were expended by the Re-
publicans during the campaign, counting the
operations of the State, District, County, City
and Town Committees and the expenditures
of candidates. He then becomes little more
specific saying: la4 Dr. 'iA
In the 1st District, it is not two weeks
since a Grant politician in York County
boosted that his party bought 60 votes for
Burleigh in the town where he lives, and
small town, too. He even went so far as to
SIS, while to some they gave barrel of flour,
and for one poor family they bought cow.
This statement we wish distinctly to trav-
ii To-, he Gr,f -
believe any ''Grsnt politician ever made any
such foolish boast and further, if he did it is not
true. We challenge "K'', whoever he may be,
or the Tribune, which seems to delight of late
in this loose style of reckless accusation, to
prove the allegation in regard to any town of
York county or any other county in this
State.
In poiut of fact all such insinuations and ac-
cusations of bribery of voters in Maine are I'M
scrupulous fabrications of men smarting I'M
der overwhelming and disastrous defeat, who
seek in this dishonorable way and under COW
er Of disguise to palliate the fearful rebuke of
their political charlatanry, inflicted by our
people at the polls. We have no ardent ad-
miration for the Democratic and Liberal
Republican parties, but we really don't think
them so bad as to sell themselves in the
wholesale way alleged by the Tribune and its
delectable correspondents.
In concluding this precious effusion SIX"
threatens posterity thus:
One word about the purposes of the Liber-
ais. The organization, SO far as the Repub-
lican portion of the coalition is concerned,
will be kept up, and is hopeful and earnest
to-day in its purpose to fight on. 1t cannot
be doubted that in Maine las everywhere else
the Liberal party must be the party of the flu
ture, whether it win the great battle of No
vember or not. E.h.s5.
The organization, such as it is, may be
Except up and may Eight on but the as
sumption that it will ever be successful under
its present VIGOROUSLY self seeking leadership
is an affront to the intelligence of our people.
Nor can we believe that it will help its lost
cause by these wretched ISLANDERS so freely
hurled at our Maine voteri whose sturdy in
tegrity and incorruptibility have always been
recognized by all parties until the birth of
''Liberalism.'' a.I g3