The Portland daily press., 1872-08-21
Pledged to Kimball,

The third and fifth districts have been
singled out for the most open and shameless
contamination of the bargain between the
Democratic and the Liberal office-seekers.
Consider the case of the third district for a
moment, since the treat between the hungry
powers there is still and the obnox-
ious features Of have not yet
been softene' in aid of our re-
Elections Il hly such facts as are
either NJ Universally conceded or
such a sssary, be proved by the
affidS ectable citizens. This is the
stoJ
once politician who was rather
n to make an INSCRIPTIONS means
machinery to further party end.
average of pen. Finally he became
ID with the idea that such services as
srved reward, and so he promptly
nded an Office, and a fat one too. Dis
Jointed in this he turned "reformer' and
Jegan to cast about him for means to
obtain elsewhere the public employment
which was denied him by the Republi-
cans. Having enlisted in the Greeley move
ment, he caused to be circulated through the
third district call for mass convention of
Republicans to nominate a candidate for
Congress in opposition to the regular nominee
of the Republican convention. That call was
deliberate and wilful fraud. Scores of its
pretended signers never heard of it till they
saw it in print; scores of them were Demo
Gratis, while others were faithful Republicans
1t is no wonder that convention conceived
in fraud and assembled by frand should itself
be fraud. And such in very truth it was
The Liberal Lang who was the father of it,
who brought it into being to nominate him
for good PAYING office, found it necessary
in order to secure the support of the Demo-
cratic convention, which, by q singu-
lar coincidence, was in session at the
same time, to promise Republican votes for
Kimball in return. The Democrats had no
idea of making Mr.. Lang's elevation mere
gratuity. So it was proposed to pledge the
Liberals to vote for Kimball, and it was done /!
By whomS 1t can be proved by the testimo-
ny of as good men as live, that the pre-
tended convention of Republicans that were
sole purpose of giving Mr.. Lang good office,
acds made up in large measure Of boys and
lifelong Democrats. No precaution was
taken to exclude improper votes, except the
request of the chairman that no one except
Republicans would take part in the proceed
lngs. In TINS way it was made to appear
that more than eight hundred Republicans of
the third district went over to the Democracy
solely for the love they bear the. Liberal Lang,
We believe it to be susceptible of proof that
not one half of the number of Republicans
claimed took part in the convention, and that
it was mob of Democrats and boys whose
action is heralded to the world as Indicative
of revolution in the politics of the State.
The time of Mr.. Greeley's visit to Augusta
was aptly chosen by so expert and unscrupu-
lous wire-puller as Mr.. Lang, for the as
sembling of this mob.
We do not believe that the love of Lang
will lead many Of such Greeley Republicans
as there may be in the third district to vote
for Kimball, or for Lang himself, for that
matter, since in his Bangor speech he advised
his hearers to vote for MARcELLUs EMERY.
As for Mr.. Kimball, he is the same man.
who, as member of the Democratic Marty
resisted at every step those measures of ms
tice and benevolence, which are the nride
and glory of the Republican party.
1t is not claimed that Mr.. Kimball has
changed his opinions on single point since
1871. Is it worth while, then, for the Liber-