The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-22
Sir Charles Grandson,

'These gentlemen compare the johnson
movement to the political breaking away from
restraint to-day Well, it is like to such as
think now as they evidently thought then, that
the fuglers in Office could manage people who
make and unmake them, at will
We do not care to go with any detailed ex-
animation of the features of this great cam
paign, but we cannot help thinking that nearly
all the partizan papers hereabouts are taxing
an imperfect view of it. 1t still seems to look
to the politicians like wary game, while 1T
looks more and more to us as though the people
not only deserve to be let alone but will rather
insist upon it."-lStdr
Hail, Sir Charles Grandson of politics!
Having seen you, having read those long
and high sounding editorialst who will not
say that the "faultless monster that the world
meier saw" known in fiction as Sir Charles
Grandson, does not exist! What grumbler
fresh from the perusal Of the Star will here
after complain that lofty craftsmanship, that
high devotion to the peoples rights are ex-
tinct. How Insignificant must the mere pol
itician and the partizan press feel at the dis
dainful rebuke of our Sir Charles as he knocks
his head against the stars. But the people,
how grandiloquently he speaks of them and
how very thankful they should be-! Thrice
hail, great Sir Charles Grandisonl
1t is not our purpose to be discourteous to
the Star; but the ridiculous superiority il. has
assumed towards what it calls the partizan
press, and the lofty contempt it has exhibited
for those whom it now opposes; has at length
provoked a notice, and if our political Sir
Charles gets his feathers ruf1edhe may at
tribute it to his own folly.
The Star has had much to say about polit-
ical fuglers and blind partisanship, and some
of it may be true, but we have not yet heard
of partisan editor writing political article
and then making an extract and getting a
sub-agent of the associated press to send it to
its hundreds of papers with an endorsement
that it 1.-THE article) was sure to produce
sensation in political circles hereabout. Sir
Charles Grandson of politicies, how does it
strike you to know that the agent of the asso-
ciated press has said that your Grandness
"come it over my Ggentp Nevertheless that
is precisely what he did say. Now, Sir Grand
ison, call you this stealing general adver-
tisement or manufacturing political thunder?
The reader of the Star is constantly re-
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eloquent Sir Charles and fuglers in office
that "mere politicians are abject beings,
while. eve" of the Star are ponderous, unsor-
did and withal so dispassionate. Because the
Star has so given out and soconstantly reiter-
ated this, we assert on the best authority that
this political Sir Charles Grandson was as
humble supplicant for a federal Office in
February, in the year of Grace 1872, as ever
sought place at Uncle Sans crib.
Under ordinary circumstances we should
not have alluded to these facts, but the lofty
bearing and grand superiority this gentleman
has assumed towards us has become insuffer-
able. .. o.
In view ofthese facts, Sir Charles, we shall
hereafter make no distinction between your
grand self and other papers, except that you
in your associated press fasco resorted to
trick that we hope is beneath most 'mere
politicians" and that your high toned indig-
nation against the administration is of that
kind that could have been appeased by your
being enrolled into the ranks of the 10000
office holders whom you now affect to despise.