The Republican journal., 1873-07-10

opposition, and was so speedily attunad
to the dulcet notes Of praise?
| The Belfast journal begins the campaign
with blast IN favor OF the gaIloWs. Ii thinks
| nine -tenths of the people of Maine desire TO
| see tins engine of destruction in fall play AGAIN.
| Well if this he 50, wouldn't ii he Il sirewd
| political move, friend Simpson, to yet that old
! cider press, which did such good service last
| year, made over into 9tlloW- tree, and march
| to-Victory, or whatever else might happen
| with this usIlriting emblem at The front Port
| land transcript.
The Transcript will bear in mind that
the cider mill was not displayed in vain,
| as the foolish enactment respecting cider
was repealed last winter There should
be no politics in protecting the lives OF the
| people OF Maine against murderers, and
we scarcely think the Transcript can sue
coed in twisting the question into that
| shape. If we eyer Illustrate the matter
IN our columns, the picture will probably
be a tritle different from the one suggest
ed in the above extract We shall repre-
sent man with his wife and little ones,
While sleeping peaceaby under their own
| roof in happiness and contentment, as
sailed by the murderOus axe of q midnight
| assassin, their features chopped out of All
human resemblance, and even the little
innocent babe not spared from this shock
ing and bloody death. The awful carnage
of this scene shall be lighted up by the
flames kindled by the fiendsh murderer.
through which shall look tp The CHASTITY
faces of the dead. AT the outer door, as
the axe tails from his CORY hands. the
guilty wretch shall be met hv the editor
Of the Portland Transcript, with the greet
ing My dear, erratic friend this is
wrong, all wrong. and you may be brought
to think so in time. We must furnish You
with nice residence at Thomast0n until
you repent, and in time some oft-hearted
Governor shall pardon you" Then we
Will ask every man to reflect whether
there is not greater liability that the fate
OF that murdered family may be the fate
of his own.
Mr.. Jewett's Fourth OF July Grafton, a
synopsis Of which will be found in to-
days paper, contains what Truthful James
calls Language that's plain" in regard to
the salary steal. He places the chief
blame where it rightfully belongs, and
that is upon the President who approved
the bill when he should have vetoed it.
II it had not been known in advance that
the bill would receive the executive ap-
prevail, it never would have been intro
duced in Congress. Members would
never have put themselves on record az
favoring it except upon a certainty of get
ing the price. 1t surely is something Tor
people to pause and think Of that as the
country increases in wealth and power
the virtue Of public men decreases in in
verse ratio. The TACT is a dangerous one
A large proportion of the public defence
now made of the salary grab, is by the demo |
Gratis. Lewiston journal.
Without the words "Approved, Il. S. |
Grant" written at the bottom, the grab |
law would haye been only SO much waste |
paper. 1t the Journal is aware of any |
democrat who defends that approval, we
hope it will name him. If the whole re-
publican party denounce the act, then was
its President bribed to approve what his
whole party condemn. There il no es-
cape from this dilemma
Portland discovers that fire bugs are
at work in that city with incendiary
machines.
The WalWorth trial ended on Friday
by verdict of murder in the second de-
gree, the penalty for which is sentence to
imprisonment for life
Ben. Butler opened his Gubernatoral
campaign in Massachusetts by speech
at birmingham on the Fourth, in which
he had previously announced that he
would give his views on temperance.
The Boston Journal says the speech had
in it very little about temperance and was
zone prolonged and elaborate dodge"
But then the Journal never did like the
gentle Benjamin