The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-06-03
Numbers versus Discipline

4 very serious difficulty, which the friends
of Judge Kent meet in presenting his name
for the gubernato- ial candidacy, is the fac;
q. that there is no organized interest back o.
him, no fund to pay ordinary and legitimate
expenses of canvass, and the Judge himself
makes absolutely no effort in his own behalf
and is not even in the State. The other can
didates are actively managing their own cam
paigns and using all the usual appliances,
which gives them a very great practical ad-
vantage. We call attention to this phase OF 'he
situation in no censorious spirit toWaro 'noee
gentlemen, neither of whom,w we peiie'e' "ouiu
resort to anyimproper means Tor aaVancenieht'
The SO, -rn orshp is a laudaDle opJecI o' an-
bition fuf any citizen, and personal exertions
for its attainment are not proper subjects OF
advo.-o c..:.;oie,n. "Whatever is worth hav-
inc is worth trying for" We speak of the
matter in the way of suggestion to Judge
Kent's friends that individual effort is requir-
ed on their part. They must act in the
premises without being requested. They
must not wait to be drummed out to the eau
cuses-there is no money to pay fer carriages
to convey them to the primaries nor to pay
their expenses to Bangor. Those who have
an interest in his nomination must act of
their own motion without solicitation.
His supporters are an unorganized mass
probably large enough to readily secure his
nomination if their strength can be utilized,
and it can be utilized only by the individual
efforts of men who are not usually prominent
In political primary meetings. Whether
such efforts will be made is the problem upon
whose solution the result will depend. We
must admit that such action would be phe-
nomenal but still it is not impossible. Occa-
sionally the rank and file of the party come to
the fore and bring signal confusion upon the
little games" of the knowing ones. But
those men, who say that they ''want Kent
for Governor" he is ''noble old Ro-
man"-that they "Want a man free from
rings, cliques and combinations and great
many other very pretty things, must remem-
Der that their words will be but as sounding
brass and a tinklng cymbal-ror ct preferred
nihil-unless they go to caucuses and secure
the choice ofKent delegations. The Chinese
so to battle with a prodgious beating of
gongs but without the most improved styles
of warlike implements, land invariably come to
grief. We hope that Judge Kent's friends
viii not emulate their mode of warfare.
THE following resolutions passed by farm
ers' conventions in Kansas are to the point if
not polite. Their frapkness is refreshing:
Whereas. The Congress of the United
States have perpetrated one of the most out
rageous steals known to the civilized world,
in the passage Of the retroactive salary bill;
and
Whereas, D. P. Love- our Congressman.
supported the bill;
Resoloed, That we demand that he resign
his seat in Congress, that his place may be fill
ed by an honest man instead of a thief.
ReSotred, That no honest man should sup
Port any newspaper that does not write down
such thieves.
By farmers in Carroll County, Ill.,:
Resolued, That the increase of Congress
sional salaries, in these bard times. is an in
fernal outrage upon the working people of the
country.
Resolued, That members of Congress,
whether voting for or against said increase,
who take said increase from the United States
Treasury, are guilty and condemned beyond
reelection