The Republican journal., 1874-07-30
FOR GOVERNOR
Joseph Titcomb,
Questions that Must be Answered.
OF kENNFBTNE

OF kENNEBUNk.
Questions that Must be Answered..
The resolution of the Maine Democrat
cy that the form of our government calls
for local control of local affairs, states
principle that is exciting much attention
all over the country. The administration
is desired to answer the query why GER
tain States are still governed by edicts from
Washington. The indianapolis Sentinel
says that Notwithstanding the general
conviction spreading among the people
that the system of reconstruction rs car
red ont by the republican party has been
one OF fraud and oppression. there are
indications that the partizans OF the adj
ministration intend to 60 before the coun-
try once more on the same old issue of
sectional animosity. After forming State
governments with the purpose OF strength
ening the party instead Of ruling the
people, after maintaining in some States
minority in numbers and in others .
minority in wealth and intelligence i'll
control Of public affairs. after setting ad-
yenturers to administer Justice and thieves
to watch the treasures of the common
wealth, after kindling jealousy and hate
between races, after paraly7ing every
material interest and drying up the
sources of conference.-the sycophantS of
the administration have the cfi'ronterv
to come forward and charge the victims
Ct their misrulo with responsibility for
the evils which they have been powcrleqs
to avert. The republican party has here
toforc calculated with certainty upon the
sectional prejudice remaining after the
war but its members are adopting The
policy of malice and b:gotrv for the last
time. They viii find it losing game
this year. Already the wisest politicians
among them have given warning OF the
fearful state to which the South has been
brought, and declared that no party can
hope for popular support which assumes
the burden OF the Louisiana usuFpatinu or
the South Carolina robbery.
For several years a Veil lias hung over
Southern affairs, bat the newspapers
have sent their emissaries all through the
States recently in rebellion, and the true
history OF reconstruction has been brought
into the daylight Of northern opinion
The ugly facts are now exposed, and the
American people only require that their
attention should be called 10 them to IN
sure a storm of Indignation which will
clear the unhealthy air In the great
work Of searching out and bringing for
ward the misdemcanors Of the tools of
the administration, the leading paper of
the republican party has borne an honor
able share. With the South Carolina let
tcrs Of the New York Times as a basis of
attack, no man need hesitate to move
against the present management Of the
unfortunate States, where the carpet
Dagger and the scalawag yet retain their
authority This great crime of the adj
ministraton against the South is one that
will need to be frequently held up to pub
lie adherence.
In answer TO the old SANDER that the I'M
rest, insecurity and bankruptcy prevailing
in some of the southern States are due
solely to the former rebels, this powerful
argument may be adduced The states
which recovered first from the control OF
the general government, and assumed in
to their own hands the control of their
own affairs, are comparatively prosperous
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia are IA
pidly acquiring the independence, and
with it the security anu prosperity of
northern States This has not been be-
cause they were ruled by majority of
white men merely, but because they were
ruled BY men of intelligence and property.
whose interests We're identified with the
welfare of the commonwealth. The party
Of outside Adventures, whose interest it
was to plumber the state, failed to secure
the support Of an element strong enough
to put them in power, and the central
government was left without chance to
use loyal colony as q means of torture
to disloyal people. According to theories
OF vindictive partisans who maintain the
total depravity of southerners, these states
ought to present pictures of every kind of
wrong, oppression and misery. 1t might
be expected that the negroes would he
trodden under foot in Them the fields nm
titled and the public moneys squandered,
But, strange to say, it is in the states still
under the radical control, like Louisiana
and South Carolina, that race hostility and
universal destitution are to be found. In
the former, the neglected levees have
broken away and the people have had to
beg Tor aims through the length and
breadth OF the land. A newspaper has
been suppressed in principal city of the
state under a fiimsy pretensr, and the
whole state government has been over
turned by the order of corrupt Judge
who, according to the judiciary committee
of congress, had no authority to interfere
in the premises. Imagine for moment
the displacement of all the officers chosen
by the people, of this commonwealth at
the will of United States official, who
rises at midnight in answer to the call of
political associates to decide the fate of
state by a judicial order. There are al
ready White and Black Leagues organized
in that home of radical government both